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Originally Posted by houston
The law was NEVER the good news.
Good grief, lady.
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No! it wasn't. The Law was of the flesh, because the Holy Ghost was not yet given. And Paul said that it worked death in him.
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Romans 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
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Hebrews 7:19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God
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Hebrews 8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
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Hebrews 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
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One of the reasons that Jesus came, was to fulfill the Law, and it was in place until His death. And then He brought in the New Covenant, that started at Pentecost.
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Hebrews 9:16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
:17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth
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That is why no one was baptized in Jesus name while He was alive.
No one received the Holy Ghost until Pentecost.
That is why the “thief on the cross” would meet Jesus in Paradise. He repented, under the Law.
Jesus took away the Old Covenant at His death, so as to bring in the New Birth at Pentecost.
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Hebrews 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second
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Did He abolish The Law? No! When a person receives the Holy Ghost the Law is placed in their heart.
And no, Houston, the Law is not the good news. The better hope, that turns the worst sinner into a new creature. That is the good news. Because they have Gods “divine nature” thru the Holy Ghost.