Re: Re: Re: I Love the Law Of God
| Posted On: 02/26/07 04:46:55 PM |
Age 47, WI |
To the one who thinks the law gives life
(Mat 22:37 KJV) Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
(Mat 22:38 KJV) This is the first and great commandment.
(Mat 22:39 KJV) And the second [is] like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
(Mat 22:40 KJV) On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
my belife is we should love the Lord of the law not the law.
(Act 15:5 MSG) Some Pharisees stood up to say their piece. They had become believers, but continued to hold to the hard party line of the Pharisees. "You have to circumcise the pagan converts," they said. "You must make them keep the Law of Moses."
(Act 15:6 MSG) The apostles and leaders called a special meeting to consider the matter.
(Act 15:7 MSG) The arguments went on and on, back and forth, getting more and more heated. Then Peter took the floor: "Friends, you well know that from early on God made it quite plain that he wanted the pagans to hear the Message of this good news and embrace it--and not in any secondhand or roundabout way, but firsthand, straight from my mouth.
(Act 15:8 MSG) And God, who can't be fooled by any pretense on our part but always knows a person's thoughts, gave them the Holy Spirit exactly as he gave him to us.
(Act 15:9 MSG) He treated the outsiders exactly as he treated us, beginning at the very center of who they were and working from that center outward, cleaning up their lives as they trusted and believed him.
(Act 15:10 MSG) "So why are you now trying to out-god God, loading these new believers down with rules that crushed our ancestors and crushed us, too?
(Act 15:11 MSG) Don't we believe that we are saved because the Master Jesus amazingly and out of sheer generosity moved to save us just as he did those from beyond our nation? So what are we arguing about?"
to my fellow beliver you sound like the pharisees in Verse 5 my point is simple you can choose to live your life according to the law or you can choose to live according to the leading of the Spirit of God and trust that His sheep know His voice and will not follow a stranger. Here we see that even Peter saw this thousands of years ago. He said why are we trying to out god God with the laws when we couldn't keep them either.
may you continue to search the truth of the word for yourself and not take another mans opion until it lines up with all of Gods word.
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Re: Re: I Love the Law Of God
| Posted On: 02/25/07 02:51:54 AM |
Age 44, NJ |
In the words of the bible teacher missed this very point Coach is talking about, as that teacher would say it, "You missed the whole jolly point!"
Malcolm Smith was a great Bible teacher, until one day he ignored the "bumpers" and ran headlong into sin. That foolish disregard for Yahweh's Law, it's warnings, eventually destroyed the efficacy of the ministry God had entrusted to him and brought dishonor to God.
The Law is meant to be a reminder, keeping us, who have obeyed it's warnings, to keep us straight, but it also does one other thing: the Law of God tells us Whose we are. Jesus said don't even look with lust, yet when we were carnal we didn't even care, even celebrated those who were the MOST lustful! Even now our flesh rejoices to see lust fulfilled.
But, now we, who ARE new creations, know the Law is a pleasure, the Law reminding us of God's caring enough to tell us we are wrong; showing us whose we are as we DO keep the Law, by nature, groaning in grief over the slightest infraction!
No, the Law is no longer death to the believer, but it is LIFE because we know WHY it was given and WHAT the Law means now...
The letter of the Law is Death, bringing death to self and flesh, to all who rebel against it, to all who love the darkness of lies. But the Spirit of the Law, it's INTENT, is to bring ETERNAL LIFE, to all who love the light and want the truth.
Oh how I love your Law, oh Yahweh!
Patrick J Burwell OnlyJesusSaves.com
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Re: I Love the Law Of God
| Posted On: 02/22/07 04:39:11 PM |
Age 46, WI |
It seems we as Christians want to create a set of procedures to get to Heaven. I suggest a look at Acts 15:1-11, in verse 10 Peter is clearly saying why are we trying to out God-God (message version). The law is likened to the signs on the side of the road good information and direction but Christ is the road we are to folow and accept. If we choose to live our lives based on the law we will be judge according to that same set of laws. Then what has Christ came and die for? If He truely is our savior why are we looking to the law for salvation? The law continues to show us our sins and our need for a savior.
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