Divided Law?

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Originally Posted by fl4christ

Part of CHRIST'S dieing on the cross was so that HE could live in each of us. The laws and commandments as Paul mentions should be written in our hearts. And if CHRIST lives in our hearts they usually are. GOD said that a woman's desire shall be (not should be) to her husband, and if CHRIST is a person's spiritual husband then that person's desires will be towards HIM and doing things to please HIM. Not out of fear of what HE will do if they don't. But out of love and the desire to please HIM that GOD said she would have.

Just like a man who marries a woman because he loves her and she marries him because she loves him. His reasons for not cheating on her are not because he is afraid she will divorce him. Nor is the thing that binds their love together in marriage that little piece of paper that says they are married. It is the love between them that makes that marriage binding. That causes them to stick together and not bail when the going gets tough but rather lean on one another. When a man doesn't just find a wife, but finds his wife, he's not complete without her, nor she without him. And when they have each other neither is lacking and needing to look elsewhere to fulfill something that is still missing. JESUS even told HIS disciples "that Moses(not GOD) granted men divorce because of the hardness of their hearts, BUT FROM THE BEGINNING IT WAS NOT SO."

Just like the laws that are written concerning murder, etc. They are not written for everyone. They are written for those who otherwise without those laws would commit such acts. A good example is the laws we have concerning driving. Without them because so many out there would drive as selfishly as they live, without laws keeping them from acting on those desires. Think of the problems there would be at intersections with no lights or stop signs. Even if the intersection had stops signs, but no law governing who goes first when vehicles arrive at the same time, or no penalty or consequences for breaking those laws.
Yet at the same time, there is no laws written saying that a person has to allow a vehicle that is trying to pull out into traffic from a parking lot or whatever to pull into traffic. Even though there is no law, you will see some people who are more than happy to stop and let others pull in front of them, EVEN DURING RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC. These same people are not bound by the law because they drive according to a law that is written in their hearts that they follow. That written law is a VOICE that speaks to them from within.

VERY GOOD way of saying it! Thanks!

[onefaith2]

Very good thoughts Mike. The Lord has helped me teach on this a few times. Herein is the understanding of grace by the reality of our condition.

Nothing we can or cannot do can save us. Grace enables the power of the Lord to give us the ability to please Him, not just in our efforts but in the work God has started in us.

Holiness from the inside to the out, not the other way around. Righteousness coming from salvation in Christ, not from our actions or words. Faith without works is dead but we are not the workers alone! It is Christ in us who enables us to do the works. Otherwise we are utter failures trying to do it on our own

These laws are written on our hearts, not in tables of stone.

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Originally Posted by onefaith2

Very good thoughts Mike. The Lord has helped me teach on this a few times. Herein is the understanding of grace by the reality of our condition.

Nothing we can or cannot do can save us. Grace enables the power of the Lord to give us the ability to please Him, not just in our efforts but in the work God has started in us.

Holiness from the inside to the out, not the other way around. Righteousness coming from salvation in Christ, not from our actions or words. Faith without works is dead but we are not the workers alone! It is Christ in us who enables us to do the works. Otherwise we are utter failures trying to do it on our own

These laws are written on our hearts, not in tables of stone.

Three thumbs up!