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Originally Posted by Free4you
Kinda like Jesus calling himself the son of God you mean!
“It is enough for the disciple to become as the teacher, the slave to be like his master.”
“You are the light of the world.”
Notice Jesus wants His followers to be just like Him.
Christianity prevents it.
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Law vs Grace 101/ taught by the master of Law, the Apostle Paul, as given to him by Christ.
Rom. 8:2-4
"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."
The two most powerful laws in the universe.
1)The Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus
2)The Law of sin and death
Every person who has ever lived on earth will fall into one of these categories of Law.
Paul brings these two Laws to our attention to explain Grace and The Law of Moses.
He compares the Law of Moses as walking after the flesh, and Grace as walking after the Spirit. (vs. 4)
What the Law of Moses could not do (vs. 3) in that it was weak through the flesh, is referring to trying to live by the Law apart from the New Covenant in Christ. It is living by ones own will power to keep the Laws of God and man cannot do it. That's how the Law of Moses was weak and could not offer salvation to any man through his own doing!
The New Covenant is faith in Christ and what He did on the Cross for us, this faith in Christ is walking in the Spirit with all the benefits of Grace and mercy when we fail, but cannot be found in the Law of Moses which only could point to Christ for mercy in the Sacrificial System of the Law.
When we fail to keep the required 10 commandments of the Law in the New Covenant faith, we have an advocate with the Father in Christ Jesus (1 Jn. 2:1) that covers that sin in mercy and grace by faith, He ever lives to make intersession for us, (Heb. 7:25), but not so under Law, you are forever condemned under the breaking of that Law with no mercy, and that is where the Sacrificial System of the Law steps in before Christ. The faith in that sacrifice saved them from the curse of the Law, which they could not keep.
But Paul tells is we are no longer under the Law, but under the Grace of the New Covenant in Christ's Blood!
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