06/12/2019
Galatians 2:17-18 But suppose we seek to be made right with God through faith in Christ and then we are found guilty because we have abandoned the law. Would that mean Christ has led us into sin? Absolutely not! Rather, I am a sinner if I rebuild the old system of law I already tore down.
let me give my view about this verse.
Concerning the "Guilty" in verse 17 :-
It's so common to feel condemned when one is transitioning from the Law to Grace, and this is true of everyone. The only way to overcome this condemnation is to be Righteously conscious which is recieved as agift through faith alone.
You must always remind yourself this truth about how you became a sinner, "I was a sinner not because i sinned(bad acts) but sinned simply because of Adams Sin.
Do you realise that, it is not my bad acts that made me a sinner? but it was the law that taught me the diference between good and bad so that anytime i misbehaved it condemned me.
Likewise even after being saved by grace, it is easy to feel guilty or condemned for doing or not doing certain things, this is as a result of failing to renew the mind with the truth which is the finished work of Jesus on the cross.
Therefore, if somene felt guilty for not obeying the law even after being saved, then this is the only advise i will give:
Learn to be righteously conscious. Just like i earlier showed you how we became Sinners not because of our bad acts but because of one man's Sin(Adam).
In the same exact trend we did not become Righteous because we deed any good act to please God: it was all about God's planning, God's doing and God's gift to you and me.
Therefore whenever you feel guilty for not obeying the law remind yourself about how you became righteous before God, boldly declare unto yourself " i am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, not of my own but agift from God", by you saying this in faith the guilt will automatically melt like butter on a sunny day.
Secondly how do you know that am rebuilding the old system you already tore down? That is according to verse 18:
It is as simple as this;
Matthew 13:33 Jesus also used this illustration: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like the yeast a woman used in making bread. Even though she put only a little yeast in three measures of flour, it permeated every part of the dough."
Therefore, anything and i mean anything you do or don't do in order to please God, are the materials you use to build the old broken down system. it is the little yeast the woman added to the dough of bread which destroyed it all.
Brothers and sisters i want to make this clear to everyone. To go back to the law is as dangerous as swallowing poisonous pills, or like putting petroleum gas in a diesel engine car, it corrupts and breakdown the whole system.
By this i mean, going back to the law doesn't necessarily mean only the Ten commandments but even anything you do to please or win favors from God. Eg, planting seed in church and doing all sorts of funny things in the name of pleasing God to do for you something.
It might even seem good and sensible to you and to the worldly point of view but it is going to destroy you. So get rid of it.
Take a step and study this scripture from the MSG version.
Galatians 2:16-20 We know very well that we are not set right with God by rule-keeping but only through personal faith in Jesus Christ.
How do we know? We tried it--and we had the best system of rules the world has ever seen! Convinced that no human being can please God by self-improvement, we believed in Jesus as the Messiah so that we might be set right before God by trusting in the Messiah, not by trying to be good.
If I was "trying to be good," I would be rebuilding the same old barn that I tore down. I would be acting as a charlatan. What actually took place is this: I tried keeping rules and working my head off to please God, and it didn't work.
So I quit being a "law man" so that I could be [God's] man. Christ's life showed me how, and enabled me to do it. I identified myself completely with him. Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God.
Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not "mine," but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I am not going to go back on that. Is it not clear to you that to go back to that old rule-keeping, peer-pleasing religion would be an abandonment of everything personal and free in my relationship with God?
I refuse to do that, to repudiate God's grace. If a living relationship with God could come by rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily.
