Habakkuk 2
2 And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
Romans 1:17 "For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith."
Galatians 3:11 "But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
Hebrews 10
37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Albert Barnes makes this comment: “The just man, or the righteous man, shall live by his confidence in God.”
Galatians 3:12 "And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them."
The just shall live by faith, and the Law is not of faith.
Romans 8
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
God's answer . . . to provide an ark for our safety. In Christ we can survive the sentence of death.
1 Peter 3
18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
Noah was saved through the judgment of the flood being in the ark. We are saved through the judgment of death being in Christ.
Noah, having survived the flood, and having God's promise to not flood the earth again, was now safe from that.
We, having survived death, die no more.
Romans 6
8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
As Jesus also said, He who lives and believes in Me shall never die.
We have passed from death into life, never to die again.
Romans 4
14 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
In order that all may partake, God made salvation to be through faith, not through law. Law only condemns, because all sin. The only way there is no transgression is if there is no law.
But the Law had to be satisfied, and there's no winking, no pretending, righteousness is righteousness, and must be satisfied.
We, being disobedient, must die. And In Christ we've died.
So we have a new nature which is righteous and holy, and wants to do righteousness.
We've been given power over our flesh, which has been executed.
And we have been removed from the jurisdiction of the law.
The Just shall live by faith, not by works, not by trying to do better, not by trying to keep from doing worse.
Romans 4:21, of Abraham, "And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform."
Are you persuaded?
Jude
24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
1 Thessalonians 5
23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
1 Corinthians 1
8 Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
So, can God do this?
Can we walk without sin?
I challenge anyone who questions this . . . the next time you are tempted to sin, look to Jesus, who is able to deliver.
Law promotes sinfulness in humans. Recognition that we are dead to the Law gets us off that merry-go-round.
Realizing that not only are we not guilty for anything done by our flesh, but likewise we will remain forever not guilty, because we are not that man of flesh, condemned under Law. We are children of God. Not His subjects, His children.
Much love!
