DEAD TO SIN; DEAD TO THE LAW
The legalists among us, that includes Sabbatarian legalists, are quick to charge others who refuse their interpretation of sin, with being antinomian… against law.
It would almost be funny if it were not so incredibly pathetic.
These same people who claim to be followers of the law; obedient to God through the law, sanitize the law into something unrecognizable to the law, making a new version of the law they see as “do-able.”
Romans 3:23: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Romans 5:12: Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Deciding to keep the law; even the truncated versions created by modern day legalists and Sabbatarians, does not undo one’s guilt, already established. Nowhere does scripture state or indicate that just deciding to keep the law absolves you of sin. There is a price to pay for sin; your sins, and that price is your death.
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. — Romans 6:23
The law requires a death due sin. In order for God to justly give you that gift of eternal life; His rescue you from the clutches of sin, given strength to condemn you to death that comes from the law, God had to transfer your guilt and your condemnation prescribed by the law to another, which happened to be God Himself in the personage of Jesus Christ who was God Incarnate.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. °But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. °All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. °He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. °He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. °And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. — Isaiah 53:4-9
Do not neglect to read this, even if you believe you already know it; even if you have read it a thousand times before. Make this fresh in your mind.
The law demands death for sin. You have sinned. The law demands your death. Christ Jesus stepped in to pay your debt to sin, prescribed by the law.
Perhaps the greatest insult you can make towards God is to make light of His sacrifice for you. Consider the agony, torture, and ridicule He was put through in order to accomplish that for you while you were still an enemy of God.
For the legalist and Sabbatarian conclude they should keep the law they were taught defines sin, citing 1John 3:4 partially, in an early English translation that does not reflect the Greek it was originally written in. The law does not define sin, per se. It condemns the sinner.
Sin is not some item you can put in a small box and store away; that box to many being the Decalogue; the Ten Commandments located IN the law.
We are born sinners. We start out life the children of Adam.
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.) °Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. °For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. °Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: °That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. — Romans 5:17-21
Christ removes you from the condemnation of sin and the law that gives strength to sin. This is one of the great truths of Scripture that people are deceived over so that they choose to place themselves back under the law, which can only result in coming back under its condemnation.
Christians are dead to sin — Romans 6:2
Christians are dead to the law — Romans 7:4; Galatians 2:19
Christians are dead to sin and the law because their debt to sin, prescribed by the law, has been paid by another, resulting in them being LEGALLY dead to the law and sin, as though they themselves had paid the debt owed the law. The law can never require you to die, again, to the law. The believer is forever dead to sin and dead to the law, yet now alive to God.
For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. — Galatians 2:19
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. — Romans 7:4
No one could bring forth fruit unto God while under the law; subject to the law. The only fruit you bring forth by and through the law is death; the fruit of the law; the just result of the law, always.
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. — Romans 4:15
You could just as easily word this to say and mean the law produces wrath, like a plant produces produce. It is the natural result of crops, and the natural produce of the law is wrath; a death sentence. The law “produces” nothing else. It does not produce life. If it did…
Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. — Galatians 3:21
I know that many will read this, and conclude I am just using clever argumentation to fool them; deceive them, when in fact you have already been fooled and deceived into believing lies because, deep down inside of your carnal soul; your heart of stone, you have no real love of truth, and those with no love of truth are further condemned as a result (2Thessalonians 2:10-12) so that you believe a lie that you believe to be of benefit to you, and that lie is that you believe in the law and that it will benefit you; result in blessings instead of curses resulting because of sin, such as the sin of unbelief where you insult God Himself, claiming He didn’t truly and completely remove believers from the law; the condemnation of the law.
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It is important that you understand; Everything on this blog is based on the current understanding of each author. Never take anyone's word for it, always prove it for yourself, it is your responsibility. You cannot ride someone else's coattail into the Kingdom. ; )
Acts 17:11
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