“The Law saves no one. Law keeping saves no one.
If it did, then Christ did not need to die.”
Again, I CLEARLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE WITH THAT STATEMENT.
Righteousness by faith and Justification. When you accept Christ your and ask for forgiveness of your past sins, you are at that moment blameless, covered by the righteousness of Christ......he is our advocate. Yes, we are sinners and deserve to die, but Christ says that by his blood being shed we are forgiven and we have salvation. Anyone got any problem with that?
SO WHAT IF YOU CONTINUE TO SIN and are UNREPENTANT? Metmom, that is the question. The bible is very clear. WE WILL ALL BE JUDGED by the law of liberty and that is God’s 10 commandment law.
James 2:10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all. 11For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. 12So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty.
The flesh (the body and behavior mechanism) is always under condemnation, BUT for the born again spirit there is therefore now no condemnation because the born again spirit is IN CHRIST with God's Life abiding therein. Until you are able to differentiate the soul and spirit as separate aspects of a man/woman you will continue to see the scriptures from your fleshly nature. You cannot even see your own duplicitous reasoning even when it is highlighted for you. Your actions cannot redeem your flesh. It is under a death sentence. GOD redeems the spirit, however, for those who by faith receive HIS redemption and then HIS life intheir spirit.