Have you ever heard that we should "walking like Jesus"...here's an interesting thought, Jesus had a steady diet of grace for 30 odd years, before he started "walking like Jesus"...
Most Christians today have had a steady diet of Law mixed with Grace for years...Now we want to preach grace for 3 months and then say, now go walk as Jesus did...go figure.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
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Good morning Craig & all. I was just speaking to my brother a few days ago on how we have 40 & 50 year old babies in the church who resist the revelation of Jesus but are defined in Gal.4: 1-3, "Now I say that an heir, as long as he is a 'child,' differs nothing from a servant though he be lord of all. But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the Father. Even so we, when we were 'children' were in bondage under the elements of the world."
Imagine this, I was born again for over 22 years, like a child crawling on his hands and knees with 'diaper rash' from the law, thinking I was an adult, walking like Jesus. You know what was in my diaper? The dung of my obedience to the law, Phil.3: 8-9 for righteousness because in my high chair I was spoon fed law, law, law and I remained a child!I had my little toddler shirt on like the emblem of Superman but instead of an "S" on it, I had "SF," meaning Superflesh! As I crawled on the floor, I would play with my building blocks of the law, which are the 'elements (rituals, ceremonies, feast days, dietary laws, all of which were extentions of the law)' of the world in Gal.4:3 believing that the more I 'did' the more I would learn how to 'walk like Jesus.' But, praise God for His Mercy, Jesus Christ & the Grace in Him, I began hearing of the Grace of God in Christ, the gospel and like Paul in 1Cor.13:11, "When I was a child, I spoke, understood and thought like a child (law law law, do this, dont do that, I must do this, I must'nt do that) but when I became a man, Gal.4:3, the time appointed of the Father (being the freedom from the law & freedom from being under it by being under grace)I put away childish things, (the law & faith by or in it & my obedience.) This is exactly what Paul is saying in Gal. 4, everyone under the law is childish, crawling under condemnation & guilt instead of 'walking like Jesus,' full of grace & truth by what He did by His obedience under the law. Being free from the law, dead to the law, delivered from the law, enables us to walk like sons & daughters who can take possession of our inheritance in Christ which is impossible as a child under the law!
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