LAW? GRACE? or BOTH?
Our covenant as the Bride of Christ is a marriage. As a husband is head of the wife, so Christ is head of the church.Just like when a man takes a wife, the two become one flesh, when Christ takes a wife the two become one Spirit, and through the intimacy of that marriage covenant, seed is sown and fruit is born.
Romans 7:3 So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. 4 Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.
This passage is saying that you are either in covenant with Christ or you are in covenant with the Law, you can't be both or you are an adulteress.
But, does the covenant of the Law even still exist? Hebrews 8:13 says...
In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
When did this old covenant become obsolete? For the answer to this question click the link.
Not a Jot or a Tittle will pass from the Law til...
Romans 7:3 So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. 4 Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.
This passage is saying that you are either in covenant with Christ or you are in covenant with the Law, you can't be both or you are an adulteress.
But, does the covenant of the Law even still exist? Hebrews 8:13 says...
In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
When did this old covenant become obsolete? For the answer to this question click the link.
Not a Jot or a Tittle will pass from the Law til...
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