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''Under the law
11
does NOT mean under its juris–
diction . This has been the common false t eaching because
of a
MISTRANSLATION
in
I
Corinthians
9:21.
Notice verse
21.
To the Gentiles who did not lalow God's law --
11
to
them that are without law
11
- -
Paul aaid he approached them
without mentioning God's law until they recognized God ae
Creator and Ruler and Lawgiver, then he showed them from
the Scripture that they had been breaking God's law in
ignorance and now should repent of that sin.
He did not want to offend them. But was Paul
doing contrary to the
law'?
No! Paul says
he
was
11
NOT
without law to God., but WITHIN the law to Chr1st.
11
This
verse
,is
nearly always !ldstranslated; The
ori~inal
Greek cannot be properly translated "under the
law to Christ." It must be translated
"WITHIN
t
ei
law
to Christ.' ' Through Christ, Paul was within
the
law -–
he was able to keep
1
t . To be within the law means ·to
obey it!
Grace does not do away with the law.
God's unme·ri ted
~ardon
for our sins,
making
1
t
for us ·to
~eep
t e law through the Holy Spirit
given to t ose tnatO"D'ey God (Acts
5: 32).
Grace is
possible
that is
Wouldn't it be ridiculous for a judge to grant
a parc1on to a criminal and then tell him to commit the
same crime again? Yet, that
is
exactly how ridiculous
most people make God's grace. They turn the grace, the
pardon of God, into lasciviousness -- license to do evil.
If grace could abolish the
law~
then there
would be no more sin{ because there is no sin where there
is no law
(Rom. 4:15).
And if there were no sin, there
would need be no grace -- no pardon of God -- to deliver
us
rrom the penalty of
brea~
the law.
Christ died
in
-your stead and mine
eo
that
we –
could
o~ey
God according to the spiritual intent of the
law ins ead of serving sin. As long as we were under
the claim of the law because of transgression. sin had
dominion over
USj
we were its slaves. But now, if we
repent and
believe
what
God says., we are free to obey the
law
unto righteousness (Rom.
6:16).
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