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Jesus Christ Was Under Law Of Moses
By: Soulman Date: June 20, 2020, 7:49 am
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Have you ever given much thought to Jesus when he walked the
earth was under the law. Why would God "make him to be under the
law." Law was what Israel was under when Jesus walked the earth.
There was no grace as a message for humanity yet it was all law.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld
his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,)
full of grace and truth. - John 1:14.
The scriptures says he was he was full of grace and truth but
that was not his message because he was under law. When they
came to him to snare him with their questions about sin what did
he say to them "what does Moses law say." He was full of grace
and truth we see that in how he handled the people but the law
was still at work and had not been fulfilled yet. He healed on
the Sabbath, what was he doing? Giving a glimpse into his grace
because he could not preach grace being under law. He couldn't
preach grace as a message, a New Testament if you will. That was
not in place yet, the law was still active for obedience and
relationship with God.
To mix the two is a complete distortion of the word. It is what
we call "commingling" or mixing law with grace. The scriptures
do not do it and for believers to do it is a total lack of
understanding. I use a term I call "trying to get a message out
of 66 books." You cannot get grace out of mixing it with law,
it's oil and water, day and night, law and grace. Two completely
different ways of handling the people spiritually, you cannot
not do it because they do not fit each other. It may look good
and even sound good on certain levels but like oil and water
they will not mix and are there own separate entity. Nothing
wrong with law, it is of God, he put it in place and used it for
living but it nolonger exsists for obedience and relationship,
it has been fulfilled.
What is grace? Grace is Christ in you, grace is a person. Think
about grace as a message or covenant or New Testament. They all
have to do with Christ in you, you have none of these things
without Christ in you. They come about by Christ in you. It is
like "the gospel" Paul called it, it is a person. The word of
God, the Holy written scriptures always personifies Christ, the
Christ in you. When you read Paul and he mentions Christ, it
will never be a Christ outside of you it will always be the
Christ that is in you. Follow Paul long enough as he suggests
and you see his message of Christ in you has to do with living
the life of another Christ in you. Since you have no other life
but Christ it is a very good idea to pay close attention to Paul
and "my gospel," he called it. He preachs nothing but Christ as
life, and that life is the only life of the believer. Believers
trying to extract a life from scriptures will miserably fail if
they do not see Christ as that life.
Reread the first chapter of John and look at the life in John's
first chapter as well as the rest of the book. What separates
John from most other writers is he wrote some years after Paul
and knew what Paul was talking about. The book of John is more
than just history as the other synoptic Gospel's, John's book
should have been one of the Epistles. John had a revelation of
Jesus Christ as did Paul. When you talk about John's revelation
it is not his revelation given to him that he penned in the book
of "the revelation." That is history and future events having
nothing to do with "revelation of Christ in you."
For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but
by the revelation of Jesus Christ. - Galatians 1:12.
To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of
this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the
hope of glory: - Colossians 1:27.
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