If you love me, keep my commandments
Where did Jesus ever say We should quit keeping the law?
Or of Jews {is He} the God only? not also of Gentiles? Yes, also of Gentiles
Since indeed One God who will justify {the} circumcision by faith and {the} uncircumcision through the faith
Law, then do we nullify through faith? Never may it be! Instead, Law we uphold
"do we nullify"
2376 katargeo from "kata" and "argeo" to be {render} entirely idle {useless}
make idle, make of no effect, annul, abolish, bring to naught, discharge, separate from, do away, become or make of none effect, bring to nought, put away or down, vanish away, make void, to deprive of its strength, make barren, to cause a person to have no further efficiency,
to deprive of force, influence or power, to cause to cease, to put an end to, to do away with, annul, abolish, to be severed from, separated from, discharged from, loosed from, to terminate all contact with, to let slip, leave unused.
We are justified by faith, and by faith we establish the law. Romans 3
Though the "Righteousness of God" is manifested without the law, the law and the prophets witness to it.
Justified by Faith
But now the righteousness of God without the law (it WAS manifested by the law and the prophets, now it is manifest before them in flesh and blood) is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ (Jesus made flesh giving a visual example of what it looks like to walk in the righteousness of the laws of God while fulfilling the prophecies of His coming) unto all and upon all them that believe for there is no difference for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are PAST (not future) through the forbearance of God to declare, I say, at this time His righteousness that He might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay but by the Law of faith Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
Do we then make void the law through faith????? (my opinion **** God would absolutely forbid such a thing as that. We are still most definitely to Establish the Law. Jesus CAME in the Volume of the Book. It is written of Him. He backs it up 100%. It is what He is about. He is showing us how it is done GODS WAY, GODS WILL and God wills that we be holy. How do we know what Holy is??? Look at the Life of Jesus. Study the Old Testament. Answers are found therein.*****)
Jesus faith in the righteousness of God and through His righteousness God is made manifest to us, His righteousness witnessed by the law and prophets, (the volume of the book), for all who believe and all who don't believe (because all have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God).
By the grace of God we are justified by of The work of Jesus His righteous blood, blood shed to appease the wrath created by the sins PAST .
So Right is God, So Just is God, So forgiving is God, that even knowing the sinners we are, set forth, by the righteousness of Himself, Himself, volunteering His blood to be shed, to make payment for all our sins that had been committed, allowing His wrath to not be put out upon us, but let it go and be the justifier of us. All, believers and not, fall short, we sin. When we come to faith, the payment of our sins is in His righteousness Our belief in the goodness of God justifies us.
Could you imagine a human being ever being able to touch the realm of what Our Lord, and Savoir did for us?? I can not think of a "work" let alone perform one that could compared to the love and sacrifices God has done for us all. I could spend the rest of my life working day and night, giving it all I had and then put it on a table sitting next to what GOD has done and you wouldn't even be able to see it. Boasting of our works as men doesn't even impress men, let alone God, our Creator.
Does our being justified through faith in anyway make the law less important? Never. How much more important it is to try to follow because every bit we get right, is a sin we don't commit and every sin we don't commit makes God happy and makes us a better person. Should we arrive back to God the same person He sent?? Or should we return a better than we were, more disciplined, obedient, child with more of His wisdom and knowledge, better because the Comforter He sent us helped keep us on the straight and narrow, helped us discern between right and wrong, took those prayers we prayed in His Will to Him, uttering for us the prayers we had yet had no words for.
How important is it for God to look down on us and see us following His will? To see the fruits of our spirit putting forth His ways, living our lives in His Will, loving and speaking and walking His Will, not our own. Meek and humble, full of love of not only Him but of our brethren as well? Being the more Christ like in all our ways, actions and speech.
Abrahams faith "was reckoned" to him FOR righteousness. Doesn't say "he was made righteous" like getting a book and saying I now owned every book in the world?????
The promise is of faith so that it can be "According to Grace". TO BE SURE NOT of the LAW ONLY but ALSO to that of the faith?????
4:16
delivered over (to death??) for the trespasses of us and raised for the justification (divine approval, acquittal, a process of absolution)
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Awesome to experience!
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