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HOW THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF THE LIFE THAT IS IN CHRIST JESUS SETS FREE THE PENITENT FROM THE LAW OF THE SIN AND THE DEATH

1. In Jesus Christ is Life. John 1:3,4; John 6:35,48.
Christ is given that He might be our source of Life. (John 3:18; John 10:10,11,15). John 6:32,33,40.
What is Life? It is a knowledge of God and Christ. John 17:3; Ephesians 4:18.
Since Christ is the only true revelation of God, and Christ is God, then to say that Life is a knowledge of God and Christ, is to say that Life is a knowledge of God as revealed in Christ. John 1:1,18; John 14:6-9.
What the Scripture then means is that Life is a knowledge of God the way He reveals Himself. (John 17:3; Isaiah 45:21; Isaiah 52:6).
So “the life in Christ Jesus” is the knowledge of God as is revealed in the truths or character of Christ. Matthew 11:27; 2 Corinthians 5:19). 1 John 5:11,12; 2 John 9.
7. The Holy Spirit is the “Spirit of life”, in fact the Spirit is Life. Romans 8:2,10.
This Holy Spirit has a Law, it is called the Spiritual Law. Romans 7:14.
The Law—the Spiritual Law—is the “law of the life” in Christ Jesus. (Romans 7:14; Romans 8:2; Deuteronomy 32:46,47).
10. Since Life is a knowledge of God, the “Law of life” which is the Spiritual Law, is the Law that is a revelation of God. (John 17:3; Romans 8:2; Hebrews 8:10,11).
Hence the Spiritual Law is a revelation of God who is Spirit. (Romans 7:14; John 4:24).
The Law of the Spirit, which is a revelation of God, or the Spiritual Law which is God revealed, delivers us from the Law of sin and death. (Romans 8:2; Psalms 119:11; Psalms 19:7).
We are being told in Romans 8:2 that the Spiritual Law makes us free from the Law pointing out sin and condemning us by making us become dead to the Law, that is, the Law is rendered unable to point out sin in us and condemn us. (Romans 8:2; Romans 7:4,6; Galatians 5:18,22-25; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Ephesians 4:24).
How are we made dead to the Law, or how is the Law made incapable of pointing out sin in us and condemning us? By simply removing the contention the Law has with man, that contention is sin. Because of sin in us, the Law points out sin in man and condemns him, thus to stop the Law from pointing out sin in man and condemning him, sin has to be removed. Romans 7:7,8,11,13; Romans 4:15; Romans 3:19,20; Romans 6:7.
Thus the Spiritual Law sets us free from the problem of sin within. (Romans 7:14; Hebrews 8:10,11; 1 John 4:7; Psalms 37:30,31).
How is this done? It is done by Justification. Sin within is removed by Justification. Romans 6:6,7; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11.
This is the process whereby sin is removed from within.
a. Since the thought of the flesh (the carnal mind) is enmity with God, God must temporarily extinguish this thought of the flesh that we may see God as is revealed in the Spiritual Law (through the Holy Spirit). (Ephesians 4:18; Romans 8:6-8).
b. Next, God temporarily places the Spiritual Law in our consciousness through Faith which is the revealed Truths of God, through the preaching of the Gospel. (For it is in God’s light that we see light). (2 Corinthians 4:4,6; Psalms 36:9).

c. Then we are convicted of God according to the claims of the Spiritual Law. 2 Corinthians 4:6; 1 John 5:9-11,13; Acts 2:37).
d. We are convicted that God is the Highest, the Ideal-Value, the true source of the highest experience that is available to man. (2 Corinthians 4:6; 1 John 5:20,21).
e. We see the idol-values that we usually hold in the highest esteem; they are nothing, just nothing, and are a hindrance to attaining the best experience. Jeremiah 10:6-15,23; Psalms 115:3-5.
f. We thus repent of the idol-values, changing our minds about keeping them as valuable; we reject them. Ezekiel 18:28,30; Ezekiel 14:6.
g. And we believe that God is Love. We accept Him as the Spiritual Law, as the highest Ideal-Value which we now want to possess and obey. (John 8:24; 1 John 3:23; 1 John 5:10-13).
h. We also confess which is the renouncing of the idol-values and the receiving of the Spiritual Law—God—, as the Ideal-Value. (1 John 1:9; 1 John 4:15; Romans 10:8-11).
18. Then it is that God justifies the penitents, which means:
a. He forgives us for the sins of the “thought of the flesh”, or the idol-values. This means that He does not count them as our values, or this is also saying that He non-imputes them to us. Romans 4:6-8; 2 Corinthians 5:19.
b. This is the same as God removing the idols (values) from our hearts. Ezekiel 36:25.
c. Then God imputes or gives His Nature which is the Spiritual Law to our hearts as our new Ideal-Value. (Romans 4:5,9; Ezekiel 36:26,27; Hebrews 10:16).
d. This is the same as God giving the Spirit that we are convicted with in our hearts, to us. This is so because the Spirit is the Life or knowledge of God as the Spiritual Law. (Galatians 3:7-9,14; Romans 8:10; John 17:3; Romans 7:14).
Thus, in God’s estimation and in reality, we now have God as the Spiritual Law dwelling in us through the Holy Spirit. (2 Peter 1:4; 1 John 3:24; Romans 7:14).
Having God dwelling in us through Faith, means that there is now NO SIN in us, we are in fact made sinless. (1 John 4:4,12,13; 1 John 3:5-9).
The Law, then sees no sin in us to point out, and it cannot now condemn us. Galatians 5:18,22-25.
22. Thus the Spiritual Law given into us by God, justifying us, has made us sinless rendering the Law incapable of seeing sin in us or condemning us. (Psalms 19:7; Romans 6:1,2,14,15,17,18,22).
Finally, such a great revelation of the Spiritual Law as the Holy Spirit in man replacing idol-values in the man, thus making him sinfree, so the Law of God cannot identify sin in him, nor condemn him, is the real science of salvation known from the foundation of the world, but is now revealed to us at the end of time. (1 John 3:24; 1 John 4:12,13; Romans 7:14; John 4:24).
It is this type of knowledge that shall liberate us from Satan or break the devil’s hold from over us; it is the science or working of the Gospel fully restored in the end of time. (Romans 1:16,17; Ephesians 6:19; Revelation 10:7; Revelation 14:1-5).

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