Agree with thine adversary quickly

 

(Matthew 5: 25-26)

『Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing. 』

Satan is always accused. Satan accuses sinners through the law of God. God's law is the law of wrath. In order for Satan to sue a sinner, there must be a basis for law.

『Agree with 』 This is how to avoid suing. In Luke, "strive for reconciliation" means "free from law." 『So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them. 』 (Acts 19:12)

『And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 』 (Hebrews 2:15)

"deliver" means "reconciled." If we reconcile with God, Satan can't sue. In other words, Satan is suing on the basis of the law, and if we are not to be accused of Satan, we must be liberated from the law. There is a way to agree with God quickly.

『But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,  To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. 』 (Galatians 4: 4-5)

 God releases those who are in Christ from the law because Jesus was born under the law and died by the law,

Jesus was resurrected regardless of the law. Those who are in Jesus Christ die with Jesus and are resurrected together.

『Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 』 (Romans 6: 3-6)

Romans (8: 1-4) tells how to redeem.『There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath 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 sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 』

Those who are in Jesus Christ are not under the law. The demands of the law are God's righteousness. Those who are in Christ gain the righteousness of God through Jesus Christ because Jesus died for the law.

『And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him. 』 When Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, he died about the law. Baptism refers to dying in Romans (6:3). As Jesus dies, he takes away all the sins of the world and fulfills all righteousness. "The requirement of the law was fulfilled by Jesus Christ" means "who is in Jesus Christ the law is fulfilled." There is no law in the risen Christ.

『Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. 』 (Romans 4:15)

There is no law is in Christ. Those who are in Jesus Christ never condemn by law. Those who believe in Jesus Christ and believe that the law should be kept do not believe what Jesus Christ has accomplished. Therefore they are not in Christ.

The church people say, "Jesus came to perfect the law, not to destroy it." The Bible said, "Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." But why do people say that they have broken the law? Thus, there are those who say that they must keep the law. After all, these are bound to be judged by the law of God's wrath. But when God judges, those who are in Jesus Christ are not judged because they overlook the sins of the law and pass over to grace. Thus there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ.

 It was Jesus Christ who came to perfect the law, not humans. Human beings cannot keep the law perfectly. If you are in Jesus, you are recognized by God for what Jesus did. But man's willingness to keep the law is like not acknowledging what Jesus Christ has accomplished. They are to be judged by the law at the judgment of God. Will you enter into Jesus Christ, or will you be judged by the law before God, trying to keep it?

『For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. 』 (James 2:10). In the Old Testament, when a sinner violated the law, he must catch the animal and give blood to the altar. In the New Testament, if a sinner sins against the law, he must be forgiven by the blood of Jesus Christ. Every time you sin, you will need blood.

 『Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 』 (Hebrews 9:12) Jesus cannot die twice. We must go out of the law and enter into the grace of freedom in Christ.

『But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people: 』 (Hebrews 9: 7)

 It is very natural. But few people take seriously about dying. After death, there must be judgment. The judge is God. The word "when on the road" means "way of life."

『And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: 』 (1 Peter 1:17) Therefore, only the union with Jesus Christ, who died on the cross, is the way to escape from God's judgment.