The Weekly Dose by R.S. Neaville 08/28/2007

 

Deserved Condemnation      Another thing that sickens me are those judaisers  who accuse under the guise of asking questions. They seek to put gentile believers under the law and pull them away from grace. They ask questions like  "Well, so if you aren't under the law does that mean you are free to murder?"   How twisted! They know we are not saying any such thing when we teach Christians about the law and grace. No one who teaches the  righteousness of Christ apart from the law believes it is ok to murder or steal or covet etc. We believe we are dead with Christ to the law because Jesus has paid it with his body on the cross. Colossians 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ::12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;      We are dead with Christ by faith to sin. He has changed our nature from that of sinner under the law to a new creature that was never under law. 1 Timothy 1:9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, Romans 6:2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?      Grace leaves you no permission or room for pleasing the sin nature. We by faith consider that nature dead with Christ. If se sow to that nature than we claim through faith is dead we will reap death! Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Romans 8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. Romans 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.      We do not walk by the law but by the Spirit . It is by the Spirit we put the sin nature to death. If we walk by the flesh than we will die!. I do not need the law anymore to remind me of what sin is or identify it. I do not need a law on the outside to tell me not to steal for by my new nature I am not a thief !  Now it is the Holy Spirit in me that guides me not the law !  Those who claim we say different slander us and the faith and their condemnation is deserved! R.S. Neaville  08/28/2007 www.propheticjournal.net