What about treatment of the law? (Romans 8:3-4)
The reason why salvation according to the Romans is necessary is because Romans 8 is precious.
If we are discovered in Romans 8 and do not develop within it, we are naturally in the position of sinners under the law.
Even if you believe in Jesus Christ, saying that you have to accept Jesus again or be baptized in the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues means that salvation in Christ has not even begun.
If you are in Christ, the Spirit of truth will let you know that you are one with Christ and help you see the glory of God according to the truth, so you will not listen to the words of a child in the flesh who tells you to receive Jesus or to be baptized again in the Holy Spirit and to speak in tongues.
So the church must preach the complete gospel.
If the dean of a seminary says in a sermon that we are justified sinners, he is still under the law and is a sinner under the law of sin and death.
However, it is extremely unfair to God's children who are sinners who die with Christ, have their old self buried, and live again with Christ, and are united with Christ who is resurrection and life through His Spirit, and call God Abba, Father.
The problem is that those who are said to believe in Jesus and repent in the place of a sinner in front of the cross are not born again, nor do they know the eternal life that remain in the Son and the Father through the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
Q. How do you fulfill the requirements of the law?
“For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.”(Romans 8:3)
A. We cannot, but God can.
The problem is not with the spiritual law, but with the inability to keep the law because our flesh is weak.
Therefore, the law is a schoolmaster that silences those who say they have no sin, drags them into sin, and forces them to rely on the merits of the cross of Jesus Christ.
Paul says that the Lord Jesus Christ was cursed and died on the cross to redeem us from the curse of the law (Galatians 3:13).
We cannot keep the law, but the Lord died in our place, paying for the curse of the law, redeeming us from the curse of the law, releasing us, and now holding on to us.
He rescues us from death, the curse of the law, through the cross, releases us, and sustains us. (Hebrews 2:15-16)
If you neglect this great salvation (Hebrews 2:3), salvation will not even begin.
Q. What are the conditions that fulfill the requirements of the law?
“That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” (Romans 8:4)
A. It is walking according to the spirit in Christ.
Because we were unable to keep the law due to the weakness of our flesh, God freed us from the law through the atonement of Jesus Christ on the cross and moved us to a place where the law of the Spirit of life in Christ applies.
We believed, were baptized, and followed along.
In Christ, the free will that allows us to walk according to the spirit and not according to the flesh comes into play.
Think of the law of the Spirit of life as the energy of life.
So, if the Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in us, He will also give life to our mortal bodies. (Romans 8:11)
Believe that the power of him, Jesus Christ who died on the cross and rose again, works in us.
Our flesh is weak and cannot keep the law, but if we receive forgiveness of sins through repentance and baptism according to the atonement grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and walk according to the spirit under the law of the Holy Spirit of life, we can move toward love, which is the law's requirement.
Therefore, in order for God to fulfill the requirements of the law, Jesus Christ was first crucified on the cross, so we who have become sinners under the law die to the law and live again with Christ in a place that has nothing to do with the law of sin and death.
And by living according to the spirit, not according to the flesh, by the energy of the Holy Spirit of life in Christ, we are achieving love, which is the requirement (righteousness) of the law.
As a result, God makes us the people of heaven who achieve a righteousness that is superior to the righteousness of those who tried to follow the law like the scribes and Pharisees. (Matthew 5:20)
When we were sinners under the law, God first fulfilled the requirements of the law by having Christ die on the cross on our behalf, and when we in Christ live according to the spirit and not according to the flesh, holiness and glory are revealed and we finally reach love.
This is the fulfillment of the will of the Lord who prayed for us as the high priest (John 17).
Therefore, there is no fear in love (1 John 4:18) because there is no law that can condemn love.
Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.
Translated by Nancy Chung
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