📖Luke 16:16 The LAW and the PROPHETS were UNTIL John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
The Bible teaches that there are different DISPENSATIONS or divinely ordered ways of God dealing with mankind throughout the ages.
📚 A DISPENSATION is simply a period of time in which God deals with mankind in a certain way.
The Old Testament law was only a temporary dispensation and ruled from the giving of the law (Ex. 20) until the ministry of John the Baptist.
When Christ came, He put an end to the law for righteousness to take its place.
📖Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Anyone who advocates the keeping of the law for the purpose of right standing with God is either sincerely ignorant or deliberately confused because he or she is going back to an Old Testament system of law that has been ABOLISHED and is making the work of Christ void in his life and in the lives of his or her hearers.
The New Testament believer is under the dispensation of God's grace.
📖Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are NOT under the law, BUT UNDER GRACE.
This is the truth: We are not under the law. However, that doesn't mean the law has passed away.
📖Luke 16:17 It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for the smallest part of the law to fail.
The law hasn't FAILED.
It has been FULFILLED
📖Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but TO FULFIL.
CHRIST fulfilled every jot and tittle of the law for us and imputes to us that righteousness is not based on our performance but on our faith in Him.
The law was never given for the purpose of justification. It was totally powerless to save. It only showed us our need and pointed us to a Savior.
📖Romans 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh
The law was not made for a righteous man and it still serves a purpose for those who are not born again.
📖1 Timothy 1:9 Knowing this, that THE LAW IS NOT MADE FOR A RIGHTEOUS MAN, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
For those who do not accept JESUS as their SAVIOR, the wrath of God, which the law produces, abides on them.
📖John 3:18 HE THAT BELIEVETH on him is not condemned: BUT HE THAT BELIEVETH NOT is CONDEMNED ALREADY, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
In this present age, JESUS has come not to condemn men but to bring them grace and truth.
📖1 John 4:14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
Those who DO NOT believe on THE SON are presently under the wrath of the Old Testament law, and, unless they repent, will suffer the wrath of God eternally.
📖2 Thessalonians 1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and THAT OBEY NOT THE GOSPEL of our Lord Jesus Christ: 1:9 Who shall be punished with EVERLASTING DESTRUCTION from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power
BUT for us Who have accepted JESUS and confessed His LORDSHIP over our lives, believing continuously in Him, have escaped that awful and gruesome wrath to come.
📖1 Thessalonians 1:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even JESUS, which DELIVERED us FROM the WRATH TO COME.
BELOVED, Thank GOD for His GRACE today!
GOD BLESS YOU BY ALL MEANS IN JESUS NAME
Apostle Dr. ROCKSON AWESOME STEPHENS
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