Mark Vestal Proud of nothing of myself. Freed by Christ who did it all!

No. We are not under Old Testament law. We are living during the time of God's outpouring of grace...not law (Eph 3:2).

Rom 6:14
"For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace."

1 Cor 6:12
"All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any."

1 Cor 10:23
"All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not."

We are COMPLETE in Christ upon having placed our faith in Him. Recognizing what He completed on the cross and why He did it is the whole purpose of His death at Calvary, and how we receive His free gift of salvation (1 Cor 15:1-4). We were not able to keep the law as required by God, but Christ was and did on our behalf. We are to keep in memory HIS sacrifice for us and HIS righteousness (not ours). What He did is because of His love for us, and made possible by His outpouring of grace, that will continue until the last believer fills His body, which is the church (Col 1:24).

Gal 5:1-6
"Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love."

Col 2:6-17
"As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ."

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