Free From The Law Living Under Grace By Richard Jordan: Every sincere child of God should take to heart Pauls description of the believers at Galatia when he writes: O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? ( Galatians 3:1). The Galatians had begun with clear understanding of the issues of grace- of all that Christ had done for them at Calvary and the position God had given them in Christ. But they had become foolish- they allowed their thinking to wander from their completeness in Christ and thus had been bewitched into thinking their adherence to a set of external rules would enable them to please God. Thus Paul seeks to reason with them: This only would I learn of you, RECEIVED YE THE SPIRIT BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW, OR BY THE HEARING OF FAITH? Are ye so foolish? HAVING BEGUN IN THE SPIRIT, ARE YE NOW MADE PERFECT BY THE FLESH? ( vs. 2,3) Are we required to keep the law in order to experience the fullness of the Christian life? Hardly!! It is vital to realize that grace is not only the way of salvation but it is also the key to the sustaining and successful Christian life. The alternative is for our lives to to be vain-empty, fruitless and barren: Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain (v.4). One of the major roadblocks on the road to spiritual growth is the unrealistic notion that the Christian life consists simply of mastering certain principles-that if we successfully follow a list of steps and standards we will achieve spirituality. God bless
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 17:47:34 +0000
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