I only found the joy and peace in intimacy with Father God and Jesus His son after I left off trying to keep the rules. Its so beautiful being guided and comforted by the Holy Spirit than the rules. God’s great king is Jesus. He has the heart of David- he loves God the Father perfectly and enjoys a blissful relationship with him. But Jesus is the King who has died for his enemies to give them the intimacy that he himself enjoys. The cost was infinite and the love was infinite. The salvation of Christians depends totally on God’s king and not on us. Jesus is the one who gives us relationship with God- we do not earn or contribute to his great work of sacrifice. Since this is the case, Christians are to live by the King, not by obedience to rules. We are to shape our life by gazing on the excellencies of our King. As we more deeply perceive the glory, love, mercy and passion of our King, so we more intimately cleave to him and are caught up into the inexpressible joy of knowing him. As soon as a person starts to focus on obeying rules they are forced to shift the gaze of faith away from the king who bore the curses of law to carry us to heaven. A Christian must resist the temptation to rely on obedience to Law and instead be more deeply moved by the sufficiency of our great King’s death to provide all things needful. The Curse of Law Peter Sanlon
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 06:15:29 +0000
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