THE LAW KILLS - ALBERT ELISHA OBERDORFER - SAMPLE
If you allow the law to intrude into your life, it is a serious matter. It will take away your joy in the Lord. It will make you grumpy and miserable. It will affect you profoundly. First, within, and then, in turn, everyone you are in touch with around you. But why does the law—for a believer—have such a profound negative effect? Simply because we were not meant to live by the law. Putting believers under the law is a severe offense in the Kingdom of God. It is to be resisted at all costs. Because it promotes self-effort. And with it, either pride or condemnation. As Spirit-filled believers, we are meant to live a life led by the Spirit. “The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life,” Paul writes. We are to live the Romans chapter 8 life. Not the Romans chapter 7 life, which is inevitable when we come under the law. Read the revelation knowledge in this book with an open heart and ask the Holy Spirit to quicken to you these things of the Spirit. So you may gain a heightened awareness of the law, and how to stay away from it. So the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus can take you to places in Christ that are your rightful spiritual inheritance.
If you allow the law to intrude into your life, it is a serious matter.
It will take away your joy in the Lord.
It will make you grumpy and miserable.
It will affect you profoundly.
First, within, and then, in turn, everyone you are in touch with around you.
But why does the law—for a believer—have such a profound negative effect?
Simply because we were not meant to live by the law.
Putting believers under the law is a severe offense in the Kingdom of God.
It is to be resisted at all costs.
Because it promotes self-effort.
And with it, either pride or condemnation.
As Spirit-filled believers, we are meant to live a life led by the Spirit.
“The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life,” Paul writes.
We are to live the Romans chapter 8 life.
Not the Romans chapter 7 life, which is inevitable when we come under the law.
Read the revelation knowledge in this book with an open heart and ask the Holy Spirit to quicken to you these things of the Spirit.
So you may gain a heightened awareness of the law, and how to stay away from it.
So the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus can take you to places in Christ that are your rightful spiritual inheritance.
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11 <strong>THE</strong> COLOSSIANS.<br />
IT WAS the same with the Colossians.<br />
Paul felt to remind them to stay away<br />
from the law.<br />
16 So let no one judge you in food or in<br />
drink, or regarding a festival or a new<br />
moon or sabbaths,<br />
17 which are a shadow of things to come,<br />
but the substance is of Christ.<br />
18 Let no one cheat you of your reward,<br />
taking delight in false humility and<br />
worship of angels, intruding into those<br />
things which he has not seen, vainly<br />
puffed up by his fleshly mind,<br />
19 and not holding fast to the Head, from<br />
whom all the body, nourished and knit<br />
together by joints and ligaments, grows<br />
with the increase that is from God.<br />
20 Therefore, if you died with Christ from<br />
the basic principles of the world, why, as<br />
though living in the world, do you subject<br />
yourselves to regulations—<br />
21 “Do not touch, do not taste, do not<br />
handle,”<br />
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