靠着对耶稣基督的信心和重生, you have been delivered from the power of death and set free from every bondage, and have received a new life in Christ. The blood of Christ has cleansed you from all your sins and iniquities and made you holy and righteous. Through the redemptive work of Jesus Christ, you have become a new creation and have been reconciled with God the Father. Jesus has restored your relationship with the Father. Now that you have become a new creation, what does this mean for the law? Does the law of God no longer apply to you or does it? Because the Bible says in Romans 3:31 that those, who have become a new creation will establish the law by faith. 这是什么意思? How do you establish the law by faith?
The new creation in Christ walks in the Word of God
因此，若有人在基督里, 他是一个新造的人: 旧事已逝, and all things are become new (2 哥林多前书 5:17)
When you are baptized in Christ and received the baptism with the Holy Spirit, 你已经成为一个新的创造物. 圣灵住在你里面, whereby the will of God is written upon your renewed heart.
After the new birth it’s important to renew your mind with the Word of God, so that through the Word you will get to know God and His will and your mind will line up with the Word of God (另请阅读: Why is renewing your mind necessary?).
When you believe in the Word, you shall speak the words of God and become a doer of the Word.
By doing the Word you shall become the living word of God on earth and walk as a son of God (这适用于男性和女性 (另请阅读: 听者与行者).
You shall walk as a son of God by faith according to the Word and the Spirit and establish the law by faith.
If your spirit is raised from the death and the Holy Spirit dwells in you (新人), you shall no longer walk after the flesh but after the Spirit (另请阅读: 让干枯的骨头活过来).
只要你跟随圣灵而行, you shall walk in obedience to God in His will, instead of walking in disobedience to God, whereby you shall not be a partaker of sin.
Do Christians stay sinners?
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us (1 约翰 1:8-10).
It is often said, that you are a sinner and that you always stay a sinner. 1 约翰 1:8-10 is cited to substantiate this saying.
然而, it’s always important to read the scriptures in the whole and right context, instead of picking a few words or a sentences and give an own interpretation.
在 1 约翰 1:8-10 John was referring to the old man; the Adamic nature. 诗句 8 和 10, John referred to those, who were the old man, but were full of themselves and thought they were perfect and and a good human being and not as a sinner, who lives in a fallen state in disobedience to God and rebellion against God, and said that they didn’t have sin and needed salvation.
诗句 9, John refered to those, who were the old man but were convicted of their sins and repented and confessed their sin and because of that they were forgiven and cleansed by the blood of Jesus of all unrighteousness.
It’s about people, who didn’t know Jesus and were not born again, because in the previous verses the following is written:
这就是我们所听到的关于他的信息, 并向你宣告, 上帝就是光, 在他里面毫无黑暗. 我们若说我们与神有交通, 并在黑暗中行走, 我们撒谎, 并且不说实话: 但如果我们行在光中, 就如他在光中一样, 我们彼此有团契, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin (1 约翰 1:5-7).
Every person is born as a sinner
It’s correct, that every person is born in sin and therefore everyone is born as a sinner. 没有人被排除在外! No one is born holy and righteous on this earth. The only Person, Who was not born as a sinner was Jesus Christ.
Jesus became a Partaker of flesh and blood, but Jesus was not born of the seed of man but Jesus was born of the 神的种子 and was holy and righteous.
But as soon as you get saved by faith in Christ then by the blood of Jesus Christ your sins will be washed away. You will be cleansed by His blood from all your sins and iniquities.
当你重生 through the baptism in water and the baptism with the Holy Spirit, you receive a new nature; 神的本质, and become separated from sin.
罪恶的本性, 存在于肉体中, has been crucified and you have exchanged the Adamic nature for the nature of God (另请阅读: ‘称为死亡的痛苦过程')
Jesus delivered you from every bondage of darkness
Jesus delivered you from the oppression of the devil and placed you in Him. You received the Holy Spirit, so you could live a holy life, just like Jesus walked in holiness and lived a holy life, by doing the will of the Father.
如果你说, that you are and will always remain a sinner, then you actually say that God’s work of redemption wasn’t sufficient enough to make you holy and righteous. You say, that the work at the cross and the blood of Jesus, which was shed, wasn’t powerful enough to remove the sins and iniquities and deal with the sinful nature (另请阅读: ‘你是否永远都是罪人?‘ 和 ‘神的救赎工作')
If you are truly born again and the Holy Spirit abides in you, you will no longer persevere in sin.
It is very sad to hear, how many people believe this lie, which is preached from many pulpits. And because of this lie, many people keep living in the bondage of sin, thinking and believing that they will always remain sinners and never become holy and righteous, and therefore they keep walking in sin.
Abusing the grace of God to live in sin
They keep walking in sin, living like the world, while they usethe grace of God as a license to sin and make it alright to persevere in sin. Because they are unspiritual, they don’t know that they still live in the bondage of the devil and sin and death. 他们认为自己是自由的, 但现实是, that they are not! Their flesh is still alive and they are still spiritually oppressed and bound by the devil.
这里有很多人, who have changed the truth and the grace of God into a lie and a false grace. Only because many people are not willing to give up their sinful nature; their old lives and put off the old man (另请阅读: ‘什么是恩典?’ 和 ‘‘迷失在恩典之海’).
They are not willing to crucify the works of the flesh, because they enjoy and love the works of the flesh.
Therefore they have mixed the truth of God with the subtle lies of the devil. But by mixing the truth of God with the lies of the devil, the gospel will become of no effect.
当你成为新的创造物时, it is not alright to keep living in sin and use the precious blood of Jesus Christ to make it alright (另请阅读: The cross a place to die or place to sin 和 ‘Can you keep sinning under grace’)
What is the secret to establish the law?
Paul wrote in Romans 3:31: 那么我们是否可以通过信仰废除法律呢？? 上帝禁止: 是的, 我们制定法律.
Have you been made righteous by the law, by works? 不! You have been made righteous by the blood of Jesus Christ and through faith and regeneration in Him.
But the secret is, that as you walk by faith according to the Word after the Spirit, you will automatically establish the law (the moral part of the law).
Because when you receive the Holy Spirit, you receive God’s nature and His will inside of you. The will of God and His commandments are written upon your heart (另请阅读: ‘发生了什么 50 逾越节后的日子?’)
The Holy Spirit will teach and guide you into the truth of God’s Word. You do not have to follow all kinds of statutes, 祭祀法则, 食品法, and rituals and become religious.
Because when the Holy Spirit dwells in you, you will walk by faith after the Word and the Spirit in God’s will and establish the law through your faith.
The Holy Spirit guides you into all truth. The Bible doesn’t say, that the Holy Spirit will guide you into all sins.
The Holy Spirit is holy and can’t have fellowship with sin. If you keep sinning then the Holy Spirit can’t stay in you, because you will grieve the Holy Spirit. 正如它所写的那样, the light can’t have fellowship with darkness, because the light has nothing in common with the darkness.
The new man has a new heart
For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them (以西结 36:24-27)
God revealed to Ezekiel, the promise of the Holy Spirit and the new creation. God prophesied through the mouth of Ezekiel, that He would cleanse you from all filthiness; 你的罪孽和罪恶, and put His Spirit within you, so that you will have His nature and walk automatically in His commandments and do His will upon this earth. By doing His will, you walk in faith and establish the law (另请阅读: The commandments of God vs the commandments of Jesus 和 ‘神的诫命和魔鬼的诫命').
The new man walks in righteousness
Jesus has taken care of the sin problem by 祂的救赎工作 at the cross. You have been delivered from your sinful nature and are clothed with the nature of God.
God poured out His Spirit upon those, who believe and have been made righteous in Christ. So that they will be able to walk in righteousness and represent Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God upon this earth.
You have become an ambassador of the Kingdom of God. You will do the will of God instead of your own will. Instead of being disobedient to (the moral part of) the law and walking in rebellion against God, fulfilling the lusts and desires of your flesh, you will establish the law through faith.
Whether you will be able to establish the law depends on one thing and that is: “Is your love for Jesus stronger, than your love for your self and for your sins?”
The new man shall become as his Master and shall even do greater things
Let no man say to you, that you will always 仍然是一个罪人. Don’t believe it, when someone says that you will never become like Jesus. Because that is a lie from the devil! Jesus said Himself, that you can become as your Master and do even greater things than Jesus, because Jesus went to the Father (马修 10:25, 卢克 6:40, 约翰 14:12)
Don’t believe the lie either that says that the law doesn’t exist anymore. The priesthood, 祭祀法则, 仪式, ETC. are indeed part of the Old Covenant, but thecommandments of the Lord that represent His will (the moral part of the law) 仍然适用. Because God is the same; Yesterday, Today, and Forevermore. Therefore God’s will and His nature will never change.
For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren (罗马书 8:29).
Jesus made you holy and righteous by His blood and redemptive work. The Father has given you the Holy Spirit, the same Holy Spirit that lived in Jesus Christ. So you have the ability to become like Jesus. When you become like Jesus, you will walk by faith in holiness and righteousness, doing the will of God. When you walk by faith in the will of God, you will establish the law.
“成为地球之盐”
