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The Christian's relationship to the law (posted by Mats)
Posted by Lev/Christopher on March 31, 2009 at 11:00pm in Theology
Our death to the law does not mean that the law is dead, but its function has changed. The reverse, uncircumseised man inherited the sin nature and are therefore addressed under the law and its lethal function to raise up sin and its request in us. Since the uncircumseised, unsaved man only lives through his flesh, the spirit of her is dead. And heighten the law function in her when she violates it. That results in spiritual death, because the natural man can only live by its natural desires and lusts. When man is born again, has a circumseised heart, has repent and is saved, she has a new relationship with the law. From being something that heighten the sinful request, flesh life, then the law instead become a servant for life and the meat's death, a total opposite function compared with the unsaved man. the law can now no longer raise the sinful request because we have died from the old function of the law. The difference can be very difficult to understand unless the Spirit of God reveals it to us.
The main thing to remember is that the law has not ceased or disappeared when Yah'shua died on the cross and reconciled the world with God. It is when man may become a new creation the laws lethal force is changed to instead be a God's tool for the new nature. The new man must be reshaped in line with it, because we are not fully transformed to the external once. It is a slow process that takes a lifetime. What prevents this process are essentially two different things. In the first of our disobedience and secondly, that we can breathe life into our flesh. When the law not can bring life into the sinful request, we can make it through our soul's force. Anything that is not produced by the Spirit of God is equal to our soul mission or carnal way to please God. He seems it just as bad about it as if we were unsaved and condemned to be slaves of sin. But God is of long courageous and let ourselves get to the insight that we can not produce any fruit which becomes permanent. We can continue to produce fleshly fruit throughout life but we "are saved as by fire" as Peter puts it. It is much better to be clean in the same way as the process that gold undergoes to get a higher quality 'when it is purified from the than our work "is burning up the hay and straw."
In the case example of diet, the sabbath and the festivals, most of whom are positive commandments, we need to look them in the same way as all other commandments. We can not produce their own fruit in terms of these things either. Christians who beginns keeping the diet, sabbath and festivals, but have a uncircumseised heart produces a fleshly fruit that is just as despicable in the eyes of God as everything else that has not undergone the process that I have just described.
The question is not, should I keep the diet, celebrate the Sabbath and feasts? But instead, have I a circumseised heart? How do I know if I have such a heart that God wants me to have?
The circumcision was the sign in the old covenant. Many say that it is baptism, which has replaced circumcision, but I think it is a human interpretation. In the new covenant it is the heart circumcision which has replaced the external sign. You cut away the foreskin in the old covenant, but in the new, you can not cut off a piece of heart, but you have to replace it with a completely new one. You can not cut away the piece of heart that the law uses when it pumps into its deadly poison - flesh request else lusts and flesh. This new heart can no longer pump it by the law poisoned blood producing meat lives and kils's life. The new heart can only use the pure fresh blood that once flowed on Golgatha.
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Reply by Lev/Christopher on March 31, 2009 at 11:10pm
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Reply by Mats Rydin on April 1, 2009 at 12:37am
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Reply by Lev/Christopher on April 1, 2009 at 5:18am
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