bbyrd009
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so you say, but imo the Church is now Israel, and even if It isn't your works are going to be judged, not your opinions, nor your beliefs, that i can see. Just your works. Just because Jesus fulfilled the law, does not mean that you do not have to fulfill the law also. Paul has a discourse on this, the one that goes "heaven forbid!" at the thought of those under grace violating commandments.***
When a sermon is preached based on the book of James to those under grace you are saying it is for them too. Which it isn't.
Now are they bound by those commandments? No, because they have been freed from the Law of sin and death by Christ's sacrifice, and know to forgive sins against themselves, that they may be forgiven, not demanding an eye for an eye even, and learn to confess sins one to another, denying self and following Christ, iow if one is still worrying about merely breaking commandments they are missing the point; Christ asks much more than that of us.
"Count the cost."