-What does it mean."sin
is not imputed
where there is no law".as
it says in.Romans
5:13?
Sin
means 'missing the mark' of love, as humanity has done since its beginning
regarding a
relationship with God.and
others. Doing 'wrong' is doing things that are unloving toward anyone,
for all
God is, is love:.1John
4:6-8,16. If you're out of love, you're out
of God. If you're out of doing
good, you're out of God.
This sinful.(unloving).way
of man comes naturally as part of what man came
here with and into. It was all designed
to be that way so we would have both evil and good in life. Why?
The
law in the Old
Testament was made so people would realize that they were under sin.(Romans
5:13), the state of sin
we were all under because of Adam's direction:.Romans
5:12,13,16-20; 1Corinthians
15:22.
From this we are on Earth
to awaken to our true state:.2Timothy
1:9. The first Adam was the problem and the last Adam, the answer to
it:.Romans
5:17; 1Corinthians 15:45.
Creator's time came to implement
the so-called.Mosaic
Law for the ancient Israelites, who eventually came out of their wilderness
wandering of forty years:.Numbers
14:22-24,27-33.
The Mosaic Law provided a
special designation
of being Creator's people to the particular
nation He chose back then to be an example for other nations to follow:.Deuteronomy
28:1,2. He wanted them to agree to follow what was good for them that
He had for them:.Exodus
19:8; Deuteronomy 28:2-14.
It was disastrous!
But, the historical lesson needed to be written:.1Corinthians
10:11.
But being just natural
people having to one extent
or the other, left the nature of love in them that each.of
humanity.was
born with, these people of the Old Testament had taken on.(had
taken on how?).the
learning of how to act from
their
destructive ego level and felt that they were ok with it all:.Proverbs
14:12; Jeremiah 11:7,8;
16:10-12.
They just did
not have the heart to keep this ancient law they even agreed to follow
as adults, although it seemed like a great idea at the time.(just
like the New Year resolutions of many people):.Deuteronomy
5:29; Jeremiah 11:8; 13:10;
16:19;
18:10-12;
24:7;
Romans
8:7; *.
So, Creator had
to give humanity a new nature, a new heart, one that was better for
them. It's up to us to feed the new nature, to nurture
it, as one would with their baby. How?
Why?
If you love it, you'll feed it, wanting it to grow. You always have the
choice not to. God never overrides
anyone.
The Mosaic Law was a law
designed by God.(Romans
7:14).for
a carnal people.(Exodus
18:16,20; 2Kings 17:37; 2Chronicles
33:8;
Hebrews 9:1,10).and
not for those now born of the Holy Nature,
the Holy Spirit, the nature of love and power of God.(Galatians
3:23-26; John 1:12; 1John
2:29: 5:1,4).and
who have this love in their hearts.
The law of old had to tell
them not to murder, not to steal; has to tell them to know God and tell
them not to erect graven.(carved).images
to worship, etc.:.Exodus
20:1-17; Deuteronomy 5:6-22.
So God took this law away at the cross.
It was to write in history for all humanity that the way to the heart is
beyond physical control by using rules and regulations:.Ephesians
2:15,16; Colossians 2:14; Romans
13:10. Humanity is on the path to learning that; one of the reasons
man is here.
Until Christ came, men always
'missed the mark' in a relationship with God.(sonship),
God having provided for this relationship with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David,
etc. by their belief.(itself
a gift from God), with their sins
'held over', as it were till Christ came.(Romans
3:25), their faith having ensured
the promise for them:.Hebrews
11:39,40; 1Corinthians 3:16;
6:3.
More under Mosaic Law.
This law provided the objectivity
for those people then to see when they were out of line with both God and
each other. The law was so they could clearly see offences:.Romans
5:20. It was not designed to make them perfect:.Hebrews
7:19; 9:9; 10:1,4,9,10,14,16,17.
No physical law can make anyone perfect because no physical law itself
can affect
the heart in a way where man becomes a loving being.
The law caused sin to gain
dominion over one:.Romans
6:14. Sin's strength was the law:.1Corinthians
15:56. The law.(and
one cannot
extract a part of it as many have done by pulling out and applying
the commandments part and using it as a basis for their religion).caused
thinkers back then to see that there just was no hope in law-keeping to
ever become righteous in God's eyes:.Romans
7:13. The law worked
wrath:.Romans
4:15. Keeping the commandments always leaves one lacking:.Matthew
19:18-20.
The
Mosaic Law was still in effect when Emmanuel was talking to this young
man:.Matthew
19:16-26. The way into the holiest of holies had yet to occur with
His death, resurrection and ascension
to the Father in heaven:.Hebrews
9:8,11,12;
John 20:17.
However, the
Pharisees, rather than accepting the real purpose why God designed
the law, found a way around it, making themselves righteous when the law
was to make one guilty:.Romans
3:19. Society is much the same today where things are twisted to the
advantage of those doing the twisting.
The 'educated' look at the
world and miss seeing the purpose of life, choosing instead to theorize
that life must revolve around the self, that we are here
for number 1. They are not part of a serving others mentality but seem
as though they would rather maintain a
controller attitude.
This Pharisaic legalism
based on the law as followed by the Pharisees,
Sadducees and the ancient scribes,
doctorsand
lawyers
can so pervert
the mind that one can 'in the name of God' call evil good and good evil.(Isaiah
5:20).thus
believing that even murdering others is ok using rationalizations
including 'it's for the greater good'. This thinking obviates
the role of the master
potter in it all.
Highly educated and intelligent
Paul
was like this prior to his conversion.
Similar were the Pharisees,
who bragged
about their knowledge of the Old Testament
tenets.
What they did to Emmanuel:.Matthew
26:14-16;.Proverbs
18:5 "It is not good to accept.(original
implies 'to be influenced by').the
person of the wicked.(in
order to).to
overthrow the righteous in judgment.".Why
is it not good?.1Timothy
6:9.
Many enter into agreements
to benefit themselves at the expense of another. That is not good.
The Pharisees thought they
knew the Old Testament writings, that is until along came Emmanuel:.Matthew
22:23,31;
41-46; 9:11-13;
12:2,3,5;
19:3,4.
They tried to entrap
Emmanuel at every turn.
It is the way Emmanuel
came to reveal.(John
14:6;.{*}).that
is the standard for life, not the ancient Mosaic
Law:.Galatians
3:10,12,13; Hebrews 5:9; 7:22;
10:9.
It is this new and living
way.(Hebrews
10:20).that
we now press toward.(Philippians
3:14,15), yet some still on the
religious side, have the keeping of the ten
commandments on their minds more than they do on what Emmanuel came
to Earth about, where he became a man and died to reveal
some things regarding the Father. One thing here was, to redeem us
from these works of the law that place one under a curse, unless he keeps
every single one of those over 600 laws perfectly:.Galatians
3:10-13. And who of us can? So, the ancient law was not given for people
to keep it. It was given to show there was something missing in humanity's
nature and that was a heart of love and it took Christ to not just reveal
this truth, but to make possible a change. A change from the ordinary consciousness
man has to the higher consciousness God has. Killing Emmanuel was from
the purpose of the dark side to eliminate love from the world. But, God
is love and none can contend
with God. God is absolutely in charge of everything, even
the dark side.
Since Christ nailed the law
to the cross.(Colossians
2:14),.Him
becoming a curse for us, in effect, taking everything that is bad about
us upon Him and giving in return, everything that is good about Him, including
the gift of His righteousness,.sin
can no longer be imputed
unto us.
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