I know there are a small handfull of confussing scriptures in Romans and Galatians - as we were warned in 2 Pet 3:15-16...our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are SOME THINGS HARD TO UNDERSTAND which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.
So God chose to warn us that these things are hard to understand and twisted by UNTAUGHT AND UNSTABLE people then lets not start there. Those few vague scriptures cannot and do not make void hundreds of plainly obvious scriptures so lets get our foundation built with the simple, plain and obvious before we conquer the difficult - milk them meat - so to speak.
Logic, intelliegence and numerous scriptures tell you:
Christ never sinned
Sin is bad, hurtfull, wrong
There will be NO SIN in the Kingdom? God is incapable of sinning and so will we be.
Would you believe that Christ was living in a serial murderer? And habitual adulterer? A pathological liar?
So, Is anything more important that pleasing God?
Is there anything wrong with erring on the safe side and keeping the commandments? Will God punish you for being honest or honoring your parents?? Will He condemn you for setting aside the 7th day as Holy to Him? On which day you deny your worldy pleasures and keep it Holy as He sanctified it?
Do you have children? Look down on your children as God looks down on you... how would you feel if they tried to null and void all the rules with one little statement, taken out of context and twisted. I can think of dozens of statement that can be taken numerous ways depending on the context and tone.
If you take those scriptures to mean that we don't have to keep the law - they contradict ALL the rest of the bible, hundreds of scriptures that say the law is good and right and necessary in plain language. If you understand them to mean, "Christ died to pay our pentalty for not keeping the law perfectly, as no one has. He suffered the pentalty of death that we earned breaking the law - our faith and His Grace makes up the difference between our works and the awesomeness of eternal salvation - then those obscure scriptures harmoniously fit will all the rest of the bible.
Eternal salvation is worth far more than our little works and deeds can ever amount to, so He makes up the difference. The perfect analogy is your kids, they obey you, clean their rooms and do their chores for 18 years under your roof - does that literaly earn them all the food, love, expense and a trip to college? No way! Your graciousness and love raises those kids. Their obedience was required for peace and order in the house but doesn't amount to much in physical terms. If they were Pharasee they would wash their hands 8 times a day and fold their clothes a certain way and then think they are better than their siblings - you can see how God says YOU CAN't DO ENOUGH ON YOUR OWN - it takes Christs sacrifice and Grace to make up the difference. But when CHrist steps in to do that for you - don't turn around and be a sinner! Shall we then sin that grace may abound CERTAINLY NOT!
May God Bless your eyes to see and your ears to understand!
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