Mt 7:23
"And then I will declare to them, `I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.'
Mt 13:41
"The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who commit LAWLESSNESS,
Mt 23:28
"So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and LAWLESSNESS.
Mt 24:12
"Because LAWLESSNESSis increased, most people's love will grow cold.
Ro 6:19
I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to LAWLESSNESS, resulting in further LAWLESSNESS, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification
2Co 6:14
Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and LAWLESSNESS, or what fellowship has light with darkness?
2Th 2:3
Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of LAWLESSNESSis revealed, the son of destruction,
2Th 2:7
For the mystery of LAWLESSNESSis already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.
Heb 1:9
"YOU HAVE LOVED RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HATED LAWLESSNESS; THEREFORE GOD, YOUR GOD, HAS ANOINTED YOU WITH THE OIL OF GLADNESS ABOVE YOUR COMPANIONS."
1Jo 3:4
Everyone who practices sin also practices LAWLESSNESS; and sin is LAWLESSNESS.
Please listen closely, because it is important that you understand me. The ONE and ONLY ONE that fulfilled the Law, did so in obedience to the Father ... "I always do that which pleases the Father." - the Lord Jesus.
If that same Person came to reside in you by the Spirit, what would you expect Him to cause in you? Would you expect Him to cause Lawlessness? If someone remains in lawlessness, has the fulfiller of the Law come to reside within them? Think about it.
1Jo 3:4 Everyone who practices sin also practices LAWLESSNESS; and sin is LAWLESSNESS. 5 You know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin. 6 No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him. 7 Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; 8 the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. 9 No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.
I am an outcast among my peers and even an outcast of my own home, because I see what is plain, and what Truth never departed me since I first came to God, believing on Jesus. Specifically, that the One that saved me from the consequence of my sins, is active within me ... saving me from ever partaking of these same sins. ... not to perfection, but to a measure for which I will be forever grateful. And an increasing measure as I mature.
Someone told me over 15 times last night these very words: "The Holy Spirit would NEVER lead you to obey the Law."
... and I am the scandal. Well, so be it ... for it is written:
Re 12:17
So the dragon was enraged with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus.
Re 14:12
Here is the perseverance of the saints who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.
Note: there are 2 definitions given for God's saints ... please don't fulfill one of the definitions and not the other and still call yourself a "saint."
In all of this, have I said that righteousness comes through obedience to the Law? Have I said that we are justified before God by our works? Have I said that human power is of any use at all? Have I said that we are "under the Law?"
Let us bear (not produce) the fruit of God as we abide in the Vine ... His holy life expressed through us.
1 John 2:3-6...Grace AND the Law
(How do we know Him?)
3 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.
(Who is a liar?)
4 He who says, "I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
(perfected and in Him)
5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.
(In Him, walking as He walked)
6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.
(pleasing the Father)
1John 3:22 -
And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.
Ro 3:31 -...Faith AND the Law
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Ro 7:12 -
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
The Lord lives, and forgives those who call on His name with all humility and supplication. Come to Me and repent. To this end I gave My life as a ransom and payment in full for your sins past, present and those sins of tomorrow. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 1 - Return Home, Your Father Calls]