The Highway Forums General Discussion ExCharisma The LAW of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus

Dear Friends,

Despite the fact that forums can tend to be counter-productive and end up being nothing more than a a shredding session where Christians behave more like the pigs and dogs than gentle lambs but I am obligated to offer the best answer to my own question (in my opening post); namely 'What is the LAW of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus ? (Please excuse the grammar and spelling, it is morning and I still need that cuppa somethin' right? )

The LAW of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.
by Eric J. Sawyer.


Now I am aware that what I am about to write will be less than perfect as it is only a combination of the verses in a sort of a unified consideration, yet I hope that it will be a lightening to the load.

Firstly, it was Jesus who said that we should come unto Him and believe, and both of these factors lead us to a place where we shall never hunger and never thirst. Perhaps a moot point; the Eucharist can never satisfy the eternal longing in the heart for the Spirit of God, which Simeon discovered could not be purchased with money for He is a GIFT.

Secondly, where the Spirit of the Lord is there is LIBERTY. Jesus said, Come unto me ALL ye who are weak and heavy laden and I will give you REST, take my yoke upon me and learn of me, and ye shall find rest to your souls. As the Puritan's have emphasized time and again, all our deepest cries are answered in the Bridegroom. It is the five virgins who trimmed their lamps with that Spirit oil who were ready when the Master returned. We are instructed to be continually filled with the Holy Spirit and this comes about when we ask according to His will and believing we have received not based on any ecstatic feeling or sensation.

Thirdly, (well there were quite a few points above, but nevertheless) let me try to break this down a little more effectively. Each of us has a serious flaw, when we want to do what we know is right, evil is there to make us a slave again to our sinful nature, basically we are quite unable to keep the law of God, even though we have great intentions to do this and will try to turn over a new leaf, start a new chapter and make those resolutions to be a better person, the harder we do try, the more obvious to us it becomes, that though our consciences force us into some pretty amazing religious actions, and noble they may be we cannot fool the Holy Spirit, who convicts us of sin, righteousness and judgment. Sin because we do not believe etc.

Fourthly, the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus is NOT a list of do's and don'ts though yes the law has many, many do's and don'ts and they are summarized in one do, an that is to love our neighbor as our self and we know that faith works by love, and that this world will know we are his disciples because we have love one to another, but remember that the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts quite miraculously by the Holy Spirit. This is how God accomplishes what our consciences cannot all by themselves. He gives us a new heart and mind when we are born again. The idea of waiting in the upper room is not applicable to the believer now, for at the time of coming to faith in Christ we are immediately able to receive the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit sees that He seals us so, writing upon our hearts and minds God's law, and in simple terms Christ is born within us.

Fifthly, clearly Christ is outside us at the point of first light, and then after we have believed on him for salvation, He breathes upon us like He has always done and though the room may not be shaken, the Spirit who he said would be with us, and He is with us till the end of the world, will now be IN US for Christ IN US is the hope of glory.

Finally, many say well look at those Spirit-filled believers they are no different to us, and in one sense they are perfectly right, because we have a swept our clean, and new room, with nice new furniture, and because we are called NEW CREATIONS we are not altogether different in the sense that we are now super-beings, no we are still able to make all the same mistakes we have made before, but the difference now is that there is someone in us, the Captain of our salvation, and when we do sin, we have a new route to take and that is repentance and then forgiveness and washing us clean, and now that we live according to this new life in Jesus Christ, this new law of life, which is actually His Spirit within us, we are changed from glory to glory, and the changes are permanent, and marvelous and liberating and yes we are His peculiar people zealous of righteousness, and though we fall we have a new law within us that picks us up and causes us to walk as He did, to speak as He did, which will one day transform our lowly substance into that of a glorious son or daughter of God.

I think you will find most of what I have written in the Scriptures and probably some of it is all jumbled but it is what has changed my life completely, yes, Jesus Chris the law of the Spirit of life and we are complete in Him, in whom dwelled ALL the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

Amen.