11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. - Jeremiah 29:11.
Not only are you dead to sin because of that death (Christ on the cross), you are free from sin. You know what the law didn't do? Was make you a better Christian, it made you a sinner. At least it exposed your sin and that made you a sinner (you were a sinner by your nature but it exposes sin). That is what the law did it made sinner's and what is so strange is many church's are based on law. Now given the benefit of dought if they really knew what they were doing to be in right standing with God they probably wouldn't do it. But they don't know, it can be very pleasing to your flesh to feel like you are doing right by law keeping to be right with God.
It is a great deception because we feel like "what harm can that do," it does a lot of harm because it is like a disfunctional family that gets passed from generation to generation. There is no such thing as mixing truth and untruth, you cannot mix a little poison in with the good and expect it not to be harmful, a little Leven will go along ways.
I cannot get out of my mind growing up around friends that were raised in strict law keeping home's. No pictures on the walls, no TV's (preacher's referred to them as one eyed monsters), no movies, everything was a no no if it had to do with the world. Some of my friends were really on the verge of not liking their parents very well and that for the law keeping parents was horrendous because they knew scripture said not to provoke their children. Some went off into the deepest of sin you can go. That is a extreme example of law keeping but there are many ways even the most subtle of law keeping.
To this day I have contact with a few of those friends and you cannot talk about God. I hang my head because I want to talk to some of them but they feel like all anyone has to say is going to have to do with law keeping, they abhor it. So the very thing their parents were trying to prevent they caused, that dear friends in my opinion is evil. I believe scripture when it says to "train a child in the way they should go, when they get old they will return." So time will prove law keeping households train their children in a errant way. One of two things will happen; the law keeping will be passed on like a curse or they make the child turn away wanting nothing to do with God or anything spiritual. Bless you that have been under such, this message is for you, you are free to live for God as a believer with no strings attached! Peace to you.
Not only are you dead to sin because of that death (Christ on the cross), you are free from sin. You know what the law didn't do? Was make you a better Christian, it made you a sinner. At least it exposed your sin and that made you a sinner (you were a sinner by your nature but it exposes sin). That is what the law did it made sinner's and what is so strange is many church's are based on law. Now given the benefit of dought if they really knew what they were doing to be in right standing with God they probably wouldn't do it. But they don't know, it can be very pleasing to your flesh to feel like you are doing right by law keeping to be right with God.
It is a great deception because we feel like "what harm can that do," it does a lot of harm because it is like a disfunctional family that gets passed from generation to generation. There is no such thing as mixing truth and untruth, you cannot mix a little poison in with the good and expect it not to be harmful, a little Leven will go along ways.
I cannot get out of my mind growing up around friends that were raised in strict law keeping home's. No pictures on the walls, no TV's (preacher's referred to them as one eyed monsters), no movies, everything was a no no if it had to do with the world. Some of my friends were really on the verge of not liking their parents very well and that for the law keeping parents was horrendous because they knew scripture said not to provoke their children. Some went off into the deepest of sin you can go. That is a extreme example of law keeping but there are many ways even the most subtle of law keeping.
To this day I have contact with a few of those friends and you cannot talk about God. I hang my head because I want to talk to some of them but they feel like all anyone has to say is going to have to do with law keeping, they abhor it. So the very thing their parents were trying to prevent they caused, that dear friends in my opinion is evil. I believe scripture when it says to "train a child in the way they should go, when they get old they will return." So time will prove law keeping households train their children in a errant way. One of two things will happen; the law keeping will be passed on like a curse or they make the child turn away wanting nothing to do with God or anything spiritual. Bless you that have been under such, this message is for you, you are free to live for God as a believer with no strings attached! Peace to you.
