God redirected Paul’s zeal for His own purposes and commissioned him “the apostle of the Gentiles” (Romans 11.13) and the apostle of grace. In God’s matchless grace, God saved Saul of Tarsus. Paul thought he doing God’s will and keeping the Law in arresting, torturing, and killing those who believed Jesus was the promised Messiah. Paul trained as a Pharisee and became a zealot of Judaism and the Mosaic Law. The goal is to reveal the believer’s freedom in Christ and how we are to live a godly life apart from the governance of the Mosaic Law. This article will examine Paul’s teachings about the Law and the believer’s relationship to it primarily through examining Paul’s letter to the Galatians. When one reads acclaimed Pauline “experts” and “scholars” one finds they too have little comprehension of Paul’s doctrines or knowledge of his revelations ( secrets). Tragically, the vast majority of Christendom know little of Paul nor understand his teachings.
The great apostle’s teachings are completely contrary to such thought. No one who spends time with Paul will conclude the Church is under the Mosaic Law. Why? Part of the answer is that most churches spend most of their time in the gospels, which concerns the Jews who were under the Law. Most churches teach the Church, the body of Christ, is under the Mosaic Law. Most believe God gave the Mosaic Law to make one better. Paul wrote Timothy:Ĩ But we know that the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully, 9 realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers 10 and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching, 11 according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted (1 Timothy 1.8-11).Ĭhristendom has never come to grips with this truth. God gave Israel the Mosaic Law for one purpose: to reveal sin and condemn (Romans 3.19-20). Apart from such understanding, everything God has revealed in the Bible about sin will be misunderstood. This truth must sink into one’s being if he is to understand God’s revelation about sin, righteousness, and man’s condition. The only way to overcome sin is with a new nature. We sin because we have a nature that wants to sin, to rebel against God. WE ARE SINNERS NOT BECAUSE WE BREAK THE LAW His statements revealed the Biblical truth: Tyndale understood the purpose of the Mosaic Law, the nature of man, and Paul’s doctrine of sin and righteousness. The quotes above are from William Tyndale, the greatest of the reformers. The deede is good because of the man and not the man because of his deede (Prologue to Genesis). We must first be euill ere we do euil, and good before we do good (Pathway to the Scriptures). An adder is hated not for the euill it hath done but for the poyson that is in it (Pathway to the Scriptures).
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