In the days of Noah when there was no law, the wickedness of mankind was great on the earth. Scripture says that every intent of the thoughts of their hearts were only evil continually. God sent a flood and wiped them out, and started over with Noah and his family.
Then through Moses, the Lord sent the Law to keep His people restrained from wickedness until Christ was fully revealed. Jesus said in His Sermon on the Mount, "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy it but to fulfill it." For Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
The apostle Paul said in Romans 3 that now the righteousness of God apart from the Law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For He made Christ, who knew no sin, to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. 5:21).
So those who have true faith in Christ have the fruit of the Spirit abiding in them and will never act as those that lived during Noah's time. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such there is no Law (Gal. 5:22-23).
True faith in Christ frees us from a corrupt disposition and enables us to fulfill God’s desires for us. True faith in Christ as our Savior causes us to walk differently because He takes out our stony heart and replaces it with a heart of flesh. We can see the evidence of those who have true faith in Christ because they bear the fruit of His Spirit.
That's how we roll y’all -- in the Spirit.
Part 2 coming soon.
Dee Richardson, Voice of the Dove