Free In the Spirit? (Parts 4 & 5)

Topic: It goes something like this:  I am free in the Spirit because Jesus died to set me free. He set me free from the laws of the Old Testament that no longer bind me.  I do not have to keep the commandments that are listed in the Old Testament because I am a New Testament Believer, not a Jew.  To keep the laws written in the Old Testament is going back under the law and giving up my faith in Christ so that I will be condemned by trying to do this because I can’t keep them; they are too hard!

Picking up with Response:  
 
 
Parts 4 and 5
 
As far as being freed from the Jews, that is not taught anywhere in Scriptures. Rather, it is taught that being accepted into His family of Israel, by faith, for both Jew and Gentile is our goal. 

 
11Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)— 12remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. 13But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.… Ephesians 2:11-13 Berean St ...

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