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LAWLESSNESS

Text: Romans 8:2. 

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 

 *One thing the devil wants to achieve in man is lawlessness, because he is a lawless being.* 

Man was not created to be lawless. From the very beginning, God gave man instructions as to how to live (Genesis 2:15-17).

After the fall of man, God in His infinite mercy, gave His children (through His servant, Moses) laws to guide and lead them through the path of righteousness. 

However, because of man's weakness by reason of the flesh, he couldn't truly obey the laws of God. This is why Romans 8:3 & 4 says: For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: so that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

So, it's clear that the reason God sent His son is so that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us.

It's also clear that there is a righteousness that the law aims to achieve. And man could not attain to this height because of his fallen nature.

Again, God in His infinite mercy came to man's rescue by sending His son, Jesus Christ to show and enable man to live unto righteousness in the days of his flesh.

John 1:17 says *For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.* Jesus came with Grace for man, so that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in man.

The grace of God will help you to fulfil the righteousness of the law and never will it make you to be lawless. 

The Grace of God is given to make you live above sin and never to be lawless. *A true Christian desires to be free from sin and not to sin freely under the disguise of Grace.* 

Bible  Reading :Romans 8:1-39.

PRAYER FOCUS

1.) Father God, I receive the grace to live above sin and to deny all ungodliness. 
 

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