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Godly fear is good and also part of the Law (Lev 25:17, Deut 28:58, Job 37:24,
Psalm 22:23, 33:8, 112:1, 128:1, 4, Eccl 8:12-13, 12:13, Heb 12:28) and to pray for
this is acceptable (Heb 12:28). If people are not Christians then they should fear
their potential, pre-judgement, placement in hell as authroised by God (Mat 10:28,
Mark 16:16, Luke 12:5, Rev 20:14).

Fear can be negatively appropriative (Job 3:25, Ezek 11:8).

The Christian Life and the Law

The Law acts only as a device (Gal 3:24) to bring us to escape from the Law and
end its applicability (Rom 10:4) by the fulfilment of Christianity (Mat 5:17, Rom
10:4). It commands that those under it escape it (Rom 1:17), it is universally
known as shown by Romans 1:20, and those once free of it are under the command
to obey only the two great commandments (Mat 22:37-40, Luke 10:26-28) which
are uniquely, along with the Salvation imperative, part of the Law (Lev 19:18,
Deut 6:5, Mat 22:37-40, Luke 10:28). Christ is both the Word (John 1:14), the
Book of the Law (Deut 28:58, 30:10, Jer 6:19, Rev 19:13-16) which is the Law and
therefore Christ is the Law (Jer 6:19, Mat 5:17, Rev 22:18-19), as well as the
means to escape from the Law (Jer 7: 21-23, Mat 5:17, Rom 10:4). He is
simultaneously the Law, the curse (Gen 2:17, John 1:1, 16-17, Rev 22:18-19),
which has been crucified, and the crucifier of the Law (Mal 3:6, Heb 6:6, Rev

22:13) by His two great commandments and is, as risen and the Word, the means
to escape the Law (Gen 1:29, 2:17, 3:24, Mat 22:37-40, Luke 10:26-28, John
11:25, Rom 6:3-7). As such He is simultaneously and was (John 1:1, 9, 15-17,
Heb 7:4, Rev 22:18-19). The two great commandments apply not as
condemnatory Law but as absolute and always valid commandments for the
Christian (John 14:21) and do not condemn as long as someone is a Christian
(Rom 8:1), even though not to keep them is sin (1 John 1:8) of which we are
completely forgiven even as we sin (Rom 8:1). The Law is not prescription or
proscription for the Christian but is only a device for those under it to escape it by
the fulfilment of Christ (Mat 5:18, Rom 10:4, Gal 3:24).

Christ whilst on the cross was, as a mystery, also the cross and the curse (Gen 2:17,
Gal 3:13), the Law crucified upon the cross (Gal 3:13), dead and buried,
resurrected through the fulfilment of the Law and the means thereby to escape
from the Law (Rom 10:4). The cross was/is the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil (Gen 2:17, Gal 3:10-13, 1 Pet 2:24, Rev 22:3), the Law (Rom 3:20). Christ
was cursed for us and was the curse by which he was cursed, under His own
judgement for our sakes thereby freeing us from the curse (Gal 3:13, 1 Pet 2:24).