Freed From The Law

Galatians 3:13  

"Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being

made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed 

is every one that hangeth on a tree:" 

      Paul's argument seeks to drive his opponents into a corner from which there is no escape. Suppose, he says, "You decide that you are going to try to win God's approval by accepting and obeying the law. What would be the consequence?" First of all, the man who does that has to stand or fall by his decision; if he chooses the law he has got to live by it. Second, no man ever has succeeded and no man ever will succeed in always keeping the law. Third, if that being so, you are accursed, because scripture itself says, "Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen" (Deut. 27:26). Therefore, of trying to get right with God by making the law the principle of life is a curse. 
     But scripture has another saying, "Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith," (Hab. 2;4). The only way to get into a right relationship with God, and therefore the only way to peace, is the way of faith. But the principle of law and the principle of faith are completely opposite; you cannot direct your life by both at the same time; you must choose; and the only logical choice is to abandon the way of legalism and to venture upon the way of faith, of taking God at His word and of trusting in His love. 
   How can we know this is so? The answer to this truth is Jesus Christ; He brought this truth to the world and He had to die upon a Cross. For, Scripture says, "His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance," (Deu. 21:23). and so to free us of the curse of the law, Jesus himself had to become accursed.
   My Friends, As Believers, we must never forget that the peace, the liberty, and the right relationship with God that Believers possess, cost the life and death of Jesus Christ, for how could men ever have known what God was like unless Jesus Christ had died to tell them of his great love.
Amen!

Reading: Gal. 3:10-14
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May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry