From the book “Truth For Today: A Daily Touch of God’s Grace” by John F. MacArthur

That the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. - Romans 8:4, NKJV

Some people believe that since we are saved by grace and are no longer under the law, then we are no longer bound to the law. That’s true in this sense: we are not bound to the penalty of the law. Since we came to Christ, the law no longer has power to condemn or execute us. However, we are bound to its precepts, for God has not changed His morality.

The apostle Paul said, “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. . . . For the law of the Spirit of lie in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh” (Romans 8:1-3). The sacrifice of Christ freed us from the penalty of the law—He died in our place. So we are free from the law only in the sense that it cannot condemn us, yet we are still commanded to obey its precepts.

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Truth For Today: A Daily Touch of God’s Grace by John F. MacArthur

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