Are You Living Under the Law and You Do Not Know It?

Are You Living Under the Law and You Do Not Know It?






Walking under the Law of the Old covenant means living your life by trying to meet the standard of the Law by your right-performance (works).



It’s seeing how incomplete YOU are (flesh) and therefore there is an urge to complete and perfect yourself by your own effort.



It’s thinking, “I need to meet the standard of the Law in order to be right with God”. Not knowing that Jesus IS your Standard. He IS the standard by which God measures you in Him. No longer by how well you meet the standard of the Law, but how well Jesus has met it for you.”

Since he met the standard for righteousness for YOU, then you ARE righteous with God by His righteousness; not your own. This is why righteousness is a gift, and not earned by works.





Check out the word Righteous in Greek. Among all other definitions it says "HAS MET THE STANDARD OF THE LAW; HAS MET THE STANDARD OF GOD".



You HAVE met any standard of man or laws or requirements because Jesus imputed His righteousness to you, while ALL your sins, faults, mess, old nature, old identity as sinner - was imputed to Him. There was an exchange of identity on the cross. He became you, and you became Him.





Such mindset of the Law and seeing your old identity in Adam, comes from not seeing the finished works of Christ on the cross and his resurrection. It is seeing yourself in Adam and not in Christ.



It’s an identity Crisis of being veiled by the Law from seeing the finished works of Christ and who he has made you in Him.



It’s believing that what Christ has done is NOT good enough and therefore, YOU by YOUR performance need to add to what He has already done and finished.





The language of the Law is DO, but the language of Grace is DONE, FINISHED.





Walking under the Law is seeing the old man you USED to BE in Adam before Christ was resurrected. It's seeing yourself as righteous by your performance, and how well your flesh performs; it's not seeing the new creation Christ made you.



It's still seeing your sins, blemishes, faults, wrongs and having the old identity in Adam as a Sinner.



Walking under the Law is seeing YOU instead of seeing Christ who is in you. It's beinf SELF conscious instead of Christ conscious.

It's still seeing your sins, and having the old identity in Adam as a Sinner.



Walking under the Law is seeing YOU instead of seeing Christ in you. It's focusing on SELF and not on Christ who is your new identity.



Who you are IS Christ who gave you His identity. He made you already as a new creation in His image and in His form.



So, Elana, why doesn't it manifest? Why am I still failing in my performance?

Meaning, “I am still not in the image of God”, “I am not Christlike”, I need to perform right in order to BE Christlike”.



Really???



Being made complete in the image of God who is revealed in Christ is by YOUR WORKS?

It’s by how well YOU PERFORM?



No, this deception of an unfinished works has to be removed.



AS the temple of God Christ HAS build you complete in Him. Like Eve who was built from Adam, you had NO PART in this finished works. God built you perfect in Christ, now your part is to BELIEVE IT. Believe that He did the job for you and it’s not by your own works and effort that you ARE complete.



Man cannot have ANY part in the building of the New Temple – the new creation in Christ.

It’s Christ’s works and His alone and He finished the work and now He rests.

So, rest in His finished works by believing who He has already made you.



Psalms 92:4-6 NASB

(4) For You, O LORD, have made me glad by what You have done, I will sing for joy at the works of Your hands.

(5) How great are Your works, O LORD! Your thoughts are very deep.

(6) A senseless man has no knowledge, Nor does a stupid man understand this:







Why is your new identity in Christ not manifesting yet?



Because the more you SEE who you ARE in Christ, and not who you're NOT - the more you see Christ in you. Whatever you focus on - lifts up. If you focus on YOU and your faults, and your old self, you will only see SELF and your walk will be trying to perfect your flesh.



If you behold Christ (see Him who is in you) you will be transformed into who He has already made you. Transformation and manifestation of Christ in us, is by beholding Christ, not beholding SELF.



Focus on negative, your old self in Adam, who you're not, your faults, sins, mess - will blind you from seeing who Christ has made you as a new being.



Focus on Christ, who He is, His identity which you HAVE, His righteousness, His finished works, who He made you, how complete He sees you in Him, and how perfectly He has removed all your sins from you - means you walk in the Spirit.

It means you don't walk by who YOU see yourSELF, but who you ARE as a Spirit Being.



See yourself the way God sees you in Christ, not the way the Law sees you in Adam.





The Law says "purify my heart Lord and give me a right Spirit", but the finished works of Christ says "I have already purified your heart and gave you My Spirit whithin you. I gave you a new heart and a new spirit and this is ho I made you a new creation. See who you ARE, not who you used to be. In other words, do not walk under the Law which defines who you are, walk in Who Christ has made you by His blood.





We’ve been perfected by His blood and His works, not by self effort or ANYTHING we have done or can ever do.



Hebrews 10:14-15 NASB “For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified. And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us;”





Don’t live your life like the religious guy who lived under the Law and wanted eternal life by his law keeping.



He asked Jesus how he could get eternal life. Jesus pointed to his law keeping to get him to the end of himself, so he would see how much He needs a Savior. Because by our law keeping we would only find how much we CANNOT keep the demands of the Law.



The guy in his pride thought he had already kept all the commandments, so he focused on something else he needs to DO in order to obtain eternal life. This is when Jesus said to him: “if you wish to be COMPLETE… go and do this and that”. Jesus showed us through that conversation that desiring eternal life means wishing to be complete.



Jesus added to the law another unwritten law. And the guy could not admit he cannot DO it. He could not admit he needs a Savior.


Matthew 19:16-21 NASB And someone came to Him and said, "Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may obtain eternal life?" (17) And He said to him, … if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments." (20) The young man *said to Him, "All these things I have kept; what am I still lacking?" (21) Jesus said to him, "If you wish to be complete, go and sell … and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me."


If you notice, Jesus did NOT tell this man that he can have eternal life if he sells all his good. He just told him after you DO this, come and follow Me. Because eternal life is Him. He is eternal life. Eternal life was given to man because Christ HAS PERFECTED US by His blood, and not by ANYTHING we can ever do right. It's not by man's works or doings. Its a gift given to man by what Christ has done and finished.


Tyre saw herself perfect not by what God has done, but by the perfecting of the flesh – by self effort, by believing that His finished works was not good enough and man needs to add to what God has done.


Ezekiel 27:2-7 NLT

(2) "Son of man, sing a funeral song for Tyre,

(3) that mighty gateway to the sea, the trading center of the world. Give Tyre this message from the Sovereign LORD: "You boasted, O Tyre, 'My beauty is perfect!'

(4) You extended your boundaries into the sea. Your builders made your beauty perfect.

(5) You were like a great ship built of the finest cypress from Senir. They took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

(6) They carved your oars from the oaks of Bashan. Your deck of pine from the coasts of Cyprus was inlaid with ivory.

(7) Your sails were made of Egypt's finest linen, and they flew as a banner above you. You stood beneath blue and purple awnings made bright with dyes from the coasts of Elishah.

Ezekiel 27:10-11 NASB

(10) "Persia and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war. They hung shield and helmet in you; they set forth your splendor.
(11) "The sons of Arvad and your army were on your walls, all around, and the Gammadim were in your towers. They hung their shields on your walls all around; they perfected your beauty.

The Galatians had wrong doctrine about the finished works of Christ:
Galatians 3:1-3 NASB

(1) You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? (the old identity in Adam was gone, it died!!!)

(2) This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?

(3) Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?

The resurrection of Christ is the evidence that the working of God was made complete and therefore we WERE raised up with Him already circumcised from the flesh old nature. Our old self is dead and was removed by the Spirit. Not by man’s hands.


Colossians 2:9-12 NASB

(9) For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form,

(10) and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority;

(11) and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ;

(12) having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.



We have been perfected by the unity Jesus brought. We ARE one spirit with Him already by the new Spirit He gave us and put in us. We’re in Him and He is in us already.

Joh 17:23 I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity,


1 Corinthians 6:17 NASB (17) But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.




A question:

Wouldn't we be liars if we said nothing is negative. How could our God lift us out of negative things if there is no acknowledgment of them to come out of?



My answer:


This world is in darkness and doesn't know the light. We're not of this world and we're not to look at who the world says we are. We look to Heaven, our true Home where we already live and citizens of. That's the struggle between the Spirit and the Flesh, Grace and Law, Works and Faith we all go through. But we're learning in our walk to walk free - not by doing, but by KNOWING who are are in Christ. As for our identity, indeed we ARE complete in Christ, new beings which He built. There is indeed no blemish in us. If we look to the flesh (which died with Christ) we will SEE all the blemishes and try to perfect dead flesh. But when we look to Christ we will SEE Christ in us; His righteousness - no longer our own through the perfection of our dead flesh. we're not worshippers of the dead, but of the Living One who is in us and made us complete in Him. How? He perfectly removed and took away all our sins. That’s how He cleansed us once and for all. Your sins have been completely removed and you are a new creation, beautiful, perfect in His eyes. We just need to SEE who He has made us.




Much love and grace,



Elana