Ch. 4
We Are Called to Holiness
Jesus is calling you to holiness: "work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God which worketh in you.. . that ye may be blameless and harmless (innocent), the sons of God without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world" (Phil. 2:12,13, 15). When we are led by the Spirit of God, we no longer walk after the flesh. We bear a different fruit, the fruit of love which is the nature of God: ... . against such there in no law." (Gal. 5:23)
This is how Christ fulfills the law in us. His Spirit leads us to become DOERS OF THE LAW, because we have a new heart, a pure heart with new fruit, the fruit of love. We no longer break the law, but we fulfill the law.
We are now walking in God's protection and blessings because we love God with all our hearts and our neighbors as ourselves. We have ceased from our own works and have entered into the rest of God. "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death, that THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE LAW MIGHT BE FULFILLED IN US WHO.. ."DO WHAT???
1. Join a religious structure?
2. Find the best doctrine?
3. Manifest a spiritual gift?
4. Do good works for Jesus?
5. Etc., etc., etc.,
NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!
".... that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH, BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT' (Rom. 8:2, 4). "... WALK IN THE SPIRIT, AND YE SHALL NOT FULFILL THE LUST OF THE FLESH... But if ye be LED OF THE SPIRIT, you are NOT UNDER (the judgment of) THE LAW (Gal. 5:16, 18). This is the true Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Those in the true Church are not under the law. They are led by the Spirit of God to put to death the deeds of the flesh, so they can be perfected in love to fulfill the law. This is the Church which can truly say, "We are no longer under the judgment and curses of the law." The false church, which follows a form of godliness, has become a dwelling place of demons because she transgresses the law instead of fulfilling the law of love.