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such as these.

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 and insubordinate,
for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane...

Do the words lawless, insubordinate, ungodly, sinners, unholy and profane
describe Christ and His seed? No. The apostle states elsewhere:

I Corinthians 6:9-11
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do
not be deceived... And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you
were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Yahshua and by
the Spirit of our God.

The Law is good if one uses it lawfully, knowing this: that the law is not made for
a righteous person. Those who would place Christians under the dominion of the Law
are employing the Law in an unlawful manner. They have failed to comprehend that
truly radical transformation Yahshua has wrought in them. They still see themselves
as carnal men who need a law to restrain them. They are not reckoning on the fact of
their being a new creation in Christ.
A focus upon an external Law will lead men away from the discovery of Christ
in them. Those who perceive Christ in them, those who are focused upon the divine
life in their members which is producing the will and power to do the pleasure of the
Father, need no external law. These are ruled by the Spirit, and gladly so. Such ones
are not antinomian. They are not lawless. They are submitted freely to the rule of God
through the indwelling Spirit of Christ.