Will you accept that God’s son paid for your sins and that Jesus’ payment has completely satisfied God’s justice where all of those sins are concerned or will you continue to hold on to the notion that you have insufficient sins to warrant Jesus’ death in the first place. Or equally as dangerous, the religious notion that Jesus’ shed blood was insufficient to have fully satisfied God where your sins are concerned, thus the continual need for something further required of you to keep God’s justice up to date. The only reason God could say through Paul, “Grace and Peace be unto you” is because his son fully paid the price. Faith doesn’t come in gallons and tons. Faith isn’t something “do I have enough faith, have I believed firmly enough?” Faith is simply taking your stand where God takes his stand. Do you awake every morning of your life with the security you have in the Savior, having your identity in him having believed Paul’s good news?
You see, the Law of Moses had a relationship claim on every member of the human race. If the law has a rightful claim on you, God cannot have a rightful claim on you. If the Savior has a rightful claim on you, the law has no rightful claim on you whatsoever. The human race is dead to law keeping for righteousness. They are dead to a law keeping for righteousness relationship and that relationship is gone forever. Jesus took it out of the way. When Israel’s New Covenant comes into play, they will be caused to know Jesus, they will all know him to the least to the greatest. Paul was striving to know the Savior and know him intimately, not as Israel’s messiah, but to know him in the power of his resurrection and in the fellowship of his suffering. Paul wanted Jesus’ life to be manifest in his own life.
You see, the Law of Moses had a relationship claim on every member of the human race. If the law has a rightful claim on you, God cannot have a rightful claim on you. If the Savior has a rightful claim on you, the law has no rightful claim on you whatsoever. The human race is dead to law keeping for righteousness. They are dead to a law keeping for righteousness relationship and that relationship is gone forever. Jesus took it out of the way. When Israel’s New Covenant comes into play, they will be caused to know Jesus, they will all know him to the least to the greatest. Paul was striving to know the Savior and know him intimately, not as Israel’s messiah, but to know him in the power of his resurrection and in the fellowship of his suffering. Paul wanted Jesus’ life to be manifest in his own life.