1950 This Means Everlasting Life - A2Z.org

1950 This Means Everlasting Life - A2Z.org 1950 This Means Everlasting Life - A2Z.org

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NO SELF-SALVATION BY THE LAW 57 made, and it was transmitted through angels by the hand of a mediator Moses . Consequently, the Law has become our tutor leading to Christ, that we might be declared righteous due to faith . But now that this faith has arrived, we are no longer under a tutor . You are all, in fact, sons of God through your faith in Christ Jesus ."-Galatians 3 :17-19,24-26, NW . 14 So every person that claims he is trying to keep the Ten Commandments and that he is therefore all right and does not have to worry is deceiving himself . He can no more gain selfrighteousness by this attempt and justify himself than the Israelites could during their fifteen cen- 14 . How, then, must righteousness come to the Jews, and to others?

58 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE" turies under the Law. The Jews today who profess to keep the Mosaic Law and who refuse to exercise faith in Christ Jesus as the promised Seed are keeping themselves under the curse of the Law : "For all those who depend upon works of law are under a curse, for it is written : 'Accursed is every one that does not continue in all the things written in the scroll of the Law in order to do them .' Moreover, that by law no one is declared righteous with God is evident, because the righteous one will live by reason of faith' . Now the Law does not adhere to faith, but he that does them shall live by them' . Christ by purchase released us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse instead of us, because it is written Accursed is every man hanged upon a stake .' The purpose was that the blessing of Abraham might come to be by means of Jesus Christ for the nations, that we might receive the promised spirit through our faith ."-Galatians 3 :10-14, NW. 15 All hope of proving worthy of the right to everlasting life by keeping the Law covenant has vanished for the natural Israelites as well as for all proselytes to the Mosaic Law covenant. "For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not ." Ecclesiastes 7 :20 God foresaw this, and so he promised to provide the perfect Seed of deliverance . The hope of all mankind, Jew and Gentile alike, rests in the Seed of God's woman and in God's kingdom by him . 1 5 . So where does mankind's hope for everlasting life rest?

NO SELF-SALVATION BY THE LAW 57<br />

made, and it was transmitted through angels by<br />

the hand of a mediator Moses . Consequently,<br />

the Law has become our tutor leading to Christ,<br />

that we might be declared righteous due to faith .<br />

But now that this faith has arrived, we are no<br />

longer under a tutor . You are all, in fact, sons of<br />

God through your faith in Christ Jesus ."-Galatians<br />

3 :17-19,24-26, NW .<br />

14 So every person that claims he is trying to<br />

keep the Ten Commandments and that he is therefore<br />

all right and does not have to worry is deceiving<br />

himself . He can no more gain selfrighteousness<br />

by this attempt and justify himself<br />

than the Israelites could during their fifteen cen-<br />

14 . How, then, must righteousness come to the Jews,<br />

and to others?

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