A LAW OVERALL

      "For the law of the Spirit of life has freed me in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death" Rom. 8:2

      Laws govern over all things, even freedom. There is the Law of the old testament, God's Law. The law of The Adam mans life the natural law or the law of the mind/soul. There is even the law of evil, Satan's law. it says that sin is in our flesh. Then there is the Law of Life, God's Life. The point I am trying to make is that over all aspects of our being there are laws. The laws themselves all stands alone, not functioning until they are put into motion. Like the law of gravity, it is there while we are up in the tree but not experienced as a  action until we jump.

      Yes God's life, His Law of Life in Christ will always be sovereign in us and will prevail, but for our experience of it we must rest in His grace and open faiths door to Him. A car is just a hunk of metal, inert until it is started and driven. Before there is action the laws stand only as a letter, no true experiential power. This includes God's Life in us, which is formed into action/experience by abiding rest in faith of it's presence and that it is true by His Word and is indeed our only life.

      We are governed by these laws in that they are inherent, they exist. But we are not controlled by them. That is until we put them to work. The Old Testament Law requires strict obedience to all its statutes; break one you have broken them all. That is why we cannot keep them and must be saved from them and were on the cross, many try all fail. The law of the natural life is simply man in his natural state, he must by the law within him go his own way, not Gods way, even in his attempts to do good. But until he takes action good or bad, the law lies dormant. Of course eventually we all put into action this self centered processed law; the primary stumbling block for us Christians.

      Man's natural effort will never do though, it cannot please God. If the law of evil takes hold we sin. The natural man goes his own way. The commandments cannot be kept. All three are missing the mark and led to sin. It simply cannot be helped. We will eventually put all these laws into action. That is why we needed salvation. We were saved eternally in God's sight from the law of sin and death obtained at the fall. But there are laws which govern all of the Adam man in his natural body, mind and heart as long as he lives on the earth.

      These laws it seems have power by our cooperative action. They exist, they are there, but it is ourselves that make them work or give them power and furthermore we cannot help it. We will give them power! But  the Law of Life has its own power. Why is that? Because this is God's Life Law within us. And when in action becomes His life as our experience. His Holy Spirit living for and as us in these bodies. Remade in His image. His own Life given us by grace [unmerited favor] at salvation. This Law says we have God and that we have His Life. It is His action within us, not ours, that makes this Law the one which can be kept. Because He does it for us as us, this is Law by grace. He is now our life by His Law action in us.

      But we who are also under the other laws must somehow step aside from them for us to knowingly experience His Law of Life. We first came in contact with this Law of Life when we were born again or came to know we truly believe in Him and His Son whom He sent into our lives. But this truth's realization as a action/experience Law comes only gradually. Why? Because of the presence of the others.

      It is then up to us, after being informed, to do with this Law of Life as we see fit. We can follow it as a Law of our own life by faith that His Word is true. Be partakers of His grace. Allow Him to function freely in our mind. Simply yield to it. Be obedient to Him by trust and faith in His goodness, enjoying what He is accomplishing in us, quietly inwardly. Or we can choose to ignore it and try our hand at the other laws.

      Many Christians are set upon making their life difficult however. We all know that the other laws do not result in life but never the less we continue to try and make them work. We want to be God's workers. We hope to be what we should be. We set out to do what is right, but in our human nature we always fail. Again we miss the mark.

      The Father has left us in such a state for a good reason; so we would have need of Him. We remain weak and by that weakness will see that we must rely only on Him to keep His Law. Be obedient in our faith of His Law and His Life within us by His power. "Not by [personal and outside forces] might, not by [personal] power, but by His Spirit". This gives us His power. Him working with our weakness allowing us to actually be obedient to His law which is life. If we are broken by the other laws then He can prevail. It is in our needful acknowledgment of Him as our only life where we will find His power.

      There are other laws as well, the law of faith for example, as in faith has power, but only when counted upon. But which would we choose among the many, upon first encountering the choices. Starting from a clean slate lets say. Well we all probably would say: I would choose the Law of Life! But I don't think so. Would we even know what to do with it? We would, in the beginning of our understanding at least be hampered from the advantage of the Law of Life by our own nature.

      The others work in us throughout all our being, inquire into all our depositional choices. We are our nature, which we cannot escape. I think we all would choose freedom first, even perhaps unaware that we have. Its a simple choice, Adams choice, the only choice with the advantage of being true to our inescapable natural state. In other words its a circular choice which stays true to the natural men and women we are. Allowing us to be what we are. We will naturally arrive back to where we started, as natural men choosing our own way. Perhaps then another law should be taken under our consideration, one more binding, the law of slavery.

      Being a slave give us no choices. Paul called himself a slave of Christ for this reason. He had no other choice. Is that not a law? He knew that Jesus Christ was Lord and life's reality within him as well as in glory. That a life within Christ Jesus was his only true life. Yes the other laws affected him: "oh retched man that I am, why do I do the very things I would not". He was, as us now, a retched man while on earth in the natural man. But his slave status, the inescapable one triggered by his faith, lived in grace, overrode all the others, set them aside: "It is no longer I that live, but Christ Jesus that lives in me" and its the same for us. We simply must come to know ourselves as faiths slaves of the Law of Life, to live the Christian life! So how then shall we proceed?

      Its really quite simple, at least in principal, We arrived into Christianity by sheer grace. Born into the Lord Jesus Christ, Him freely given to us. Why then would He not manifest Himself in us by the same principal, the law of Grace?

      The sad condition of the Christian is that we do not know this as our life's only power for living. Grace is mostly seen for the pardoning of our sins not for living Christ. Its law and effortless true life power then left untried. We are so grateful for our salvation that we wish to be put to work in gratitude for what He has done. This work is also law. It always fails to bring Christ as life.

      But on the other hand abiding in Him is not work. It is not a condition for enjoying His salvation but a consenting to let Him do it all for us, in us and through us. Our part is simply to yield, rest and trust, then wait. In Our faith of His Word as we wait patiently we will see Him perform His life in us.

      The only testimony we need is the fathers testimony of His Son. By abiding we will see His work in us and have His testimony. Any testimony we have about ourselves is of sin and unbelief. The Fathers only speaks and works in His Son. He shows by His Word what His Son is to the sinner. By our faith in the Word of God we will partake of the Law of Life which is in Christ Jesus. A Law overall. There is no other way to put this the Law of Life into action.