John 1:16 (Amplified) tells us, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received, all had a share and were all supplied with, one Grace after another and Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing and even favor heaped upon favor and Gift heaped upon Gift."
We spoke previously about coming from one country to another country. If you're coming from Ireland, where they drive on the left side of the road, then when you drive in America, you must drive on the right side of the road, because that's our law. You're no longer in Ireland, so you're not breaking their law. When you've been set free from the Law of Sin and Death, you're no longer under that Law, even though that Law is still valid. You've been removed from the place that Law reigns and you're now in a higher place where the Law of Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus. God didn't do away with the Law of Sin and Death, but He superseded it with a Higher Law.
The Law of Gravity is in full effect on the earth, but we've superseded that Law with the Laws of Thrust and Lift and we can fly. This is what happened in the life of the Christian. God's way of doing and being right has superseded the laws that govern natural man. The Laws that govern the Kingdom are Laws that protect and uphold the righteous.
Ignorance of the laws cannot protect you, even though they're meant to do just that. If you ignorantly or stubbornly ignore the laws of America's roads and drive on the left side of the road, then the laws of Ireland wouldn't protect you. You would either be ticketed, fined or arrested for driving on the left side of the road here, because these laws were established to protect you and other drivers. We've been ignorant of God's way of doing and being right for a long time, which has led to our being in violation of them and their inability to protect us.
Many have focused solely on the things of the flesh and have ignored the things of the Spirit. We are to abstain from the sins of the flesh, but we're to govern our lives by the Spirit, according to Romans 8:1-2 (Amplified) which says, "Therefore, there is now no condemnation, no adjudging guilty of wrong for those who are in Christ Jesus; who live and walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit For while the Law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus, the Law of our new being, has freed me from the Law of Sin and of Death."
This is the Law of our new being. We're now citizens of a different Kingdom and the Laws of that Kingdom protect us while we're here on earth. It's not you who is wrong, but this realm that is wrong. These Laws or God's way of doing and being right, supersede the laws of this world and if we walk in them, then the Law of Sin and Death has no hold on us. If we allow the flesh to dictate to you, then it will convince you that you're only "just human and still an old sinner." If you allow the Spirit to dictate to you, then He will tell you who you really are. In America today, we still hold onto our origin and national past. We are Spanish Americans, African Americans, Italian Americans, Chinese Americans and so forth. We have a difficult time breaking the old nature, in which we were born.
America remains divided, because we cling to these old identities, instead of realizing we're all Americans. The Word says, "A house divided cannot stand." We're more faithful to our own cultures, than to the nation. Satan uses the same principle that keeps America divided, to keep the Laws of the Kingdom from protecting and functioning for us here.
The Church has had an identity crisis for a long time. We're torn between the weakness of the flesh and the strength of the Spirit. We've centered more on the dictates of the flesh and have identified with it, which prevents the new Law from working.
If the person from Ireland comes to America and continues driving on the wrong side of the road, then that person will constantly be in trouble. The laws or rules of the road don't work to his/her advantage or protection. We must make up our minds, which laws are right. If God's Word doesn't work for someone else, doesn't mean His Word isn't true. God's Word is more True, than someone's testimony. It's not true, because someone said so. It's Spirit and Truth, because God said so.
We can drive on the correct side of the road or we can ignore the laws. If you drive on the wrong side of the road and crash your car, then it's not someone else's fault. It's not America's job to change the law for you, but it's your job to change your way of driving. If you refuse to follow America's law of driving on the right side of the road, then it could result in a crash, ticket, revoking of your driver's license or the death or others and yourself. You must either change your way of doing or stop driving.
Many believers have stopped driving and let someone else do their driving, but this isn't the answer. This leads to you're being unable to go anywhere, unless someone can drive you. 1John 2:7-8, 9-10 (Amplified) says, "Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the Message which you have heard, the doctrine of salvation through Christ. Yet I am writing you a new commandment, which is True, is realized in Him and in you, because the darkness (moral blindness) is clearing away and the True Light (the Revelation of God in Christ) is already shining."
John continues in Verse 9, telling us what happens when we're driving on the wrong side of the road. Thus, he writes, "Whoever says he is in the Light and yet hates his brother Christian (born-again child of God his Father), is in darkness even until now."
John writes about being on the right side of the road in Verse 10 saying, "Whoever loves his brother believer abides (lives) in the Light, and in it or in Him there is no occasion for stumbling or cause for error or sin."
The Cardinal Law is there to protect us and uphold us in this realm of our lives. When we obey that Law, we fulfill all the other Laws. The first Law that must be fulfilled is, "Seek first the Kingdom of God and His way of doing and being right." We must learn to love not only God, but obey His way of doing and being right. If we don't do that, then our love isn't real, but is manufactured by religion.
When we continue trying to live by the Law of Moses, then we nullify and make the Laws of the Kingdom void. The Law of Moses is works, not Grace. When we try living under the Laws of Moses, then we're driving on the wrong side of the road. When we live under the Law, then we negate the Law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus and set ourselves up for failure, condemnation and guilt. No man has ever fulfilled the Law of Moses, except Jesus.
Jesus told us in Matthew 5:17 (Amplified), "Do not think that I have come to do away with or undo the Law or the prophets; I have come not to do away with or undo, but to complete and fulfill them." If you are in Christ Jesus, then God views you as having completed and fulfilled the Law too. If you continue trying to fulfill the Law on your own, then you're placing yourself under the Curse of the Law too, because you're unable to fulfill the Law on your own. Trying to live under the Law, is like driving on the wrong side of the road and will lead to wrecks, revoking of your license, or worse. It's not because "God did it," but because we ignored the new Kingdom Laws of which we're now from. The Law of Moses is still a law and it still works, but we must learn to follow the Law of our new being. In it we will find Blessing, if we get on the right side of the road.
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