I know that The Scriptures state that The Law (of Moses) is meant for sinners and not for the Righteous - and we are not under Law but under Grace.
Yet, in the New Covenant Jesus Commanded His Elect to obey a higher Law and to obey all the Commandments of God.
If the Elect were sinners that sinned, and should now be saints (and no longer sinners - and sinners are those that break God's Law) that sin not (or at least have sin not dominate their lives - as sin is the transgression of His Law) - and yet the Elect are to obey all His Commandments - and Jesus Himself stated that we should always seek to do 'His Will and not our own will' - then, His Elect must have to obey His Word - and 'Do what He says' if His Elect claim to Love Him.
So if His Elect are no longer under Law but are now under Grace - why must His Elect 'Do All His Commandments'? Is this not the same as obeying Him? What does it mean to obey Him? Is it not the need to obey His spiritual Law? Were His Elect not told that the Law of Moses was spiritual; and the Old Testament people of God were carnal and could not obey His spiritual Law. Why then did Jesus expand on God's Law - showing that desiring to lust, is the same as committing that lust in God's Eyes?
Are not His Elect The Temple of God, where His Holy Spirit dwells? Must not His Elect Obey (Worship) Him in Spirit and in Truth?
What is True Worship? Is it not Obeying Him?
How can His Elect Obey Him?
His Elect, must live in The faith of Jesus Christ, under His Grace, by His Holy Spirit - and Worship (Obey) Him in Spirit and in Truth - and He has written His Law in their hearts and minds - and He continues to renew their minds to the Mind of Christ!
Hebrews 8:10: KJV:
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
If He has mandated that His Elect must have His Laws in the Elects' minds and written in the Elects' hearts - does this mean that 'His Laws' must be paramount and cannot ever be done away with?
That is The Question!
Is this one of His Absolute Truths?
What do you think?
Am I way off base here?
Kind Regards.
George
Well if you consider that His laws represents His perfect righteousness, as I do, then yes it will never be done away with.
So if His Elect are no longer under Law but are now under Grace - why must His Elect 'Do All His Commandments'? Is this not the same as obeying Him?
God's grace redeems us or bought and paid for us because of the penalty that the law brought on us by of our sin.
Gal 4:4 But when the right time finally came, God sent His own Son. He came as the son of a human mother and lived under the Jewish Law,
v. 5 to
redeem (G1805) those who were under the Law, so that we might become God's children. (GNB)
G1805
exagorazō - to buy up, that is, ransom; figuratively to rescue from loss (improve opportunity): - redeem.
Rom 3:23 since all have sinned and continue to fall short of God's glory.
v. 24 By His grace they are justified freely through the redemption that is in the Messiah Jesus,
v. 25 whom God offered as a place where atonement by the Messiah's blood would occur through faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because he had waited patiently to deal with sins committed in the past. (ISV)
As long as we are in this carnal flesh and blood body we cannot live perfectly, sinless, we require to be redeemed and freed now from the penalty of the law, which is death and that's through "Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death" (Rom 8:2) and give us life in the Spirit - "if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness" (Rom 8:10).
In these Scripture passages, Paul explains why we are no longer 'under' the law, I used some modern translations, it just makes it a bit easier to read.
Rom 7:6 Now, however, we are free from the Law, because we died to that which once held us prisoners. No longer do we serve in the old way of a written law, but in the new way of the Spirit.
v. 7 Shall we say, then, that the Law itself is sinful? Of course not! But it was the Law that made me know what sin is. If the Law had not said, "Do not desire what belongs to someone else," I would not have known such a desire.
Rom 7:12 So then, the Law itself is holy, and the commandment is holy, right, and good.
v. 13 But does this mean that what is good caused my death? By no means! It was sin that did it; by using what is good, sin brought death to me, in order that its true nature as sin might be revealed. And so, by means of the commandment sin is shown to be even more terribly sinful.
v. 14 We know that the Law is spiritual; but I am a mortal, sold as a slave to sin. (GNB)
Rom 7:22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.
v. 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
v. 24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
v. 25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
Gal 3:10 Those who depend on obeying the Law live under a curse. For the scripture says, "Whoever does not always obey everything that is written in the book of the Law is under God's curse!" (Deu 27:26)
v. 11
Now, it is clear that no one is put right with God by means of the Law, because the scripture says, "Only the person who is put right with God through faith shall live."
v. 12
But the Law has nothing to do with faith. Instead, as the scripture says, "Whoever does everything the Law requires will live."
v. 13 But by becoming a curse for us
Christ has redeemed us from the curse that the Law brings; for the scripture says, "Anyone who is hanged on a tree is under God's curse."
v. 14 Christ did this in order that the blessing which God promised to Abraham might be given to the Gentiles by means of Christ Jesus,
so that through faith we might receive the Spirit promised by God.
Gal 3:17 What I mean is that God made a covenant with Abraham and promised to keep it. The Law, which was given four hundred and thirty years later, cannot break that covenant and cancel God's promise.
v. 18 For if God's gift depends on the Law, then it no longer depends on His promise. However, it was because of His promise that God gave that gift to Abraham.
v. 19 What, then, was the purpose of the Law? It was added in order to show what wrongdoing is, and it was meant to last until the coming of Abraham's descendant, to whom the promise was made. The Law was handed down by angels, with a man acting as a go-between (mediator).
v. 20 But a go-between is not needed when only one person is involved; and God is one.
v. 21 Does this mean that the Law is against God's promises? No, not at all! For if human beings had received a law that could bring life, then everyone could be put right with God by obeying it.
v. 22 But the scripture says that the whole world is under the power of sin; and so the gift which is promised on the basis of faith in Jesus Christ is given to those who believe.
v. 23 But before the time for faith came, the Law
kept us all locked up (G3807 - a tutor - instructor, schoolmaster) as prisoners until this coming faith should be revealed.
v. 24 And so the Law was in charge of us until Christ came, in order that we might then be put right with God through faith.
v. 25 Now that the time for faith is here, the Law is no longer in charge of us.
v. 26 It is through faith that all of you are God's children in union with Christ Jesus.
v. 29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. (GNB)
mercy, peace and love
Kat