The Believer’s Rule of Life

Paul saith in Rom. 8:1, “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus” and in v. 33-34 he saith, “...who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God.” Believers are then redeemed from the curse of the law given on Mount Sinai, “...do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea we establish the law.” (Rom. 3:31) The soul that feels its curse removed by the LORD Jesus Christ is enabled to approve of all that the law saith, acknowledge its right to condemn, desire it should stand forever and owns it as holy, just and good, “Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.” (Romans 10:4) Others wish the law was abolished and its power destroyed. But then are not believers under it as a rule of life, say some and the whole of their walk? I answer ‘No’. If that broken covenant is the rule and the only rule of believers lives and nothing to move to the service of God but the precepts of that law, as written words, their souls will be found as destitute of fruit, acceptable unto God and glorifying unto His name, as the barren fig tree was destitute of fruit which Christ cursed.