Scripture Reading: Romans 10:4
Those professing Christians who today live under the law, have failed to understand and/or accept the significance of Calvary. Such was the condition in the church at Galatia when the apostle Paul was moved to upbraid them for their faithless behavior. "For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written. Cursed is every one that con-tinueth not in all the things which are written in the book of the law to do them...Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse FOR US: for it is written. Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree" (Gal. 3:10, 13).
The attempt to "follow Christ" by striving to emulate His earthly walk, is a totally futile effort. He did not minister to us at that time, but to Israel. And He said to them (the Jews) at that time, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law...I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." He was born under the law, He lived under total obedience to the law. He ministered the law. This is not the Christ that we know in this present dispensation of grace. "For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth."
When ministering to Israel, He admonished them, "One jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled" (Matt. 5:18). But through the apostle Paul, the risen, heavenly seated Christ declared to the Church which is His Body, that He has "forgiven you all trespasses, blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross" (Col. 2:13, 14).
Like the foolish Galatians, untoM numbers of Christians still labor under the law, thinking to please God. But He has told us, "By GRACE are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: NOT OF WORKS, lest any man should boast" (Eph. 2:8, 9). "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage" (Gal. 5:1).
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