7 desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions. 8 Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, 9 understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless […]
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Serving the Law or People
Luke 14:1 ¶ One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. Luke 14:2 And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. Luke 14:3 And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the […]
The Lord of All Laws Lives by Love Instead
On a Sabbath, while he was going through the grainfields, his disciples plucked and ate some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands. But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?” And Jesus answered them, “Have you not read what David did when […]
Mark 3 – The Law that Takes Away Freedom
When the pharisees accused Jesus of breaking the law, it’s important to note that He was breaking their man-made laws, not the laws of Moses.
Rules Aren’t Bad, They Just Don’t Make a Relationship
For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not […]
The Law Showed Off Our Sin and God’s Grace
Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. ’What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? […]