Soyeong
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Will obeying the law whether it is the Ten Commandments or Sharia save you? Is the law more important than people or Jesus?
Our salvation is from sin and sin defined as the transgression of God's Law (1 John 3:4). In Titus 2:11-14, our salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, so participating in this training is not about trying to add our own efforts to salvation, but rather being trained by grace to live in obedience to God is what being saved from living in disobedience to God looks like. Furthermore, verse 14 says that Jesus gave himself to redeem us from all Lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so if we believe in Christ, then that should lead us to become zealous for doing good works in obedience to the Law (Acts 21:20). The Law is God's instructions for how to love Him and our neighbor, so it would be a mistake to say that the law is more important that people or Jesus when the Law is primarily about the importance of people and Jesus.
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