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.
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Meekness [praotes], temperance [egkrateia]:
against [kata] such [toioutos] there is [esti] no [ou] law [nomos]. KJV-Interlinear
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gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. NASB
Some try to explain that the Law applied to only the Old Testament times as their way of life and that we of the New Testament times live by Christ, and both terms are typically used in ambiguous ways. Meaning that anyone who promotes this concept hasn’t a clue as to what they are talking about.
The Law does not apply to the policy of grace, or to any aspect of the spiritual life. The Law, and we are referring to the Mosaic Law, only applies to the works of man, because by the Law, no person can live the perfect life, and therefore all die, by it.
The Law is filled with innumerable barriers and pitfalls. Man is incapable of fulfilling the Law.
And that was the purpose of the Law in the first place. No one can live by it, and therefore the sacrifices demonstrated that another, a savior, was required in order to provide the salvation that man could not accomplish on his own. This savior principle applies to all of humanity.
The production of the law amounts to empty and false values. While the production of the spirit, which is not mans works, amounts to intrinsic value that lasts forever.
The final two examples of the production of the spirit are meekness or humility, and temperance, or self-control or tolerance or patience.
In the spiritual life, as defined and designed by God, there is no condemnation, only salvation and much, much more.
In the carnal life, there is only condemnation and loss.
The carnal life is fueled by arrogance and can get no better than the corruption and decay of the earth.
The spiritual life is fueled by Christ or doctrine, revealed and sustained by the Holy Spirit, and the Father authored and designed it all. The spiritual life is one-hundred percent the work of God and none from man.
To live in and obtain the benefit of the spiritual life, you have to genuinely want it, and then submit yourself to learning it, and then living it. And that takes a daily commitment to pursue a daily study every day for the rest of your life. And for that, the rewards for all of eternity are beyond imagination.
