We may extend or narrow our friendships, intensify enmity or compromise with evil, all by manipulating law that we have access to. Being lawless, we can be very much ‘righteous’ to ourselves and before ourselves. The sacred laws codified were with a hope to be holy as God is holy. The holiness of God cannot be real if there is no justice, even if we have ‘holy’ structures, incense and ‘holy’ songs and praises everywhere.
Paul finds Christ as the new law. We cannot manipulate, or
be hypocritical and follow Christ the law. Christ is not rules and regulations.
Christ is the way we walk and the end we accomplish. Though frail, sincerity is
the only requirement to follow Christ the law.
Often, we hear this gift to be led by Christ the law as
individual obligation. It is ‘you’ (in singular) who is to follow Christ, keep
his ‘commandments,’ and be holy. It is ‘we’ or ‘you’ (in plural) that follow
Christ, or follow Christ the law, and be holy as God is holy, and being perfect
as our heavenly Father. Has any one got a merit, it is shared for the good of
all. Has anyone flawed? It is a concern for all, not as a worry or shame, but as
a need of the body to make one another complete.
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