="Grandpa, post: 3686419, member: 93985"]Christ is not Gods Law.
John 1:
1 In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
John 5:
26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also,
because he is the Son of man.
Jer. 23:
5 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a
righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper,
and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
Matt. 13:
41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend,
and them which do iniquity;
42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Christ is God's Law.
Ball one!
Christ is not words in our hearts and mind.
Luke 4:
4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word of God
Luke 8:
11 Now the parable is this:
The seed is the word of God.
Acts 13:
44 And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together
to hear the word of God.
Romans 10:
16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?
17 So then faith
cometh by hearing,
and hearing by the word of God.
Eph. 6:
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and
the sword of the Spirit,
which is the word of God:
1 Peter 1:
23 Being born again,
not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible,
by the word of God,
which liveth and abideth for ever.
Rev. 14:
13 And he
was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood:
and his name is called The Word of God
Christ is the Walking talking Word of God. Eve and the Pharisees were convinced they could separate their Salvation from the Word of God and rely on their own words in their mind and heart. They were deceived. Religions and religious traditions come and go. But God's WORDS Last forever.
Having Christ in our minds is having God's Word's in our mind. You can't have one without the other.
Ball 2.
The law is not of faith. Galatians tells us this.
Ex. 20:
2 I
am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
This is a Law of Faith.
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
This is a Law of faith.
Lev. 19:
15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in
judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty:
but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
16 Thou shalt not go up and down
as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I
am the LORD.
17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people,
but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I
am the LORD.
These are all part of the "Law of Faith" that the Word of God, which became Flesh, created for us. It's in your Bible.
The Mainstream Preachers of Christ's time had "Omitted" the Law of Faith, at least according to the Jesus of the Bible.
Matt. 23:
23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin,
and have omitted the weightier matters of the law,
judgment, mercy, and faith:
these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
The Mainstream Preachers of Christ's time followed parts of God's Word, the tithing parts as it is written.
Num. 18:
26 Thus
speak unto the Levites, and say unto them,
When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD,
even a tenth
part of the tithe.
So we know the Jews who were "Bewitching" the Galatians taught part of God's Law, the parts He gave to the Levites, and omitted the parts of greater importance, like Mercy, Judgment, and Faith, all parts of God's Law.
Your preaching implies that the Jews were trying to convince the Galatians to follow all of God's Commandments, but that is a false teaching. They were trying to get the Galatians to follow "THEIR" religion which gave importance to the "WORKS OF THE LAW" (tithes, animal sacrifice for atonement of sins) all part of a "Priesthood" that Abraham didn't have. But as Jesus said, they omitted the "Law of Faith".
So the Law Paul was speaking to, that Hebrews said was "changed" was the Levitical Priesthood "works of the law" for the cleansing of sins which was added to God's Law 430 years after Abraham.
This "Law of Works" was not of Faith as Hebrews 7,8,9, and 10 clearly tells us. Paul confirms this in Romans 3.
27 Where
is boasting then? It is excluded.
By what law?
of works? Nay:
but by the law of faith.
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by (the law of) faith without the deeds of the law (of works).
Regarding the Law of faith, Paul has this to say.
Rom. 2:
11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
12 For as many as have sinned without law shall
also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law
shall be judged by the law;
13 (For
not the hearers of the law
are just before God,
but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Ball 3.
That's what we would call strike one, strike two and strike three. Next batter...
Your judgment of LB is in error.
Ball 4. Time to change the pitcher.