The Suppression of the Sons of God by the Law

Understanding Sonship Today’s Focus: The Suppression of the Sons of God by the Law Scripture: Colossians 2:13 - Colossians 3:4 Greetings Kingdom Citizens Now in a past message called “Slavery vs. Freedom” we saw how the Law enslaves the believer and prevents them from realizing their sonship in Galatians 3:15 through Galatians 4:24. Now after all of this to the church at Galatia, God realizes we still have a big problem with people wanting to be under the Law and now the church at Colossi gets to hear about how the Law suppresses sons of God. Now let’s lay a couple ground statements and then we will allow the scriptures to support those statements so that it is not I (Calvin) who is saying this but God. 1. The Law does not make sons, it makes slaves through disobedience. 2. The Law cannot raise you in being a son of God, it condemns you when you can’t keep it. 3. You cannot grow in the Law because it takes faith to mature as a son of God and the Law is written for you to see. The Law does not bring about righteousness but condemnation. We start at Colossians 2:13 with God telling the believers that being dead in our sins, He (Jesus) has quickened together with Him (Jesus) having forgiven you (sons) of all trespasses. Simple to understand that once we came into the Kingdom all of our transgressions were forgiven. Now verse 14: BLOTTING OUT THE HANDWRITING OF ORDINANCES THAT WAS AGAINST US, WHICH WAS CONTRARY TO US. Stop right here! God is saying the handwriting of ordinances is the Law. Now what did He do? He blotted them out. In other words, He did away with the Law as a schoolmaster over us (Believers). But here is the great part for all of those who love to live under the Law: God says “That the Law (ordinances) were AGAINST US AND CONTRARY TO US! In other words, the Law was our enemy to sonship. Now look how God did that. He took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross. The Law was nailed to the cross when Jesus died and was resurrected. Now verse 15; Having spoiled principalities and powers, he (Jesus) made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. When Jesus came, He showed how the Kingdom citizens and the sons were different from those under the Law. Here is an example, Matthew 5:27,28. Jesus shows here that if a man looketh on a woman and lust after her then he has already committed adultery. Now how is that so unique because the Kingdom life is not based on the Law but the condition of your heart. If you were under the Law, the only way you break that Law is that you actually commit the act, but Jesus said looking and lusting which are not physical in the sense. So this is why you cannot use the Law to raise sons because the Law has nothing to do with the condition of your heart. You cannot become a better Christian by obeying and living under the Law and those who criticize saints for not living under the Law here is a scripture right in line with our discussion. Colossians 2:16: LET NO MAN THEREFORE JUDGE YOU (BELIEVERS) IN MEAT OR IN DRINK, OR IN RESPECT OF ANY HOLYDAY, OR OF THE NEW MOON, OR OF THE SABBATH DAYS: WHICH ARE A SHADOW OF THINGS TO COME; BUT THE BODY IS OF CHRIST. I hope all of you who want to take us back under the Law read that statement and repent. These are the words of God through our brother Paul to believers, saints, sons of God, Kings and Priests. Now God does not stop there He wants to completely deal with this. Verse 18: Let no man beguile (trick) you of your reward (sonship) in a voluntary humility and worshipping angels, introducing into those things which he has not seen, VAINLY PUFFED UP BY HIS FLESHLY MIND (SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS). See these people who are free but believe we should live under the law will approach those who are free with their own form of humility and beliefs and try to convince you that what they know because they live under the Law makes them better and shows that they know God. But that is backwards in thought because the Law was put into place because the children of Israel rejected the covenant to become sons and rejected coming into the presence of God, face to face and not behind a veil. So they do not know God face-to-face because they have put a veil (the Law) over their face and deal with God from behind the veil. I am stopping here and we will pick up at Colossians 3:19 in the next message. God Bless. At Our Father’s Service, Elder Calvin Calhoun, Jr.