Happy Trails
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Sorry Happy, we must disagree, when was the last time you went to Jerusalem to make your sacrifices? Perhaps this explanation from Paul might help:
(Romans 6:14) . . .For sin must not be master over you, seeing that you are not under law but under undeserved kindness.
(Romans 7:6) . . .now we have been released from the Law, because we have died to that which restrained us, in order that we might be slaves in a new sense by the spirit and not in the old sense by the written code.
(Galatians 3:11-13) . . .it is evident that by law no one is declared righteous with God, because “the righteous one will live by reason of faith.” 12 Now the Law is not based on faith. Rather, “anyone who does these things will live by means of them.” 13 Christ purchased us, releasing us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse instead of us, because it is written: “Accursed is every man hung upon a stake.”
Christians are still under laws, and many of them were included in the Law covenant given through Moses, but many are not as well.
Romans 6:14 Nothing in the definition of "grace" or "favor" suggests they are undeserved. Noah found grace BECAUSE he walked with Elohim. If grace were undeserved, the world should not have been destroyed.
Let's read the next 2 verses:
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
We are not cursed by disobedience, so should we disobey? God forbid! Don't you know that the one you obey is your Master, and the one you obey leads you to either death or righteousness. Obeying Rome leads to death. Obeying YHVH leads to righteousness.
YHVH said that a sacrifice can only be made at the place where he put his Name, and that I must give my sacrifice to the attending priest. There is no Temple, so I can't. When the Temple is built again, it would be appropriate for Christians to offer sacrifices there. Acts 21:18-26 Paul is instructed by the elder to prove he is still Torah observant by taking a Nazarite vow.
Romans 7 is about the law of death in marriage. If you divorce, you cannot remarry. If your ex-spouse dies, you are released from that law. Taking it out of context is how it gets twisted.
The whole story of the Gospel is that we cheated on our husband. He gave us a divorce. He came and died. Now we are free to remarry, but now we can legally remarry our former husband, the Elohim of Israel, because he took on himself the form of flesh and died for us.
Galatians 3:11-13 There is nothing you can perform from the Law to erase the sin against God you have committed. That is why we are not justified by the Law. We have already broken it, and there is nothing we can do to erase that. The curse of the Law was "if you disobey the Law, I will curse you." We are no longer under the curse of the Law. We can now obey it freely, without the fear of condemnation.
If Christians are still under laws, they must be man-made, because YHVH said we are not under the Torah. The reason we obey his Law is because we love him, not because we fear being punished. Subject to the punishment is what "under the Law" means. Jesus redeemed us from that.