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1 Timothy 1:8 We know that the law is good if one uses it properly. 9 We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, 10 for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine 11 that conforms to the gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.
If you mind your p's and q's then Paul says the law is good. It gives us a framework to work from just as the 10 commandments did in the beginning.
One of the commentaries that I generally look at says this.
False teachers are lawbreakers, who, without necessarily personally committing the sins listed here, become responsible for such sins by causing others to misunderstand or ignore God's moral demands.
To me this means that they were spending so much time telling people what not to do, they were missing the Love that our Lord Jesus Christ stressed.
Another commentary says this.
Whatever tends to weaken love to God, or love to the brethren, tends to defeat the end of the commandment. The design of the gospel is answered, when sinners, through repentance towards God and faith in Jesus Christ, are brought to exercise Christian love. And as believers were righteous persons in God's appointed way, the law was not against them. But unless we are made righteous by faith in Christ, really repenting and forsaking sin, we are yet under the curse of the law, even according to the gospel of the blessed God, and are unfit to share the holy happiness of heaven.
I think this speaks to the "I'll get right first" attitude. How many people do you know who think that they aren't worthy to be Christians? They drink too much or they smoke too much or they cuss to much. They are waiting until they can get rid of these problems on their own before they give their lives to Jesus.
Just a note.... I start back on chemo today.
A lot of you are praying that the Lord helps me beat cancer. The chemo is part of the answer to those prayers.
While the chemo is doing its work, I may be sick or have what is called chemo brain. When I get chemo brain I really have problems doing things like studying and using a keyboard.
I'm going to pray that I am able to get up and keep these verses going every morning. If I'm fighting chemo brain and I don't get up with a mind working well enough to use the keyboard.... know that I am healing and that too is an answer to prayers.
Thank you for keeping me in your prayers.
Becky