Christ Alone -
- Pastor Rusty Owens
- Apr 15
- 2 min read
Pastor Rusty - April 15, 2025
“For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.” Rom. 10:4
What a powerful, liberating statement from the word of God. Thank God you didn’t have to learn Hebrew or Greek to hear this powerful word from God. God in His infinite wisdom allowed this accurate translation from the Greek to be handed to you. This means it’s not Christ “and”, but simply Christ alone. Be careful when you try to insert the LAW as a means for obtaining righteousness. Here’s a frustrating stat for you Keepers of the law. No one in the history of anyone has ever been made righteous through the keeping of the law. “Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.” Gal. 3:11. Justification has always been by faith. If you want to dry up the pools of grace in your life or Church fellowship, then begin to add the regulations of the law to the equation.🤔 You will immediately begin to see diminished access to healing and deliverance which are acts of faith through grace. Every movement thinking it functions through higher illumination and begins to insert the law as a means to righteousness will alienate itself from grace. The only time the phrase “ye have fallen from grace” is used in scripture is when the believers began to revert back to the keeping of the law! “Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.” Gal. 5:4. In Acts 15, when converted Jews began to demand that the gentile believers adhere to the Law of Moses, the first General council at the Church of Jerusalem came to this conclusion. “5But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses.”
6The apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider this matter. 7And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe. 8And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us, 9and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.10Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? 11But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will.” Acts 15:5-11.🤔 Thank God for the wisdom of the Apostles!
“Holy Father, preserve your bride in freedom! Pour out the Spirit of Liberty! “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” Gal. 5:1. In Jesus name! Amen!” Pastor Rusty.
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