[metmom]

Methinks that those who think that just because we are free in Christ that it means that we think we have a license to sin, are projecting.

A lot.

They don’t or can’t understand that we don’t indulge in the flesh because we’re free in Christ and our salvation is assured, don’t understand because that is what they’d do (indulge in wanton sin) if they were in the place of thinking that they were free.

They need the outward restraint to keep them from sinning because they don’t have the inward restraint.

[smvoice]

I picture them as a group of busy bodies, gossiping about who is doing what, and what a pity, so and so is back to doing what he used to do..Not minding their own bees wax, but buzzing around, searching for a honeycomb of "those in need of ...prayer.. and how going to church more often would certainly help their "walk".

Keeps them focused on everyone but the man in the mirror and God's Word to that man...

[smvoice]

I picture them as a group of busy bodies, gossiping about who is doing what, and what a pity, so and so is back to doing what he used to do..Not minding their own bees wax, but buzzing around, searching for a honeycomb of "those in need of ...prayer.. and how going to church more often would certainly help their "walk".

Keeps them focused on everyone but the man in the mirror and God's Word to that man...

[boatbums]

They need the outward restraint to keep them from sinning because they don’t have the inward restraint.

That is quite insightful!

[terycarl]

They need the outward restraint to keep them from sinning because they don’t have the inward restraint.

yeah,right....that's it (not)

[daniel1212]

AS Adam Clarke comments,

The Gospel proclaims liberty from the ceremonial law: but binds you still faster under the moral law. To be freed from the ceremonial law is the Gospel liberty; to pretend freedom from the moral law is Antinomianism.^[11]

Noted commentator Albert Barnes states

The laws of the Jews are commonly divided into moral, ceremonial, and judicial. The moral laws are such as grow out of the nature of things, and which cannot, therefore, be changed - such as the duty of loving God and his creatures. These cannot be abolished, as it can never be made right to hate God, or to hate our fellow-men. Of this kind are the Ten Commandments, and these our Saviour has neither abolished nor superseded. The ceremonial laws are such as are appointed to meet certain states of society, or to regulate the religious rites and ceremonies of a people. These can be changed when circumstances are changed, and yet the moral law must be untouched. A general in an army may command his soldiers to appear sometimes in a red coat and sometimes in blue or in yellow. This would be a ceremonial law, and might be changed as he pleased. The duty of obeying him, and of being faithful to his country, could not be changed. ^[12]

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