The law is not for the righteous

knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, - 1 Timothy 1v9

The Law is a fascinating topic. For most of my Christian life I was taught and believed that the Law still had some kind of power over the believer. I have read some things and talked to some who think that the Law is divided into two parts and that we are free from part of it and bound by part of it. I still don’t understand that concept.

Praise God that the Law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, but now that I am in Christ I have no further need of the Law. Praise God for the truth of 1 Timothy 1v9 – ‘The Law is not made for the righteous person.’ As His children believers are declared righteous in Christ. Christ is our righteousness; therefore the Law is not for us!

P.P. Bliss captured the joy of this marvellous truth:

‘Free from the law,Oh happy condition,Jesus has bledAnd there is remission,Curs'd by the lawAnd bruised by the fall,Grace hath redeemed usOnce for all.’

I am concerned about the ‘law binders’ who seek to contain God’s children by insisting on maintaining the Law. That teaching will rob us of living in God’s grace. .

We have a new law; it is called the law of faith, the law of God according to the inward man, the law of the Spirit of life, the law of Christ, and the law of liberty.

Indeed, with can sing together with Bliss; ‘Free from the Law, oh happy condition!’