I hear people say it all the time. "If we don't have the law and we don't have rules all hell will break lose."
Well, the way I am seeing it is that most people know nothing else and law is where they have placed their hope. But for those who have encountered the love and the grace of God the Father and the wild freedom that exists in him, how can we not see that law will always warp everything it comes in contact with. How can we not see that where freedom is suppressed everything remains legalistic?
I think it is because we believe the lie and our hope remains placed in something other than the One who is the only hope for the world.
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Hey,
I often wonder, as my eyes are being more and more opened, how we've misread the Bible so much.
Paul specifically states: where law abides, sin abides more so and that the law was expressly there to show us how sinful we are and that simple faith in Jesus is all that is required.
I was reading Rob Horton's blog post on a book he'd read - "Sit walk stand" by watchman nee where Nee talks about not doing, but resting and how 'being seated at the right hand of the Father' is what empowers us to walk, and as soon as we depart from there, we are tripped up... It's such a well stated truth in the Bible, yet somehow we miss it all to often..
kent i was just clicking here to throw this in: amen! we are a people so accustomed to system-trust that the thought of anything else is extremely queer.
and then i was encouraged by the comment above; cam - that is cool that you found encouragement in that watchman nee quote - awesome!
blessings,
rob
You're right on Brother...
Cam, it is pretty stunning that this stuff is so right there in plain view in scripture and we missed it. I am convinced that it happens to us because we approach scripture from a paradigm of fear and from that paradigm if you get it wrong the price is so friggin high. With that being the case, the mind-on-fear-and-self-preservation elevates law above grace.
Roy Blizzard summed up the law, as it is used in the Bible, in these two sentences:
“The idea of law in Hebrew is not something that,
if transgressed, is going to get you zapped.
The law is instruction, that if followed, will enrich
one’s life, if ignored will diminish it.”
See more at http://biblicalholidays.com/law.htm
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