Lawlessness or without the law was warned against even by Yeshua Himself! We would be wise to heed that warning.
We are without excuse because HE has placed HIS Torah in our hearts. Yes, forgivness comes when we are born again and we are still to walk in HIS Law only now we have help.
Jeremiah 31:33
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the L-RD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their
G-D, and they shall be my people.
and for those who rely on half the sword and prefer just the handle
Hebrews 8:10
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the L-rd; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a G-d, and they shall be to me a people:
and you thought it was all a new thing.....
I found the following here; just food for thought:
Clearly we live in an age of lawlessness.
It is easy, but not very helpful, to dwell on the outward manifestations of lawlessness. Everybody knows about it. It is of far more value to look at its spiritual roots. Who were the lawless people in the New Testament? The Greeks? The Romans? The Sadducees? The Zealots? We find the surprising answer in Matthew 23:28. Jesus says to the Pharisees, 'Inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness'. The whole chapter expands and explains this one verse and we do well to read and understand it.
The Pharisees didn't go around mugging people. Nor were they involved in football hooliganism. They were the Bible students of their day. They spent much of their time studying and teaching the law. How could they be lawless? They made two great mistakes. Firstly the law that they taught was largely not the law of God, but their additions to it. Secondly it was not a law written on their hearts and an inward part of their lives and experience. It was simply retained by much study in their heads.
When a bishop, ignorant of the law of God, proclaims his own views and opinions to the world, he is guilty of a far greater lawlessness than an ignorant soccer hooligan.
When a priest in a pulpit holds forth the views of his denomination, without ever searching to see if he has the mind of God, he is safe from the law of the land, but will give account on the day of judgement.
When a Bible teacher who claims to know God and to have heard the voice of the Holy Spirit rejects the word of God to proclaim the opinions of man, I believe he is the most guilty. James wisely says, 'Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive a greater judgement'. If we see lawlessness in the world, we must search our hearts and root out the lawlessness from there.
Judgement must begin at the house of God.
It is the church that is the biggest spreader of the we are not under the law lie!!!
For further reading http://www.eliyah.com/law.htm
and http://www.eliyah.com/galatians3kjv.html
2 comments:
Help me out here, cause I want some resolution on this subject. I've got the whole foundation thing, I just get confused when I read my NT. What do you do with all those letters from Paul that tells you if you break one law you've broke them all, that the nw covenant freed us from the old one and it is better, not to put hat yoke back on etc....
I guess where I'm at right now is I think the law will be in place in the Milleniel Kingdom because it is his ideal for people to live, and it was in place, but is there a pause button from the time Jesus rose again, and when he returns - sort of like Moses suspended circumcision while they wandered in the desert for 40 years....
I don't think the church has it right -they only focus on saving ya and blessing ya, but I'm trying to look at the COMPLETE revelation and Paul did speak to the gentiles AFTER our savior's death and reserection...... Anyway, you know the sides, I just feel like I'm in the middle in a no-mans land. Have you seen/heard any good resources are understndingPaul diffeerently??
A book titled THE LETTER WRITER can help make Paul clearer.
hth
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