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Then why is the whole world accountable to it and condemned by it? Romans 3:19
The law of Christ is simply what remains of the law of Moses to be fulfilled by the sons of God. Christ and his people don't need laws that govern how to correctly approach God in covenant worship (they're already there). Christ didn't remove those laws from the law and invent a new law. They simply do not need to be taken into consideration for fulfillment by Christ and his body because they are already fulfilled and satisfied for us through Christ's sacrifice. And so they have been 'set aside' (not destroyed and broken). That leaves what Paul refers to as the law of Christ (laws which Christ himself would keep), the laws of which are summarized in 'love your neighbor as yourself'.
Okay, just one more, lol!
Your particular cultural practices determine if you're doing something the law governs and so need to obey the law concerning those practices. For example, "Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself. As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement"—Deuteronomy 23:12-14. We don't crap on the ground in our culture for that law to have any application to us. But if we did we would do that according to the law. It's almost like the church thinks if we're going to be under the law then we have to start crapping on the ground to be in compliance with the law. That's not what upholding the law means, but that's the kind of convoluted thinking the church has.
Both those practices are governed by the law. Just because we approve of those things in our culture does not mean we are relieved of the responsibility to govern ourselves according to the law. Which, by the way, shows that the law is not only for the Jew. Judgment is coming to the United States, and is already here because of these two very things (among others). As Paul said, the whole world will be judged according to the law. The law the church claims was only given to the Jews.
He will say that 'doing the will of the Father in heaven' is talking about believing in Christ, alone, and has nothing to do with performing any works commanded by Jesus. They think that would be a works gospel if that's what he meant. They are literally only able to see the requirement to do works as you trying to earn your own salvation. They can't see how it can possibly mean anything other than that. And they are the one's who claim to have superior understanding and revelation. They have no capacity whatsoever to see, let alone accept, the teaching that works are required because not working is tantamount to a denial of Christ in unbelief.
What would he say that "These sayings of mine" are then? To say that the obedience to the will of the Father is not obedience to the Sermon on the Mount would be to take these scriptures out of context. But thanks, I will go back and edit the post for greater clarity.
He does not always teach grace....he teaches that those who preach repentance and a changed life are going to go to hell for their preaching.
I think his theology just ignores that he's talking about putting the words into practice that he just spoke. Not being snarky. I think that is exactly what it does.
That's what's wrong with the church. We've brought loads of people into the church who don't want to be different people and be saved from their sins that way. They just want to avoid going to hell. Free Grace theology gives them what their itching ears want to hear. And so we have a church full of hypocrites, claiming Jesus with their mouth but living unconverted in the hypocrisy of their same old unsaved lives. It's ruined the church.
