The Law of the Spirit – Bit #1

I’M BACK!  

I would like to begin by establishing the train of thought from which I will be generating my writing.  I intend to take us on a journey concerning the definition of what Paul defines in his letter to the Romans as the “law of the Spirit of life” (Romans 8:2).  The various angles we will approach this reality stem from a single root system – the cross of Jesus Christ.  The authority and different callings in a Christian’s life long saunter hinge on this most important of events documented in the history books of man.  That which was established on a warm spring day in 29 C.E. goes far beyond what most Christians define as salvation – a title that has had it’s definition skewed by man to denote something more to his carnal comfort.   

At the inception of our discussion of said doctrine, I set before you a question: To what extent have you squandered your salvation?  If you were given one million dollars in cash, what would you do with it?  Would you take it, let it sit in your closet and never spend a single penny of it?  Or, would you start investing and spending the money you had been given?  I submit, that there would probably be some spending that would occur.  That which was established through the Cross of Christ has ushered believers into an attainable truth that, since the fall, has been a near hopeless reality for man’s disposition.  We have now been given God (Rom. 5:5).  He has gifted Himself to us and offered us passageway into the realm that has been guarded by two seraphic beings for more than three millennia (Gen. 3:24).  Millions across the earth now have entrance into something that so few were able to before the cross.  Once again, man has entrance into the two-fold existence of heaven and earth through the man Christ Jesus.  It is through Him we have received the free gift of salvation (Rom. 5:15-16; 6:23) as well as the divine grace that is needed to walk in what we have been called beyond that moment when we were sealed by the Holy Spirit for eternal life (Eph. 1:13).

There has been a higher law established exceeding the law that brought the recognition of both death and sin (Romans 7:7).  This newer law brings the recognition and ability of walking in life, rather than being plagued by the spirit of death.  It sits above all other laws and beckons us to come under it’s absolute authority as the commandment that has laid hold of all other spiritual laws and suppressed them through Jesus Christ.  The Son of Man came and fulfilled the Law of the Moses (Matt. 5:17) through His exploits in ministry and His work on the cross.  This was done so all who are saved through Him would have an open door (John 10:7) into the same reality as He, and fulfill the law in a way that is the likeness of His accomplishment.  Jesus was a forerunner into true life.  What He has accomplished as the first born from the dead gives us entry into an identical realm of life that He now operates in, through our own death and resurrection (Rom. 6:4-11); “I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly (John 10:10).”

To this end, I would like us to understand and see there is something far beyond the genesis of salvation.  Steps that are submersed in the law of the Spirit of life fulfill the righteous requirement of the law, which in turn engenders us to move forward into the works we have been destined for (Eph. 2:10).  A layman would put it as such – we begin to fulfill the law (definition of this law will come at another time, but for now please see Matt. 22:37-40) as Jesus did and walk in the fullness of grace by stepping into something we already have and moving in what we are called to do.  For I say to you, there is no greater expression of grace than this.