Romans 7:5-6
"For when we were in the flesh, (we had no spiritual life) the motions of sins, (the activity of what the Law would condemn us) which were by the law, did work in our members (this body of flesh, the old Adamic nature) to bring forth fruit unto death,
(that is what the unsaved person is living for. All he's living for is
the day when he dies physically and the works of his unsaved experience
are going to come up before him at the great White Throne Judgment. And
the fruit that they're going to have is death!) 6. But (flip side) now we are delivered from the law,
(the grounds of our first estate in which we're to learn how to live by
the Holy Spirit and which is an administration of death) that being dead wherein we were held; (that is the Law, that's our natural first condition) that we should serve (now as a believer) in newness of spirit (set back into God's hands as righteous), and not in the oldness of the letter." (the
Law of statutes and ordinances which kills and destroys as it only
deals with the external, material world) We're not under that Law of the
oldness of the letter (sin and death), we are now in this whole new
frame of thinking which is the spiritual realm (in the power of an
Endless Life, Love). And how do we get there? Just by believing the
Gospel!
2Corinthians 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."
Now back to Galatians chapter 3. Let's look at verse 3 again.
Galatians 3:3-5
"Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, (that is by believing Paul's Gospel through faith + nothing) are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
(are you now going to move into a deeper spiritual life by the flesh?
And what does the flesh want in the Galatian Churches? Legalism,
religious Law. It's just part of that old Adamic Nature to want to be
under some kind of a religion for religion replaced the Spirit which
Adam killed) 4. Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. 5. He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, (Holy Spirit, Love and Grace) and worketh miracles among you,
(the coming into the Gospel of Life in Christ, the removal of Christ
from the cross and then receiving the Spirit of Christ in the second
blessing) doeth he it by the works of the law (sinful nature of the flesh), or by the hearing of faith?" Well
we can answer that question. They couldn't perform any miracles under
the working of Law, it was impossible. But when the Holy Spirit
activated the hearts and minds of those pagan Galatians and others
throughout the Roman Empire, then what was it? It was a miraculous
transformation from religion and paganism with all of their excesses,
with it's idolatry, and it's immorality, and what did they do? They
stepped out into a whole new lifestyle. The mightier things shall you do
than these (John 14:12). Now that's a miracle enough in itself, and no
doubt in the early churches there were other manifestations of the
miraculous. But Paul doesn't explicitly delineate them, but the question
is still the same. If you have witnessed a miracle was it through the
keeping of the Law? Or was it through the manifestation of the Holy
Spirit Who was activated, how? By Faith + nothing! This is the whole theme of this Book of Galatians, so don't be suckered into coming under some kind of a works religion! Or
the thinking that the Mosaic Laws, the statutes and ordinances are
still in force and working or that they are the Law of God which is
written in our heart and impressed on our mind. That's impossible.
PLAN FOR HEAVEN
Luke 18:17
"Verily I say to you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein."
Romans 3:23-27
"For
all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified
freely by His Grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom
God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to
declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past,
through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time His
righteousness: that He might be just, and the justifier of him which
believe in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what Law:
of works? Nay: but by the law of faith."
Romans 6:23
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal Life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
Romans 1:16-19
"For
I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God
unto salvation to every one that believe; to the Jew first, and also to
the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith
to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. For the wrath
of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because
that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has shown it
to them."
I Corinthians 15:1-6
"Moreover,
brethren, I declare to you the Gospel which I preached to you, which
also you have received, and wherein we stand; By which also we are
saved, if we keep in memory what I preached to you, unless you have
believed in vain. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also
received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according
to the scriptures: And that He was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:
After that, He was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom
the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep."
Romans 5:8-11
"But
God commends His Love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we
shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if, when we were enemies, we
were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being
reconciled, we shall be saved by His Life. And not only so, but we also
joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received
the atonement."
Romans 4:5
"But to him that works not, but believe on Him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness."
Ephesians 1:13:14
"In
whom we also trusted, after that you heard the word of truth, the
Gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that we believed, we were
sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our
inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the
praise of His glory."
I Thessalonians 4:13-18
"But
I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which
are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For
if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which
sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him. For this we say to you by the
word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of
the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord Himself
shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel,
and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them
in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be
with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words."
Romans 10:8-13
"But
what saith it? The word is nigh you, even in your mouth, and in your
heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; That if you shall
confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart
that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. For with the
heart man believe unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is
made unto salvation. For the scripture say, Whosoever believe on Him
shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the
Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich to all that call upon Him.
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."
Galatians 2:20
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ
lives in me: and the Life which I now live in the flesh I live by the
faith of the Son of God, who loves me, and gave Himself for me.
Galatians 2:21 I do not frustrate the Grace of God: for if righteousness came by the
law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Revelation22:21
"The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen."
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