The Law of the Spirit of Life

“The beauty— of the Law of the Spirit”

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Christ came to fulfill the Law— do it perfectly to completion, without violation or breach of it; he has never violated the Law— he has never broken the Law: he still upholds the Law.

The Law was not given to only show us how far we have fallen from God’s ways— it was to show us God’s way, his conduct.

God will never lie, cheat, steal, manipulate, murder, dishonor, adulterate, walk in idolatry, be disobedient, rebellious or any other transgression of the Law, of the conduct of God.

God is still upholding his Laws, otherwise known as— “the conduct of God” —how he operates his person; the ‘conducting’ of God.

And if we are ‘in’ Christ, and Christ upholds the Law to this day, never having violated it, and is set down at the right hand of the Father now— then the “Law,” sits on the throne of God, and reigns with it (never violating it), and has been handed all authority to rule, of the Father.

Authority— the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience; root definition— Middle English: from Old French autorite, from Latin auctoritas, from auctor ‘originator, promoter’ (see author).

Synonyms— jurisdiction, dominion, sovereignty, supremacy, command.

Conduct— organize, carry out, lead or guide behavior, direct the performance of, lead in a particular way; root definition— Middle English: from Old French, from Latin conduct- ‘brought together’, from the verb conducere .

The term originally denoted a provision for safe passage, surviving in safe conduct; later the verb sense ‘lead, guide’ arose, hence ‘manage’ and ‘management’ (late Middle English), later ‘management of oneself, behavior’ (mid 16th century). The original form of the word was conduit, which was preserved only in the sense ‘channel’ (see conduit); in other uses the spelling was influenced by Latin.

We are to channel his character and enforcement of it, by being a conduit, or an empty vessel to be one now, with the Spirit of God; so as he can lead, guide, manage (as management) of our behavior— or law of conduct, by and through (channel) his person, his Spirit— and the lead of.

A conduit only holds what runs through it— and we hold the One who has never violated the Law and conduct of God the Father— so, the law ought to run through us— in fact, be written in our hearts.

In this, we have gained— safe passage, or survive in safe conduct— as we obey him, his lead, his commands— which are detailed as his ‘authority;’ he conducts us, like an orchestra, by his rule (authority), as the AUTHOR, the authority figure— how he rules his own person: the laws of his own conduct.

He *authorizes.

Authorize— official permission, or approval; root definition— late Middle English: from Old French autoriser, from medieval Latin auctorizare, from auctor ‘originator, promoter’ (see author).

Author— a writer of a book, article, or report; an originator or creator of something, especially a plan or idea. Middle English— ‘a person who invents or causes something’: from Old French autor, from Latin auctor, from augere ‘increase, originate, promote’. The spelling with th arose in the 15th century, and perhaps became established under the influence of authentic.

Authentic— undisputed origin; genuine. made or done in the traditional or original way, or in a way that faithfully resembles an original. Root definition— late Middle English: via Old French from late Latin authenticus, from Greek authentikos ‘principal, genuine’.

He is the PRINCIPLE ONE, in whom we are beholden to now; as he rules, we fall in line and obedience to; he is the leader, the ruler, the high King— and he upholds the law, authority and conduct of his very person— and in him, we are ‘same,’ or ONE now, with him.

We bear ‘his’ record— and his record is flawless;

glory to God that we do!!

if we are ‘in’ him— we have a clean record, showing we ‘too,’ uphold the Law— and perfectly: but it is not done and gone; he didn’t come to ‘do away with it.’

The Law of Moses was established to show us God’s ways, and that we could not do God’s way without error— for we were under the law of sin; in Christ, we are no longer under the law of sin— but under the law of Grace.

Under the law of Grace means— through his person, Christ, we are ‘graced’ his record— and that perfect record is now legally imputed unto us, in his courts of heaven: there is a book, with our names written in it, with a perfect record now— it is ‘the book of the Lamb,’ for he has a perfect record, and all those in him, do as well…

So long as we no longer— ‘walk according to the flesh’ (which is the law, or conduct of sin) —’and we walk according to the Spirit.’

There is a prerequisite.

Because to walk according to the Spirit, is to obey the Spirit of God, and have made him our Lord and Master of our ways and person; but to walk according to the flesh, is to obey the flesh carnal nature as our Lord and Master— walking according to the conduct of the sin, or transgression against God’s— nature.

Why are we so eager to see God’s law or conduct of his very person done away with?

Does it frighten us to be holy, as he is holy— to conduct our behavior, as he conducts his behavior? Not perfectly, not flawlessly— but as/like he conducts his person?

We are no longer beholden to walking in transgression of it, or imperfection of it— so why are we so afraid of God’s law of conduct?

Why are we afraid of how our Lord conducts himself?

Why do we not see the beauty in God’s ways of his person?

We are now beholden (or married) to Christ (attached) —not married, or attached to walking out the Law of Moses— for Christ did that perfectly ‘for us;’ and in him— we too have now fulfilled the Law of Moses.

Why should the law of Moses frighten us??

We too have fulfilled it— on Christ’s record.

We are beholden to a marriage directly to God now, and he upholds the Law for us— in his perfect person, who has never violated it; which means— we are now in obedience, not to the Law of Moses, but to the one who upholds it and rocks it out to this day— upholding it.

We are beholden to the perfect One,

and unto obedience to the Son.

And the Son said— the Law is summed up in these two things now: Love God with everything you’ve got, and the next guy too.

Matthew 22:37-40

“Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it— Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 40 On these two commandments —HANG— all the law and the prophets. ”

The Greek word— Kremannumi— is the word here for ‘hang’

Krem-an'-noo-mee— Verb

Word Usage - Total: 7 times, meaning— to hang up, suspend, or to be suspended, to hang— used of one hanging on a cross, and used of the Law and the Prophets, they are summed up, or hanging on two precepts.

And in Mark, the Lord is quoted speaking of command number 1, and command number 2— which he states are the ‘most’ important commands, over all other commandments of the Law: 1, and 2 denote a list in order— beginning the list, but not the list in full.

So, there are others that are not listed, which the first 2 ‘hang on,’ or are suspended on. Like a list, detailed and ‘attached’ to those first 2 super important ones— but a list suspended, nonetheless— just not detailed out by Christ at the moment.

Definition sum up— give a brief summary of something: express a concise idea of the nature or character of someone or something; (of a judge) review the evidence at the end of a case and direct the jury regarding points of law.

If we are loving God, the way he said to— “If you love me, obey my commandments,” then we will be obeying Christ, and he obeys the Law of God, and has never violated it; so, thereby— YOU uphold the Law, as well.

His kingdom is run by his person; his person has never violated the Laws God has put into play— he walks them out perfectly still even yet; if it were not so, we would not have a chance of Salvation; for all of our salvation ‘in Christ,’ is reliant upon him having walked out the Law perfectly— never violating it.

And so, now, we too are accounted by record (his record in the law of the courts of heaven) as walking it out perfectly; we definitely uphold the Law, ALL LAWS GOD GOVERNS HIS PERSON BY— ‘if,’ we are ‘in’ Christ, that is: for Christ— upholds the Law of God.

We ought not be afraid of the Law or conduct of God— we ought to want to assimilate to his image again, which is his likeness— and God, upholds the law of the conduct of God (his person), we ought to desire to see the beauty in the Law; not to attain to live it out perfectly, but to KNOW OUR GOD, for he walks out the law perfectly— so we do not have to, and legally freed us.

The Law is beautiful, God is beautiful— and we need not fear the Law, but God: we revere God directly now, through the Son, through Christ: and Christ— still, has never infractioned the Law.

And in that spotless record— we will find our names written, in the ‘book of the Lamb.’

There is a reason it is called that, the RECORD OF THE LAMB— we have to be under, and in the Lamb now— in order to receive his blood payment, of walking the Law out perfectly.

We must have ‘his record’ of flawless upholding of the Law; it’s HIS RECORD, and he has written our names to his record, upheld in the courts of heaven, by law; and thank God he has— for in the law being upheld in heaven— we have our freedom, in, and through (the channel) of Christ.

The Law— is beautiful; and because of the Law of God— we have freedom in Christ, and his flawless record of upholding the Law of God.

We now— fall in line to Christ, who falls in line to the Law of God, the Law of the Spirit; we obey Christ’s commands, which is his authority— and we have entrance into heaven, the Kingdom, and the Father; we become heirs with him, to the God’s home, dominion, and family— and all because we ‘uphold the law’ in Christ.

We cannot do away with the very Law that gains us entry into heaven— the Law, or governing of Christ and the Spirit— that was ATTAINED by living under and in accordance to the Law given to Moses by God.

Definition Law— the system of rules, which a particular country, kingdom or community recognizes —as regulating the actions of its members and by which it enforces. Rule of correct behavior, or procedure; the body of divine commandments as expressed in the Bible or other religious texts. [And if you love me— you will obey my commands].

Root definition— Old English lagu, from Old Norse lag ‘something laid down or fixed’, of Germanic origin and related to lay.

He didn’t do away with the Law, only the penalty of it— by imputing his record upon us— writing our names, in ‘his’ book; the book, or record of the Lamb and his perfect upholding of the Law.

We have gained ‘attachment’ to his record, with our names written in— because we now are beholden to him (and he holds his record of flawless upholding of the Law, even now, to this day).

Impute— represent something— especially something undesirable— as being done, caused, or possessed by someone; attribute. ascribe (righteousness, guilt, etc.) to someone by virtue of a similar quality in another. Root definition— late Middle English: from Old French imputer, from Latin imputare ‘enter in the account’, from in- ‘in, towards’ + putare ‘reckon’.

Beholden— owing thanks or having a duty to someone in return for help or a service. Root definition— late Middle English: archaic past participle of behold, in the otherwise unrecorded sense ‘bound’.

We ‘enter in’ on the ‘account of’ Christ, and his perfect record; that means a law exists, and we were failing at getting in by it, and living up to it— before Christ.

And it is now reckoned toward us— imputed; and we are ‘bound’ to him now— not the old covenant, but bound and married as one to him, now— in a duty to uphold loyalty and obedience to him, as he is the authority figure over us.

He is the author (authority), and he is the finisher of our faith (fidelity to God).

Greek: τελειωτής — Finisher

Transliteration: teleiōtēs

Pronunciation: tel-i-o-tace'

Definition: From G5048; a completer that is— a consummater: - finisher.

Consummate— make complete, join— make perfect, or whole; root definition— late Middle English (as an adjective) in the sense ‘completed, accomplished’: from Latin consummat- ‘brought to completion’, from the verb consummare, from con- ‘altogether’ + summa ‘sum total’, feminine of summus ‘highest, supreme’.

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Romans 8

“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”

Condemnation

Greek: κατάκριμα

Transliteration: katakrima

Pronunciation: kat-ak'-ree-mah

Definition: From G2632; an adverse sentence (the verdict): - condemnation.

To have a verdict— there ‘is’ a Law in play, and a court system.

2 “For the law of the Spirit of life —in Christ Jesus— has made me free from the law of sin and death.”

There are two laws, or conducts in play at all times— the flesh carnal nature of sin and death (estrangement from God and his way), and the law of the Spirit of life— attained through (the channel) of Christ Jesus; and the Law of the Spirit of LIFE— when upheld, and joined to Christ— frees us from the bondage, or yoke to the law of sin, and death.

3 “For what the law (given to Moses) could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh (meaning— man was weak through the flesh, and could not do it flawlessly), God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

(that means— took sin in the flesh, captive, jailed it, and locked it up— refusing it, and gaining victory over it.)

4 “That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh (nature of sin and death estrangement), but after the Spirit. (The law of the Spirit and Life— of God)

5 For they that are after the flesh —do mind [exercise, entertain, have sentiment or opinion for, are mentally disposed to, led in direction of, interests one’s self unto in obedience, with set affections on, thinking same minded with] the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit —the things of the Spirit.”

One set of people minding the ways of the flesh as master, and another set of people (set apart ones) minding the ways of the Spirit of God, and of Life.

6 “For to be carnally minded (remember the above definition of minding it, as master or leader, with which we are mentally disposed to, having affectionate sentiment and opinion toward, interesting our selves unto it in obedience of)— is death; BUT —to be spiritually minded is life and peace.”

Life and PEACE…

Peace— Greek: εἰρήνη —G1515

Transliteration: eirēnē

Pronunciation: i-rah'-nay

Definition: from a primary verb εἴρω eirō —to join;

peace (literally or figuratively); by implication prosperity: at one, peace— quietness rest + set at one again.

7 “Because the carnal mind is enmity [hostile and opposition, enemy in hatred] against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.”

Here we can see there ‘is’ a Law of God— and the carnal person will be in opposition to it, hostile toward it with hatred.

Hatred— intense passionate dislike, or ill will; root definition—

‘a condition.’

And the word ‘law’ used here is…

G3551 – Law

Greek: νόμος

Transliteration: nomos

Pronunciation: nom'-os

Definition: From a primary word νέμω nemō (to parcel out especially food or grazing to animals); law (through the idea of prescriptive usage) generally— regulation— specifically (of Moses [including the volume]; also of the Gospel) or figuratively— a principle: - law.

8 “So then they that are in [a resting position] the flesh [human nature, carnally minded]— cannot please God [be agreeable, and seek to be so].

9 But you— are not in [a resting position] the flesh, but in [a resting position] the Spirit —if so be that the Spirit of God dwells [resides, inhabits and cohabitates] in you.

(HUGE prerequisite there— ‘if’ —it be that God inhabits, and cohabitates with you, inside of you: his Spirit in lead and upheld within.)

Now if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ— he is not of his.”

(That means— if someone does not have the holy Spirit ‘cohabitating’ within them, indwelling the house— he is not God’s child.)

10 “And if Christ be in you— the body [as a sound whole] is dead, because of sin; but the Spirit— is life —because of righteousness [equity or equality of character and actions— justification].

11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells [abides in cohabitation] in you— he that raised up Christ from the dead, shall also quicken [vitalize and make alive again] your mortal [liable to die] bodies [sound whole] —by his Spirit that dwells in you.

12 Therefore, brethren— we are debtors— not to the flesh, to live after the flesh (the law of sin and death), 13 for if you live after the flesh, you shall die [die off— literally or figuratively, be slain]: but if you— through the Spirit— do mortify [kill, put to death] the deeds of [practice, actions and functions of office of work] the body— you shall live [be quickened by life].

14 For as many as are led by [driven by, induced of] the Spirit of [the breath of, the vital principle mental disposition of] God— they are the sons [child or foal— one born] of God.

15 For you have not received the spirit of bondage [slavery] again, to fear; but you have received the Spirit of adoption [placing as a son, sonship to God]— whereby we cry, Abba, Father.”

We do not cry out as ones estranged from God any longer, because we are subject to his Spirit, and the law and authority of his person; we now cry out “FATHER,” because we are placed as sons, obeying the leadership, law and conduct— of the law of the Spirit of LIFE now, the Spirit of God: making us sons to the Spirit and in reconciliation, and not estrangement and bondage to the law of sin, and satan any longer.

16 “The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit— that we are the children of God: 17 And if children, then heirs [partitioning, getting apportionment, a sharer by lot, and inheritor— a possessor]; heirs of God [the high supreme magistrate (that’s law upholder, folks)], and joint-heirs [participant in common, together through joining] with Christ; if it be so —that we suffer [experience pain jointly, or of the same kind, to sympathize] with him —we may be also glorified together [exalted to dignity in company with].”

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There is a reason they are called “Romans 8” children, who will manifest as ‘sons’ of God— for they uphold the Law of the Spirit of LIFE and God, through and with, and by —the lead of Christ— as they have ceased from obeying the Law of the flesh, and now obey the Law of the Spirit of God.

The Romans 8 manifesting children of God do not shun the Law, or conduct of God— his person— nay, they EMBRACE HIM, his person, his conduct and image— and uphold it, and assimilate into it: his conduct.

They CONSUMMATE the relationship— becoming ‘whole,’ and ‘perfect,’ in and through Christ, and obedience to his authority, or his— command— as he has been made most supreme, or Most High One in their hearts and lives: his conducting, is upheld— and he conducts his person flawlessly to the Law of God, even to this day— as he is subject to, or in subjection to the Law and conduct of the Father.

Subjection— the action of subjecting a country or person to one's control— or the fact of being subjected.

Are we not subject to Christ??

And was not, and is not— Christ subject to the Father— and the lead of his Holy Spirit??

The Father’s children see the beauty and the depth of the ancient paths, the old ways; and they are grateful that through Christ, we have attained the perfect, or whole record of the Law of God as well.

And so, they live not according to the law, or conduct of the flesh— but according to the conducting of the Spirit, and the law of God: so, they will manifest his Spirit right through them.

To be one with the God who upholds the law— is to love the beauty of the Law, as God does; for the Law is his nature—and we are to be gaining and being more of his ‘image,’ or nature— day by day.

In that— we need to see the beauty of his nature; and the beauty of his nature— is seen in his law— his ways in which his person and his kingdom are conducted: he, and it— are not lawless.

I am perplexed when people don’t want to support God or his law, even the old law of Moses— not perform it flawlessly, but ‘support it,’ within their inner man: is this not what Abraham, Enoch, and Job did— and God said they were ‘upright men, ashewing evil,’ right with God— and pleased him??

Which parts of the old law were detestable?

Which parts of the old law were without reason, or purpose?

Was the old way detestable in: a day of rest, honoring our parents (namely God), no other gods but him, no engraved images we should worship, that we should not take God’s name (or reputation) lightly— or in vain/vanity of emptiness and no reverence, or…

In not taking human life, or not committing adultery (disloyalty), or was it detestable to not steal, or not to lie, or to not covet —desiring what others have??

And those are just the 10 commandments of the old law… are those horrible, and to be vehemently hated??

And God even said to Moses— “You shall not make with me gods of silver, or gold— but you shall make me an altar of earth…and shall sacrifice there on…”

Do we understand that means, spiritually/figuratively— your dirt person will honor him, directly: a living sacrifice unto him.

Is that to be detested, or run from??

An altar of ‘hewn stone,’ symbolic of being built solidly in Christ now…is that to be detested?? (all in Exodus 20)

Exodus 20:26

“Neither shall you go up by steps, unto my altar— that your nakedness be not discovered there.”

Symbolically— DIRECT INTIMACY WITH GOD, NOTHING HIDDEN, ALL EXPOSED.

Is that detestable to uphold??

The old was ratified by blood— and the New Covenant in Christ— the same.

Exodus 24:7-8

“And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said— All that the Lord has said will we do, and be obedient.

8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said— Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord has made with you concerning all these words.”

Ought we detest the sprinkling of Christ’s blood, walking out the pattern of the old law— perfectly fulfilling it, or perhaps the ‘book of the covenant,’ which is now THE LAMB’S BOOK and RECORD??

Of which will be read at the judgment, in a final judgment of our freedom, as our names are read in a court of law; detailing that we have fulfilled the old law, through Christ— and stand with and in Christ, in the law of the Spirit now: obeying all he says and leads us in now.

Ought we despise the pattern of sprinkling the blood upon the people in ‘at-one-ment’ with God— declaring the blood of the New Covenant, which the Lord has made with us, concerning all the word??

The old and ancient paths, are the symbolic paths of what Christ would, and did walk out; they are patterned after the New Covenant, and how Christ would beautifully fulfill it all, and on our behalf— as now, we are beholden to God himself, not a list of laws…

But to be in subjection to his person now— who is the person of the Law; he upholds the Law— and will lead us, and teach us his ‘ways,’ which are his character and behavior, his conduct.

No longer beholden to the death-sin nature— but he LIFE, SPIRIT NATURE of God: the Law of the Spirit conduct.

But everything given to us in the old testament law, WAS BEAUTIFUL, for it foretold of Christ, the Son— and all he would do, and be for us, and WITH US.

The Law is beautiful, not detestable.

And Christ— is the ultimate upholder of the Law of the Spirit— and we reside within the one who upholds the Law to this day.

The Law being the behavior, conduct and character of God holy.

And we are to ‘be holy’ as he is holy: that’s a character reference, and reference to how he conducts, or how he regulates his principled conduct (as that was the definition of law, in Romans 8).

I am not here to tell you to live by the ‘letter’ of the law, for that is death; the letter of the law is to live it to a ‘T,’ or perfectly— like a book or text of laws; but instead— to live by the SPIRIT OF THE LAW, which is what God said above.

The ‘spirit’ of something is the breath, the vital principles of a thing, as noted here in Strong’s.

Spirit— the current of breath, the rationale or vital principle of mental disposition of God, the Holy Spirit: ghost life, spiritually minded.

Spirit— G4151

Greek: πνεῦμα

Transliteration: pneuma

Pronunciation: pnyoo'-mah

Hebrews 8:10

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, says the Lord; I will put MY LAWS into their mind— and write them in their hearts: and I will be them a God, and they will be to me a people.”

He has law, he says so himself; for he conducts himself lawfully. And if we are ‘in him,’ in Christ— we will have the law of the Spirit written in our hearts.

Hearts are unto obedience and reverence of the Lord God holy, if he is our Father and fathering us in our ways: his ways are his law of Spiritual conduct.

When Paul discussed “the law,” he was often concerned with the entire law of Moses, and he wrote that Christians were not under that authority of that law, but that our obligation is now to obey God, and is defined by a different law, a spiritual law —which in some cases overlaps Old Testament laws, but in other cases supersedes them.

The High Priesthood of Jesus Christ is contrasted with the Levitical high priesthood; the ministry Jesus received— is far superior to the Levitical ministry— and his covenant is far superior to the old covenant— but there still is a priesthood, and covenant, a NEW ONE, in him.

They sacrificed blood for blood in the old ways, Christ did the same, with his perfect blood sacrifice.

Christ did not violate the code of conduct the Father put in play, but lived it out— upholding it, which is to say— respecting it.

When we say the old covenant is obsolete, we are saying being married to that, and to be faithful to that— is obsolete now, as we have the New Covenant, the New Marriage to Christ— to be upheld now: we are beholden to Christ the person, not to a list of ordinances written down— but to the person of Christ himself, as he leads of his very person.

And Christ— is a lawful upholder of the Law; so as now, we are too— through his record, and the

*LAWS WRITTEN ON OUR HEARTS.

All that is —his Spiritual conduct— was symbolically, figuratively referenced in the old covenant, unto the ancient paths (ways); and it’s beautiful— not detestable.

The ancient paths:

Jeremiah 6:16-17

“Ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it— and you will find rest for your souls.”

“Less than twenty years before Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, first invaded Judah and Jerusalem, God told the people through Jeremiah that the judgment was coming and it was certain—at that point it was unavoidable. God had repeatedly warned the people by revealing His truth through the various prophets, and He had told the people of Israel and Judah to look for the ancient paths that God provided (Jeremiah 6:16). Sadly, the people did not heed those exhortations and instead turned away from what God had said—they rejected those ancient paths and instead walked a path deserving of and ultimately receiving judgment from God— at the hands of the Babylonians.”

—Got Questions. Com

We are repeating a pattern here. We often wonder why Babylon 2.0 will fall harder than the first one— because we did not heed God, nor his Spirit’s instruction, nor the ‘ancient paths.’

We are to LEARN from the ancient paths, the ancient principles God has put into play— if not— we are destined to repeat them: hence, the fall of Babylon 2.0, in the book of Revelation.

For the fall of Babylon is relative to the dismissal, refusal and rejection of living according to the lead of the Holy Spirit, by his law, and by his conduct— and instead— according to the flesh.

The flesh— HATES THE LAW CONDUCT OF GOD and HIS PATHS OF HOLINESS and RIGHTEOUSNESS; and will talk terribly about the Law of God, and the Law of the Spirit and LIFE— because it is ENEMY of it.

The children of God LOVE the paths of righteousness, the ancient paths— and see the beauty in God and his holiness, and the paths of his conduct and character; and they seek to attain it again, in and through Christ— returning to the image of the Father.

The old law is not something to be shunned and detested— but appreciated, learned from and respected; not lived under, but upheld in Christ— meaning, honor it, through Christ.

He gave it to us for a reason— to learn of God, his ways, his conduct, and why it is to be cherished (his ways and conduct); for he will be returning us to all of that.

In heaven, and the New Earth— we too, will— WALK OUT PERFECTION OF THE LAW AND CONDUCT OF GOD HOLY.

We ought to see the beauty in the old and ancient paths, for we too— will adhere to them, flawlessly, as Christ the first ‘son’ shows us.

I love the law.

I seek not to live by the ‘letter of it,’ for that kills— meaning, we will fall short, and fail— and be estranged from God forever if we try to live it out perfectly: hence our need for Christ, and reliance upon God.

But instead— to honor it, respect it, cherish it— as Christ conducted his WHOLE PERSON according to it, as he walked this earth.

Ought that not be noted as WORTHY, and IMPORTANT— when the very conduct of Christ’s inner person— was subject willingly to it, and he is the ULTIMATE AUTHORITY OF LOVE and OBEDIENCE to the Father.

Nothing is by accident or frivolous— where God is concerned.

The Law is the same; God upholds the law— he is law abiding; and we are too— if we live in and with him, and his Spirit indwells us, and writes those laws of conduct on our hearts.

We should love and cherish the law; not try to live it out perfectly— but see the value in it: Christ did, and does still yet.

And we are in him, and his law— is written in our hearts.

“It is WRITTEN!”

Romans 8:14

“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.”

And sons of God— love God; and in loving him, obey his commandments, as they find value in them, and IN HIM: the Law and the leading of the Spirit, and of LIFE → in Christ Jesus.