Amadeus ~ continued
The Point is...SIN.
WHAT is SIN.
WHEN is something a SIN.
And WHEN is SIN applicable to ANY particular man?
When I was naturally BORN...
I was not a Hebrew or a Jew.
I was not SUBJECT TO their Laws or Statutes.
I DID not believe IN God or Christ Jesus, or even KNOW, what that meant.
As God afforded the disciples, and anyone else, opportunity to HEAR His Word, so also are babies, who become children, who become men, given opportunity to HEAR His world.
I chose to hear, read, reread, study, read some more, and keep reading, and continue, and continue.
The Lord prepared me with His gift of Faith, to call on Him, and Confess my heartfelt belief in Him, in Christ Jesus, and the love for Him, and the Regret for having NOT believed.
I know, what my own heart thought.
I know, my confession was true.
I know, WHAT the Lord taught, would Follow AFTER my Confession to Him.
I know, that I was SURE, I was willing to Accept His Gifts, "AND" the consequences "OF those IN the World" would heap upon me.
And NOT for ONE second, DO I believe, His gifts were "not" given me....
Or that His gifts would EVER be "departed or taken away" from me.
I was Forgiven FOR....not obeying Laws and Statutes, given Hebrews? Jews?
Not at all.
I was Forgiven FOR...NOT BELIEVING!
THAT was MY SIN!
And my SIN of disbelief, Corrupted MY SOUL (and that was Restored, to NEVER again be Corrupted, By My Sin, that is Forgiven, and Covered with Gods indwelling Light).
Because I agreed, for Him to MAKE changes within me...and He DID so, there is ZERO possibility for me to EVER again COMMIT SIN....and "NOT Believe"!
Gods Statutes....rolled up into Two, By Jesus' authority...
1) Love the Lord with all your heart...
2) Love they neighbor...friend or enemy...
Tall ORDER...and Entirely possible...
Because it is Gods Power within me, that makes it possible and in effect.
Moses Laws? Never subject to his laws.
Arron's "curse" Laws? (consequences for violating Moses' Laws?) Never was subject to his laws.
Precepts? Behaviors BETWEEN Men?
The Scripture are full of Knowledge, regarding the Behaviors GOD desires men to have BETWEEN men.
(And failures, I think you are calling a SIN. If you are a Jew, under the law... you would correct.)
Not correct if you are Gentile forgiven for Disbelief.
Consequence for failure to use Gods Precepts for behavior BETWEEN men?
(Which poor behavior, cheating, lying, deceiving, stealing, abandoning, etc...
Are called TRESPASSES.)
Consequences? Lie to another? They find out? They will dish out the consequence. Cheat, same thing. Steal, same thing, but the civil law may do more, like jail you. Murder, same thing,
But civil law may imprison you, or kill you.
An individual who Trespasses, has to bare the BURDEN and CONSEQUENCE for their own Behavior. Nothing Saves a person from that.
Remember Gods business is SAVING SINNERS who do not know Him, and SAVING SOULS in men that Repent and are willing to become changed.
Men have to SAVE themselves, from Backlashing that will come to them for their Trespasses Against other men.
And God Teaches men His Precepts, SO THEY CAN AVOID the backlashes for Trespassing Against men.
Saved men who do not BOTHER, to learn or do Gods Precepts, They shall bring on their own suffering, and have to deal with it themselves. God will be there to Comfort, but He will not FIX it FOR THEM.
(And if you notice, ever?...some saved men, always seeming to be in jam?
Others wagging their finger and saying "about" them, they must not be saved, because their behavior is not "christian like" ? (Which many are saved, but get too wrapped up in trying their schemes to compete with the "Jones" of the world, (as the world promotes and teaches) and do not even know their error.)
Bottom line...
Believing, receiving faith, Deciding to heartfully Commit, is a man who WILL Once and forever Receive Gods Gifts of forgiveness and salvation for ever.
He is freed from ever again committing Sin.
Moses Laws, Arrons Laws, God Statutes, are all resolved, no longer applicable for the man to "try" really hard to accomplish. The Lord accomplished within the man with His Power.
Precepts...always ongoing. Always will affect a man, either favorable or unfavorable. And they do not, AFFECT a mans already gifted Salvation.
Sorry so lengthy, a deep subject, and Capital for emphasis, not yelling, like the world says!!
God Bless your and your wife abundantly,
Merry Christmas,
Taken