The Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus [Rom 8:1] condemns you to eternal life!
When I was first considering this, I was thinking that I could somehow describe our liberation in Jesus Christ by pitting one set of laws against another. But, all you get when you pit law against law is…yep, you guessed it; law. So, why does the miraculous exchange between sinner and Savior, the transformation from sinner to saint, bear the same description of the holy tool used to condemn us? Who knows? Perhaps it is similar to our laws of the land, which are never actually erased or stricken from the books but instead are altered and amended by later statutes used to correct and redress errors. The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution outlawed alcohol in the United States during the period we call Prohibition. Yet, when it came time to remove the penalties of that law, it wasn’t removed as an amendment, it was changed; repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. In the same way, Jesus has amended, by the legislation of His death and resurrection, the Law of Moses & the Ten Commandments, that instead of punishment we should be awarded eternal life, His life, as a token of His mercy and evidence of His grace.
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