The Perfect Law of Liberty
Many Christians do not know who they are today or who Christ is in
them. They have been deceived into a works religion rather than understanding,
receiving, and walking in the grace that God has given them. Grace came by way
of Jesus Christ and will never come through our own self-efforts.
Ephesians
2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, (He) has quickened us together with Christ, (by
grace you are saved;).
Just as our ability to be good couldn't save us,
so our own works won't keep free. It is by grace and the goodness of God that
has been deposited within us that will help us to walk each day and will keep
us from falling.
Galatians 5:4 Christ is become of no effect to you,
whosoever of you are justified by the law; you are fallen from grace.
To walk according to our own abilities and works is to seek justification
through the law and our own abilities, but do you see the words? YOU ARE FALLEN
FROM GRACE! Does that mean that you are not saved??? NO!!! It simply means that
you have forgotten what MANNER OF MAN YOU ARE and when we try to perform the
law, then we must keep all the law.
For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like
unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholds himself, and
goes his way, and straightway forgets what manner of man he was. But whosoever lookes into the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it, he being not a
forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his
deed. James 1:23-25
We are to continue in the PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY, not the LAW! Men
ideals of walking with Christ have brought many false doctrines to the body of
Christ which are all MAN CENTERED and not CHRIST CENTERED. And when the gospel
becomes man centered, then the MINISTRY OF CONDEMNATION flourishes in the house
of God! It not only flourishes in our churches but it flourishes IN US!
1Corinthians 3:16 Know you not that ye are the temple of God, and that the
Spirit of God dwells in you?
There was a time that we were under the law and
it was for a purpose. The purpose was to teach us and BRING US TO CHRIST:
But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto
the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our
schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But
after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. ye are all the
children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been
baptized into Christ have put on Christ. Galatians 3:23-27
Paul brings a clear word to the church at Galatia which speaks of
departing from our liberty in Christ.
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that you should not
obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been evidently set forth,
crucified among you? This only would I learn of you, Received you the Spirit by
the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? having
begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh? Have you suffered so
many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. He therefore that ministeres to you
the Spirit, and works miracles among you, does he it by the works of the
law, or by the hearing of faith? Even as Abraham believed God, and it was
accounted to him for righteousness. Know you therefore that they which are of
faith, the same are the children of Abraham. Galatians 3:1-7
Notice the word BEWITCHED! It speaks of being unwise and sensual.
Sensual refers to the lust of the flesh! I CAN DO IT. It was a deception that
came that said, "Okay, you are saved now, and you need to make sure that
you stay that way"! So do this, and do that, and be sure to practice this,
etc. Forgetting that
"For as many as are led by the Spirit of God,
they are the sons of God (Romans 8:14).
You see, "the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus
hath made me free from 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 (Romans 8:2-4).
We need to become more
GRACE CONSCIOUS THAN WE ARE SIN CONSCIOUS! For if we are in Christ, then we are
not to have a consciousness of sin! What does this mean then? Paul even asked
this. Does it mean that we can just sin because of this grace that has been
given? He said "GOD FORBID". When we fully recognize the truth and
what has done for us, the acceptance of this work in our hearts will enable us
to walk in the Spirit. Sin will not have dominion over us! Let's take a look at
Hebrews.
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the
very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered
year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they
not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should
have had no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a
remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood
of bulls and of goats should take away sins (Heb. 10:1-4).
Thank God on this day July 4th as we celebrate our country's freedom, we are free indeed!
(John 8:36) Therefore if the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.
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