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Galatians 5:25
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

People of God, although these Scriptures are familiar to the saints, few
comprehend what a radical change they imply. Man had never been a dwelling place
for the Spirit of God until Christ sent forth His Spirit. Beginning at the first Pentecost
of the body of Christ, the saints have had the Word of God abiding within them.
Seeing that the Spirit was sent to displace the Law in its role of making known
the will of the Father, what did Paul mean when he wrote the following:

Romans 3:31
Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary,
we establish the law.

This is a passage that many cite when they advocate a continuance of the Law.
In this book we have looked at dozens of statements from the apostle Paul. These
declarations plainly proclaim that the Law has no jurisdiction over those who are in
Christ that we have died to the Law, that the Law was “until Christ.” Therefore, Paul’s
words here cannot be interpreted to mean just the opposite. Yahweh is not a God of
confusion.
Paul declares that the Law is not made void by faith. Christ said He did not come
to abolish the Law, but to fulfill it. Faith recognizes that the Law had to be fulfilled.
Faith declares that it was fulfilled in Christ. Faith furthermore instructs us that we
were in Christ, and through our union with Him we have also fulfilled the righteous
requirements of the Law. Finally, faith tells us that when Christ died, we died, setting
us free from the Law that we might walk in newness of the Spirit.
Paul did not invalidate the Law. He did, however, reveal its proper place and
application.

I Timothy 1:8-9
But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully, knowing this: that the
law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless...

Praise God, our faith informs us that we are righteous.

II Corinthians 5:21
For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the
righteousness of God in Him.

Philippians 3:8-9
That I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness,
which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the