Reading:
Be
not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good
thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not
profited them that have been occupied therein.
Commentary:
Out of love for our soul, the Lord here warns us not
to be carried away with divers (various) doctrines.
It is common for many false teachers who want their own personal
following to find something new in
the Bible, a new doctrine before undiscovered.
Such may be "god's laws" regarding meats or foods, laws
regarding clothing, length of dress, rankings of order or stations in life,
etc. But not understanding (nor
believing) the Gospel, such become preachers of the law. They exalt the law about the Gospel, and those
deceived by such law preachers no longer follow Christ, but the man who teaches
a false christ. While the law has its proper
use if rightly used (yet necessary for our old man within), "it is a good
thing that the heart be established with grace", namely we seek no
justification whatsoever by the law, for we stand secure in the grace of Jesus
Christ who kept the law in our place. Hence
"Christ is the end of the law for righteousness, to everyone that believeth"
and "Not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which
is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by
faith."
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