Psalms 119:142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, And Your Law is truth.
Please directly answer my question.The Law is holy, and the commandments are pure.
And they define us as a SINNER.
That is their PURPOSE before we are born again.....
They LEAD US TO The Cross so that God can deal with our sin through the Holy BLOOD of Jesus.
AFTER this...
We use the Commandments as a lifestyle boundary., but never do we think of them as part of God's Salvation.
See, the Law and Commandments, and water baptism, did not die on the CROSS for our SIN.
If they did, then go right ahead and preach the gospel of Law and Commandment keeping.
If they didnt, then get away from that ERROR., or you become this one..
Galatians 1:8
The point of God's law revealing our sin is to lead us to repent and to return to obedience to it.
In Titus 2:14, it does just say that Jesus gave himself to redeem is from all lawlessness, but also to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so becoming zealous for doing good works in obedience to God's law is the way to believe in what he accomplished through the cross (Acts 21:20), while the way to reject the cross is by returning to the lawlessness that Jesus gave himself to redeem us from. In Jeremiah 31:33, the New Covenant involves God putting His law in our minds and writing it on our hearts.The "point" of the Cross of Christ is to forgive you of all your sin, that is defined by the LAW and 10 Commandments.
If you go back to the Law, which is the OLD COVENANT, you have to reject the Cross, which is the New Covenant, on your way BACK.
In Titus 2:14, it does just say that Jesus gave himself to redeem is from all lawlessness, but also to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works,
Please directly answer my question in the OP.Yes, that is the FRUIT of Redemption.
our Discipleship, follows our Salvation...........Its not our salvation, its the fruit of our Salvation.
Its Because i am born again as = eternally redeemed by Jesus's sacrifice, i NOW go and produce a LIFESTYLE that represents the fact that i have become a "new Creation in Christ", based on God's Redemption that i have RECEIVED as "the Gift of Righteousness" and "the Gift of Salvation".
Please directly answer my question in the OP.
I said:You didnt ask a question, in that post.
You just restated your Titus verse, again, and so forth.
If you have a question, then just ask the question.
I said:
"Psalms 119:142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, And Your Law is truth.
Are you in favor of following truth or not? If not, why not?"
In Romans 7:12, God's law is holy, righteous, and good. While Jesus is our righteousness, he is also the embodiment of God's word, so us embodying God's word through following his example is the way that he is our righteousness. Jesus expressed the righteousness of God through walking in sinless obedience to God's law, so that is also the way that we live when we have become the righteousness of God. The way to believe in the righteousness of God as being our guide for how to rightly live is by obediently relying on God's instructions for how to do that found in His law, and God teaching us to do that is what it means to be under grace (Psalms 119:29). While I agree that we are not under the law, the law that we are not under is the law of sin. It should not make sense to you to interpret Paul as teaching rebellion against God and should make even less sense to you for you interpret him as teaching that and then conclude that we should follow Paul instead of God.Your verse does not say that the Law is righteousness.
So, if you are filled with the Law, its nothing, as its not righteousness.
Who is?
Jesus is our Righteousness, apart from the Law.
The born again, have become "THE.... RIGHTEOUSNESS....OF GOD..........in Christ".
"Christ is.....THE END....>OF....THE LAW........for Righteousness, to everyone who BELIEVES"
The born again are ... "NOT....UNDER >.. THE LAW, but under.... = Grace".
Jesus expressed the righteousness of God through walking in sinless obedience to God's law,
Indeed, Christ is God's righteousness, which he practiced by setting a sinless example of how to walk in obedience to God's law, all who are born again are followers of his example because those who are not are not born again (1 John 3:10), and all who are in Christ are followers of his example because those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way he walked (1 John 2:6),Jesus is God's Righteousness.
Not the Law, and not trying to be like Christ.
God's righteousness, is apart from the Law, .. Its "the righteousness of God, in Christ".
All the born again have this, as all the born again are "in Christ".
Unbelievers, are under the Law.
The born again, are "not under the curse of the Law", because "Christ has redeemed the born again from the curse of the Law".
The born again are "under Grace".
Psalms 119:142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, And Your Law is truth.
Are you in favor of following truth or not? If not, why not?
Indeed, Christ is God's righteousness, which he practiced by setting a sinless example of how to walk in obedience to God's law,
Nowhere does the Bible state that. On the contrary, in Matthew 5:17-19, Jesus said that he came to fulfill God's law in contrast with saying that he came not to abolish in addition to warning against relaxing the least part of it or teaching others to do the same. In Galatians 6:2, bearing one another's burdens fulfills the Law of Christ, but you do not consistently interpret that being freed from the Law of Christ. Likewise, in Romans 15:18-19, Paul fulfilled the Gospel by bringing Gentiles to obedience to it in word and in deed, but you do not consistently interpret that as freeing us from the Gospel. Rather, Christ fulfilled the law by "causing God's will (as made know in His law) to be obeyed as it should be" (NAS Greek Lexicon: pleroo), so he fulfilled the law by spending his ministry teaching us how to correctly obey it as it should be by word and by example.Christ had to fulfill the law so that we could be freed from the Law.
While I agree that we are not under the law, the law that Paul described us as not being under is the law of sin, not the law of God.The born again are '"not under the Law.......but under Grace".
In Psalms 119:29, he wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey His law, and in Psalms 119:142, God's law is truth, so grace and truth came by Jesus because he spent his ministry teaching us how to correctly obey it by word and by example."The Law came by Moses.....Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ"
In Titus 2:14, Jesus gave himself to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so becoming zealous for doing good works in obedience to God's law is the way to agree with the cross (Acts 21:20) while returning to the lawlessness that he gave himself to redeem us from is the way to disagree with the cross.Stop chasing Moses, and start agreeing with the Cross.
While I agree that we are not under the law, the law that Paul described us as not being under is the law of sin, not the law of God.
A law that is the power of sin is a law that is sinful, however, Romans 7:7 says that the Law of God is not sinful, but is how we know what sin is, therefore 1 Corinthians 15:56 is not referring to the Law of God, but rather it is the law of sin that is the power of sin."The Law is the power of Sin" "The power of sin is the Law"
God did not give His law as a curse to His children, but in order to teach us how to be blessed and avoid the curse of lawlessness. In Titus 2:14, it does not say that Jesus gave himself to redeem us from God's law, but in order to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so becoming zealous for doing good works in obedience to God's law is the way to believe in what Jesus accomplished through the cross while going back to the lawlessness that he gave himself to redeem us from would be the way to reject what he accomplished through the cross. The freedom that we have in Christ is the freedom from sin, not the freedom to sin.= "Christ has redeemed the born again from the CURSE of the Law".
Dont go back to the Law, as its a curse to you.
In Romans 8:4-7, those who walk in the Spirit are contrasted with those who have minds set on the flesh who are enemies of God who refuse to submit to His law. If there was a king who gave laws to govern the conduct of his people and there was someone going around speaking against submitting to the king's laws, then would this person be a servant or an enemy of the king?Christians are to 'walk in the Spirit" and that is not "under the Law".
In Deuteronomy 30:11-20, it says that God's law is not too difficult to obey and that obedience brings life and a blessing while disobedience brings death and a curse, so choose life! Jesus also confirmed in Matthew 19:17 and Luke 10:25-28 that obedience to God's law is the way to enter eternal life. In Hebrews 5:9, Jesus has become a source of eternal salvation for those who obey him, not for those who refuse to submit to his commands. In Revelation 22:14, those who obeyed God's commandments are given the right to eat from the Tree of Life. If correctly obeying what God instructed leads to death, then God is misleading us and shouldn't be trusted, but rather the Bible repeatedly says that God leads us to life.The law is the letter and the letter is death.