Above The Law“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.” (Romans 8:1-2) In the 1988 Steven Seagal movie Above The Law, Chicago cops battle cocaine dealers using brutal methods that are above the law since criminals don’t play by the rules. For many years people thought that man could never fly. From Leonardo Da Vinci to Icarus of Greek mythology, countless attempts ended in failure. Then in 1903 two bicycle makers named Orville and Wilbur Wright in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, flew the first airplane for twelve seconds and came back down. The Wright brothers discovered that the laws of aerodynamics, the law of thrust and the law of lift, could override the law of gravity. When thrust propels a plane down the runway fast enough, its wings allow the law of lift to take over and elevate the plane off the ground. These two laws do not cancel the law of gravity, they were simply above it. The law of gravity is still there because if we shut off the engines, gravity will reign supreme and the plane will fall. What the Apostle Paul is saying in the book of Romans is that the law of sin and death is always there, like the law of gravity. The law of sin and death is automatic to anyone who are not saved by the gospel of salvation of Jesus because it is passed down through the generations from the sins of Adam. It is called the Adamic nature, the way of the flesh and like Barbra Streisand, that is The Way We Were. But because we have been born again from above, received Jesus as Lord and Saviour and filled with the Holy Spirit, God has given us a greater law inside us called the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. Christ, the Anointed One and His Anointing which removes burdens and destroys yokes, allows us to override our fleshly and sinful nature, to be Above The Law. When we meditate on and live by the Word of God day after day and listen to the guidance and comfort of the Holy Spirit, then no matter how great the attraction of the flesh, the oppression of the devil or the temptation of the world may be, we can overcome it with the laws of God and live the abundant God kind of life.Copyright © 2002 Eddy Ministries. All rights reserved. Subscribe/Unsubscribe:
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