tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29606082.post7410783874031138636..comments2023-10-03T06:25:41.357-05:00Comments on Grace Roots Blog: Incorrect sayings from a man after God's own heart...Joel Bruesekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10395847887953875757noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29606082.post-29493563524470167932012-04-29T21:44:18.245-05:002012-04-29T21:44:18.245-05:00Thanks Jake. These are things that I have struggl...Thanks Jake. These are things that I have struggled with, or at least questioned, throughout the years, and it really helps to have a view of the scriptures as a whole - especially what is revealed in the New Covenant - in order to really begin to shed light on all of this.Joel Bruesekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10395847887953875757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29606082.post-60779233421181581332012-04-26T14:55:32.895-05:002012-04-26T14:55:32.895-05:00Thanks for this post Joel. It helps answer some o...Thanks for this post Joel. It helps answer some oft asked questions (as you mentioned in the original post)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10029936157431201802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29606082.post-68896685901261494852012-04-26T13:10:43.195-05:002012-04-26T13:10:43.195-05:00So indeed, if it's in the Bible, it's &quo...So indeed, if it's in the Bible, it's "true," but it's only true in the sense that God meant it to be true. In the case of the law, God intentionally gave the law as the ministry of death and condemnation. David thought he could find life and righteousness and fruit in the law, but it only produced quite the opposite. While David had somewhat of an understanding of God's grace, if he'd fully known and understood the gospel as Paul (who referred to himself as a "Hebrew of Hebrews" and as "blameless" according to the law), he would have also realized that he had to die to the law in order to be found in Christ alone.Joel Bruesekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10395847887953875757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29606082.post-46525218497051712792012-04-26T13:07:04.384-05:002012-04-26T13:07:04.384-05:00David was not talking about the law of love. Davi...David was not talking about the law of love. David was talking about the law that Paul would later come to find out to be the ministry of death and condemnation (2 Cor 3:7-9). The fruit of the law that David was talking about, as Paul would later come to find out, is death, condemnation, bondage, guilt and sin.<br /><br />As I mentioned in this post:<br /><br />Rom 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. (See also verses 8-11, in which Paul says that the Law, which he thought was to bring life, actually brought death, and see 2 Cor. 3:7-10 in which Paul calls the Law the ministry of death and the ministry of condemnation).<br /><br />Paul came to find out that he had to be <i>freed</i> from the law in order to truly walk according to the Spirit of the Life of Jesus Christ.Joel Bruesekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10395847887953875757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29606082.post-51485242911259430422012-04-26T08:59:28.134-05:002012-04-26T08:59:28.134-05:00If it is in the bible it is true.
David was showi...If it is in the bible it is true. <br />David was showing two things here, the law that would set him free is the law of love, and that no matter how much we want to, we cannot fulfill it depart from His strength. <br />All we do now is by the power of the spirit. Fruits of the same.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com