Living to God by faith….

[Not me]

Galatians 2:17-18 (NKJV)
“But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, [is] Christ therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not! “For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

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The truth that is being put forth in the above two verses, is a most freeing truth about one’s walk with God, which walk, is only by faith… For Paul had already destroyed any hope of being justified before God by anything one could do by their own strength… Therefore, faith in God was that which was put forth, that being, being justified by believing into the free gift of God..

Paul is saying that as one is trusting God, and one still finds themselves with sin in their life, Paul says that this sin does not come from Christ, meaning, that one is not to accept this sin in their life… Then Paul puts forth in so many words, if one reverts back to what they can do by the strength of their will to be set free from that sin, they will find themselves once again, being in bondage to that sin…. For our salvation comes through a whole different venue, and that venue is by trusting God to manifest it in the life…

If this than is the state of things, how then is one to proceed?… Paul answers the how and why of this in the next verse..

Galatians 2:19 (NKJV)
“For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God.

For the law says, that the soul that sins shall die, the fulfilling of this law is the meaning of the scripture that says, ‘I through the law died to the law’, for by dying with Christ, one has fulfilled the requirement of the law towards the sinner, that being, the death of that sinner… This is the freedom all Christian’s have in Christ, they have died with Christ from all things of this world…  Scripture then says, but use not this freedom for the fulfilling of the desires of the flesh, but rather, give oneself up by faith to God, to become a slave of righteousness..

That is why in another place, scripture says, to examine oneself to see if one is in the faith, meaning, that because of this freedom found by being joined with Christ in His death, is one actively trusting Christ to manifest righteousness in all of one’s doings, or is one just going on their merry way and doing whatever their heart desires to do? 

For the freedom one has in Christ is an absolute freedom from all things of this world, but than too, it is an absolute slavery to the faith that would live by trusting Christ to live His life of righteousness through one… 

For living to God is the reason for Christ’s death on the cross, and anything other, is not fulfilling the purpose for which Christ died… And if one would go on with God to experience the fullness of the salvation offered in Christ, one must absolutely live to God…

As He works the experiencing of these truths in the heart will the heart know the love, the joy, the peace, and the freedom from sin which Christ’s death purchased for mankind… For Jesus did die, and we with Him, so we might live to God by faith….

Be blessed in the freedom there is in living to Him by faith….

A fellow believer, Not me