7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. - Romans 7:7.
Do you know what happened to God's 10 commandments! The 10 commandments have been added to through the years. Even the first people to ask God for rules to follow added to what God laid out for them to follow and to be next to God or have a relationship. The 10 commandments are good and alot of what has been added is good. What had to go was "thou shalt not" had to be taken away. When the cross came into being (not just a type here and a shadow there), there would be no more man's self effort be something with God, it was over period.
Israel didn't really want God to give them rules, they didn't want it written (tablets of stone) but they knew they had to have something because of how God had to handle them as a people. Look at how sin was handled in the Old Testament, it wasn't very pretty, we know how God feels about sin. But in the New Testament your relationship (born again) will be based on love, do I love him more than I love myself. So believers sinning now is handled in a different way (you can trust there will be correction involved), it will be based on love. If you want to live a blantant lifestyle it is your prerogative but you will pay a heavy price for it because of the goodness of your father to care for you and not leave you in a separated state (in mind only). The schoolhouse of your father is way more painful than some written law. There is a term we used for a good chastening "got their hide tanned." Some of you remember quite well your earthly father or mother correcting you and it wasn't pretty but you learned a lesson.
What happened after the cross was man (some leaders as well as laymen) figured out if you kept mixing a little law with the good things you say it keeps people inline. You understand man has a control problem right.
So the simplest way of saying things, to out right saying things that are not so became a norm for some. I have looked at Israel some and they added over 640 new laws which is their Tora to what they already couldn't keep. That had nothing to do with the original 10 commandments. If you give man a shot a being God he will pretty much step up to the plate and give it his best.
Well we know the best man on his best day in the best world could never be God. Kind of sounds like Satan or Lucifer as he is referred to before being thrown out of heaven.
You ever wonder why your understanding will be the most important part of your relationship with God. If you do not understand the things of God there can be a good chance if you are put in the right situation where you get a God complex, you feel you are somewhat above others and some feel that is their calling to keep others inline. Have you ever seen these super saints that have some kind of special insight and calling with God and they have to fix everyone else.
The law has many facets if you will but the main reason for law was to show them their sin. In a way that is how the law of the land works.
Example; man can write a law to stop at a intersection, but they realize without directions to do that nobody will do it, maybe a handful of folks but without a light or a sign to tell them exactly what to do and the written law that says if you don't do it exactly the way it is written you are breaking the law that is written for intersections.
So our lawyers (my word for super saint law minders), busy bodies and such have at the ready all the information of that law to read off to you and let you know you are not keeping it. Seems laughable at times but other times when you look at the full implications of how it keeps believers from the true and deep things of God it becomes the greatest evil perpetrated on mankind. The law is good (fulfilled but still good) and man is more than willing to try to keep some form of it and they will surely make everyone around them do the same.
So you look at the world and it's upheaval to run itself, and law preaching as evil. That is alot to say about something so good but man has distorted and twisted what "thus sayeth the Lord" and the law kills in every way imaginable. There is no life in the law, there was no life ever intended to be in the law. Paul said the commandment "deceived me, by it slew me."
13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. - Romans 7:13.
Do you know what happened to God's 10 commandments! The 10 commandments have been added to through the years. Even the first people to ask God for rules to follow added to what God laid out for them to follow and to be next to God or have a relationship. The 10 commandments are good and alot of what has been added is good. What had to go was "thou shalt not" had to be taken away. When the cross came into being (not just a type here and a shadow there), there would be no more man's self effort be something with God, it was over period.
Israel didn't really want God to give them rules, they didn't want it written (tablets of stone) but they knew they had to have something because of how God had to handle them as a people. Look at how sin was handled in the Old Testament, it wasn't very pretty, we know how God feels about sin. But in the New Testament your relationship (born again) will be based on love, do I love him more than I love myself. So believers sinning now is handled in a different way (you can trust there will be correction involved), it will be based on love. If you want to live a blantant lifestyle it is your prerogative but you will pay a heavy price for it because of the goodness of your father to care for you and not leave you in a separated state (in mind only). The schoolhouse of your father is way more painful than some written law. There is a term we used for a good chastening "got their hide tanned." Some of you remember quite well your earthly father or mother correcting you and it wasn't pretty but you learned a lesson.
What happened after the cross was man (some leaders as well as laymen) figured out if you kept mixing a little law with the good things you say it keeps people inline. You understand man has a control problem right.
So the simplest way of saying things, to out right saying things that are not so became a norm for some. I have looked at Israel some and they added over 640 new laws which is their Tora to what they already couldn't keep. That had nothing to do with the original 10 commandments. If you give man a shot a being God he will pretty much step up to the plate and give it his best.
Well we know the best man on his best day in the best world could never be God. Kind of sounds like Satan or Lucifer as he is referred to before being thrown out of heaven.
You ever wonder why your understanding will be the most important part of your relationship with God. If you do not understand the things of God there can be a good chance if you are put in the right situation where you get a God complex, you feel you are somewhat above others and some feel that is their calling to keep others inline. Have you ever seen these super saints that have some kind of special insight and calling with God and they have to fix everyone else.
The law has many facets if you will but the main reason for law was to show them their sin. In a way that is how the law of the land works.
Example; man can write a law to stop at a intersection, but they realize without directions to do that nobody will do it, maybe a handful of folks but without a light or a sign to tell them exactly what to do and the written law that says if you don't do it exactly the way it is written you are breaking the law that is written for intersections.
So our lawyers (my word for super saint law minders), busy bodies and such have at the ready all the information of that law to read off to you and let you know you are not keeping it. Seems laughable at times but other times when you look at the full implications of how it keeps believers from the true and deep things of God it becomes the greatest evil perpetrated on mankind. The law is good (fulfilled but still good) and man is more than willing to try to keep some form of it and they will surely make everyone around them do the same.
So you look at the world and it's upheaval to run itself, and law preaching as evil. That is alot to say about something so good but man has distorted and twisted what "thus sayeth the Lord" and the law kills in every way imaginable. There is no life in the law, there was no life ever intended to be in the law. Paul said the commandment "deceived me, by it slew me."
13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. - Romans 7:13.
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