It couldn't be plainer, and yet many stumble -- If you are led of a spirit against The Law, you are under the Law; it shall not be forgiven you. It's your spirit testifying of you against the Spirit of Christ testifying of Him in His Word the Scriptures -- If you tell yourself you are led by the Spirit of God because you are not under His Word in Scripture, God's Written Word, you are not under the law, you commit the ultimate and unforgivable sin.
If you tell yourself you are led by the Spirit of God because you are not under His Word in Scripture, God's Written Word
This is an impressive understanding. Had not heard it before, but completely agree.
Just yesterday, It dawned on me that 'the law' has become a bad name to many 'grace-filled' or 'grace-only' Christians, and so they shy away from or vehemently reject any notion of there even being a law for Christians to be responsible to, much less to---God forbid--actually keep and do.
And yet, they have no problem at all being told they must be doers of the Word and not hearers only, which shows to me that they can think anything they want of 'the Word' (and many do), so that they end up just doing what they want anyway. And yet, Paul and James are in perfect agreement on the Law and the Word:
For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. (Rom 1:13)
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. (James 1:22)
The law of God is the Word of God, which was made flesh, and His law is
now called the law of Christ (Gal 6:2), which is the doctrine of Christ (Heb 6:1), which if any bring not with them to minister, then we are neither to keep company with them nor even bid them God speed and blessing. (2 John 1:10)
As you may say: it couldn't be plainer, that when Paul speaks of not being under the law, He is speaking of any law that is not of Christ, which would include that of Moses, which is done away with the first covenant, because there certainly is law of God, that we are absolutely responsible to do and are under, the law of Christ:
And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. (1 Cor 9)
Paul was willing to go to any length to win someone to Christ, even to be as a Jew under the law of Moses again to win them that still read Moses of old only (hence Timothy being circumcised for sake of ministry to them, to be
as a Jew), but his willingness ends at the boundary of the law of Christ: he would not go nude to a nudist colony to win the nude freaks, because the law of Christ in Scripture declares we should be dressed modestly in public, where men and women are gathered together. (1 Tim 2:9)
Good job, Gerhard. I'm going to keep my eye on you, now that I've found you.