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Is there a conflict, then, between God's law and God's promises? Absolutely not! If the law could give us new life, we could be made right with God by obeying it. But the Scriptures declare that we are all prisoners of sin, so we receive God's promise of freedom only by believing in Jesus Christ. Galatians 3:21-22 NLT
It might seem strange to think of it this way, but every man who has ever lived (except for Jesus) is born a prisoner. Not only that, we have no hope for freedom—in this life or in the life to come.
No hope, that is, except in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Paul stated in the above scripture verses that no one can be made right with God by obeying the law of Moses. That can only be done, he wrote, through faith in the one who came to earth not to abolish but to fulfill the law (Matthew 5:17).
Jesus once stated, “I am the Door; anyone who enters in through Me will be saved (will live). He will come in and he will go out (freely), and will find pasture (John 10:9). In light of Galatians 3:21-22, we might well see Jesus as the one-way door out of that prison of sin.
Prayer: Lord Jesus, thank You for freeing me from the prison of sin. Help me to always cling to and proclaim that You and only You can free men from that terrible prison.
It might seem strange to think of it this way, but every man who has ever lived (except for Jesus) is born a prisoner. Not only that, we have no hope for freedom—in this life or in the life to come.
No hope, that is, except in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Paul stated in the above scripture verses that no one can be made right with God by obeying the law of Moses. That can only be done, he wrote, through faith in the one who came to earth not to abolish but to fulfill the law (Matthew 5:17).
Jesus once stated, “I am the Door; anyone who enters in through Me will be saved (will live). He will come in and he will go out (freely), and will find pasture (John 10:9). In light of Galatians 3:21-22, we might well see Jesus as the one-way door out of that prison of sin.
Prayer: Lord Jesus, thank You for freeing me from the prison of sin. Help me to always cling to and proclaim that You and only You can free men from that terrible prison.
