We are not God's Children, when we are a unbelieving Christ Rejector.
You didn't know this?
Really?
So, you have to be BORN AGAIN, to become a "Son/Daughther" of God., which is His child.
The Law was given to unbelievers, to show them their unrighteousness, which then leads us to the Cross so that God, through Christ can give us the new birth, and our Salvation.
My point was that being free to from the curse of the law is not saying that the law itself was given as a curse, but rather the curse of the law is not obeying it. I did not suggest that unbelieving Christ rejectors are God's children. Being born again is synonymous with being a child of God, there is no one who is born again who is not also a child of God and no one who is a child of God who is not also born again. God's law leads is to Christ because it was given to teach us how to know Him (Exodus 33:13, Matthew 7:23), or in other words, how to have a relationship with him. Likewise, the cross leads us to live in obedience to God's law (Titus 2:14). In 1 John 3:10, those who do not practice righteousness in obedience to God's law are not children of God.
Yes, Christ kept the law that you didn't.
You failed, as you SINNED against it.
I have kept the law and while I did not keep it sinlessly like Christ, I have repented and returned to keeping it.
So, HE Kept it, in our PLACE, so that by HIS finished work, God can accept us, "through Christ".
Nowhere does the Bible say that he deprived us of getting to keep God's law by keeping it in our place, but rather he kept it in part so that we would have an example to follow, which is why we are told to follow his example (1 Peter 2:21-22), and that those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way he walked (1 John 2:4. In Titus 2:14, it describe the finished work of Christ by saying that he 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, and this is what it means for him to save us by grace through faith.
In Psalms 119:29-30, he wanted to put false ways far from him, for God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey His law, and he chose the way of faithfulness, so this has always been the one and only way of salvation by grace through faith.
Here is what i can tell you about people who want to Teach Law as Salvation.
I do not teach that we need to obey God's law first in order to become saved as the result, but rather that our salvation is from sin (Matthew 1:21) and sin is the transgression of God's law (1 John 3:4), so living in obedience to it through faith in Jesus is intrinsically part of the concept of him saving us from not living in obedience to it.
They have no idea that there are 613 of them.
And you can't name 40, and you're not keeping the other 400 you dont even know exist.
I'm well aware of there being 613 laws and could name 40 of them, though roughly 400 are in regard to governing the conduct of the Levites. God's law isn't learned in a day, which is why Titus 2:11-13 describes our salvation as being trained by grace to obey it, so it is a learning process. Can you list the 1,050 commands in the NT?
So, lets get off this nonsense about LAW, and instead lets celebrate the Grace of God that has "redeemed us from the CURSE OF THE LAW", through the Cross of Christ.
God is gracious to us by teaching us to obey His law (Psalms 119:29-30, Exodus 33:13, Genesis 6:8-9, Romans 1:5, Titus 2:11-14), but you want God to be gracious to us instead of teaching us to obey it. The curse of the law is living lawlessly, so being redeemed from the curse of the law is being set free to live in obedience to it. Again, Titus 2:14 does not say that Jesus gave himself to redeem us from God's law, but to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of is own possession who are zealous for doing good works, not in order to set us free from doing good works.
