***1 Timothy 1:8 (NLT) We know that the law is…

***1 Timothy 1:8 (NLT) We know that the law is good when used correctly.***

The false teachers wanted to become famous as teachers of God’s law, but they misunderstood the law’s purpose. The law was not meant to give believers a list of commands for every occasion but to show unbelievers their sin and bring them to God. Galatians 2:11-21 shows us that God’s law offers direction, not justification. Paul wrote in Romans 7:12, “The law itself is holy,” but following the law can never make us acceptable to God. The law was given to point people to Christ because they couldn’t keep the Law. Only Christ can keep the law.

Justification is “the act of making someone right with God.” Justification takes place when God declares those who place their faith in Christ to be righteous. 2 Corinthians 5:21 says, “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” In other words, Jesus became our substitute on the cross so that we could be made “just” or right with God. We were guilty but God has declared us righteous.

Romans 3:22-24 teaches that “the righteousness of God comes through faith in Jesus Christ for there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.” Our justification comes to us freely, because of the price that Jesus paid on our behalf. God extends this grace to sinners and is “just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus” (verse 26).

Since we know that a person is made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ and not by obeying the law, we should believe in Christ Jesus. In this way we can be made right with God because of our faith in Christ not because we have obeyed the law. For no one will ever be made right with God by obeying the law.” (Galatians 2:16)

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Johnny De Visser says:

May 7, 2020 at 4:47 am

Preaching of lawlessness

Catherine Casey says:

May 7, 2020 at 4:54 am

Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. Galatians 3:24

Jack Johnston says:

May 7, 2020 at 8:49 am

Well, the Apostle Paul redefined the Law of Moses turning it into a condemnatory standard showing a need of justification rather than a means of sanctification as it was meant to be. This as part of his hijacking of Jesus’ gospel of the kingdom which was a call to repentence of the nation to get right with God in preparation for the cataclysmic in-breaking of the kingdom headed up by the Son of Man.

Paul creates a straw man saying the Law of Moses was to be kept as a means of working one’s way to heaven which was not the purpose of the Law. The Old Testament saint was a child of the covenant relationship with the deity at birth with the sign of the covenant being circumcision. God initiated that relationship with the Abrahamic Covenant. The Law of Moses was to help the person already in a covenant relationship to maintain fellowship by the sacrifices, the ordinances, and the civil legislation in order to receive the blessings of the land. It had nothing to do with heaven and an afterlife.

If you read this passage and come away thinking the deity had no expectation that the people could keep the law, then you are wearing Paul’s glasses and are taking his re-purposing of the Law of Moses over the Old Testament and how the Jews view their standing with God and the Law today being the deity’s covenant children being given a standard to maintain fellowship and blessing over cursing.

KJV Deuteronomy 30:10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. 11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. 12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? 14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. 15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; 16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. 17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. 19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: 20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

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Johnny De Visser says:

May 7, 2020 at 4:47 am

Preaching of lawlessness

Catherine Casey says:

May 7, 2020 at 4:54 am

Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. Galatians 3:24

Jack Johnston says:

May 7, 2020 at 8:49 am

Well, the Apostle Paul redefined the Law of Moses turning it into a condemnatory standard showing a need of justification rather than a means of sanctification as it was meant to be. This as part of his hijacking of Jesus’ gospel of the kingdom which was a call to repentence of the nation to get right with God in preparation for the cataclysmic in-breaking of the kingdom headed up by the Son of Man.

Paul creates a straw man saying the Law of Moses was to be kept as a means of working one’s way to heaven which was not the purpose of the Law. The Old Testament saint was a child of the covenant relationship with the deity at birth with the sign of the covenant being circumcision. God initiated that relationship with the Abrahamic Covenant. The Law of Moses was to help the person already in a covenant relationship to maintain fellowship by the sacrifices, the ordinances, and the civil legislation in order to receive the blessings of the land. It had nothing to do with heaven and an afterlife.

If you read this passage and come away thinking the deity had no expectation that the people could keep the law, then you are wearing Paul’s glasses and are taking his re-purposing of the Law of Moses over the Old Testament and how the Jews view their standing with God and the Law today being the deity’s covenant children being given a standard to maintain fellowship and blessing over cursing.

KJV Deuteronomy 30:10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. 11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. 12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? 14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. 15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; 16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. 17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. 19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: 20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

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