“Once we can get the believers set, they will run like the wind and others bless”. The hope and aspiration of the minister of the Gospel. This was the Apostle Paul’s desire, that the church would be stable in light, be stable in love, be stable in knowing that it’s by grace through faith that we are partakes of the Father’s love.
But it was Satan’s desire to thrust men back under a weight that they were unable to bear. That is keeping a set of rules and laws without the Living Christ residing on the inside. Throughout all creation, he has caused men to stumble and err. Thinking that the only way to God was through self-debasement. Stripping oneself of any worth at all, and causing men to require of themselves as well as others a sense of unworthiness.
Ohh but thanks be to God, that he sent Jesus to pay the penalty of man’s transgression. And in receiving Christ, we have an audience with the Father through his Son. Friends this is a Love, Love relationship. We learn as children of God that sin separates us from his loving arms. So now we live in such away that our fellowship is unbroken and we are always in his loving care.
Galatians 5 King James Version (KJV)
5 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.