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Actually it's quite simple. Christians are not under the Law! We have the New Covenant given to us by the Blood of Jesus!
You're the one who said Jesus is wrong! Not me! Want some Scripture? I have plenty. How about you?
Can you see the enemy at play, with all the arguing that we have been doing lately.?
Amen!....but remember, we are all at different levels of maturity and spiritual growth.
So you're defending someone who says Jesus is wrong! See how God's Word reveals what's in your heart!
All true but with the indwelling and help of the Holy Spirit we are God's work, it is He who changes us; we cannot change ourselves. Or at least not good enough for God. The only way we can meet his standard is to come to him through Jesus and let Him do the changing.
Good point. That's Jesus!
1When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. 2For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 3I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. 4My message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, 5so that your faith would not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power. Spiritual Wisdom (Ephesians 1:15–23) 6Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7No, we speak of the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God,a which He destined for our glory before time began. 8None of the rulers of this age understood it. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”b 10But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.c 14The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment. 16“For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?”d But we have the mind of Christ. |
Morality is in regard to what we ought to do and we ought to be in God's likeness by being a doer of His character traits and His law is His instructions for how to do that. Jesus lived morally and he also lived in sinless obedience to God's law. Likewise, God's character traits are the fruits of the Spirit. Everything in God's law is in regard to how to love Him and our neighbor.
God is sovereign, so we are under His law. In Jeremiah 31:33, the New Covenant involves God putting His law in our minds and writing it on our hearts, so if want nothing to do with being under God's law, then you want nothing to do with the New Covenant. In Titus 2:14, Jesus gave himself to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so the way to believe in what Jesus spent his ministry teaching by word and by example and in what he accomplished through the cross is by repenting and becoming zealous for doing good works in obedience to God's law (Acts 21:20) while the way to reject everything that he accomplished is by returning to the lawlessness that he gave himself to redeem us from.
The Greek does not contain the word "but". Rather, John 1:16-17 says grace upon grace, so it is speaking of one example of grace being added upon another. In Psalms 119:29, he wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey His law, and in Psalms 119:142, God's law is truth, so grace and truth came through Jesus because he spent his ministry teaching his followers of how to obey God's law by word and by example.
That's false, but even if I were actively trying to transgress God's as much as I could, then it would just mean that I would need to repent, not that I was wrong about the fact that following of God should walk in His way in accordance with the example that Christ set for us to follow.
We must be Born Again , ‘tis the Spirit who is at work in our hearts...we are helpless without the Spirit, who is maturing and growing us in our spirit to be more Christ like.
God did not give His law as instructions for how to change ourselves or for how to become good enough for Him, but as instructions for how to come to Him. It is contradictory to change ourselves by relying on God's instructions. In Titus 2:11-13, our salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, so doing those works has nothing to do with trying to be good enough to earn our salvation, but rather God graciously teaching us to be a doer of those works in obedience to His law as is part of His gift of salvation.
God has not commanded anything that wasn’t in accordance with walking in the Spirit.
