The Lord Jesus Christ and the Apostle
Paul reveals an important key that
unlocks our understanding about how
the cross takes away our sin. The
fulfillment of Old Testament Law and
its removal was always at the center
of God's redemptive plan.

Let's now take a look at why this is
so vitally important.

"And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,

Having wiped out the handwriting of
the requirements that was against us
(Old Testament Law), which was
contrary to us. And He has taken
it out of the way, having nailed
it to the cross."
(Colossians 2:13-14)

"For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law." (Romans 5:13)


"The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." (1 Corinthians 15:56-57)


"For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if those who are of the Law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise made of no effect, because the law brings about wrath (or judgment);

For where there is no Law there
is no transgression (or sin).

Therefore it is of faith that it might be
according to grace ...
(Romans 4:13-16 - Emphasis Added)

"And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of the requirements that was against us (the Law), which was contrary to us. And He (Jesus) has taken it (the Law) out of the way, having nailed it to the cross." (Colossians 2:13-14 – Emphasis Added)

"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God: For if righteousness come by the Law, then Christ is dead in vain. (the word ‘vain’ means that Christ’s death becomes meaningless)." (Galatians 2:20-21 Emphasis Added)

"But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin." (1 John 1:7)

"For sin shall not have dominion
over you: for ye are not under the
the law, but under grace."
(Romans 6:14)

In other words, sin no longer has the
Power to condemn and send the believer
to hell because the cross of Christ
took the Law that gave sin its power
permanently out of the way.

(God is speaking) "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. (Ezekiel 36:26-27)

"What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s." (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)


"But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you." (Words of Saint Paul from Romans 8:11)

FIRST AREA:

"For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast." (Ephesians 2:8-9)

"For God's gifts and His call are irrevocable. [He never withdraws them when once they are given, and He does not change His mind about those to whom He gives His grace or to whom He sends His call.]" (Romans 11:29 Amplified Bible)

SECOND AREA:

THIRD AREA:

"But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He (Jesus) is also mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises. For if that FIRST COVENANT had been faultless, then no place would have been sought FOR A SECOND." (Hebrews 8:6-7)


"In that He (Jesus Christ) says, "a New Covenant," He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away." (Hebrews 8:13)


"For the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus (the New Covenant) has made me free from the Law of sin and death (the Old Testament Law of Moses). For what the Law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us (or imputed to us) who do not walk according to the flesh (or trying to achieve salvation through good works, personal merit or religious performance) but according to the Spirit (or faith in the finished work of Christ that does not require these meritorious works)." (Romans 8:2-4 - Emphasis and Comments Added)


"Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh—who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands—that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, Having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the Law of Commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father. Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit." (Ephesians 2:11-22 - Emphasis Added)


"And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of the requirements that was against us (the Law), which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross." (Colossians 2:13-14)


"For sin shall not have dominion over you: For ye are not under the Law, but under Grace." (Romans 6:14)

The change produced by the cross of
Christ was part of God's overall
redemptive plan and did not represent
some arbitrary change of mind.

"Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of teh simple (or the spiritually inexperienced)." (Romans 16:18 - Emphasis Added)


"I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the Grace of Christ, to a different gospel, which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed." (Galatians 1:6-8 - Emphasis Added)

Where does the misleading and
dominant religious agenda,
which opposes the changes
brought about by Christ's New
Covenant come from?

“In contrast to Reformed theology is Dispensationalism. Dispensationalism says that to find the believer’s rule of life you must go not to Mount Sinai, but to Mount Calvary. Mount Sinai is powerless to justify a person and Mount Sinai is also powerless to sanctify a person. The law is not the believer’s rule of life. Something else is. The Scofield Bible states this position very clearly: The test of the gospel is grace. If the message excludes Grace, or mingles Law with Grace as the means of justification or sanctification, or denies the fact or guilt of sin which alone gives Grace its occasion and opportunity, it is 'another' gospel, and the preacher of it is under the anathema of God."

[From "Footnote #6" in the SCOFIELD REFERENCE BIBLE under Galatians 1:6 - Emphasis Added.]


“Most of us have been reared and now live under the influence of Galatianism. Protestant theology is for the most part thoroughly Galatianized, in that neither the law or grace is given its distinct and separate place as in the counsels of God, but they are mingled together in one incoherent system. The law is no longer, as in the divine intent, a ministration of death (2 Cor. 3:7), of cursing (Gal. 3:10), or conviction (Rom. 3:19), because we are taught that we must try to keep it, and that by divine help we may. Nor does grace, on the other hand, bring us blessed deliverance from the dominion of sin, for we are kept under the law as a rule of life despite the plain declaration of Romans 6:14.”

-- C.I. Scofield --

"There is a way that seemeth right
unto a man, but the end thereof are
the ways of death."

"You have become estranged (separated-
cutoff-alienated) from Christ, you
who attempt to be justified by law;
you have fallen from Grace."
(Galatians 5:4 - Emphasis Added; Also
Read Galatians 3:10-12)