Re: Let me put it this way (edit)

Acts 15:10
10Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? 11But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.

You can bear the law Beej? They couldn't!

One mess up in the law, and you've broken the whole thing:
James 2:10
10For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

God's going to conform his children to the image of His Son, but it's not going to be through "the law". We are bound to Him now, not "the law".

Romans 7:4
Rom 7:4 Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, that we might bear fruit for God.

How is he sanctifying us through "the law" if we died to it? I put "the law" in quotations because I'm not talking about God's laws that he writes on our hearts. "The law" as given through Moses is what Peter is talking about when he says why do you put this burden on people when we couldn't bear it ourselves.


2 Corinthians 3:
6Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

7But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: 8How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? 9For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. 10For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. 11For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.



God says he is the potter and we are the clay. He makes vessels for honour and vessels for dishonour. It doesn't say we are the potter and can make ourselves into vessels of honour or dishonour. The clay is in his hands, not the other way around.
Romans 9:20
20Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

And it says with much LONGSUFFERING God endured the vessels fitted for destruction. And the next verse answers why that is so:
Romans 9:23
That he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory.

Hard to understand but quite amazing to think he endures this evil world to show us, the vessels of mercy, the riches of his glory!