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When belong changes, the law also changes. (Romans 8:2)
It is only natural that when North Korean defectors come to South Korea and obtain South Korean citizenship, they must fulfill their rights and obligations under South Korean law.
When you go to another country, you must follow that country's laws.
Since the word of the new covenant is not properly spread in the church, no one criticizes and just ignores the claims that the Book of Revelation is the new covenant.
The Book of Revelation is not the new covenant.
Do people who say they believe in Jesus and pray in Jesus’ name know the new covenant?
Can they experience the experience that the commandments of the Lord, I am in Christ and Christ is in me, are fulfilled by the Spirit of truth, and those who keep the commandments receive God’s love and Christ appears in them?(John 14:21)
If you do not know the new covenant, you do not know how to keep the Lord's commandments and abide in the Lord's love (John 15:10).
No matter how much a human being with sin in Adam struggles, he cannot achieve love and love because he is under the law of sin and death.
Q. Why is there no condemnation in Christ?
“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death”. (Romans 8:2)
A. Because the country changed, affiliation changed, and the law changed.
If you think that the good land in the parable of heaven in Matthew 13 is your natural mind, you will only say that you will reap a hundred times, sixty times, and thirty times throughout your life, but there will be no harvest.
That good land is the land of born again and the heart of a newly born child of God.
Since it has become heaven, the Lord says it is a parable of heaven. Will the Lord take us to a quiz game about ethics and morality and say it is a parable of heaven.
The good land is the heart of a person who has been born again and has become heaven in Christ.
So of course the law changed.
Spiritual principles are non-negotiable.
Jesus also said ‘yes’ or ‘no’. There is no middle ground.
Therefore, in faith, principles and fundamentals are always important.
However, spiritual principle, or law, is not the pragmatism of human advantage and disadvantage.
‘Faith is a fight about whether it is righteousness or unrighteousness,’ not about whether I have benefit or not.
It is truly amazing that in Adam we were under the law of sin and death, but that we have passed over to the law of the Spirit of life in Christ.
Therefore, born again Christians must not forget this principle of the Spirit of life.
And repeated confessions (1 John 1:5-9), such as forgetting or leaving and then coming back, should be natural.
That is the way of the cross, denying yourself, taking up your cross, and following the Lord.
It is also consistent with the saying that the meek will inherit the earth (Matthew 5:5).
Meekness means an exchange between yourself and Christ.
We gain a land where we can earnestly seek the righteousness of God, the Savior Jesus Christ.
Now that the kingdom of God has been established, we can seek its law, righteousness.
Therefore, when we see a person who has been suffering under the law of sin and death according to the flesh and then returns to his place by following the spiritual principle of following the grace of Christ's atonement achieved by the Lord, we should not carelessly call him a sinner.
The repentance of a person under the law of sin and death is a repentance of good and evil.
However, the repentance of a person who knows the law of the Spirit of life in Christ is a repentance that follows the way of being dead with Christ and being resurrected with Christ.
There, God's righteousness is revealed and the indwelling work of the Holy Spirit is always experienced.
That is why God says that the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit (Romans 14:17).
Now, when the Bible says sin, it is referring to a certain tendency or principle.
Sin (singular) and sins that are its consequences (plural) are different.
People who don't know this always fall into hypocrisy and hiding the results.
Sin burrows inside and hides.
If you act for 10 years, pretense becomes a habit and people mistakenly think it is your nature.
Therefore, the difference between a mature person and a young believer is that a young believer speaks what he sees, but a mature believer quietly watches when he discovers that the person is trying to return to the spiritual principle of following the redemptive grace of Christ's cross.
For example, even those who know the law of the Spirit of life in Christ sometimes get impatient and impulsive according to the flesh, become angry, and sometimes say evil and harsh words.
However, if you wait quietly for a day or two, he will return to his original state through the Word and prayer, and his words and actions will change like a completely different person.
Therefore, a spiritual person is not someone who has a flat expression like a stone Buddha and quietly does his or her job well.
A person of spirit is a person who knows the gap between light and darkness, life and death, and can quickly return to his original state.
People who do not know this spiritual principle slander and condemn others when they see their actions.
God thinks about this principle, and we have standards for judgment based on our own way of thinking.
The Bible says that our perspective and way of thinking is unrighteousness in the eyes of God.
No matter how bad a sinner you are, if you believe in Christ's death and resurrection on the cross and are baptized and have moved into Christ, you are not under the law of sin and death, but under the law of the Spirit of life.
Therefore, even if the Earth splits in two, there is absolutely no condemnation.
However, the thoughts of the flesh, which are steeped in sin and malignancy due to the toxicity of the fruit of the tree of good and evil, only prevent us from being certain of this.
Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.
Translated by Nancy Chung
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