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To: Mr Rogers
But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian [The Law], for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.”

A Christians life, if the Christian is letting God's spirit work in them, should naturally fall into line with the law of God. God cannot sin...break his law...and when we let him work in us he changes our nature over time.

The expectation is that we'll let Christ transform us. This in fact is what the entire new covenant is based on:

Heb 8:10 "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My Laws into their mind and write them in their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

377 posted on 08/30/2016 11:08:42 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC

A Christian’s life, if the Christian is letting God’s spirit work in them, should naturally fall into line with the law of God. God cannot sin...break his law...and when we let him work in us he changes our nature over time.


Paul says something similar in Galatians 5:16-24

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.


378 posted on 08/30/2016 12:32:06 PM PDT by rwa265
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