…by Robert H. Gundry)

“If we have to forsake the law to be justified by faith in Christ, does Christ encourage sin? No; rather, if I go back to the law, I imply that I was sinning in abandoning it. But I did not sin in abandoning the law, for Christ died under the judgment of the law against sin. As a believer, I died with Christ in the sense that God counts Christ’s death as mine too. Now the law has no authority over a dad person, especially one who has died under its penalty. So having died with Christ, I am no longer obligated to keep the law. But he rose and lives in me; and just as I died in Christ when he died and thus became free from the law, I likewise rose in Christ to a new life of righteousness in which the law plays no part. Therefore, if human beings could become righteous through keeping the law, Christ did not need to die.”