First the law has no hold over a Christian as we are not under the law (Gal 5:18), but there are two parts to the law. The ceremonial and the moral and the ceremonial has passed except for baptism and the table which was added. However that does not mean we can disobey the moral part. The true believer will seek to obey the moral because of his new nature.
The big problem with understanding eternal security is that most people have a miss-understanding about the fall, the law, and salvation. I am not suggesting they are not saved because they miss-understand, but they are confused causing many to think that they can lose their salvation when it is not possible.
First so many want to confuse the law as having some form or ability to damn people. It does not and never has. The law not only could not save anyone, it could not damn anyone either. We are damned already because of the sin of Adam. Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.
Notice all is past tense. All men have sinned in Adam because of Adam even before we actually have sinned in life ourselves. We are born separated (lost) from God. We don't become lost at some point after birth because we sin. We are already lost.
The proof is that before the law of Moses men died. They were lost needing salvation before the law was given or before it could impute sin to them and the proof was that they died.
13-14 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
So we are lost not because we violate the commandments (the law) we are lost because we are associated with Adam. It has always been that way. There has only been one law that has been given that can condemn man and that was in the garden, the tree of the knowledge good and evil. There has only been one law given by which men can be saved from that curse. That law is connected to another tree, the cross. The garden is gone and the tree of knowledge of good and evil is gone and no other law has been given or will ever be given to overcome the cross and make men lost again. That is why we cannot lose our salvation. The Christian is no longer under any law except the law of grace, while the unsaved, (the lost those who have never been saved) are still under the law that Adam fell to in the garden.
So we are not saved by keeping the law of Moses (the Commandments) because the law had no provision to save. No place does scripture say if you keep the law you will be saved (go to heaven). The law had no power to save. Salvation has always been by grace through faith from Adam and until the end of time.
The law did come with promises but those promises were for this life. If you obeyed the law you would be blessed on the earth. If you did not obey you would be cursed on the earth.
The giving of the law did not make man any more lost. Lost is lost and the law did not make him any more unworthy. The law had another provision. It was to give man a better understanding that he IS lost. Every time he broke a command he should have seen just how wicked he is. It was to be his teacher to point him to something else for salvation. That something was a sacrifice and it was the Son of God.
For those who are saved the law has no authority over us, but the law Giver does and His standards have not change. So we are subject not to the law, but to the One who gave the law and by watching how someone lives (the practice of their life) we can know if we or they are saved or not if we or they claim to be a Christian. True believers keep His commandments.
john 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
The word keep was used as a nautical word back when this was written. The sailors of ships were called star keepers. They kept the stars. In other words they steered the ships they sailed by the stars to guide them to where they were going because they did not have GPS systems like today. They did not one day keep the stars and another day not keep them. They kept the stars as a practice of steering the ship. It is the same with a true Christian. He keeps the commands as the practice of his life. Like the sailors who may get a little off course during the day because of wind and current but would quickly correct their path again at night, the Christian may sin during any given day, but he corrects his course once he sees his sin because of the One that leads him and points it out. So our practice is to keep the commands and if we do sin we are swift to return to the right path through confession and repentance. It is not the daily practice of a true believer to be off course (practice sin) as a way of daily life. Those who practice sin willfully seek a path contrary to the path of God. No star keeper ever did that and neither does any Christian. We cannot practice sin.
1 John 3:9-10 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit (practice) sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot (practice) sin, because he is born of God.
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not (practice) righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
Keeping the commandments does not save us. It only proves that we have the faith that does because we are steering our ship by the One True Light who guides His children. We who are saved are commandment keepers.
The big problem with understanding eternal security is that most people have a miss-understanding about the fall, the law, and salvation. I am not suggesting they are not saved because they miss-understand, but they are confused causing many to think that they can lose their salvation when it is not possible.
First so many want to confuse the law as having some form or ability to damn people. It does not and never has. The law not only could not save anyone, it could not damn anyone either. We are damned already because of the sin of Adam. Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.
Notice all is past tense. All men have sinned in Adam because of Adam even before we actually have sinned in life ourselves. We are born separated (lost) from God. We don't become lost at some point after birth because we sin. We are already lost.
The proof is that before the law of Moses men died. They were lost needing salvation before the law was given or before it could impute sin to them and the proof was that they died.
13-14 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
So we are lost not because we violate the commandments (the law) we are lost because we are associated with Adam. It has always been that way. There has only been one law that has been given that can condemn man and that was in the garden, the tree of the knowledge good and evil. There has only been one law given by which men can be saved from that curse. That law is connected to another tree, the cross. The garden is gone and the tree of knowledge of good and evil is gone and no other law has been given or will ever be given to overcome the cross and make men lost again. That is why we cannot lose our salvation. The Christian is no longer under any law except the law of grace, while the unsaved, (the lost those who have never been saved) are still under the law that Adam fell to in the garden.
So we are not saved by keeping the law of Moses (the Commandments) because the law had no provision to save. No place does scripture say if you keep the law you will be saved (go to heaven). The law had no power to save. Salvation has always been by grace through faith from Adam and until the end of time.
The law did come with promises but those promises were for this life. If you obeyed the law you would be blessed on the earth. If you did not obey you would be cursed on the earth.
The giving of the law did not make man any more lost. Lost is lost and the law did not make him any more unworthy. The law had another provision. It was to give man a better understanding that he IS lost. Every time he broke a command he should have seen just how wicked he is. It was to be his teacher to point him to something else for salvation. That something was a sacrifice and it was the Son of God.
For those who are saved the law has no authority over us, but the law Giver does and His standards have not change. So we are subject not to the law, but to the One who gave the law and by watching how someone lives (the practice of their life) we can know if we or they are saved or not if we or they claim to be a Christian. True believers keep His commandments.
john 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
The word keep was used as a nautical word back when this was written. The sailors of ships were called star keepers. They kept the stars. In other words they steered the ships they sailed by the stars to guide them to where they were going because they did not have GPS systems like today. They did not one day keep the stars and another day not keep them. They kept the stars as a practice of steering the ship. It is the same with a true Christian. He keeps the commands as the practice of his life. Like the sailors who may get a little off course during the day because of wind and current but would quickly correct their path again at night, the Christian may sin during any given day, but he corrects his course once he sees his sin because of the One that leads him and points it out. So our practice is to keep the commands and if we do sin we are swift to return to the right path through confession and repentance. It is not the daily practice of a true believer to be off course (practice sin) as a way of daily life. Those who practice sin willfully seek a path contrary to the path of God. No star keeper ever did that and neither does any Christian. We cannot practice sin.
1 John 3:9-10 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit (practice) sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot (practice) sin, because he is born of God.
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not (practice) righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
Keeping the commandments does not save us. It only proves that we have the faith that does because we are steering our ship by the One True Light who guides His children. We who are saved are commandment keepers.
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