Lets find out exactly what is : spiritual death.
Look at this verse...
"""But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones,"""......
Notice.....this specific death is "engraven in stones"....or in other words.....written in stone.
So, what is that? ???
Thats God's Moral Law, = The 10 Commandments.
Isn't that interesting?
It is... because its amazing that the very morality of God = IS the enemy of our behavior, in our natural state......our fallen nature..
Here is the dichotomy.... On one hand, God's Morality is pure and lovely and holy, but its this very holiness as the Commandments themselves, that brings DEATH to your Spirit......
Or as Paul said, it will deceive you and slay you..
Here he is talking about the 10 commandments , God's Moral Law, that are engraven in stone, that are "DEATH"....... Spiritual Death to a human being's Spirit.
We , as the "Adamic nature", prior to being born again, ....are "fallen".
Well, to fall means you had a status, were at a level and left it, or fell from it..
So, that is Adam and Eve....They had holiness, they were righteous, they were like God's Righteousness, and they FELL from this spiritual position, and this "fallen spiritual state" was passed to you and me.
God, as Jesus THE Christ, came here, to restore you to that original Righteousness, as a "GIFT".
This is Salvation...
Now.... notice what happens when the Commandments are 1st given..
You have Moses, you have the people, you have the 10 Commandments.. 'engraven in Stones".
And what happens when this that is "engraven in stone" that IS God's Moral Law comes to humans?
Your Bible says that 3000 DIED.. as soon as the Commandments were upon them..
See that? That is this verse..... "But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones"".
See what the 10 Commandments "ministered" to the people? = 3000 DIED.
That very moral law, those very 10 commandments, as soon as they show up, you have 3000 die that day..
That is the effect of GOD's MORAL LAW = and the dominion that is brings to a human who is Spiritually fallen.
Its DEATH.......to us.
So what is the cure?
What is the rescue? What is the ANSWER?
A.) Jesus is the WAY = OUT. He is the WAY BACK. John 14:6
Its this Reader........ Peter, in Act 2....preaching NOT the law, and not the 10 commandments, but the GRACE of God.......and what is the instant result?
3000 are SAVED..
Now do you see that?
First you have the Commandments given = and 3000 die.
Next you have the Cross Preached, and God's Grace offered, = and 3000 are saved..
So what does this mean in practical terms regarding your spiritual understanding ?
It means this......It means that if you are trying in your own power to keep those Commandments, they will cause you to fail....to fall.
They will bring a spiritual dominion over you that is not GRACE, but is Legalism, and that power will cause you to sin and live a life of Christian Failure, which is sinning and repenting as your Christianity.
That's a FAIL.
Is that you?
So, what Spiritually SLAYS the unbeliever, also ruins the Believer's Discipleship if you try in your own will and by your own power to obey.
Striving to BE Righteous is how you fail to be righteous.
Most are failing, and most Denominations preach and teach you to be this very born gain discipleship = failure.
So Then.. what is the purpose of God's "engraven in Stone"?
Galatians 3:24,25.
Its to bring you to God's Grace, so that you stop living in self righteousness and turn completely to the Grace of God and EXIST there in your mind and in your heart and in your Faith. No longer struggling to FAIL to be good, but instead understanding that God's Righteousness has become yours as "the gift of Righteousness".
And once you SEE this, once you have this LIGHT, then your discipleship turns from striving to be good and failing, because you have learned to exist in the Peace of God who has made you righteous.......which is none of you.....but its "the GIFT of Righteousness".."The Gift of Salvation".
When you can SEE this, when this LIGHT has been revealed inside you, regarding your Spiritual Eyes and your Spiritual Understanding, then this is RIGHT BELIEVING.
TO Exist there in your heart and in your head, is Right Believing = and this is how you escape the struggle with what is "engraven death", = having truly found your RESTING PLACE in God's Grace.
Look at this verse...
"""But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones,"""......
Notice.....this specific death is "engraven in stones"....or in other words.....written in stone.
So, what is that? ???
Thats God's Moral Law, = The 10 Commandments.
Isn't that interesting?
It is... because its amazing that the very morality of God = IS the enemy of our behavior, in our natural state......our fallen nature..
Here is the dichotomy.... On one hand, God's Morality is pure and lovely and holy, but its this very holiness as the Commandments themselves, that brings DEATH to your Spirit......
Or as Paul said, it will deceive you and slay you..
Here he is talking about the 10 commandments , God's Moral Law, that are engraven in stone, that are "DEATH"....... Spiritual Death to a human being's Spirit.
We , as the "Adamic nature", prior to being born again, ....are "fallen".
Well, to fall means you had a status, were at a level and left it, or fell from it..
So, that is Adam and Eve....They had holiness, they were righteous, they were like God's Righteousness, and they FELL from this spiritual position, and this "fallen spiritual state" was passed to you and me.
God, as Jesus THE Christ, came here, to restore you to that original Righteousness, as a "GIFT".
This is Salvation...
Now.... notice what happens when the Commandments are 1st given..
You have Moses, you have the people, you have the 10 Commandments.. 'engraven in Stones".
And what happens when this that is "engraven in stone" that IS God's Moral Law comes to humans?
Your Bible says that 3000 DIED.. as soon as the Commandments were upon them..
See that? That is this verse..... "But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones"".
See what the 10 Commandments "ministered" to the people? = 3000 DIED.
That very moral law, those very 10 commandments, as soon as they show up, you have 3000 die that day..
That is the effect of GOD's MORAL LAW = and the dominion that is brings to a human who is Spiritually fallen.
Its DEATH.......to us.
So what is the cure?
What is the rescue? What is the ANSWER?
A.) Jesus is the WAY = OUT. He is the WAY BACK. John 14:6
Its this Reader........ Peter, in Act 2....preaching NOT the law, and not the 10 commandments, but the GRACE of God.......and what is the instant result?
3000 are SAVED..
Now do you see that?
First you have the Commandments given = and 3000 die.
Next you have the Cross Preached, and God's Grace offered, = and 3000 are saved..
So what does this mean in practical terms regarding your spiritual understanding ?
It means this......It means that if you are trying in your own power to keep those Commandments, they will cause you to fail....to fall.
They will bring a spiritual dominion over you that is not GRACE, but is Legalism, and that power will cause you to sin and live a life of Christian Failure, which is sinning and repenting as your Christianity.
That's a FAIL.
Is that you?
So, what Spiritually SLAYS the unbeliever, also ruins the Believer's Discipleship if you try in your own will and by your own power to obey.
Striving to BE Righteous is how you fail to be righteous.
Most are failing, and most Denominations preach and teach you to be this very born gain discipleship = failure.
So Then.. what is the purpose of God's "engraven in Stone"?
Galatians 3:24,25.
Its to bring you to God's Grace, so that you stop living in self righteousness and turn completely to the Grace of God and EXIST there in your mind and in your heart and in your Faith. No longer struggling to FAIL to be good, but instead understanding that God's Righteousness has become yours as "the gift of Righteousness".
And once you SEE this, once you have this LIGHT, then your discipleship turns from striving to be good and failing, because you have learned to exist in the Peace of God who has made you righteous.......which is none of you.....but its "the GIFT of Righteousness".."The Gift of Salvation".
When you can SEE this, when this LIGHT has been revealed inside you, regarding your Spiritual Eyes and your Spiritual Understanding, then this is RIGHT BELIEVING.
TO Exist there in your heart and in your head, is Right Believing = and this is how you escape the struggle with what is "engraven death", = having truly found your RESTING PLACE in God's Grace.
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