Die to the law

A Christian dies to the law. What is the law? The perfect law of God? No, a deeply perverted version of God's law. Theologians who know enough to say one can't be saved by doing works or following the law of God still don't know what the law of God is that the apostle Paul refers to when he says you must die to the law. This law is a 'medium' in which all humanity exists and moves in. This law expresses itself in things like man revering and man fearing and idol worship. It turns everything upside-down. The same theologian who knows enough to know he can't be saved by doing the works of the law is yet dead asleep to the reality of his living in that very law, God's perfect law perverted from white to black by fallen man, and demanding that everyone else live in that law. That theologian has yet to 'die to the law.'

A fish doesn't know he is in water, and a person who has yet to awaken to and die to the law doesn't know he is living in, as a very medium, the Beast system which is what God's law is to fallen man. In the churches that have even the most on-the-mark doctrine you see the Beast system manifested in such things as clericalism, ritualism, moralism, and formalism. In man fearing and man revering. In vain titles. In demands that people conform to the demands of man and tradition and show fear to men with threats of consequences for any who get 'out of line.' Out of line with the Beast system. The fear of God is turned into the fear of man. Idols are put in place of God and worshiped and people are policed to worship the idols or suffer the consequences. Black is white, up is down, good is evil, evil is good. All with a self-satisfied, self-justified self-righteousness.

How do you die to the law? You wake up and you fear only God. Then you suffer the consequences. Like a follower of Christ. It's not pleasant to go against the Beast system. This is why so few individuals do it. It's not pleasant to awaken, because you awaken to the fact that you are in a kingdom of death. A rather unpleasant house of violence and insanity. The Beast gives you 'just enough' to make you feel just 'good enough' worshiping him and staying in line. He gives you sexual pleasure. He gives you food and makes you fat. He gives you money and the feeling of being powerful. He gives you a wide array of shallow diversions to keep you busy until your appetites cycle around again and you do it all again. So you remain alive to the law. Alive to the Beast system. You fear and revere man, and you flinch with fear if you are just even slightly accused of not properly fearing and revering man. You're a rabbit, always fearful of angering the Beast as it manifests all around you through his followers and institutions.

How do you combat this? You fear only God. You stand as if in the presence of God, and you fear only God. Practically speaking you start to remember yourself, and you separate from your old nature within, the Old Man within you, which has concrete features you can identify and observe in real time. You separate from the world in real time by learning the 'feel' of fearing only God whenever the world would shame you or threaten you to fear man. And you learn to lose your fear of the devil and to see him as a defeated enemy with no power over you; but you have to stand your ground against him. You have to show some courage.

You have to be a king. A prophet, a priest, and a king. These are practical things which I've discussed in early posts on this site. They are available in other - better - sources for any to learn who is guided by the Holy Spirit to learn the practical level of the faith. Seek them. Find them. Practice them. God wants His own to be mature warriours. Start by recognizing and not being afraid of dying to the law, or the system of the Beast, which is what fallen man perverts God's perfect law into being.