Gal.2:19
(FOR I THROUGH THE LAW AM DEAD TO THE LAW),
(THAT I MIGHT LIVE UNTO GOD)
Absolutely. We are dead to the law. Because all that are under the law, are under the curse of the law, being that, if one law is broken, the punishment is death. But desiring to obey the law, even though we will fail horrendously, is not to be under the law, because we're not doing it for salvation. We're doing it because we are saved, and because it pleases the Father.
Jesus tells us to "go and sin no more" but, in the message you quoted me from, sin in our Father's eyes, is the transgression of the law.
1 John 3:4 -
4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law:
for sin is the transgression of the law.
Christ came to bring us out from the curse of the law, not the law itself. The law isn't a curse, breaking it is. Like I said, we don't keep the law for our salvation, we keep it BECAUSE of our salvation. As a matter of fact, in the end, come judgement day this is what our savior will say.
Mattheww 7:23 -
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Those that work, or practice iniquity, he will reject. He will turn away those that work and practice iniquity. What does that word mean in the original text? In the original greek text, this is what was written, and has been lost in translation. Here is the greek word, and the definition of that word that has been translated as "iniquity"
"Anomia:
1) the condition of without law
1a) because ignorant of it
1b) because of violating it
2) contempt and violation of law, iniquity, wickedness"
Iniquity, is translated from the greek word "anomia" and anomia, quite literally means to be without the law. So, Jesus will say, depart from me, ye who work lawlessness, or you without law.
If we are called to "go and sin no more" and are called to "be obedient" to our Father... without a law, how do we do that? We'd all be leaning on our own understanding of what WE think He wants us to do... there's no standard... He never did away with his laws, or his standards, as our Savior tells us. Matthew 5:17-18
Rom. 7:4
Wherefore, my brethren,
(YE ARE ALSO DEAD TO THE LAW BY THE BODY OF CHRIST);
that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Absolutely we are dead to the law. Because all who live to the law, are dead in the law. Our Savior freed us from living to the law, we live in the spirit, with his laws written on our hearts. We are his people, and we desire to live, not by the flesh, but by the spirit.
Romans 7:14 -
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
We are to walk after the spirit, and not the flesh. The spirit is righteousness, the spirit is holiness, the spirit is love. The law, is all of these things. But, our flesh desires to disobey it, because our flesh desires sin. Sin is the breaking of the law, and our flesh will do anything and everything to live without the law. That is what our Savior freed us from. Our rebellious spirit. He gave us a spirit that desires to be obedient to the Father.
Gal. 2:20
(I AM CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST);
(NEVERTHELESS I LIVE);
(YET NOT I, BUT CHRIST LIVETH IN ME): and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
1 John 3:7-10
7Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
8He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
9Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
10In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
As with what justified Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and those the many sins and wives of David and Solomon, it was faith. Not faith in their works of the law, but faith in the Father. This is the confusion today. People think if you obey the law, you're thinking you're justifying yourself because of it. No. Not at all. It's not the currency with which our salvation is purchased, it's the receipt of the purchase. The Savior is the one that bought us back from slavery. The Father. Not our own works. But, the law, is the work of Elohim, and as a child of Elohim, we should desire to be like Him in every way.
Jeremiah 31:33 -
But this
shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
In our hearts, refers to our desires. As in, "Hey Jenn, I had to give you a call because the Father has put it on my heart, and I felt I should reach out to you".
Here's proof that although Abraham was justified by faith, he still obeyed the law. Genesis 26:5
Not FOR salvation, but because of it. We can either obey the judgement of the Father, and prove that we think His judgement is right by following and living by it, thereby proving what seed is in us, or we can rely on our own understanding and be our own gods as lucifer wanted us to see it. The tree of life Romans 7:10, or the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Read all of Romans 7. It's literally about Paul struggling and desiring to uphold the law, but the sin that still lives in his flesh makes it seem impossible, and he hates himself for it. He is constantly warring between his desire to uphold it, and his flesh causing him to fail at it. He desires with all his heart and with all his mind to keep the laws of the Father, but his flesh won't let him. It's a beautiful writing.
