Our King has given laws for living within this world that He
created. These are laws for the proper governing of this creation. It is kind of like an owner’s manual of how
to best function within this creation.
The boundaries laid out within it are for our protection. Just like a loving parent lays out boundaries
for the children they love for the protection of the children. In religion these laws are hard to keep
because they are legislated from without.
But when we are in relationship with Christ, He now lives inside of us
and the ability to keep the law is within us in the person of Christ, who is
the governor or the law giver.
The man Christ Jesus kept all the
law when He walked the earth. He also
simplified it to two basic commandments, 1) love the Lord your God with all
your heart, mind, soul, and strength 2) love your neighbor as yourself. In and of ourselves we are unable to do
this. The enabling comes through Jesus
Christ who lives within us as we submit to His government.
The government of
God is exercised from within by the Spirit rather than from without. Government
from without is legalism and it has never worked. Legalism can only ever lead to more sin and ultimately
to death. God wants us to function by
the Spirit who resides within us as Christians.
Only a life lived through Christ’s life giving Spirit governing our
lives from within produces life.
When Jesus rules within us we then keep the law. It is a keeping of the law from within,
rather than try to put it on without. The
enablement to live the law comes from Christ within as we submit to His
government.
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