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need is to enter into the life of Christ by faith.

Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in
me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son
of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

What is this faith of which Paul speaks? It is precisely what he has described. We
believe that Christ is in us. He is alive and present. He is both directing and
energizing us. He is ever revealing the will of the Father to us and producing in us the
desire to do that will.

Philippians 2:13
For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

Ephesians 2:4-5
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved
us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ...

Our Father wants us to understand our vital union with His Son. We are dead
to sin and alive “in Christ.” We are to reckon it so.
What type of Law would Yahweh give to those who are walking in the revelation
of their new life in Christ? Not a law of prohibition, for those who are born of Christ
do not sin. The new creature in Christ lives to do the will of the Father. Therefore, the
law for those who are in Christ is a law of perfect liberty.

James 1:25
But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is
not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he
does.

James 2:8, 12
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your
neighbor as yourself," you do well... So speak and so do as those who will be
judged by the law of liberty.

Seeing that the new creation man desires only to please the Father, there is
nothing prohibited from him. This is what Paul is declaring in the following
Scriptures:

I Corinthians 6:12
All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things
are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.