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- Subject: Role of the Law.
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- We often make assumptions that are not really warrented. The law is not
- something to shoot for, it is not God's expression of morality and it was
- not something to set Israel apart. It was to serve as an example and to
- show us we are dead, it is not to be held up to us and our children as an
- example to attain.
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- Remember again, the law, as usually used in the NT, means the entire Torah,
- all 613 laws, not ten. If you want to keep the law, you had better keep
- all of them, every one, and do it perfectly, which, of course, you cannot
- do. Jesus does not keep the law for us, he died for us and that's
- sufficient for salvation.
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- Do not compare yourselves to the law, do not compare yourselves to Jesus,
- do not compare yourselves, period. Just look to Jesus and realize He alone
- is both author and finisher of your faith, and whatever good works you will
- ever do. Don't pause to take your spiritual temperature, just keep your
- eyes on Him.
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- I know someone will bring up the passage where Paul says to examine
- ourselves. This is correct, he is talking of doctrine, not morality.
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- Dan Graham
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