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I Corinthians 6:9-11
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of
God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,
nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor
drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were
sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

We have become the righteousness of God through Yahshua the Messiah, therefore
the Law no longer applies to us. We have died to the Law, and now we live according
to the glorious Law of Life and Liberty in Yahshua the Messiah.

Are you troubled by Judaisers who would put you under the Law, who would seek to
place your focus upon an external body of rules and commands? Then think on these
two statements and let the full impact sink into the deepest recesses of your being:

The Law is good, if one uses it lawfully...

Law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious...

Consider these further words of J. Preston Eby:

A man who keeps his bulldog tied to a fence has no right to brag that the
dog has never bitten the mailman. How could the dog bite the mailman?
If the owner wants to brag about his dog, let him set the dog free; then
everyone (including the mailman) will know the dog's true nature. There
you have the difference between the law and the Kingdom of God. The
law merely restrains evil men (like the chain on the dog) from the ability
to do their evil - the Kingdom of God transforms the nature so that men
become righteous.

Yahshua has set you free from the Law. Will you now “bite the mailman”, or will you
rather choose to walk in the love of Messiah. Do you need the Law to restrain you
now that you are a “new creature” in Christ.

Galatians 5:1
It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm
and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

This snare of the enemy that would seek to place the saints back under the Law, and
therefore back in the realm of fleshly striving and under Satan’s domain, must be
faced, fully understood, and resisted to the uttermost. You cannot walk by the Spirit
and walk under the dominion of the Law at the same time.