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FREEDOM FROM THE LAW
The Apostle John said;
"For this
purpose the Son of God was manifested,
that He might
destroy the works of the devil."
(1Joh. 3:8).
The word destroy,
comes from the Greek word LUO.
It means to loosen.
Jesus loosened the works of the devil,
by making them unattached to us.
This agrees with Rom. 6:6;
"knowing this
that our Old Man is crucified with Him,
that the body
of SIN might be destroyed"
The Greek word for destroyed here is katargeo,
and it means to render useless, or idle.
The
body of SIN is loosen and rendered idle in us,
as long as we are living under grace and
not under the law.
Christ came and nailed the law,
contained in ordinances to His Cross,
and loosened this law or principle of
works from us.
Before we can understand what this means,
we must understand the primary work of
the devil.
The devil does many evil things,
but there is one basic thing he wants
to do with all.
In the Garden of
Eden, the devil,
through SIN deceived Eve,
and caused her to eat of the forbidden
fruit,
of the tree of the knowledge of Good and
Evil.
When Adam and Eve partook of this fruit,
they acquired the knowledge of Good and
Evil.
With this knowledge they acquired SIN
in them,
for SIN is part of the tree of the knowledge
of Good and Evil.
The Apostle Paul says in Rom. 7:15-25:
"The Good
that I want to do I don't but I do Evil.
The Evil that
I don't want to do I end up doing,
but it is no
more I that do it but SIN that dwelleth in me."
Sin
dwells in all of us,
because Adam and Eve broke God's command,
and ate of the fruit from the tree of
the knowledge of Good and Evil.
We have this knowledge of good and evil
in us,
and each time we behave by what is good
and evil,
like Adam and Eve,
we are partaking of the tree of the knowledge
of Good and Evil.
When we decide things by Good and Evil,
right and wrong,
we partake of this tree, and we stir up
the flesh (desires of our soul)
and under this law, our desires become
sinful
(Rom 7:5).
The desires
of the flesh are so great,
and we know by the Word of God that it
is wrong,
but we still end up doing it.
This is what happened to Adam.
He knew it was wrong,
for God told him,
but he listened to Eve who represents
our soul.
When we behave by what is good and evil,
we have put ourselves in the place of
God,
and we become little gods acting like
God.
We do things apart from God, or the Word
of God,
and by how we feel.
Satan said to Eve,
"Ye shall become
as gods,
knowing Good
and Evil".
Satan wants all of
us to act as little gods apart from God.
He wants all of us to be independent,
and apart from God,
making decisions by what is Good and what
is Evil.
He wants all of us to
be our own god.
He wants all to be divide from God,
and from each other,
in our thinking and behavior,
and cause confusion and tumoil.
The very first thing He said to Jesus,
"prove that you
are the Son of God,
by turning these
stones into bread."
Jesus would not act apart from His Father,
and quoted the Scriptures again and again.
There
are many disagreements among Christians,
because we are little gods acting like
big gods,
by deciding what is right or wrong or
who is right or wrong.
This knowledge of Good and Evil is in us
from birth.
But we all have different ideas,
about what is right and what is wrong.
It is in our subconscious
mind, and we are not aware,
until the age of accountability, which
is the age of awareness.
We all admit that we are not perfect,
and we justify ourselves by blaming others,
on circumstances and on things.
The Ten
Commandments,
were given to bring the sinfulness in
us,
from the subconscious mind to the conscious
mind,
that we may know and admit,
that all have sinned and come short of
the Glory of God.
The unbelievers know when they do wrong,
but they justify themselves.
The Ten Commandments were given,
to bring out sin and its sinfulness,
and to point us to Christ,
who has redeemed us from the penalty and
power of Sin
(Rom. 7:13; Gal. 3:13, 24).
The
world standard is based on right and wrong.
As a child, when you are good you are
praised,
and patted on the head,
and spanked when you do things that are
bad.
In school you have good grades for good
work,
and bad grades for failing works.
In the armed services,
promotions and demotions.
At work raises and promotions,
or you are suspended or fired for negative
works, etc.
In this world everything
we do,
has to do with merits
and demerits.
We were raised by this standard,
and it is difficult to see it any other
way.
God's Grace is difficult to understand
fully because of this.
Satan wants us to do
things by according to how we feel,
and think what is right and wrong
(in determining our walk in the things
of God).
Christ came to loosen us from this,
that we walk in His grace by faith, and
according to the Word of God.
What is right and what is
wrong,
must be decided by the Word of God,
and not by what we have decided,
by our feelings and our own intelligence.
Many
different
doctrines,
commandments and traditions of man,
have crept into the Christian Churches.
Many feel they are right in what
they are doing,
but it is not according to the Word of
God rightly divided.
The knowledge of Good and Evil is in
us,
and SIN is in us too,
but Sin in us will remain loosen and idle,
as long as we are under grace and not
under law.
For under grace,
love is emphasized and established.
Love will prevail and the temptation of
right or wrong,
will not be provoked.
this knowledge of right and wrong,
SIN, the Old Man, is without strength,
and is idle and useless in us under grace.
It is not trying to bite our lips when
anger is aroused in us.
It is not trying not to sin,
but to be in the realm of grace.
In the realm of grace, love is dominant,
and anger will not arise at all.
Trying to do good or trying not to sin,
will also provoke the old man.
(Rom. 7:15-17)
The Old Man, SIN,
is crucified,
when He nailed the law with all its ordinances
on the Cross,
for without the law SIN is dead.
When I put myself under the law, or the
principle of what I must do,
by what is right and what is wrong, I
become attached to the law.
Sin in me, is awakened and given
strength by this principle.
When I leave this principle nailed to the
Cross,
I remain crucified, and I no longer
behave
by what is right, and what is wrong,
and no longer the god that I think I am.
Now the Word of God is dominant in my life,
and the Holy Spirit will have the liberty
to work in me,
and through me, for the Glory of God.
Satan wants the Christians,
to be attached to this principle of
right and wrong,
and to do things apart from the Word of
God and be our own gods.
Christ came to loosen us from this principle,
that we are under grace,
and we walk by faith in the Word of God.
We do know what is right and what is wrong,
but the grace of God is the determining
factor.
Whatever wrong anyone do to us,
is forgiven under grace.
It is one thing to know
in our mind,
the principle of grace versus law.
It is quite another thing to let it grip
our hearts,
and to fully understand this.
Paul wrote the Book of Romans and Galatians
as the basic teaching for the Christian,
in knowing that they
are under Grace and not under law.
You cannot be under both at the same time.
It is either grace or law.
If one does not understand the basic teaching
of Romans,
the rest of the epistles to the Churches,
will not be truly understood.
Some of the key verses in
Romans.
6:14;
"For sin
shall not have dominion over you;
for ye are not
under the law but undergrace."
7:6;
"But now
we are delivered from the law,
that being dead
in which we were held,
that we should
serve in newness of spirit (mind),
and not in oldness
of the letter."
7:25;
"I thank
God through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
So then, with
the mind (spirit)
I myself serve
the law of God;
but with the
flesh (desires), the law of sin."
The law
of God is the principle of Grace.
What God has done for us.
The law of Sin
is the desire of the flesh, what I want to
do for God.
This is the most difficult thing for a
Christian to acknowledge,
that there is nothing we can,
or is required of me, to do for
God.
It is all done in Christ. It is
finished.
The Book
of Genesis to Revelation
is already written, and all things will
be accomplished,
in this world and in the heavens.
It could be accomplished in us,
if we will only let God have His way with
us.
But it must be under Grace and not under
law.
Under grace, He is my God, under law I
am my own god.