{"id":4064,"date":"2016-09-25T06:25:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T06:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=4064"},"modified":"2016-09-25T06:25:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T06:25:34","slug":"we-are-not-justified-by-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=4064","title":{"rendered":"We are not justified by the law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Scripture distinctly teaches us that we are not justified by the law<br \/>\nnor is the law a rule of life. That which can only curse can never<br \/>\njustify and that which can only kill can never be a rule of life (Romans<br \/>\n3:20). Both the Jews who had received the law and the Gentiles who had<br \/>\nnever had the law were now to be saved through grace (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Acts%2015.11\">Acts 15:11<\/a>). Not<br \/>\nonly were they to be saved by grace, but also they were to \u201cstand in<br \/>\ngrace\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Romans%205.2\">Romans 5:2<\/a>) and to grow in grace\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/II%20Peter%203.18\">II Peter 3:18<\/a>). All who seek<br \/>\nto put believers under the law are tearing down the very foundations of<br \/>\nthe Christian faith. Listen to the strong words which came from the Holy<br \/>\nSpirit in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Galatians%205.12\">Galatians 5:12<\/a>; \u201cI would they were even cut off which trouble<br \/>\nyou.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Pastor Scott Richardson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scripture distinctly teaches us that we are not justified by the law nor is the law a rule of life. That which can only curse can never justify and that which can only kill can never be a rule of life (Romans 3:20). Both the Jews who had received the law and the Gentiles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,71,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-scott-richardson","category-believers-rule-of-life","category-grace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064","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=4064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4065,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions\/4065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}