2Co 3:5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to
think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God
2Co 3:6 Who also
hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the
spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life
The letter
kills. Truly the commandments without
grace offer only death to us. The grace
of God is found in sacrifice- in the old testament an animal sacrifice was
made, in the new testament our Savior's sacrifice was made. Christ is the true sacrifice the ultimate
sacrifice that ALL the former sacrifices pointed towards.
The LETTER of the
law reveals our sin. The LETTER of the
law reveals God's love. These are
TRUTHS.
Without the
revelation of our sin we cannot seek forgiveness. The law reveals the reasons we are separated
from God- the sins that separate us from God. The law reveals our inability to
reunite ourselves to God. The law reveals we need a SAVIOR to reunite us. The
law reveals perfection, a perfection we cannot attain in our sinful selves.
The Spirit gives us
life. Our Savior gives us life through
the Spirit! Our hope is in the Spirit.
We cannot have eternal life without the Spirit. We can put on some
façade of being able to keep all the commandments and pat ourselves on the back
each day we have a 'good' day and do everything we believe God would have us
do. We can pretend all we want that it is US who saves us, but it's living a
LIE.
If we believe that
keeping the commandments saves us then we are LOST. If we believe the our
Savior's sacrifice saves us, then we have life.
We will keep the commandments out of LOVE for our Savior, not because we
believe the commandments will save us, they won't. We do for love what we know love
desires. Will we be able to keep the
law? No, but if our spirit is willing even though our flesh is weak we must
with our mind desire to keep the law of love in the spirit that it was given
and revealed to us by our SAVIOR.
Please Father,
please keep us in YOU, in the love of our SAVIOR!
By Your GRACE and
MERCY, YOUR LOVE!
Amen.
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