![]() ![]() You Cannot Observe the Law and Walk in the Spirit SimultaneouslyĪ mature Christian cannot be led by the Spirit and follow the Law simultaneously. Stop burdening people with a yoke of slavery.īut if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law. When people resist your attempt to place them under the Law, they are acting in accordance with the urging of Paul, “Do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” If you insist that other people observe the Law, then you are burdening people “again by a yoke of slavery,” which makes you a slave master. We force them to return to their own vomit as well. For us religious folks, this is precisely what is meant by “a dog returning to its own vomit” (Proverbs 26:11 II Peter 2:22). And if we put other Christians under the Law, we are subjecting them to the very yoke of slavery Paul warned them about. We are then measuring ourselves, “justifying” ourselves, by evaluating our behavior by the Law. If we measure ourselves as Christians by how well we follow the Law, we have returned to our slavery to sin. ![]() (Galatians 5:1) Return to the Law = Return to Slavery to Sin Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. If we insist on following the Law and imposing the Law on others, we negate the cross of Christ, and repudiate Christ’s death on the cross. It was Jesus’ death on the cross that rescued us from the curse of the Law. According to Paul’s statement below, things have changed.Ĭhrist redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us. The passage above, Galatians 3:10, contains a quote from the Law itself, Deuteronomy 27:26. If we rely on following the Law (the Torah, the first five books of the Bible) we are under a curse. The Apostle Paul wrote it in Galatians:Īll who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.” (Galatians 3:10) It is clearly stated in the Greek scriptures. It is not something fabricated to win an argument, or made up in the twentieth century, or manufactured to get around something somebody doesn’t like. The Apostle Paul makes this abundantly clear. ![]() We do not live our Christian life by following the Old Testament Law. ![]() The problem is that Christians are no longer under the Law. There is, however, a big problem with quoting Leviticus. Second, If a man lie with a man, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death their blood shall be upon them. First, Thou shalt not lie with a man, as with a woman: it is abomination. The verses are Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13. The apostle Paul taught that we are no longer under the Law. In this post we will be looking at two verses in Leviticus used as Clobber Passages, proof texts used to condemn gays and lesbians. People bring up many points routinely, and it’s amazing how the attacks don’t hold up–if you look at their Biblical “evidence” carefully. The standard Biblical case against homosexuality is not as air-tight as many people seem to think. ![]()
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