Which Law is dead? Can't be this law Paul talking about? Paul said in (Rom. 7:7, 12) (v.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. Paul asked a question, is the law sin? He said God forbid, he said the only way that he knew what sin was, was by the law. (v.12) Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Why in the world would a Christian want to do away with something that God said is holy? Paul said in (Rom. 4:15) Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. If there is no law there is no sin.
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You need to read bud... really, do you want everyone to be slaves after what Jesus did for us. You want us all to follow the ministry of
DEATH which is what Paul called it!
2 Corinthians 3:6-9 (KJV)
Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. But if
the ministration of death, written [and] engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which [glory] was to be done away: How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation [be] glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
The Law is the ministry of death because the only thing written on stone was by God Himself the Ten Commandments! Every religion teaches do good get good, do bad get bad. It’s easy to preach behind a pulpit the do’s and don’ts, you don’t even need the Holy Spirit to do that and by the look of the state of the church today, that’s exactly what’s happening!
Grace exceeds the Law by more than can be understood. No one can keep the Law because its sole job is to point out failure, and then you're dead, the ONLY punishment to breaking it. People like you only see imperfection leading to death and you're so miserable about it, you judge everyone else as evil and wrong and blah blah blah.
2 Corinthians 3:9-11 (KJV)
For if the
ministration of condemnation [the Law] [be] glory, much more doth the
ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. For if that which is done away [was] glorious, much more that which remaineth [is] glorious.
The Law demands perfection and if perfection is not obtained then death is the only punishment! The Law is indeed perfect, but not one soul on the planet from Adam to now could keep the Law save One - Jesus - because He wasn't born of man! Sin is in our genes and we cannot escape that no matter what Law we attempt to keep because in the end we'll break it because we already broke the law before we knew it existed!!!
2 Corinthians 3:17-18 (KJV)
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.
God isn't interesting in behavioral modification! Anyone can teach a chimp rituals to do and not to do. God wants life changing transformation! Understanding that through the abundance of Grace is the only way to live.
When you have right believing you’ll have right living. The Just
SHALL live by
FAITH. God put “Grace and Truth” together, but people are separating them instead of what God separated, “Grace and Truth” vs. Law. In the Greek here, the words “Grace” and “Truth” are singular, meaning that in God’s eyes “Grace and Truth” are one in the same, meaning, Jesus Christ. We need to understand Grace, and Grace will teach us Truth.
You can tell a rebellious child to sit down in a car, but when asked after doing so what they think, they'll say "I'm sitting down but inside I'm standing up!" If that child understands the love intended for them by the parent that they do not wish them harm and that child trusts the parent to do them right, the child will willingly without being told to, sits down and buckles up. We're no different with God.
Romans 6:14 (KJV)
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
When you focus on Jesus and His Grace, then you see more of His holiness and want to praise and worship Him more and leave the
desire of sin behind and thereby, through Him, fulfill the Law. The problem today is that we have a mixture of Law and Grace as if THEY were together. This is mixture according to the Scriptures but man calls it balance. Jesus said you cannot take new wine and put it into the old wine sack, both will be lost. Isn't that just what is happening in the church today? The new wine is Grace and they're putting it into the old sack of the Law! You cannot mix Grace and the Law any more than you can mix oil and water! “Sin shall not have dominion” so what is sin? Here it’s a noun. The curse? Poverty? Sickness? All of the above. The Law came by Moses, a servant, but Grace and Truth by the Son!
John 8:35 (KJV)
And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.
Fifty days after the first Passover, the Law was given and 3000 people died. Fifty days after the last Passover (when Jesus died) the Holy Spirit was given and 3000 people were saved!
John 14:17 (KJV)
Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Makes you wonder if some preachers are really saved!! When you see nothing but scandals and hypocrisies (lies) then this must be what’s going on:
Ephesians 5:9 (KJV)
(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth; )
They don't have the Holy Spirit and without Him what Truth can be taught? Proof: how many real Christians can say right off what the third commandment is? Even scholarly teachers have a hard time. But ask almost any 5 year old in Sunday School to quote John 3:16 and right off they can!
That is the Spirit of Grace and Truth!!
You cannot be underwater and not be wet any more than being under Grace and not being holy in the sight of God. Many keep the Law of fidelity because they cannot afford the alternative or no one looks their way twice. But living under Grace and loving Jesus, allows you to love those around you and keeps you faithful to your wife because you love her! We love Him because He first loved US! 1 John 4:19 (KJV)
The devil is called the accuser and up until Jesus’ resurrection had a place in heaven to accuse. Now he does NOT and is forced only to accuse us to US! Jesus paid it all, so his only feeding ground is our MIND!!! Stuck in Romans 7! When we understand, grasp and hold onto verse 25, we can move on to the next verse:
Romans 8:1 (KJV)
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Why do so many struggle (including myself) with the last part of the verse? It never dawned on me until the Holy Spirit showed me: dead men don’t walk, only Spirits do! We are DEAD in Christ! There is THEREFORE NOW no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus!!!
Romans 8:10 (KJV)
And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Whose righteousness? Jesus! Glory to God! When you live under the Law then you are fallen from Grace and will be condemn because you do not believe!
Galatians 5:4 (KJV)
Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
Galatians 2:21 (KJV)
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Galatians 2:20 (KJV) I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
What is faith? Yes, it’s “the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrew 11:1 KJV) but in practical terms, faith is trusting in what God says is truth. According to these verses presented, there’s only one conclusion:
I AM RIGHTEOUS through Jesus!
If we are in debt to a guy for $100 which we cannot pay back, and another guy comes and asks him how much I owe him, and he says $100, he then hands the guy I’m in debt to a suitcase filled with $100 bills totally $1 million, that’s not even close to what Jesus paid for us! This is why Grace super abounds above the Law!
Romans 5:20 (KJV)
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
Without a law, you cannot break it. If there’s no speed limit and a cop pulls me over and says I’m speeding, I ask him under what authority? There’s no speed limit law! Let’s say now there’s a speed limit law, a cop pulls you over, you could go to jail. Now you’re dead, and the hearse is speeding and the cop pulls it over, is he going to give the ticket to the corpse? NO! Because he’s DEAD! Which brings us right back to:
Romans 6:14 (KJV)
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
Romans 6:18 (KJV)
Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
Which brings us back to:
Romans 8:1 (KJV)
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Do you have faith to believe God? There it is, spelled out. No ifs ands or buts.
What is one to do? How do you live in faith!? (the cry from Romans 7:24!)
Romans 7:24 (YLT)
A wretched man I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?
THE MIND!!!
Romans 7:25 (YLT)
I thank God--through Jesus Christ our Lord; so then, I myself indeed with the mind do serve the law of God, and with the flesh, the law of sin.
How, “with the mind”? Receive!
Romans 5:17 (KJV)
For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
Receive the gift! This word in Greek “receive” is the Present Active Participle, meaning it’s a continual current act: receiving all day every day. Young’s Literal Translations says: much more those who the abundance of the grace and of the free gift of the righteousness are receiving, in life shall reign through the one – Jesus Christ.
What happens if you keep receiving this gift day in and day out? REIGN IN LIFE by Jesus Christ! Not later, NOW, TODAY, THIS VEY SECOND! Accept it! It’s free! This is why the devil attacks us and these twin truths: Abundance of Grace and the Gift of Righteousness. When you accept these truths, you reign in life and the devil doesn’t!!! When you reign, your addictions don’t! When you reign, sin doesn’t! Grace abounds! Love abounds!
Read Luke 18 and Luke 19 and compare them. The rich young ruler came and asked what he must DO. He focused on his actions. Jesus told him something he just couldn’t DO since he said he kept all the Law. Jesus showed him another law, since he wanted to DO. Any law shows us what we cannot DO. Everyone has broken a law, even if it’s not written down. He asked what HE could DO and Jesus told him of his weakness – the love of money, his love of position – he broke the first commandment – Have no other Gods before Me. Money and power was his God. Obviously he left sad because now he received the truth.
Now we have Luke 19. Zacchaeus wanted to see Jesus, climbed a tree because he was short. He was a tax collector for a foreign government (Rome) and thereby a traitor in the eyes of his countrymen. Jesus called out to him and said, Come down, I must go to your house! No law given, but the “scandal” of grace began! “Oh did you see Him!? He went to the tax collector’s house, a sinner!” After coming to his house, Zacchaeus said he’d give away half of his good and restore to any man he cheated four fold! That is the power of GRACE and TRUTH! These stories show what the Law could not do, Grace did and by much more! Zacchaeus gave up his god for the God and possessed his money instead of the money possessing him! Glory to God!
The Law is given to stop every mouth and give Glory to God. Righteousness cannot be earned, it can only be received! If it can be earned, then God is indebted to you and must give you eternal life and Jesus died in vain! This is why no one is saved automatically throughout history when Jesus died, they MUST recognize this fact: we are lost in our sins, we have NO righteousness! Only in and only through Jesus are we RIGHTEOUS and HOLY and only through Jesus then can we enter heaven! We can do NOTHING!!! Wait, there is one little thing we have to do:
Hebrews 4:11 (KJV)
Let us
labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
To get to the point of being free, reigning in this life, we have to labour to enter that rest. What is that? We must fight our beliefs, our incorrect thinking of God, our self-righteousness and surrender to the rest of no condemnation. Here’s an example: when we rest in God and allow Him to do the work, we are blessed. Under the Law, man works, but under Grace God works. Under the Law God says “you shall” “you shall” “you shall” and under Grace God says “I will” “I will” “I will”. “Rest” isn't inactivity. Rest isn't laziness; it’s letting the cares of this world become the cares of the Lord God Almighty! He made the universe; I think He can handle any of my issues. That’s faith. That’s active faith. That’s reigning in this life! This is the meaning of the parable of the sowers and those are choked with the cares, riches and pleasures of life. Sure sounds like the church today!
Luke 8:14 (KJV)
And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
When God gave the Law to Moses He told him to put them under the Mercy Seat – God didn't want to see the Law!! Therefore, when you fall from Grace you’re under the Law, showing that the Mercy Seat and Grace are higher than the Law!!
Galatians 5:4 (KJV)
Christ is become of no effect unto you,
whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
How is Jesus of no effect? Self-righteousness and disbelief since through them you believe you are justified by the Law, then you’ve fallen from Grace! When Israel told Moses that they could keep anything God commanded them to do, God’s tone changed and they could no longer be with God. God told Moses to tell the people to get back from the mountain and that even if an animal touched the mountain that creature must be killed. What happened? Self-righteousness! When you fall from Grace, sin becomes attractive. All those fifty days they never wanted to have anything to do with a golden calf, as soon as they heard it wasn’t allowed, they wanted it and 3000 died! The Law kills!
