{"id":4056,"date":"2016-09-25T06:16:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T06:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=4056"},"modified":"2016-09-25T06:16:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T06:16:20","slug":"the-commandments-of-men-teach-that-believers-are-yet-under-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=4056","title":{"rendered":"The commandments of men teach that believers are yet under the law"},"content":{"rendered":"

Throughout the book of Romans, when Paul refers to those who walk after
\nthe flesh and those who walk after the Spirit he is speaking of
\nreligious folks, not immoral folks.
\nThe commandments of men teach that believers are yet under the law which
\nwas given at Mt. Sinai. Most say that the believer is not under the
\nceremonial law but that the believer is to be ruled by the ten
\ncommandments. That is a precept of man. God never divides the law. Those
\nwho are constrained by law mind the flesh. It is impossible to be
\nconstrained by law without having your mind set on the letter of the law
\nand your own flesh. This passage declares that everything that is done
\nin religion, when constrained by law, is all \u201cenmity against God.\u201d The
\nreason is because the carnal mind \u201cis not subject to the law of God,
\nneither indeed can be.\u201d
\nHere is the good news for those born of the Spirit of God. The believer
\ndoes not have to worry about the carnal mind being enmity against God
\nbecause \u201cye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the
\nSpirit of God dwell in you.\u201d And the believer does not have to worry
\nabout subjection to the law because the body of the law is dead to us
\nbecause Christ has taken care of our sin, \u201cAnd if Christ be in you, the
\nbody is dead because of sin.\u201d Since Christ has taken care of our sin
\nwhen he laid down his life for us, the believer is dead to the law and
\nthe whole body of the law is dead to the believer so that we are married
\nto Christ and worship him in newness of Spirit, not in the oldness of
\nthe letter. (Rom 7: 4<\/a>,\u00a06<\/a>) That is exactly what is declared in this
\npassage, if Christ be in you, the body of the law is dead, because
\nChrist has dealt with our sin before the law. And the Spirit of God
\ndwelling in us shall also do the same for our mortal bodies.
\n\u201cTherefore brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the
\nflesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through
\nthe Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.\u201d If we mind
\nthe law, mind our flesh and try to live constrained by the law, we will
\nnot have our hearts set on Christ alone, and we shall die. But as we
\ncontinually hear of the faithfulness of Christ through the preaching of
\nthe gospel, the Spirit sets our affection on Christ above, strengthens
\nour inner man to rest in Christ and makes us treat our body, and the
\nbody of the law, as God says they really are, dead. (Col 3: 1-4<\/a>)
\nSo if you are in religion, which are you? Are you constrained by men,
\nconstrained by their precepts, constrained by the law? If so you have
\nyour affection continually set on your flesh rather than on Christ. You
\nglory in appearance, not in heart. (2 Cor 5: 12<\/a>) It is to have a carnal
\nmind. All such religion is enmity against God. You are not, and cannot
\nbe, subject to the law given at Mt. Sinai nor subject to the gospel by
\nwhich God commands us to cease from our works and believe on Christ. (Jn
\n6: 28-29) God says that those who have not the Spirit of Christ are none
\nof us. All who worship this way are worshipping by works.
\nIf you are constrained by the love of Christ for you, then you live unto
\nChrist rather than unto yourself. You have been given the Spirit, not of
\nbondage, but of adoption. You have discernment to judge that when Christ
\ndied, right then, all things that needed to die, died before God: your
\nold man of sin died, you died to the law and the law died to you. (2 Cor
\n5: 14-15;\u00a0Rom 6: 6-7<\/a>;\u00a07: 4<\/a>,\u00a06<\/a>) You worship and live unto Christ in
\nnewness of spirit because you are a new creation, old things are passed
\naway. All things are become new. The Spirit has revealed in you that you
\nare now a son of God. So now, you glory only in God and his Son, who has
\nworked this great work for us by his Son, Christ Jesus our Lord. (2 Cor
\n5: 17, 18) This is the true religion, the religion of grace.
\nClay Curtis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Throughout the book of Romans, when Paul refers to those who walk after the flesh and those who walk after the Spirit he is speaking of religious folks, not immoral folks. The commandments of men teach that believers are yet under the law which was given at Mt. Sinai. Most say that the believer is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,38,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-clay-curtis","category-the-law","category-false-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056","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=4056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4057,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions\/4057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}