Freedom

THE NEW LAW BROUGHT FREEDOM FROM THE OLD LAW

This new law in Esther Chapter 8 didn’t cause Haman’s previous law to be null and void. That law was still valid: a day of ‘open slaughter’ upon the Jews. The new law allowed the Jews to defend themselves and fight their enemies. What do you think would have happened if the Jews had not believed this second decree from the King? They would have remained an easy target for their enemies, bound by the first law. In other words, if you don’t operate under the power of the second NEW law, you will succumb to the power of the first.

Let us relate this to the gospel of Salvation. The wages of Sin is death; this is the first law. But Jesus came to redeem us from eternal death and gave us eternal life through His death; this is the second law. It doesn’t mean that we won’t die, but it means that when we do die and have accepted and believe in Christ, we are given eternal life. It was the same for the Jews, they had to accept, believe and behave according to the second law, because if they didn’t they would have died under the law of death initiated by Haman.

ARE YOU STILL LIVING UNDER THE FIRST LAW?

DO YOU FEEL CONDEMNED BECAUSE YOU DON’T THINK YOU ARE GOOD ENOUGH FOR GOD?

You don’t have what it takes to live the Christian life by yourself. You couldn’t save yourself from the penalty of sin and you can’t save yourself from the power of sin. There is a second law in place. And it is something far better than your own efforts! Live under His grace; the new law of salvation and not of condemnation. Don’t think that you have to do things to make Him love you more. His love for us is so great that nothing we can do could change it. We do amazing things because we love God, we don’t do those things to gain His love.

Being under the new law doesn’t mean that we should sin that God’s grace may continue to cover us…no way (Romans 6). He wants to take the old and make it new, transform our old ways into ones that truly depict our love for Him.

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