My Law

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+------My Law; Paul's Words To Peter In Antioch

And it was everything Gamaliel
warned me of: sweat, chest
constrictions restless,
a bull haunted by visions
of his kin immolated…me stirred
from sleep in spasms…wondering
if I killed enough to appease God.
If I sacked more Christians than
Samson pagans in Dagon’s Temple,
fretting if I was “Moses enough”
to plague The Way – Rome’s
Pharaoh to Pharisees. Now I know no
circumcision, nor innocents’ blood
layering like dried plaster on my
sandals, kids in chains’ wailing
echoing softer with distance. I could
care less. No longer striving for man’s
(the law’s) approval- I am justified by
my faith alone. Not works misguided.  

------Galatians 2:11-21
When Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray. When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs? “We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified. “But if, in seeking to be justified in Christ, we Jews find ourselves also among the sinners, doesn’t that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not! If I rebuild what I destroyed, then I really would be a lawbreaker. “For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”