LAW or GRACE - IT'S ALWAYS A CHOICE

Subject: The LAW or GRACE it's always a choice


Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. Matthew 22:35 - 40
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness ot the letter. Romans 7:6
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. Romans 7:9 - 11
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free form the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. ......For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. Romans 8:1-10 & 10:4
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 1 John 3:9-11
The only way we can love our neighbours and our brethren is the biblical guidelines of love. We have our desire set in heaven and if we fail to tell those we come in contact with in everyday situations about Jesus Christ then we do not love the brethren nor our neighbours whom we work, play and see on a daily basis for the best for us is an eternity of peace and love in Christ and not that of a burning hell which no man would choose. In failing to tell others about Christ we also deny him before men to the which end Christ will deny us before God. Those that are "born of God" do not sin as God only sees the blood of Jesus applied to our souls and our sin is cast as far as the east is from the west and into a sea of forgetfullness, this is not speaking of Jesus Christ (born of God) for he was not born but is the "only Begotten of the Father" and that without sin and who did never commit sin. And even though he came in the likeness of sinful flesh in that all men who are born among men do die their flesh showing the contamination of sin in that we grow older and wither to death. Christ although aging did not or was not so contaminated but came in the likeness thereof so that in the flesh HE could take our sin but only if HE were without sin, for that which is sinful cannot pay the price needed unto a HOLY GOD, except for himself as spoken in the law of sacrifice and found in Hebrews 7:27-28.
So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee. As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec. Hebrews 5:5-10
Now it is not necessarily the what or why of the fear and the tears but the where, which is located on the cross when not only would Jesus pay the ultimate in sacrifice, for the first time feeling the pain, sorrow, humility, and all the sin for all time being captured at one moment in time - the sin of homosexuality, adultries, liars, theives, murderers, child rapists/molesters, gossipers, backbiters, but the one which hurt more than that of all the spiritual and physical pains was that of separation from God himself as Christ cried out on the cross, "My God, My God, Why hast thou forsaken me" to which HE felt for the first time our total separation for all eternity from our heavenly Father to whom we have and do turn in desperation when bad things come upon us. Not only did HE suffer the separation from the Father in showing us and experiencing that distance of man from his Creator but HE also descended into hell and preached unto them the truth of the Word of God that salvation had come among them, not as a slap in the face but as a promise for all would know from the least to the greatest that God had come among man with salvation and restoration. Now the law is for the world that is for the sinner that in both hearing the law and it's requirement that they may be convicted of their sin and turn to the only one who can save them from the eternal flames of hell. The woman caught in adultry to whom Christ stated, Woman where are thine accusers to which she replied Master I have none and Jesus stated Neither do I accuse thee, but most forget the rest of this story as Christ stated to her "Go, and sin no more." An extremely hard and impossible command for no human can go and sin no more - consider that of gossip, every idle word, and evil thought which we cannot control as the tounge is set on fire by hell. How could HE expect her not to sin again - only by accepting that which he would do on the cross for the atonement of all sin, being born-again not of the flesh but of the Spirit of God which being interpreted is the Holy Spirit sent by God to all those who place their faith and hope in Jesus Christ the Author and Finisher of our faith, wouldn't it be great to know more about HIM now rather than later.