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We are not under ANY LAW NOR THEIR CURSES.
This is true ONLY in the matter of "Justification", Mark. And even there, technically it is indisputable that we are saved by the keeping of the Law, albeit vicariously and substitutionally by the active and passive work of the Lord Christ.

But as to "Sanctification", we are certainly "under law" as God's immutable rule of life for those who claim to believe on Jesus Christ Who came so save His people from their sins, not in their sins. The Spirit of Christ gives both the desire and power to do that which was afore time impossible, i.e., to live a life of "holiness, righteousness and with true knowledge" (Eph 4:24; Col 3:10) before God, which is defined by His moral LAW; aka: Ten Commandments.

The very purpose of God in salvation which He purposed in eternity is said to have been:

Romans 8:29 (ASV) "For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:"


1 John 5:1-3 (ASV) "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God: and whosoever loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous."


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Mark wrongly stated:
Do you cook, drive, wash, clean , play with the pc , listen to the radio etc, etc, on a Sunday ? We ALL do and are therefore all Sabbath breakers.
And from this it can be seen that you have made a judgment as to what is "unacceptable" behaviour on the Sabbath. But if, as you say you believe, that there is no "Sabbath law", then one could not be judged a "Sabbath breaker", for now does one break that which does not exist? Further, using your reasoning, we all sin in every way imaginable and beyond when the light of God's moral law is shone upon our hearts. We are all sinners of the worse kind, yet does that truth therefore mean that we are not to abstain from breaking that law?

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 (ASV) "Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God."


You say that you have run away from a "legalist hypercalvinist pastor". But, did you? I mean, by the view that you have expressed here, I cannot help but wonder if your label of this man is accurate. To an antinomian, someone who believes that the Ten Commandments are binding upon ALL men, respective of their spiritual state, will be seen as a "Legalist", yet erroneously so.

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"A gracious soul is glad of the law because it checks his sinful excesses. The heart would be ready to run wild in sin if it had not some blessed restraints put upon it by the law of God. He that loves God loves His law — the law of repentance, the law of self-denial. Many say they love God but they hate His laws. 'Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.' (Psa. ii. 3). God’s precepts are compared to cords, they bind men to their good behaviour; but the wicked think these cords too tight, therefore they say, Let us break them. They pretend to love Christ as a Saviour, but hate Him as a King. Christ tells us of His yoke (Matt. xi. 29). Sinners would have Christ put a crown upon their head, but not a yoke upon their neck. He were a strange king that should rule without laws." — Thomas Watson
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