This thread is for those who believe that we are saved by grace alone through faith alone
and because we are righteous we will do good works.
We have been justified apart from the works of the law.
So, the big question is will not obeying the law make me unrighteous?
I believe the answer is no, here's why.
There is no doubt that sin is defined as breaking God's 10 Commandments.
But we see David saying in Psalm 32, "Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity,"
Then in Psalm 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our
transgressions from us.
Then we have John the Baptist saying in John 1:29," Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh
away the sin of the world."
Also Hebrews 9:26 but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away
sin by the sacrifice of himself.
So thanks to Jesus our sin is not an issue.
In 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 we see that we are New Creations, and He does not impute our sins
to us, and He makes us righteous, even the righteousness of Christ, which is perfect.
There's much scripture that attests to this, but I agree. We are not saved by the works of the law, but by faith alone. However, that faith, will be sealed, and perfected by having us do good works. We still need to cleanse our feet, by walking in righteousness. That righteousness is the law of God. Will that make us righteous? No, but we are told to stop sinning, and to avoid sin, what is sin?
Biblically, it's the transgression of the law. So, if we are told to avoid sin, that would mean we are to avoid breaking the law. By having faith that we're saved, and changing our ways to be obedient to God and His law, as opposed to indoctrinated tradition of man, we walk out that faith. Thereby making our faith something that we aren't only professing with our lips, but our hearts as well. Because, faith without works is dead, and the doer of the law is justified, not the hearer only.
Jesus Himself said "depart from me ye who work lawlessness".
He actually said workers of "anomia" the greek word for lawlessness, which was translated as iniquity. Lawlessness is very direct and specific, iniquity, is very broad. Lawlessness closes it for interpretation, iniquity means immoral, but then, since immoral is so broad, it opens it up for interpretation, hereby giving way to the 40,000+ denominations we have today.
If you look back at the history of the believers, the apostles kept the law, and the earliest "primitive church" also kept the law. Not
to be saved, which is important to remember, but because they were already saved, and that salvation, as Ezekiel 36:26-27 shows, will result in us desiring to keep God's law out of love, reverence and devotion to Him. Not to be saved, which is something that I feel confuses a lot of people today.
It's also, one of the main reasons I feel jews reject Jesus. Because, if the church today is accurate, and we aren't supposed to keep the law, and Jesus preached doing away with the law, according to the same law Jesus would've been found sinless in, it'd be impossible. Because according to Deuteronomy 13, if Jesus did away with the law, He'd be sinning, and therefore couldn't be the Messiah, but we know that He didn't sin, and therefore couldn't of done away with the law. I feel that if we were to get back to our "primitive roots" of keeping torah because of our already given salvation, the jews would see that Jesus is truly the Messiah, because He's just been wrongly represented for the past 1700 years.
After all, it does say that in the end of time we will be judging the world, and that in the reign of Jesus's 1000 year reign, we'll be again living according to God's law. To what standard will we judge the world, if God's law is done away with? To each individual standard of each individual person judging? No, that'd be too unfair. I believe we're under a huge deception, and have been for 1700+ years. God predicted this in the prophets, that we'd forget His law, His name, and His ways, only in the last of days to come back and remember His law, to do it, and to call on Him by His real true name - יהוה or Yahuah, Yahweh, YHWH there's different ways to pronounce it, but it's not God nor Lord. God is a title, and Lord is something much worse that He's actually commanded us not to call Him. His true name is יהוה.