The Law and The Promise

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us. In addition he redeemed us in order that the blessing placed on Abraham and Israel will now be passed on to us. When we place our faith in the Lord Jesus by believing that He took our place on the cross of Calvary and paid the penalty for our sins, we are made perfect in God's sight as if we had kept the entire Law.

God in his grace gave the Law to Abraham because our continual transgressions (sins) grieved the Lord, who cannot look upon it without exacting punishment. The Law was supposed to last only until the promised Seed of Abraham--Jesus Christ was come. Through faith, all who placed their belief in him will be justified as if they kept the entire Law. So we are no longer under the Law. Through faith in God's grace we are saved by believing in the perfect sacrifice of Jesus Christ who kept the entire Law. In Christ we become one and heirs according to God's promise to Abraham.

Galatians 4 v. 4-6 states that when the time was fully come, God sent His Son...born of a woman, born under the Law, to redeem those who were under the Law. Therefore we can receive the full rights of a son or daughter, and God looks at us as if we kept the entire Law...as if we never sinned. God sent the spirit of His Son into our hearts and now we are the children of the King and joint heirs of God's promise to Abraham.

The Law was added because of our sin and disobedience. Christ died after keeping the entire Law--something that God commanded us to do, but we were unable to do. Christ paid the full price to save the world from Hell and now all we have to do is accept what was done and believe in our hearts that Christ did it all for us. Then, by God's grace, we are saved through faith alone...no works or anything else is required. Nothing that we can do will make us acceptable since God refers to our "good works" as "filthy rags." Spiritually we were dead, but after we place our faith in Jesus, we are made alive. Through faith we are justified and we are no longer under the Law, we are in Christ and Christ in us.

Romans Chapter 6: Dead to sin, alive with Christ

When someone asks how the dead will be raised and what kind of body we will be getting, they should be informed that Christ has explained in His Word that God will give us a new body. Human beings have a very different type of body from the animals, fish, birds, and plants. The human body is the only body that will live on eternally, while the other bodies will not.

When Jesus Christ returns to take us to heaven, we will receive a new body. Whether we are alive at the time of his coming or dead, we will both receive a similar type of body.

In Christ we are all made alive. What we sow doesn't come to life unless it dies. Just as a seed of wheat or corn dies in order to become a fruitful plant. The body that is sown is perishable but when it is raised it will never perish. When this new body comes to life it will be an eternal, spiritual body.

However we shall not all sleep...or die. But we shall all still be changed in the twinkling of an eye--so fast that a human blinking will miss it. At the sound of the last trumpet, the dead will be raised and we will all enter heaven changed.

Thanks be to God. He gives us the victory.