Chapter 3 - God's Purpose for the Law

Well chaplettes this is abit of a synopsis of chapter 3 although i wont be quite as fluent or poetic as our american bro (jamie's dad) i will give it my best shot.really want to encourage you guys to keep going with the bible even try get some of it done coz it gives you some pure gold, i love golddddd, from the bible and helps us to know where to look when we dont have a clue. so we've been exploring the Old Testament and God's Law and its reference to sin.so it started: 1.sin wasnt counted against us pre - Old Covenant (remember imputed?!) 2.Moses gave the Old Covenant as sin was ruining people and people were pretty bad 3.The Law was inferior alone so Jesus came to earth and presented the New Covenant ie the only way to Jesus So thats what we've been exploring in the first few chapters and in chapter 3 A. Wommack refers to sin and how Jesus has changed how we should view forgiveness and that sin has no power over us. In the first few pages of teh chapter he states if we really understood Gods goodness we should run straight to Him when we mess up........however the reality sadly is we often run away from God as we dont want to be punished or feel "we arent good enough to be a Christian" WELL thats WRONG its such a good thing for us that God loved and loves us so much he sent Jesus to be take on punishment for ALLLLLLLLLL our sins. For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin - Romans 6:7 So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus -Romans 8:1 read that verse lads if we are for God there is no guilt due to sin as the perfect one forgives us, always! So the purpose of the Law was to give us knowledge of sin but it doesnt give us knowledge of Jesus - Gods true nature....forgiveness and sacrifice for us. Now we have the Holy Spirit as our convicting power that makes us want to not upset God by sinning against Him. Jesus only wants to be close to us so dont run from Him when you sin....just ask for forgiveness and run towards Him and youll reap the benefit of forgiveness. amen bros