Since 2001 I have spent a lot of time teaching and preaching about our freedom from slavery to the law. It is interesting that the very thing people use as their claim to righteousness is the same thing that produces sin within them. To illustrate this, consider the engine of a car; it must have gasoline to work, right? Gasoline to an engine is what the law is to sin. The law is the power behind sin. The only way to not break the law is a have no law to break.

Rom 4:15 For the law always brings punishment on those who try to obey it. (The only way to avoid breaking the law is to have no law to break!)

The only way to fulfill the law’s righteous requirements is to live free from the law inside of the grace of God.

1 Corinthians 15:56  The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

Romans 6:14   For sin shall not be your master because you are not under law but under grace.

Romans 7:4-6  So, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

5  For when we were controlled by the sinful nature, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies so that we bore fruit for death.

6  But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.

The power of sin is the law. Sin is not supposed to be your master for this reason and this reason alone – you are not under the law but under grace. We were set free from the law when we died to it through the body of Christ at the cross. And now, by dying to what bound us, we have been released from the law so that we can serve in a new way of the Spirit. The only way to bear fruit to God is to live free from the law. (See Rom 7:4)  These Scriptures are clearly speaking about the law of Moses, including the 10 Commandments, because it goes on to say, “What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “Do not covet.” But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from law, sin is dead.” Romans 7:7-8 

“Thou shalt not covet” is the 10th commandment. Therefore, in context, God does not want us to pursue a right standing with him through any part of the law, including the 10 Commandments! You see, apart from the law, sin has no power over us!

Those who live knowing that they are already righteous because of the blood of Jesus do not try to obtain a right relationship with God through works but by grace through faith. I promise you, the only way you can fulfill the righteousness that God requires is to, by faith, humbly receive who you already are! My dearest friend, the glorious life that Jesus bought for us at the cross begins when you ditch the law and by faith…

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