Is your position that because we may live perfectly by the Ten Commandments from now on we will still be sinner so it make no sense obeying God in that respect?
No believer in their right mind will say that it is OK to lie, to steal, to murder, to commit adultery.
And the Law is right to stand to this day, fully secure in it's RIGHTFUL judgment against all of those actions in any person they are found.
My point to legalists is a more basic (fundamental) observation. That the factual evil that the seat of ALL of us, in/within our conscience, is constantly assailed by temptation of the tempter, and it IS largely so wherever the Word of God is sown, because JESUS SAID SO.
There is no way to justify that working in any person, regardless of the legal behavior they exhibit on the outside.
Simple enough?
And I make a similar observation to the grace alone people. There is neither any way to justify that working under grace either. It can not logically/reasonably be done.
I have no issues with the Law standing (whether I believed it true or not is irrelevant, Gods Word stands of His Own Will and Accord regardless)
against the factual evil that we are all subjected to within.
The Law happens to be our alerter to the fact of it. So is GRACE, an alerter.
It is foolish to say that working is legal or under grace.
And both parties, if they saw this 'internal working' for what it is, more accurately WHO it is OF, would have no issues for the LAW standing against that working, for GRACE standing against that working.
And neither party would claim that 'internal working' to be either lawful or under grace.
We as Gods children ARE under Grace
precisely for that reason.
And the lawless one(s) remain condemned under the law.
AND UNDER GRACE that working is also UTTERLY CONDEMNED.
These matters are never ever ever solely about us as individuals.
We all have factual opponents whom both law and grace RIGHTFULLY remain against, and we carry that working between our own two ears.
Any of you who have honesty within will (eventually) arrive at an honest conclusion.
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