Soyeong
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Rom. 3:20-21
"Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;"
There is no salvation in the Law or the commandments. They pointed to the Cross, that was their purpose.
The Cross of Christ is the focal point of all the Law and that is where your salvation will be found.
We are keeping the Law and Commandments of Christ by faith in Christ, not by observing them.
God requires that ALL our faith be in Him, not in the laws that condemn us.
Nothing in my post said anything about needing to obey God's law in order to earn our justification by obeying God's law. Our salvation is from sin and sin is the transgression of God's law, so there is no sense in saying that there is no salvation in the law. Without the law, there would be no need of salvation from living in transgression of the law. Again if we believe in what Jesus accomplished on the cross, then we will become zealous for doing good works in obedience to God's law and will not return to the lawlessness that he gave himself to redeem us from. In Matthew 23:23, Christ said that faith is one of the weightier matters of the law, so obedience to it is what faith in Christ looks like and it is contradictory to speak about keeping the law while not observing it. In 1 John 2:6, those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way he walked, and he walked in complete obedience to the law.
In Revelation 14:12, those who kept faith in Jesus are the same as those who kept God's commandments. Every example of someone living by faith is an example of someone living in obedience to God's will, such as those listed in Hebrews 11, whereas disobedience to God's law is referred to as breaking faith, such as in Numbers 5:6. In Habakkuk 2:4, the righteous shall live by faith, and in Isaiah 51:7, the righteous are those on whose heart is God's law. At not point is living by faith in God ever treated as an alternative to living in obedience to God's law. God is trustworthy, therefore His law is also trustworthy (Psalms 19:7, Nehemiah 9:13) and a law that isn't trustworthy can't come from a God who is not trustworthy, so to put our faith in the law is to put our faith in the Lawgiver while refusing to put our faith in the law is refusing to put our faith in the Lawgiver. It doesn't even make sense to think that putting putting our faith in God to guide us in how to rightly live through His law involves refusing to submit to His law. God can be trusted to give us laws that our for our own good in order to bless us (Deuteronomy 6:24, 10:12-13), not to condemn us.
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