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from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

If we die to the Law, but fail to enter into the obedience of the Spirit in Christ,
we are truly antinomian. This is the sad state of many Christians today, and it
provides much cannon fodder for those who proclaim that it is error to send away the
bondwoman. Christ came that man might be enabled to fulfill the will and pleasure
of the Father. The myriads who have adopted the view that Yahweh exists for man’s
will and pleasure are following the “way that seems right unto a man, but the end
thereof is death.” To be ruled by the soul is the broad path that leads to destruction.
To be as Christ we must be led of the Spirit in ALL THINGS.
Paul is testifying to believers in the body of Christ that the Law was given to the
people of God while they were children. The day would come when they received a
new spirit. Having received this new heart they are able to bear fruit unto God. Those
who walk by the Spirit are not under the Law.

Galatians 5:18
If you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

This is that which I proclaim. The Law does not end so that men can be led by
their souls. It ends that they might be led by the Spirit. The Spirit will never lead a
man contrary to the will and pleasure of the Father. The Holy Spirit will lead men to
a far greater obedience than the shadow of the Law could ever make known.
Additionally, the Spirit provides the divine life needed to walk as our Father.
The apostle Paul testifies that while under the guardian of the Law men were
treated no differently than slaves. This guardianship was to continue until the
children entered into the maturity of sonship. What is the line of demarcation
between servanthood and sonship? It is Pentecost, the giving of the Spirit.
Consider that on the day Moses descended from Mount Sinai with the tablets of
the Law, three thousand men died. One the day that the Spirit descended upon the
120 men and women gathered in an upper room, three thousand people were saved.

Exodus 32:25-28
Now when Moses saw that the people were unrestrained (for Aaron had not
restrained them, to their shame among their enemies), then Moses stood in the
entrance of the camp, and said, "Whoever is on the Lord's side - come to me!"
And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him. And he said to
them, "Thus says Yahweh God of Israel: 'Let every man put his sword on his
side, and go in and out from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and let
every man kill his brother, every man his companion, and every man his
neighbor.'" So the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And about
three thousand men of the people fell that day.

Remember, Moses is a type of the Law. The day the Law was given Moses gave