Redeemed From The Curse Of Laws

For I through the Law [under the operation of the curse of the Law] have [in Christ’s death for me] myself died to the Law and all the Law’s demands upon me, so that I may [henceforth] live to and for God. Galatians 2:19

Christ purchased our freedom [redeeming us] from the curse (doom) of the Law [and its condemnation] by [Himself] becoming a curse for us, for it is written [in the Scriptures], Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree (is crucified); Galatians 3:13

If you will listen diligently to the voice of the Lord your God, being watchful to do all His commandments which I command you this day, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you if you heed the voice of the Lord your God. Blessed shall you be in the city and blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your beasts, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading trough. Blessed shall you be when you come in and blessed shall you be when you go out. The Lord shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways. The Lord shall command the blessing upon you in your storehouse and in all that you undertake. And He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you. The Lord will establish you as a people holy to Himself, as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways. And all people of the earth shall see that you are called by the name [and in the presence of] the Lord, and they shall be afraid of you. And the Lord shall make you have a surplus of prosperity, through the fruit of your body, of your livestock, and of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. The Lord shall open to you His good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. And the Lord shall make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you this day and are watchful to do them. Deuteronomy 28:1-13

Christ Is The Law

For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death. For God has done what the Law could not do, [its power] being weakened by the flesh [the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit]. Sending His own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, [God] condemned sin in the flesh [subdued, overcame, deprived it of its power over all who accept that sacrifice], Romans 8:2-3

Our Father tells us that we are free from sin and death. He doesn’t tell us that we will be free, or that we are in the process of being freed. The Truth is that through Christ we are free right now, because now is the day of our salvation, 2 Corinthians 6:2. I really don’t believe that people know this Truth. I believe that most people believe that we are bound by sin and the weaknesses of our flesh. I honestly believe that most Christians think that they are disappointing to our Father and believe that they are in control of how much Grace that they are able to enjoy from Him on. 

This is why our Father is so plainly showing us His Truth: it is to set the captives free! We no longer are living a life that is bound by the law that says as soon as you do something wrong there is punishment. We no longer live by the law that proclaims that it is up to us to seek forgiveness. We now live under the law of Grace that proclaims that forgiveness is just given to us because of what Jesus did. I use to go to a church where the preacher would preach that our Father cannot bless us past our last act of disobedience. That is such a slap in the face to Jesus and what He accomplished for us. What always bothered me was how loud the congregation would shout amen when he would say it. That was the blind leading the blind, Matthew 15:!4. 

    

Our Father has done what rules and laws can’t do. Our Father condemned sin in the flesh, so that we would no longer be condemned. Through Christ our Father has completely freed man from all laws and rules. We are no longer justified by our works, Romans 3:20. 

Jesus has been given the responsibility to protect and keep all flesh and our Father has glorified Jesus so that He can give eternal life to all that He has been given, John 17:2. Through Christ we are able to actually consider ourselves dead to sin, just like He is dead to sin. The freedom in this Truth is awesome and it allows us to serve a very needy world in ways that go beyond anything we can ask, dream, or think of. We are empowered so greatly because we know that our flesh no longer holds our Father back. 

If there is something in us that needs cleaned up, it is Jesus’ responsibility to do it. Yet we are still able to be used greatly and powerfully by our Father until He does clean it out of us. Our flesh in no way hinders our Father using us to serve the world. 

Consider Yourself To Be Dead To Sin

And because you [really] are [His] sons, God has sent the [Holy] Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba (Father)! Father! Galatians 4:6

Right now we really are God’s children and because we are His kids, we now have the Holy Spirit just as Jesus has Him. Just as Jesus is kept by the power of the Holy Spirit, so are we. Jesus came and allowed Himself to be sacrificed so that we could have everything that He has. Jesus has died to sin once and because of what He did for us, so have we.

Because we know that Christ (the Anointed One), being once raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has power over Him. For by the death He died, He died to sin [ending His relation to it] once for all; and the life that He lives, He is living to God [in unbroken fellowship with Him]. Even so consider yourselves also dead to sin and your relation to it broken, but alive to God [living in unbroken fellowship with Him] in Christ Jesus. Romans 6:9-11

We are the body of Christ right now, Ephesians 5:30, so we too are dead to sin and alive to live as one with God. Our relationship with sin has ended, not because of what we do, but because of what Jesus did. Because Jesus was so successful, we are now free from the law of sin equals death. 

Because we are members (parts) of His body. For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is very great, but I speak concerning [the relation of] Christ and the church. Ephesians 5:30-32

For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death. Romans 8:2. 

There are so many forces in the world and in religion that will try and make us feel like we can’t do anything but sin. Yet they are all lies. The Truth is that we are free from sin because Jesus has done it for us and only because of what He has done. It’s not by our works or by our obedience, it’s only by Grace. If we consider ourselves to still be sinners, what we really are saying is that Jesus just didn’t pull it off.  If we look at what we do as the measure of our Father’s Grace, then we are saying that we are the instruments of righteousness and not Jesus. What we do is not what makes us free or not free, it is what Grace is that makes us free and Grace is all undeserved. 

Righteousness Part V

For being ignorant of the righteousness that God ascribes [which makes one acceptable to Him in word, thought, and deed] and seeking to establish a righteousness (a means of salvation) of their own, they did not obey or submit themselves to God’s righteousness. For Christ is the end of the Law [the limit at which it ceases to be, for the Law leads up to Him Who is the fulfillment of its types, and in Him the purpose which it was designed to accomplish is fulfilled. That is, the purpose of the Law is fulfilled in Him] as the means of righteousness (right relationship to God) for everyone who trusts in and adheres to and relies on Him. Romans 10:3-4

So many are preaching that we should walk righteously, as if by our own human power we have the ability too. The righteousness that is trying to be established by so many is this, we will sin, yet we will be righteous as long as we repent and ask our Father for forgiveness. What is the difference between that work or going out and offering up a goat or cow as a sin offering? There is no difference, none whatsoever.

Our Father doesn’t say that we will know who is born of Him by the way they repent. He says that we will know them by the way that they are empowered by Him to walk righteously, as Jesus was empowered by God to walk righteously. Jesus didn’t earn His righteousness, He was born with it. He was born of God and He was and is God! Jesus can’t help but be righteous, He is One with it, it’s in Him, and now who are we one with? People are trying to go out and earn righteousness, they are ignorant of the Truth of God and they will fail each and every time. 

You want to be righteous? Well if you do, it only comes from Jesus and you have to be empowered by the Holy Spirit to look unto to Jesus to Author and Finish the faith within you that will allow you to see who God has made you! Then you will walk righteously as Jesus, in an unshakeable knowledge of who you are in God! Faith comes from hearing the Truth of God and the Truth of God absolutely and eternally sets us free!

Righteousness Part IV

But to one who, not working [by the Law], trusts (believes fully) in Him Who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited to him as righteousness (the standing acceptable to God). Thus David congratulates the man and pronounces a blessing on him to whom God credits righteousness apart from the works he does: Blessed and happy and to be envied are those whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered up and completely buried. Blessed and happy and to be envied is the person of whose sin the Lord will take no account nor reckon it against him. Romans 4:5-8

King David, and all who were under the Old Covenant, had to perform works and try to earn righteousness. They had to because the Blood of Jesus had not yet been shed for them. They longed for what we have, King David, an extremely blessed man of God, said that we were blessed because of this freedom through Christ. Our Father allowed David to see who we would be in Christ, as He did for the other Prophets of old, and they longed for what we have. They were also willing to be persecuted just for talking about it. 

That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Romans 8:4 

The thing they could never achieve, righteousness fulfilled, has been fulfilled within the least of us by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. Romans 6:18 

This Truth does not get preached nearly enough, we are free form sin, we should consider ourselves dead to it, Romans 6:11. Our peace is that Christ has broken the relationship that we had with sin. Our bodies which could sin have been destroyed by the power of Christ that has been freely given us, Romans 6:6. We are now members of Righteousness body, flesh of His flesh and bone of His bones. We are now the Temples of Righteousness. Righteousness is now our Head. We now have the Spirit of Righteousness, the Mind of Righteousness, and as Righteousness walked so to do we walk. The requirements of righteousness have been fully met within us through Christ, freely and without any works!

This is grace my brothers and sisters!

Righteousness Part III

Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Romans 3:22-23

The Truth is that we are freely justified by our Father's Grace through Jesus our Lord. Freely, we just can’t hear that enough. Sure we all have fallen short of His glory, we can’t help it.

For God has consigned (penned up) all men to disobedience, only that He may have mercy on them all [alike]. Romans 11:32

We all have been made to mess up, which is why Jesus prayed in John 17 that we would have His glory, because ours isn’t enough, it never has been enough and it never will be. 

I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one [even] as We are one: John 17:22

We all need to move on past the principle of Christ that says we have forgiveness of sins, so many of us dwell there. We need to move on to perfection, walking in the victory and love of the righteousness that has been freely bestowed on us! Freely, without any works, we have been made righteous, virtuous, morally upright, free from the guilt and sin. We are now approved and accepted by God, and through Jesus we are now faultless. Jesus has saved us to the uttermost, Hebrews 7:25. We are now one with the One Who is sanctified and Who sanctifies, and He is not ashamed to call us His brethren, Hebrews 2:11. The power of our sanctification solely lies on our Lord and Savior Who He ever lives to intercede for us so that we are absolutely and completely saved to the uttermost. Jesus is greater in us than anything or anyone in this world!

Romans 8:2-3

2 For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death.

Our Father tells us that we are free. He doesn’t tell us that we will be free, or that we are in the process of being freed. The Truth is that through Christ we are free right now, because now is the day of our salvation, 2 Corinthians 6:2. I really don’t believe that people know this Truth. I believe that most people believe that we are bound by sin and the weaknesses of our flesh. I honestly believe that most Christians think that they are disappointing to our Father and believe that they are in control of how much grace that they are able to enjoy from Him on this earth. 

This is why our Father is so plainly showing us His Truth: it is to set the captives free! We no longer are living a life that is bound by the law that says as soon as you do something wrong there is punishment. We no longer live by the law that proclaims that it is up to us to seek forgiveness. We now live under the law of grace that proclaims that forgiveness is just given to us because of what Jesus did. I use to go to a church where the preacher would preach that our Father cannot bless us past our last act of disobedience. That is such a slap in the face to Jesus and what He accomplished for us. What always bothered me was how loud the congregation would shout amen when he would say it. That was the blind leading the blind, Matthew 15:!4. 

    

3 For God has done what the Law could not do, [its power] being weakened by the flesh [the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit]. Sending His own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, [God] condemned sin in the flesh [subdued, overcame, deprived it of its power over all who accept that sacrifice],

    

Our Father has done what rules and laws can not do. Our Father condemned sin in the flesh, so that we would no longer be condemned. Through Christ our Father has completely freed man from all laws and rules. We are no longer justified by our works, Romans 3:20, and this freedom is for all who are in Christ. And amen, as we have seen in the Word, we are all in Christ. Some of us are empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept this Truth now, on this earth and during this time, we are the Bride of Christ. Some will be empowered to accept this Truth when they are raised from the dead, these are the guests of the Bride. But the glorious Truth is that every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord, Philippians 2:10. Our Father will not loose any of us. He will get His way, all men will be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth, 1 Timothy 2:4.    

Jesus has been given the responsibility to protect and keep all flesh and our Father has glorified Jesus so that He can give eternal life to all that He has been given. The sacrifice of Jesus has given all men eternal life, Romans 5:18. 

Romans 8:1

THEREFORE, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit.

There is now absolutely no condemnation for us because there is now absolutely no law to convict us of sin. While there still is sin in this world, there is now nothing that convicts us of sin. Sin has lost all of its abilities to hold us hostage. There is no longer anything to fear about it. I know how that sounds, but our Father knows what He is doing and there is a reason that He did away with the Law for us. The power of sin to harm us was the Law convicting us of sin, Romans 7:8. But now we are free, because through Christ we are discharged from the law.  

But now we are discharged from the Law and have terminated all intercourse with it, having died to what once restrained and held us captive. So now we serve not under [obedience to] the old code of written regulations, but [under obedience to the promptings] of the Spirit in newness [of life]. Romans 7:6

There is now also no condemnation for us because we are not justified by our own actions. We are justified by Jesus’ actions.

Now it is evident that no person is justified (declared righteous and brought into right standing with God) through the Law, for the Scripture says, The man in right standing with God [the just, the righteous] shall live by and out of faith and he who through and by faith is declared righteous and in right standing with God shall live. Galatians 3:11

This glory and freedom applies to all who are in Christ, amen! Now the question is, who is in Christ? 

[Just as] You have granted Him power and authority over all flesh (all humankind), [now glorify Him] so that He may give eternal life to all whom You have given Him. John 17:2

For it was in Him that all things were created, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, whether thrones, dominions, rulers, or authorities; all things were created and exist through Him [by His service, intervention] and in and for Him.  And He Himself existed before all things, and in Him all things consist (cohere, are held together). Colossians 1:16-17

We are shown that Jesus is responsible for all flesh, all flesh. Jesus is not just responsible for the flesh that accepts Him, but He is responsible for all flesh. We are also shown that all things exist through Jesus and in Jesus. Our Father plainly tells us that all things consist and are held together in Jesus. So tie these verses with Romans 8:1: there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Amen, all are in Christ Jesus. This is a glorious Truth, all of us, whether we accept it or deny it, are in Christ Jesus. So there is now no condemnation for any of us. That is grace. It is all free. It is all undeserved and it is for all. Our Father is not a respecter of persons, Acts 10:34.