Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it legitimately.But we know that the law is good if a person uses it lawfully,But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully,
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… till my guilty soul imploring turned to Calvary. Turn to 1 Timothy chapter 1 verse 8 if you would. take your time while I choke. Get behind me. You didn't need a turn there. I just wanted you to do something. Oh, look at that. I think worse than seeing Adam's apple going up and down. this is 1st Timothy chapter 1 verse 8 from the amplified bible so I'll read it a little louder but we know that the law is good if anyone uses it lawfully for the purpose for which it was designed god's law is good if it's used lawfully for the purpose for which it was designed what was it designed for the following verse tells us listen to scripture the law was not made for a righteous man but for sinners it even lists the sinners and in that list is homosexuals and fornications, fornicators. I have witnessed, and you can see this on our YouTube channel, to many homosexuals without offense. Why? Because I use the law to witness to homosexuals. …
… Because when life hands you a battle, you got to remember what God said. I love what Timothy told, Paul told Timothy in 1 Timothy 1.8. He said, Timothy, my son, I am giving you this command in keeping with the prophecies once made about you so that by recalling them, you might fight the battle well. Did you hear what he said? He said, Timothy, life is going to hand you some battles. You're going to go through some hardships and struggles. And it's oftentimes that we're in the middle of difficulty. We have a tendency to forget what God said when things are good. He said, but the thing that's going to keep you in the battle, the thing that's not going to allow you to acquiesce and back up, you got to start recalling what God prophesied over that situation and circumstance. I want to tell somebody that may be in a battle right now. You may be in a situation right now. You may be in Gwinnett or Brazelton and going through things that don't look like nothing that God told you. …
3. If it be said, “But sometimes a believer in Christ may lose his sight of the mercy of God; sometimes such darkness may fall upon him that he no longer sees him that is invisible, no longer feels that witness in himself of his part in the atoning blood; and then he is inwardly condemned, he hath again “the sentence of death in himself”: I answer, supposing it so to be, supposing him not to see the mercy of God, then he is not a believer: For faith implies light, the light of God shining upon the soul. So far, therefore, as any one loses this light, he, for the time, loses his faith. And, no doubt, a true believer in Christ may lose the light of faith; and so far as this is lost, he may, for a time, fall again into condemnation. But this is not the case of them who now “are in Christ Jesus,” who now believe in his name. For so long as they believe, and walk after the Spirit, neither God condemns them, nor their own heart. 4. They are not condemned, secondly, for any present sins, for now transgressing the commandments of God. For they do not transgress them: they do not “walk after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” This is the continual proof of their “love of God, that they keep his commandments”; even as St. John bears witness. “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin. For his seed remaineth in him, and he cannot sin, because he is born of God:” he cannot, so long as that seed of God, that loving, holy faith remaineth in him. So long as “he keepeth himself” herein, “that wicked one toucheth him not.” Now it is evident, he is not condemned for the sins which he doth not commit at all. They, therefore, who are thus “led by the Spirit, are not under the law” (Gal. 5:18): not under the curse or condemnation of it; for it condemns none but those who break it. Thus, that law of God, “Thou shalt not steal,” condemns none but those who do steal. Thus, “Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy,” condemns those only who do not keep it holy. But against the fruits of the Spirit “there is no law” (5:23); as the Apostle more largely declares in those memorable words of his former epistle to Timothy: “We know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; knowing this,” (if, while he uses the law of God, in order either to convince or direct, he know and remember this), hoti dikaio nomos ou keitai, (not, “that the law is not made for a righteous man,” but) “that the law does not lie against a righteous man:” it has no force against him, no power to condemn him; “but against the lawless and disobedient, against the ungodly and sinners, against the unholy and profane; according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God.” (1 Tim. 1:8, 9, 11). …