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The truth is in the representation of law vs grace and seen in the type of relationship represented.
One is parent/child marriage or the other, an adult/adult marriage.
Unripe or ripe fruit as some would say.
Law represents the governor placed on a child until one becomes of age.
When they become of age the things of a child are no more.
First that of a parent / child. That is where one is not mature enough, either a young believer or unbeliever who does not understand the relationship of Christ and the church. The need is for them to understand God in the picture of marriage that Paul saw around him, much in the same way that Jesus taught from farming examples.
The absurdity of adult/ child used as a symbol of marriage that does not respect christianity is seen in 1 Peter where the believer is dominated by an unbeliever. It represents God’s answer to lovelessness in a marriage that results in unanswered prayer. God’s silence.
An adult/adult marriage, mutuality, is grace fulfilled and represents Christ meeting face to face at the throne of grace. That is true Christianity in the movement of law to grace. Or the lack thereof.
So it’s easy to see if one has a mature marriage or not or if one is acting from law rather than from grace.
A further elaboration on the leading into a mutuality with God in serving each other, is that the leading must come from God:
Hebrews 7:28
the law appointed frail mortals to be high priests, but the oracle pronounc'd with an oath, which was since the law, established the Son, who is crown'd with immortal perfections.
Hebrews 12:25
See that you refuse not Him that speaks. For if those did not escape who had refused Him who uttered the oracles on earth, much more we who turn away from Him who does so from heaven:
1 Peter 4:11
If anyone speak, let them speak as the oracles of God; if anyone minister, let them do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
God bless
One is parent/child marriage or the other, an adult/adult marriage.
Unripe or ripe fruit as some would say.
Law represents the governor placed on a child until one becomes of age.
When they become of age the things of a child are no more.
First that of a parent / child. That is where one is not mature enough, either a young believer or unbeliever who does not understand the relationship of Christ and the church. The need is for them to understand God in the picture of marriage that Paul saw around him, much in the same way that Jesus taught from farming examples.
The absurdity of adult/ child used as a symbol of marriage that does not respect christianity is seen in 1 Peter where the believer is dominated by an unbeliever. It represents God’s answer to lovelessness in a marriage that results in unanswered prayer. God’s silence.
An adult/adult marriage, mutuality, is grace fulfilled and represents Christ meeting face to face at the throne of grace. That is true Christianity in the movement of law to grace. Or the lack thereof.
So it’s easy to see if one has a mature marriage or not or if one is acting from law rather than from grace.
A further elaboration on the leading into a mutuality with God in serving each other, is that the leading must come from God:
Hebrews 7:28
the law appointed frail mortals to be high priests, but the oracle pronounc'd with an oath, which was since the law, established the Son, who is crown'd with immortal perfections.
Hebrews 12:25
See that you refuse not Him that speaks. For if those did not escape who had refused Him who uttered the oracles on earth, much more we who turn away from Him who does so from heaven:
1 Peter 4:11
If anyone speak, let them speak as the oracles of God; if anyone minister, let them do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
God bless