Remember- God is spirit and we must worship Him in spirit and truth.
God's moral law has a very spiritual aspect to it and it's not a law that will ever disappear. Why people want to believe differently is Satan led.
Jas 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
This was written after Jesus died. 'Whoso looketh into the PERFECT LAW of LIBERTY… AND CONTINUETH THEREIN- SHALL BE BLESSED.'
Some will try hard to pervert this into meaning the law of liberty is the fact that Jesus did away with all the laws and is liberty for us, liberty from having to keep laws. The fact of the matter is, IF you love Jesus and want to live your life in Jesus' love you will NATURALLY be living more spiritually and that spirit life is a life that automatically follows the spiritual laws given to us, the moral laws that have NO end. The moral laws that exist is something that reveals the beauty of God, it reveals the love that God is.
Such an amazing love! Think about it fully for a moment or two. Living in a world where these laws are followed out of love perfectly by everyone! No one who truly loves God will find a single fault in the moral law of God. Our perfect God created perfect laws and Jesus kept those laws perfectly for us in a way our flesh nature cannot. How could God create moral laws that aren't perfect? Jesus said He was ABLE to keep those laws and that they'll NEVER be destroyed. Never be destroyed.
Mat 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
What do people think this means?! Seriously, what?
Jesus fulfilled- and ALL will be fulfilled when He comes again. The people that are His that rise from the dead to be with Him, and those who are His who are alive that rise to meet Him in the air, all those people will fulfilled the law perfectly through Him forevermore. Sin will be no more. And if sin is no more then there is no need for a law, because sin is breaking the law. If the law is NEVER broken and cannot be broken ever again, the law is being perfectly fulfilled- perfectly lived in Christ. Only when this happens, only when the law can be perfectly kept in Christ by all who are His will we live in a world where the law is no longer needed as it is needed in a sinfilled world. As long as there is sin- there will be laws it can be NO other way.
Salvation is only available to us through our Savior's perfect love, His perfect life, His perfect sacrifice. And our Savior Himself advocated keeping the law every single time He told someone not to sin any more. So those who believe He was doing away with us having to keep any laws only need to look at the verses of the Bible where He spoke these words…
Joh 5:14 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.
Joh 8:11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
Why would he say this if they didn't have a law to transgress any longer? Why didn't He just say I've saved you, go and just believe in me and don't worry about sinning because I've done away with the law that you transgress, the law that means you sin when you break it. He didn't say that, He said 'go and sin NO MORE'. They couldn't sin unless there was a law to break, it'd be impossible. We can't break a law unless there IS a law to break. You can't be guilty unless there is something to be guilty of. This makes perfect, perfect sense and yet people want to do away with the law of God, as if that were possible when our Savior said that it would not go away.
By the grace of God we can keep His law. We can read His moral law and understand the perfect love of God in that law. Jesus lived that perfect love as He was living keeping all the commandments perfectly. Jesus IS our example, the example we are to follow. We are to love as He loves and He loves perfectly.
Oh the wonder of our Lord's love! All that He's done for us, we cannot begin to fully comprehend, we just can't. We have to lay ourselves at the feet of Jesus and it is by His mercy, His grace, His all consuming love that we are saved. We are powerless without Him, completely powerless to even think for a moment we can keep the law without Him.
Please Lord, help us to fully understand as much as You would have us understand, help us to love as You would have us love. All in You all through Your amazing grace, Your love!
In You!
Amen.
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