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A New Spirit

will continue to lay a foundation of understanding, before proceeding to address
Ispecific arguments that advocate the continuance of the Law. Rightly dividing the
word of God will be much easier for those who first have gained an understanding of
the role of the Law in Yahweh’s plan of the ages.

Proverbs 14:6
Knowledge comes easily to those with understanding.

It has been Yahweh’s desire from the beginning of man’s creation to bring forth
beings in His image and likeness. Yahweh desires to have mature sons who are
partakers of the divine nature.

II Peter 1:3-4
His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness,
through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have
been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these
you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption
that is in the world through lust.

It was never the Father’s vision to perpetually restrain carnal, sinful men with
an external Law. Even as the Biblical day begins in darkness and progresses to light,
so too it has been the Father’s will for men, who were born in a spiritually darkened
condition, to experience the dawning of His own divine nature within them.

Ephesians 5:8
For you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as
children of Light.

Christians, not understanding or reckoning on the radical changes that occur in
a life when the Spirit of Christ causes a man or woman to be born again, often
continue on as if they are still sinful creatures that must be restrained by Law. They
are like a bankrupt pauper who is suddenly given a vast fortune. Not really believing
he can draw on the wealth now held in bank accounts in his name, he continues to
live in poverty. His life continues on as if nothing substantial has occurred.
In a similar way, many Christians do not reckon on the truth that Christ working
in them has set them free from the power of sin. They continue to see themselves as
slaves to sin. The focus in a great many churches today is upon Christ’s atoning work.
Forgiveness of sins is proclaimed with near exclusivity. That Christ has gone far
beyond this and set men free from their slavery to sin, and has given them a new
spirit and a new heart, is seldom proclaimed, or understood.
What God has done for man through Christ is revealed in type through the