11:55:35 pm, Categories: Announcements [A], GraceHead teaching, GraceHead thinking deeply, By Bud
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From the very beginning, the Law was only intended to reveal the unrighteousness of man. But why was the Law not designed to produce life? Because the life a person needs, is the kind of life on only a living God can give. The Law is something etched on dead stone. It is dead; it can't produce life. It can only reveal our lack of life and our need for life (Galatians 3:19-25).
This is the reason the Holy Spirit prompted the apostle Paul to pen these words: "Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law" (Galatians 2:21). Here the Spirit reminds us that the promise of life given from Adam and Abraham until the time of Moses was neither cancelled nor fulfilled by the Law of Moses which came about long after God's promise of life.
Even at the beginning of the Law with its priests and regulations, God had always intended to give life and give it through His own Son, Jesus Christ. It was to be a type and quality of life no human being could understand, but all of them desperately needed:
"And it is yet far more evident if, in the likeness of Melchizedek, there arises another priest who has come, not according to the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an endless life" (Hebrews 7:15-17).
Even now do you possess the power of the Spirit. You only lack the faith to use what I have given you. Doubt is your enemy which also leaves the door open to the devil. He does continually hiss at you as a serpent, winding his way about your feet, waiting for the moment to strike you down when you waver. (The Lord Will Carry You - Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 6)
