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You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source, of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth. Galatians 2:21 http://www.dailybiblestudy.org
21 I do [atheteo] not [ou] frustrate [atheteo] the grace [charis] of God: [theos] for [gar] if [ei] righteousness [dikaiosune] come by [dia] the law, [nomos] then [ara] Christ [Christos] is dead [apothnesko] in vain. [dorean] KJV-Interlinear
21 "I do not nullify the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly." NASB Frustrate, 'atheteo,' means to abrogate, abolish, void, nullify. The phrase, grace of God, refers to the favor of God as it applies within the plan of God in salvation and as it applies to life beyond or after salvation. Righteousness refers to the justification in salvation, and justification in ones spiritual growth. And so, if a person can be justified and/or saved by means of the law, then he can be saved by means of his own efforts. If a person can advance in their spiritual life by means of the law, then they can advance by means of their own efforts. If those two things are possible, then God is not needed and man can define and design his own path to holiness. That all makes Christs work on the cross and His deaths (both deaths, the first being his spiritual death and the second death being His physical death) useless and of no importance or value. If man can do nearly anything, and that is exactly what happened to the Levitical code, when the Priests over several centuries, made up rule after rule, regulation after regulation. They made things complicated and then made exceptions for things that were too complicated, and then made more rules until the Law was held not within the content of the first five books but were contained within volumes and volumes and volumes of books of regulations. And then it eventually excluded nearly everyone except the chosen Jewish few as determined by the priests. The Law became biased and prejudiced to the maximum. When man makes up the rules, then favoritism, exceptions and bias inevitably enter into the rules and fairness fades into non-existence. Man cannot justify himself. Man cannot pay the high price for his evil. Man cannot take his own rottenness and purify it. Man cannot rise to the level of God (someone else wanted to be like the most high), and become an equal with God. Man cannot control his own birth, or life span, or the number of beats of his own heart or the weather for that matter. If man could accomplish all of these things, then there would be no need for God. Therefore, since man has virtually no control over almost everything, except his own thoughts perhaps, then man needs God, a perfect and all powerful entity, to help him out. And if such a God exists, then He would have a plan, and make Himself and His plan known to all of humanity from the beginning to the end. And that is exactly what the Bible and Christ, is.
Now is the time to post a prayer. End Of Lesson Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth. |
