Page 18 - Laying Down the Law

There is a new nature inside, even that of the butterfly, yearning to be free and to be
revealed as a heavenly being. Metamorphosis begins for the people of God at the
moment they have implanted in them this new nature that must arise and come forth
as a spiritual being.

II Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord,
are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the
Spirit of the Lord.

Consider now what the Scriptures testify concerning the role and purpose of the
Law. When Yahweh chose for Himself a peculiar people from the earth to be His own,
He had already determined that another 2,000 years would pass before this people
would be given His Spirit to indwell them. As this people began to multiply and
increase, He determined that something must be done in the interim. Until a Son
should be sent who would impart His divine seed to mankind they needed a guardian
and tutor to watch over them.

Galatians 3:19
What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions,
till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made...

Galatians 3:24
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ...

Galatians 4:1-2
Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a
slave, though he is master of all, but is under guardians and stewards until the
time appointed by the father.

Until the time appointed for man to become a partaker of the divine nature
through the Spirit birth, God gave them the Law. Because man did not have the divine
nature internally to produce in him the desire and the power to fulfill the Father’s
desires, he needed something external to guide and restrain him.

Proverbs 29:18
When people do not accept divine guidance, they cast off restraint. But
whoever obeys the law is joyful.

Yahweh foresaw the day when He would place His Spirit in man. This Spirit
would radically alter the very character of all who received Him. Those who were
formerly slaves to the flesh with its passions and desires, would receive a new, holy,
and more powerful part of their nature as the Spirit of Christ took up residence within