Those who desired to be under the law (part 2)

Yesterday night i had a light chat with friend, and soon become discussion on teaching in church, I thank God it was cut off, before it develops into an argument.

I remember Pastor mentioned before, there're some believe in the doctorine of obeying 10 commanment, and says: 'We try our best to keep, those cannot keep, God can forgive', 'We keep the 10 Comm to please God', 'we confess our sin when we take the holy communion, those we cannot remember, we thank God for forgiving us.' Sound so convenient.

Before i off the light, i turn my bible and the Lord led me to Romans 7

Romans 7

Freed from the Law

Law Cannot Save from Sin

¹ Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? ²For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. ³So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. ⁴Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another--to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. ⁵For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. ⁶But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.

Pastor used an interesting illustration, those who try to keep the law is committing spiritual adultery.

I become redical, on the bed, i was surprised to hear myself said: Lord! How can they say this to You! You had DONE ALL THINGS! and You had DID THEM PERFECTLY. What do they think they can do on top of WHAT YOU HAD DONE!

So as usual, the preaching went on in my head, until i was satisfied, i thought of many things to tell my friend and ways to tell her, and i was satisfied.. after i had calmed down a little bit, the Lord told me: Don't use my Grace to condemn. Just show her the scriptures, I'll handle her.

and i quickly repented, yeah.. God cannot talk to me when i was angry.. :P

Abba was right, if we keep yelling at people because they were blinded from the goodness of His Grace, we are like the pharisee yelling to defend the law. We forgot that our Lord love them more then we do, and the Lord knows best how to handle them.

Thank you Lord!

I was really glad He opened the scriptures to me, He confirm the scriptures again, and plant me deeper into His Grace. I sympathise those who do not understand, and did not realise how much our Lord had done to give us.

I was too excited and couldn't sleep so i pray in tongue, and before i know i fall asleep.

zz zz zzz
thank you Lord!

p/s: The next morning, on the way to work, the Lord again spoke to me through Pastor's sermon! WITHOUT FAITH IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE GOD! when one put his/her trust in the law/obeying the law (ref: Those who desired to be under the law), anything else but by faith believe in Jesus' finished work, he/she cannot please God! No one obey the law by faith! but you need great faith to believe what Jesus had done, and even this faith, He provides for us!

Amen and Amen!