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Rom 7:22

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

It is the inward man that receives the Testimony of the Gospel, which is also God's Spiritual Law. Now there are some scriptures that allude to the gospel being God's law.

I believe the Gospel is meant by law here Ps 19:7-8

7 The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

8 The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

The Law as the Ten Commandments were not for the purpose of converting the soul, that is Gospel Work, the Power of God unto Salvation to everyone that is believing.

I believe the Gospel is meant by Law here Isa 2:3

3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

The Gospel of God is Spiritual, even the Law is Spiritual Rom 7:14

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

The New Covenant Ministry is a ministration of the Spirit 2 Cor 3:4-8

4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:

5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:

8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?

When speaking of the ministration of the Gospel, its called spiritual things as Per Rom 15:27

It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.


1 Cor 2:13

Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

1 Cor 9:11

If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?

The spiritual things means the Gospel

These things can only be received and embraced by those who are spiritual.

A spiritually dead man cannot receive Savingly and spiritually, the spiritual gospel, but it is received by the inward man, which is the New Creation that can and does serve the Law of God !

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Isa 53:6

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him[Christ] the iniquity of us all.

The Lord hath laid or cause to meet on Him Christ, the iniquity of us [ The Sheep] all. Now any to whom this may be True of, be it known that, though they may have not known it, and presently may not know it, they have a full acquittal of all their iniquities Ps 32:2, so blessed are they whom for Christ's Sake, God will not impute iniquity to their charge. There can never be in this world, and the one to come any charge of sin upon them ! Thats why Paul writes " Who shall lay any charge of any sin against God's Elect ? God certainly doesn't ! Rom 8:33

33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

Folks God has never Laid a Charge of sin to His Elect ! Because He lad them all on Christ !

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Who is it that the Resurrection of Christ gives a New Birth to ? It is none other but those written to in the letter, the Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father 1 Pet 1:1-2

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

Which are the same as these sanctified by Him Jude 1:1

Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:

To these Peter says 1 Pet 1:3

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

This applies only to God's Elect !

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Acts 13:32-33

32 And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,

33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.

The same Divine act that begat, the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Head of the Election of Grace, Resurrection, also begets all His members, His Generation, His Seed, His Church. For Christ was begotten from the Dead by His Resurrection ? Scripture also states that those Christ died for are begotten again by the Resurrection of Christ from the Dead 1 Pet 1:3

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

His Resurrection as the Son of God, was their Resurrection, for He rose as the Representative Shepherd of the Sheep Heb 13:20

20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,

Folks, Jesus Christ resurrection from the dead, validated the Justification of all for whom He died Rom 4:25 and it ensures their New Birth as proof of their Justification to life 1 Pet 1:3

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The Resurrection from the Dead of Christ, is also the Redemption of the Church from under the law, for it was for the cause of the Church that Christ was made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them [His Seed and Church] that were under the Law in Adam !

Gal 4:4-6

4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

This is not the moasic law, for Paul is writing to both jew and gentile believers here, so the Law here is that which was first given to Adam in its condensed form !

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Rom 8:9

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

This means that any persons before being born spiritually by New Birth, and having had Christ revealed to them and His Righteousness on their behalf, that person has no right to say he or she belongs to Christ, yes even the elect, who have been chosen in Christ, and redeemed by Him, yet being not yet born again by the Spirit, is yet in darkness, but after New Birth, and so by the Spirit, he can confess Jesus as Lord, his Lord 1 Cor 12:3. Faith in Christ, and Believing His Gospel are evidences of one being in a Born Again, Born anew state !

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Good works of men, morality can easily become the enemy of the cross of Christ ! Now are good works relevant in the believers life or walk ? Yes in deed, for Paul admonishes Believers of the value and importance of good works here in Titus 3:8, and besides that, the New Creation Shall walk in Good Works Eph 2:10

10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Notice, the New Creation will walk in good works, not the flesh or that which is born of the Flesh Jn 3:5-6

6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

However, there is that which makes good works or morality the enmity and rival of the Cross, and that is when we make good works such as our act of believing, repentance, keeping of ordinances, as necessary unto Salvation by way of causative. When we believe that God by them and because of them, He is pleased to save us. In this way of thinking, Christ's Cross Work is denied sole authorship of the saved ones Salvation, it is no longer He that effects it and conversion to God. Christ's Death is what effects conversion to God, it being the fruit of His Death Jn 12:24

24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. The word fruit here means:

the fruit of one's loins, i.e. his progeny, his posterity

That's Christ offspring from His Death, spoken of by the Prophet Isaiah 53:10

10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

This word seed here is also translated fruitful in the OT Ezk 17:5

In this then, good works become the enemy of the Cross, because they are deeds we do in the flesh, not from the New Birth, that we rely on to cause us to be accepted of God !

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When we trust in good works to find our acceptance with God, be it our believing or whatever, Good works becomes the enemy to the Cross. For it is not by works of Righteousness which we have done, that is not of any effort of ours, no right deeds or acts of ours, no right deeds or acts of ours, such as belief, repentance, water baptism, going to church after turning over a new lease in life, none of that saves a man, but only by God's Sovereign Mercy, which gives a New Birth, a Regeneration, 1 Pet 1:3

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

This being begotten again from the Dead , which equals New Birth or Regeneration, this is what saved us according to Titus 3:5

5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

This washing of Regeneration and renewing of the Hoy Ghost equals New Birth, that is what saved us !

Paul says the same thing in this fashion Eph 2:5

Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved )

But Peter says it's Mercy 1 Pet 1:3

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The True Christian is comprised of Two Two Men, in one twofold character .

He is born of a man that is born of the flesh or corruptible seed Jn 3:6

6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

1 Pet 1:23

23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

He is also born of the Spirit and incorruptible seed ! He is a old man and a new man all in one !

Each man is out of different respective Heads, that they previously existed in, one head being adam, the corruptible seed, the other being Christ the incorruptible seed, the Logos of God !

The Believer is made up of the old man and the new man ! Eph 4:22-24

22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

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A work is any deed we do, whether it be physical or mental. In other words, a lust in the mind is just as much a deed of the flesh or work of the flesh as physical fornication, its a mental deed ! Gal 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

This word works, is the same word used in Eph 2:9 where it reads Eph 2:9

Not of works, lest any man should boast.

This is important because things we do with our mind are considered works. Lasciviousness is lust, which we do with the mind or heart , and its a work !

So likewise, faith and or believing is done with the mind and or heart and so its also a work !

So those of you who claim to be saved from your sins because you believed in your heart, then you are claiming salvation by your works; and since many believe that regeneration comes after faith or believing, then you are claiming salvation by the work of the flesh , your human faith from the flesh of you !

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1 Jn 4:2-3

2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

2 Jn 1:7

For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

When scripture speaks concerning Christ having come in the flesh, it cannot be overlooked that when He did, He only took on the seed of Abraham, meaning a Chosen Elect People ! Heb 2:14-17

14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

16 For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.

17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

Made Like unto His Brethren here are not ethnic jews, but His Spiritual brethren Rom 8:29

For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

An elect brethren , set apart brethren from all other people groups of the earth. So His incarnation was not the identification with everyone without exception, but only a chosen segment, so should we understand 1 Jn 4:1-2 !

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Heb 10:7-10

7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

Ps 40:8

8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.


Christ's Obedience to the law was perfect and it was for and in the place of all for whom He lived and died, they having a Vital Union with Him; that is what Paul is teaching in Rom 5:12ff For all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God Rom 3:23, which occurred in God's Reckoning here Rom 5:12 !

This tells us that the Transgression of God's Law by this one entity [Adam] effected Death in sin to all who were in a Vital Union with Him from God's perspective. The sin of adam or his disobedience Rom 5:18 Legally constituted in him was the embodiment of all his Natural family, guilty of Transgression.

Now he [Adam] was a figure or type of Him to come, So Christ when He came in the flesh, was made like unto His Brethren, taking on the seed of Abraham, He was the embodiment of all His Spiritual seed, or Family, and therefore in virtue of this Vital Union they had with Christ, they receive all the blessings, His Obedience and Law keeping deserves, and that is Eternal Life as per Rom 2:7,10 !

Now everyone Christ lived and died for, are the ones who keep the commandments of God as per Rev 14:12

12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

For God given Faith reveals to them that they keep the commandments of God, not in themselves, but through the Work of Christ, and His Law Keeping imputed to them, His Active law Keeping obedience while He lived upon the earth, and through Him they have kept every Law of God Perfectly, as Christ did. Remember the young mans question ? Matt 19:16

16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?

Jesus responded Matt 19:17

17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

Yes, everyone Christ died for, has kept the commandments, and they all shall enter into Life.

Jesus will say to them all, based solely upon His Finished work, and His obedience to the Law Matt 25:34

34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

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Everyone created in Adam in the beginning is redeemed by Christ, hence those correlating statements in Rom 5:15-19 perfectly complement one another in giving the effects of the act of each head, adam the natural federal head of the Elect, and Christ the Spiritual Federal Head of the Elect. Those that are excluded from Christ's redemption are not any of the seed of adam, but those of the seed of the serpent, the children of the wicked one have no redemption through Christ. Gen 3:15

15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Matt 13:38

The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;

In the greek it is oi uioi tou ponhrou

The sons of the wicked. Sons here means :

in a wider sense, a descendant, one of the posterity of any one,

That the serpent[The wicked one] had a posterity given him is declared in God's words to him Gen 3:14-15

14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent or the devil, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

The word seed means offspring, descendants, posterity, children

So the sons of the wicked one were not created in Adam in the beginning but in the serpent !

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Rom 8:29-30

29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

When are the saints actually glorified ? Most will admit that the saint or believer has been predestinated in the past, called past, Justified past, Glorified future ! However, even though there is a most glorious experience of Glorification awaiting the Believer, and a manifestation of the same, that truth no way detracts from the Glorification the Believer now possesses. The word glorified is the greek word doxazō

think, suppose, be of opinion

2) to praise, extol, magnify, celebrate

3) to honour, do honour to, hold in honour

4) to make glorious, adorn with lustre, clothe with splendour

a) to impart glory to something, render it excellent

b) to make renowned, render illustrious

1) to cause the dignity and worth of some person or thing to become manifest and acknowledged

It means honored, dignified, exalted to Glory. It is written Lk 17:15

15 And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,

Yes a grateful leper glorified God. It is said that men shall see your good works and Glorify your Father which is in Heaven Matt 5:16 ! Now lets look at 1 Pet 4:14

14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

The believer is Glorified now because of the Spirits prescience with them and in them, even Christ, Christ in them the hope of Glory. The Believer is Glorified by reason of their sufferings and reproaches for Christ's sake. And it is given by God, not only to believe on Christ but also to suffer for Christ's Sake Phil 1:29

29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

Rom 8:17

And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

Also, Christ's Glorification began when He was raised from the dead, and so was all His Members that He represented, and they were made to sit down together in heavenly places Eph 2:5-6

5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved )

6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

Yes, even that is a present glorification of all for whom Christ died ! So Glorification is just like Salvation, or Justification, an aspect of it is experienced in this Life, and there is yet a future aspect of Salvation, Glorification, Justification and Redemption; For the Believer has been redeemed, and yet looks forward to the day of redemption, the Redemption of the Body, which is also Glorification !

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1 Jn 4:19

We [True Believers] love him, because he first loved us.

There is not True Love to God from a person, not until that person has had it revealed to them by the Spirit, God's Eternal Love for them in choosing them in Christ before the foundation, Christ redeeming them from sin by His precious blood, and then calling them by His Grace, until then, all supposedly obedience to God and Love to Him is nothing but unacceptable dead works from the flesh of men dead in sin !