Where does the justification for The New Testament doers of the law in Romans 2:13 originate from?
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God is trustworthy, therefore His instructions are also trustworthy (Psalms 19:7), so the way to trust God is by obediently trusting in His instructions and it is contradictory for someone to think that we should trust God, but should not trust His instructions. When someone does something in obedience to God, then the significance is not that it is part of something that they are required to have done first in order to earn their righteousness as the result, but rather the significance is that they are expressing in faith, and it is by that faith that we are declared righteous.
While the only way to become righteous is through faith apart from being required to have first done righteous works in order to earn it as a wage, becoming righteous through faith means becoming a doer of righteous works through faith, so it is contradictory to become righteous apart from becoming a doer of righteous works, which is why the faith by which we are declares righteous does not abolish our need to do righteous works in obedience to God's law, but rather our faith upholds it (Romans 3:28-31). In other words, becoming someone who will be declared righteous, someone who has faith, and someone who is a doer of the law all happen as the same time and anyone who lacks one also lacks the others, but are not declared righteous as the result of having first been a doer of the law, so it is the case that only doers of the law will be declared righteous.
While the only way to become righteous is through faith apart from being required to have first done righteous works in order to earn it as a wage, becoming righteous through faith means becoming a doer of righteous works through faith, so it is contradictory to become righteous apart from becoming a doer of righteous works, which is why the faith by which we are declares righteous does not abolish our need to do righteous works in obedience to God's law, but rather our faith upholds it (Romans 3:28-31). In other words, becoming someone who will be declared righteous, someone who has faith, and someone who is a doer of the law all happen as the same time and anyone who lacks one also lacks the others, but are not declared righteous as the result of having first been a doer of the law, so it is the case that only doers of the law will be declared righteous.
Even if someone managed to have perfect obedience to God's law, then we still would not earn our justification as a wage (Romans 4:1-5), so that was never the goal of why we should obey it. In Romans 3:21-22, it does not say that the Law and the Prophets testify that the righteousness of God comes through perfect obedience, but rather the only way to become righteous that is testified about in the Law and the Prophets is through Christ for all who believe. While only Jesus lived in perfect obedience to God's law, there are many examples of people who were doers of the law, such as those in Joshua 22:1-3, Luke 1:5-6, Revelation 14:12, and Revelation 22:14, so it is not the case that no one but Jesus is a doer of the law. People can still be justified even when they have not had perfect obedience to God's law, so it does not require perfect obedience.
While we do not earn the promise as the result of having first obeyed God's law, that does not mean that the obedience to God's law is not central to the content of what the promise is in regard to.
In Matthew 4:15-23, Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand, which was a light to the Gentiles, and God's law was how his audience knew what sin is (Romans 3:20), so repenting from our disobedience to it is a central part of the Gospel message, which is in accordance with Jesus being sent to bless us in fulfillment of the promise by turning us from our wickedness, which was the Gospel that was made known in advance to Abraham in accordance with the promise (Galatians 3:8), which he preached to Gentiles in Haran in accordance with the promise (Genesis 12:1-5).
In Genesis 18:19, God knew Abraham that he would teach His children and those of his household to walk in His way by doing righteousness and justice that the Lord may bring to Abraham all that He has promised. In Genesis 26:4-5, God will multiply Abraham's children as the starts in the heaven, to his children He will give all of these lands, and through his children all of the nations of the earth will be blessed because he heard God's voice and guarded His charge, His commandments, His statutes, and His laws. In Deuteronomy 30:16, if the children of Abraham will love God with all of their heart by walking in His way in obedience to His commandments, statutes, and laws, then they will live and multiply and God will bless them in the land that they go to possess. So the promise was made to Abraham and brought about because he walked in God's way in obedience to His law, he taught his children and those of his house hold to do that in accordance with spreading the Gospel, and because they did that.
In John 8:39, Jesus said that if they were children of Abraham, then they would be doing the same works as him, and in Psalms 119:1-3, God's law was how the children of Abraham knew how to be blessed by walking in God's way, so the way that the children of Abraham are multiplied and are a blessing to the nations in accordance with inheriting the promise through faith is by teaching the nations to turn from their wickedness and to do the same works as Abraham by walking in God's way in obedience to His law in accordance with spreading the Gospel.
There are many verses that describe God's law as being His instructions for how to walk in His way, such as Deuteronomy 10:12-13, 1 Kings 2:1-3, Joshua 22:5, Isaiah 2:2-3, Psalms 103:7, and many others.
God's law is God's word, so your statement is contradictory.
In Matthew 4:15-23, Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand, which was a light to the Gentiles, and God's law was how his audience knew what sin is (Romans 3:20), so repenting from our disobedience to it is a central part of the Gospel message, which is in accordance with Jesus being sent to bless us in fulfillment of the promise by turning us from our wickedness, which was the Gospel that was made known in advance to Abraham in accordance with the promise (Galatians 3:8), which he preached to Gentiles in Haran in accordance with the promise (Genesis 12:1-5).
In Genesis 18:19, God knew Abraham that he would teach His children and those of his household to walk in His way by doing righteousness and justice that the Lord may bring to Abraham all that He has promised. In Genesis 26:4-5, God will multiply Abraham's children as the starts in the heaven, to his children He will give all of these lands, and through his children all of the nations of the earth will be blessed because he heard God's voice and guarded His charge, His commandments, His statutes, and His laws. In Deuteronomy 30:16, if the children of Abraham will love God with all of their heart by walking in His way in obedience to His commandments, statutes, and laws, then they will live and multiply and God will bless them in the land that they go to possess. So the promise was made to Abraham and brought about because he walked in God's way in obedience to His law, he taught his children and those of his house hold to do that in accordance with spreading the Gospel, and because they did that.
In John 8:39, Jesus said that if they were children of Abraham, then they would be doing the same works as him, and in Psalms 119:1-3, God's law was how the children of Abraham knew how to be blessed by walking in God's way, so the way that the children of Abraham are multiplied and are a blessing to the nations in accordance with inheriting the promise through faith is by teaching the nations to turn from their wickedness and to do the same works as Abraham by walking in God's way in obedience to His law in accordance with spreading the Gospel.
There are many verses that describe God's law as being His instructions for how to walk in His way, such as Deuteronomy 10:12-13, 1 Kings 2:1-3, Joshua 22:5, Isaiah 2:2-3, Psalms 103:7, and many others.
God's law is God's word, so your statement is contradictory.
The New Covenant involves God putting the Mosaic Law in our minds and writing it on our hearts (Jeremiah 31:33), so there is not a different way of being justified under the New Covenant. In Psalms 119:29-30, he wanted God to put false ways far from him, for God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey the Mosaic Law, and he chose the way of faith by setting it before him, so this has always been the one and only way of salvation by grace through faith. In Romans 3:21-22, the only way to become justified that is testified about by the Law and the Prophets is through faith in Christ. The Mosaic Law is God's word and Christ is God's word made flesh, so it is contradictory for someone to have faith in Christ, but not in the Mosaic Law, but rather the way to have faith in the one who is the embodiment of God's word is by us embodying God's word through following his example.
Even if someone managed to have perfect obedience to God's law, then they still wouldn't earn their justification as a wage, so that has always been a fundamental misunderstanding of why we should obey God's law. While Paul denied in Romans 4:1-5 that we can earn our justification as a wage, he also said in Romans 2:13 that only doers of the law will be justified, so clearly there must be a reason why our justification requires us to choose to be doers of the law other than in order to earn it as a wage, namely namely faith insofar as the same faith by which we are justified also upholds God's law (Romans 3:31).
Acts 13:39
and Galatians 5:4
You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
Is God's word.
You're either trying to be justified by the law, and have fallen from grace, or you are justified from everything through Him, and believe.
and Galatians 5:4
You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
Is God's word.
You're either trying to be justified by the law, and have fallen from grace, or you are justified from everything through Him, and believe.
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It has happened to me. And it wasn't anything about me. John 3:16. Acts 16:31. 2 Cor 5:17.
It's always interesting, whenever the workers for salvation show up it's always:
Me.
I.
Myself.
We.
They.
Us.
I'm.....It's always about What the creature is or isn't doing. And not about what the Creator has done.
It's always interesting, whenever the workers for salvation show up it's always:
Me.
I.
Myself.
We.
They.
Us.
I'm.....It's always about What the creature is or isn't doing. And not about what the Creator has done.
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