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In your carnal state you are unable to comprehend the Grace of God in Christ. The Grace of God judged sin on the cross. By faith alone in Christ Alone, my sin was included in THAT judgment on the cross. "There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus"... but Phil, if you choose to be judged by the ten commandments, it is simple, just do not trust in Christ alone, add your failures to keep the Law of God and you will not have your sin counted in the Judgment at the Cross.

Do you understand why there is therefore now no condemnation for those in Christ? You read the answer if you read the 1 John letter verse by verse, because the answer is stated by John at 1 John 3:9. That saying by John conflicts with your carnal misuse of the other verses. Read 1 John 3:9 and let the Restrainer illuminate your soul.

You attempt to post word search passages as if you have found your desired gotchas. Look at the passages of 2 Thess 2. Do you know Who is The Restrainer? Can you guess what He is restraining such that when H e is taken out of the way the antiChrist is revealed? Specifically, what is The Restrainer restraining? How does satan come when he is no longer held back after God removes The Body of Christ Believers?

IF you ever comprehend Who is The Restrainer and why His restraining is vital to the age of The Grace of God in Christ Church Age, then you will start to comprehend what is The Grace of God for The Body of Believers in Christ alone by faith alone. You will have begun to understand what atonement means under the Grace of God, by faith ALONE in Christ ALONE by Grace ALONE with not one smidgeon of your efforts, your fealty to fulfill the ten commandments.

To the Christian, how much could one add to the righteousness IMPUTED to that born again one? Do you really believe The Righteousness of Christ needs anything added by you? Understanding how to answer that question leads to Life in the spirit, by faith alone in Christ alone for Grace alone, never your efforts added.

God’s Word says that we are saved by grace through faith in Christ Jesus and not by our own efforts or works (Ephesians 2:8-9). Grace Alone. Faith Alone.

Jesus said......”It is Finished”........”I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live ‘by faith in the Son of God’, who loved me and gave himself for me.
-Galatians 2:20

Galatians 2:20 does NOT say “The life I now live in the flesh I live by faithfulness.”

....We did not free ourselves from the slavery of sin; Christ did. We did not make ourselves slaves of righteousness; Christ did...... The identity of “slave of righteousness” is not something we have to strive to attain, but something ‘we already have’ by faith in Christ.

“For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty” (James 2:10–12).

(Saved by Grace, judged by the law).

“Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law” (Romans 3:31). Here is the most explicit answer to the entire problem. Paul asks if the law is nullified for us just because we have had faith in Christ’s saving grace. His answer is that the law is established and reinforced in the life of a grace-saved Christian.

AND THAT IS EXACTLY THE MEANING OF THE NEW COVENANT:

10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

No free pass on sin....
11For there is no respect of persons with God.

12For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

13(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

FOR THERE IS NO RESPECT OF PERSONS WITH GOD. We are all going to be judged by God and judgment begins at the house of God.

1 Peter 4:17
For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?