Sep 16
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The Scripture distinctly teaches us that we are not justified by the law
nor is the law a rule of life. That which can only curse can never
justify and that which can only kill can never be a rule of life (Romans
3:20). Both the Jews who had received the law and the Gentiles who had
never had the law were now to be saved through grace (Acts 15:11). Not
only were they to be saved by grace, but also they were to “stand in
grace” (Romans 5:2) and to grow in grace” (II Peter 3:18). All who seek
to put believers under the law are tearing down the very foundations of
the Christian faith. Listen to the strong words which came from the Holy
Spirit in Galatians 5:12; “I would they were even cut off which trouble
you.”
—Pastor Scott Richardson