{"id":293,"date":"2012-12-24T22:27:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T05:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/?p=293"},"modified":"2013-05-22T13:06:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T19:06:17","slug":"law-still-a-tutor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/24\/law-still-a-tutor\/","title":{"rendered":"Law Still a Tutor"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Whole Bible Christianity’ chapter 8 section ‘Still a Tutor’<\/p>\n

Some people think and teach that if we have the Christ, then we \u201cdon\u2019t need the Law\u201d (there\u2019s that lucky rabbit\u2019s foot again). \u201cHaving Christ\u201d to these teachers\u2019 means to like Him a lot. Or \u2018believe\u2019 without action. Or to think that He\u2019s a great teacher or prophet and nothing more. There\u2019s a technical term for the \u201cwe don\u2019t need the Law\u201d teaching, which is \u2018horse hockey.\u2019 If we have the Christ, we have God, and we get God\u2019s Words, including the Law. If we reject the Law, we are rejecting God\u2019s Word to His people, which would show that we do not \u2018have Christ.\u2019 It\u2019s a package deal.<\/p>\n

If we say we \u201chave Christ\u201d yet do not do what the Christ says, then we are nothing more than clashing gongs and clanging cymbals (1 Corinthians 13:1<\/a>). And that not even in time with God\u2019s music. When we pick and choose through the Word for what we will do and what we won\u2019t, it does not jive with the example that Jesus set. He did it all, and perfectly. He expects us to do the same. And \u2018perfectly\u2019 means confessing and repenting when we make mistakes instead of looking for excuses or rationalizing.<\/p>\n

We need to understand that the Law still functions as a tutor to lead a person to the Christ. It tutors anyone on their way to maturity with God. This means that God still uses it to draw people to His Son, and by living it, we can draw people to Him, too.<\/p>\n

Further, the Laws do not go away just because we are now old enough or \u2018have Christ.\u2019 When I was a child I learned not to stick the wrong object into an electrical socket. But when I \u2018grew up\u2019 that law did not cease to be. I just graduated to the proper use of the socket without having to be told. I still don\u2019t stick the wrong object in the socket. In the same way, when we graduate to Christ, the Law still functions. It\u2019s just that I don\u2019t need to be told. It is written on my heart. Having reached maturity, the Law does not cease to function. Instead, it is written on my heart so that I do what it says automatically. The Law becomes \u2018second nature.\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Whole Bible Christianity’ chapter 8 section ‘Still a Tutor’ Some people think and teach that if we have the Christ, then we \u201cdon\u2019t need the Law\u201d (there\u2019s that lucky rabbit\u2019s foot again). \u201cHaving Christ\u201d to these teachers\u2019 means to like … read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,19,108,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-verse","category-daily-living","category-law-2","category-whole-bible-christianity-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}