God's plan is that Jews and Gentiles are justified before God by faith and action. This plan can be traced to the beginning of Israel's history, for Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

Such will be your descendants , he told him. Abram put his faith in Yahweh, who counted this as making him justified. - Gen. 15:5-6 -

If Abraham was justified as a reward for doing something, he would really have had something to boast about, though not in God's sight because scripture says: Abraham put his faith in God, and this faith was considered as justifying him. - Rom. 4:2-3 - Gal. 3:6 -

The law, which did not come until 430 years after Abraham was never intended to replace justification by faith. - Gal.3:17 - Rather, the law was to teach us of our need for Christ. Christ, therefore, is the fulfillment of the promise to Abraham.

Before faith came, we were allowed no freedom by the Law; we were being looked after till faith was revealed. The Law was to be our guardian until the Christ came and we could be justified by faith. Now that the time has come we are no longer under the guardian, and you are, all of you, sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. All baptised in Christ, you have all clothed yourselves in Christ, and there are no more distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and free, male and female, but all of you are one in Christ Jesus. Merely by belonging to Christ you are the posterity of Abraham, the heir he was promised. - Gal.3:23-29 -

Saint Paul's teaches us that the result of justification by grace through faith is spiritual freedom and he appealed to us to stand fast in our freedom, and not get entangled again with a yoke of bondage. Christian freedom is not an excuse to gratify one's lower nature; rather, it is an opportunity to love one another. Such freedom does not insulate one from life's struggles. Indeed, it may intensify the battle between the Spirit and the flesh. Nevertheless, the flesh [the lower nature] has been crucified with Christ and, as a consequence, the Spirit will bear its fruit - such as love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustfulness, gentleness and self-control.

Don't delude yourself into thinking that God can be cheated: where a man sows, there he reaps: if he sows in the field of self-indulgence he will get a harvest of corruption out of it.; if he sows in the field of the Spirit he will get from it a harvest of eternal life. - Gal. 6:7-8 -

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -