{"id":3399,"date":"2015-08-22T10:09:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T10:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3399"},"modified":"2015-08-22T10:09:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T10:09:24","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-be-%e2%80%9cof-the-works-of-the-law%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3399","title":{"rendered":"What does it mean to be \u201cof the works of the law?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What does it mean to be \u201cof the works of the law?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Todd Nibert<\/p>\n<p><em>So then, they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Galatians%203.9-10\">Galatians 3:9-10<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to be \u201cof the works of the law?\u201d The word \u201cof\u201d refers to origin. If I am of the works of the law I trace the origin of my salvation to something I have done. Just what that something is varies according to who you are talking to. Some would say it is obedience to the law. Others would say it is your sincerity. Still, others would say it is your will that decides whether to accept or reject God\u2019s offer of salvation. Whatever form it takes, it is still something you must do before you can be saved. Salvation is the end, the pay back, for the works that you perform. But those who are \u201cof truth\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Gal%203.9\">Gal 3:9<\/a>), trace the origin of their salvation to God himself. What we do does not end in salvation. We begin in salvation. Our works find their origin in God himself (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Eph.%202.8-10\">Eph. 2:8-10<\/a>). All who are of the works of the law are under God\u2019s curse! All who are \u201cof faith\u201d are \u201cblessed with faithful Abraham.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does it mean to be \u201cof the works of the law?\u201d Todd Nibert So then, they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,71,38,32,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-todd-nibert","category-believers-rule-of-life","category-the-law","category-the-will","category-false-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3400,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions\/3400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}