Then, James, what is this good works in the reference you posted referring to?

Then, James, what is this good works in the reference you posted referring to?

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In His Love, Mercy & Grace

Daryl

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Can a man do anything good from himself? No, no one does good! (Jeremiah 13:23; Romans 3:12). All what a man can do is doing evil (Romans 7:15-20), which is his nature (Psalm 51:5; 58:3).

What is good before man is not always good before God.

Is keeping the law a good deed before God? No, it is not good! But it was once God’s direct command to Israel to put them under condemnation and to introduce Christ the Savior for the need of their Salvation.

Keeping the law made us come under the law that gives way for sin to dominate us and made us slaves of sin (Romans 6:14), we become prisoners of sin (Galatians 3:22,23), keeping the law increases our transgressions (Romans 5:20) but when there is no law, there is no transgression (Romans 4:14). Keeping the law will lead us to condemnation and death since the law is the ministry of death (2 Corinthians 3:6-9).

Keeping the law only shows our unbelief in Christ and his Gospel, since the law is not of faith (Galatians 3:12). It’s a proof of our disbelieve because we that declares our faith in Christ still need an external guidance for righteous living and for not sinning, in spite His promise that those who were sealed by the Spirit and walk after the Spirit will have the fruits of the Spirit “love” that fulfils the law demands even there is no law as an external guidance, because we were lead from within (Ephesians 1:13; John 15:1-5; Galatians 5:16,22,23; Romans 13:8,10; Galatians 3:25; Philippians 2:13).

What is “good” before God?

John 15:1-5 – being in Christ through faith and he in us through his Spirit, we will bear much “good fruits”, which is love as fruit of the Spirit. We have the love of god in our heart to love our fellow man.

In His love

James S.

What is “good” before God is to love our fellowmen.

To love our fellowmen we need a change of heart or attitude or character from a self-loving man to a man that love his fellow man.

This change can not be achieve through obedience to the law, on the contrary this will put us under slavery of sin because it increases our sins. The law and its obedience become Christ competitor and might alter men’s focus from him to self.

Therefore keeping the law is “not a good thing” before God, and for this reason the law was designated only for a period of time (Moses to the cross); “What, then, was the purpose of the law? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come” – Galatians 3:19.

It was added …..UNTIL the cross of Christ.

The only way to have a change of nature or a change of heart is to live by faith and walks after the Spirit, where the Spirit will remain in us and ‘sheds abroad the lover of God in our hearts”. When we have the love of God in our hearts, we may now love our fellow men since there is no more the love for self in us.

“Love is the fulfillment of the law”, he that loves his fellow man has fulfilled the law requirements even there is no law and he is not under any law.

In His love

James S.

James,

How can you fulfill a law that according to you has been abolished, and I stress according to you?