YE ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW.

 

MAY 7.
Ye are not under the law.
Galatians 5:18

 

IF ye were,
  it would not only require perfect obedience,
  but it would pronounce a sentence of condemnation
    for the least sin.
 
If we were under the law,
  we must use David's prayer,
  ”Enter not into judgment with thy servant, O Lord,
  for in thy sight shall no flesh living be justified.”
 
But if we believe in Jesus,
  if we are led by the Spirit of God,
  if we are not under the law.
 
We are under grace.
 
God is our Father.
 
The gospel proclaims us just.
 
Jesus died in our stead, and
  now pleads for us before his Father's throne.
 
All our sins are expiated and forgiven.
 
Our persons and service are accepted,
  though imperfect and polluted,
  in the perfume of our Redeemer’s merits;
  and the law has no claim upon us.
 
Jesus for us, gave it all that it required.
 
Jesus endured for us, all that is threatened.
 
We now love it, observe it,
  but under no alarm from it.
 
It is a simple rule of conduct,
  just telling us what God loves,
  and what he hates;
  what God requires, and what he forbids.
 
Blessed be God for delivering us from the law,
  giving us peace with him, and
  enabling us to rejoice in hope of his glory.
 
 

My soul! no more attempt to draw

Thy life and comfort from the law;

Fly tell the hope the gospel gives;

The man that trusts the promise lives!

 

James 1849