Just a recap, I wrote yesterday that many Christians feel the Law should still be kept, I said it shouldn't, because as Christians our rest isn't on the Law.
They also feel they couldn't keep the Law because they weren't born again, but now that they are born again, they are able to keep the Law. But this is also not right. So, if we aren't meant to keep the Law, what are we to keep?
I said my focus wouldn't be on why the Law shouldn't be kept, but on what we are actually to keep, and as I explain that, it would become clearer why the Law shouldn't be kept.
I started going through Romans 8 yesterday as my focus in explaining what we are to keep now by being Christians. And yesterday, I stopped at verse 3 which says, "For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh"
So, I wrote that this means that the Law was being designed to fulfill, and since no one could fulfill it as they saw how they had all fallen short based on their works, needed someone who could fulfill it. In other words, the law could only be fulfilled by works of man, and since man was limited because of his flesh or sinful nature. But Jesus who came in the form of a sinful man, who Himself wasn't sinful was the only one who could fulfill the law, because He wasn't limited and He also had the Spirit of God as His nature fulfilled the law, and sin was condemned in the flesh. So, Jesus fulfilled the Law.
Jesus fulfilled the Law, He accomplished all the requirements of the law. But don't forget the Law was given to show that we needed a Saviour, and Jesus came as the Saviour, and has fulfilled everything pertaining to the law. Thus, the story of the law ended the moment Jesus fulfilled it.
Romans 8:4 says, "that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit."
Now, because the law has been fulfilled, the righteous requirement of the law is fulfilled in all who are born under Christ, because they are now not led by he flesh which requires works. So what happens now is that those born of Christ walk according to Jesus' Spirit as He was the one alone who fulfilled the Law.
So, the focus is not now on we struggling by our power to keep the Law, (which has already been fulfilled). Our focus now is on the One who fulfilled the Law, and that is Jesus!
What is required of us is to have the exact Spirit Jesus has, and walk according to His leading.
OK, OK, let me make this clearer. Prophet Isaiah prophesied that a virgin shall conceive, right? It was OK to keep on believing those prophetic words, that a virgin shall conceive. But when the virgin finally conceived, which was the fulfillment of the prophetic words, it won't make any sense to keep on saying a virgin shall conceive. What you are to focus on is what is the word after the virgin conceived. Likewise, the Law was given to show us how wretched we are without a Saviour. And now that the Saviour had come, our focus isn't on the Law anymore but He who fulfilled the Law, and that is Jesus.
Romans 3:21-22 says, "But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, ²²even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference;" The earlier verses had explained how the Law can not make anyone righteous. Verse 21 of Romans 3 says the righteousness we've all been seeking for has been revealed. The verse makes us understand that this is the fulfillment of both the Prophets and the law.
Then verse 22 says this righteousness is found in Jesus through faith in Him. And verse 22 ends by saying no one is excluded to think the righteousness is not referring to them, believing they have their own source righteousness they have been keeping. And this is why the popular Romans 3:23 then said, all have sinned and have come short of the glory of God. To show that nothing you do can make you righteous except in Jesus who is the only one who can make anyone righteous when they come to Him, (ref.: Romans 3:24-26).
So, we moved from the Law to Jesus. In fact, those who give their lives to Jesus moved from sin to Jesus, because they had no previous business or dealings with the Law!
So, to tell a new convert to study the law is absolutely wrong. What we are to do is to study Jesus right now seated at the right hand of God. and this is done through the meditation on the word of God.
I know some of us still want to do something, like keep a law or something. This is where I'd explain what having faith in Jesus really means in my next write-up.
Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t. Pray out loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations, you’re born again, you are now brand new!
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