Romans
3:23b
"...but
the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
How
much do you work for a gift? None! We are not use to getting gifts,
but when they come it is usually a total surprise. That is the
way it is supposed to be. It is not anything that we have to earn, or
we can say, "I have that coming to me." So that is what
eternal life is. Before we move on Paul is here speaking of
Redemption in Christ or through Christ and not our Salvation. Much of the church world
runs these two distinct actions of operation together as one and the
same when in fact they are not. Redemption is the action of buying
back something lost, such as redeeming the time. And the word "time" can be interchanged with all sorts of things. And Salvation is the
action of the greater umbrella under which God installs or reprograms
our character to His through Christ. Granted Salvation covers
Redemption but in the New Covenant language it has a greater meaning
and purpose of Grace. Grace which operates through Love and where
Faith is the receptive word of the this action. Grace is our victory
of freedom gained from the corruption of the world and religion.
Again Grace is our benefit of our benefactor, known as Light, Life and Truth. Who has passed through
death, physically in order to restore His divine Life, Light within us. This
Redemption does not accomplish it buys us back and then gives us the
right to become God's sons again through our being seal by the Holy Spirit. Just
as Jesus did when He received the Holy Spirit in accord with the Old
Testaments prophecies concerning Him and John the Baptist's activity
of washing. When God from heaven witness to John the fulfillment of
all righteousness which Jesus as the son of man through John's
activity brought about. It is in Salvation that we become
His sons, as such He works for our benefit in perfecting us as sons.
We have to have passed through the same door or gate as Jesus and the Old
Testament saints, in order to enter Their (the word "their" is used to show the means of action and ownership of the One God rule within the) kingdom and rule in that
kingdom. This is known as healing and the making us whole or one in
Christ where He succors us. Let’s finish our thoughts in chapter 7.
"So the work of sinful life brings forth the fruit of death."
For the believer look at verse 6, and it’s a whole different world.
Romans
7:6
"But
now we are delivered from the law, (the thou shalt, and thou
shalt not) that being dead wherein we were held*; that we
should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the
letter **."
*by
the tutor or corral into which we are first placed for our training
and up bringing in righteousness. This was Israel's estate until John came to proclaim the kingdom and repentance through which Israel could enter their Salvation. But as revealed within the scriptures and prophecies of the Old this would require them hearing God's voice which they had refused until then to do. And John in the spirit of Elijah was that voice as Jesus became after His baptism and trial of the voice of the flesh. **the
letter being the an external, ordinances of the Law as a cruel
governor of the flesh of natural man. It
was this that Jesus as the son of man was tried under while in the
wilderness when the voice of mans flesh tested His and His now being
declared the Son of God, approved by God after His washing of
repentance. Becoming Israel's Messiah, the anointed one. Though He
was without sin but submitted to His Father's Will in all things, as
we are to become.
A
lot of people just can not understand when we share, "We are not
under Law, but rather we are under Grace!" To be under Grace
does not mean that we are "Lawless", we are not clue less
either, for understanding has been renewed within us. It means we are
not under the heavy hand, the heavy burden of the yoke of Law, but we
are still responsible to God through the working of the Holy Spirit
to do the same thing that the Law demands. God has infused His Holy character (this
He undertakes in Salvation, our being healed or restored to what was
lost, as seen in Genesis 2:7) within us and we then Love to do the required demands of the
royal Law, to hear God's voice and to Love all, which is based on
better things. The Holy Spirit will never turn around and say,
"Okay you are a believer now, and under Grace, you can steal if
you want to or say you can murder if you want to. You can go ahead
and covet if you want to." No way, that will not even be
sensible.
I
am now impressed to reveal this, John the Baptist came not as the
Light which brought Life into the world of darkness which is chaos
and disorder or disease and death but to bear witness of the one who
was to come, who would return order to God. Which
all the prophets spoke of. Then John, the other
John, in his synoptic gospel, the first chapter and then elsewhere,
gives account of Jesus and reveals that Jesus is in fact the Light
and Life Who was called into the darkness as recorded in Genesis
1:1-4. Then John progresses on which is in agreement to Exodus 3:14 and
the term and phrase used and given to Moses, in the “I AM that I
AM”. Implying progressive revelation, the ever revealing one, which
term Jesus uses as the son of man and His deity restored within man.
Which is in accord with the promise of Genesis 3:15 spoken to Adam
and woman and mankind’s being stored through the promised seed now
hidden within mankind to his place of Genesis 2:7. Because man had lost his standing before God or being One with God after the action of eating that which had been forbidden him.
This
is what Paul is saying here where instead of having the Law and all
of it’s pressures to do and not to do, the Holy Spirit guides us
just like a young mother teaching her little one to walk. Just simply
guiding that young one and letting him take that next step, that is
the same way the Holy Spirit works in our life as a new believer. So
looking at verse 6 again.
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