AS BEREANS DID

Faith-Belief = Righteousness

Faithlessness-Unbelief = Unrighteousness

For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. — Romans 4:3

Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. — Galatians 3:6

And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. — James 2:23

Faith and belief are synonymous. But in case you are in doubt –

For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. — Romans 4:13

What then of those deemed faithless? They have no righteousness. They have, if anything, the antithesis of righteousness, that being unrighteousness.

The Hebrews, who were given the law, were described as faithless, unbelieving, stiff-necked and rebellious — all of which hardly qualifies as being righteous.

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, °Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: °When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. °Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. °So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) °Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. — Hebrews 3:7-12

While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. °For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. °But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? °And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? °So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. — Hebrews 3:15-19

When we tie this all together:

Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,°For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; — Timothy 1:9-10

The law was not made for the righteous. That law does not apply to them. The law applies to the unrighteous, aka the lawless (sinful/evil) and disobedient.

Interesting then that those faithless who today embrace the law made for the unrighteous and disobedient, brag about being obedient… to the law and not to Christ Jesus.

Abraham listened to God, and did as God bid him.

The Hebrews were told through Moses what He would do, and they did not believe Him.

Today, we are told through the recorded documents of the Apostles, etc. what God wants of us, today; to place our faith, belief, trust, and hope in Him, to the exclusion of all else, and not in the law that applies to the faithless and unbelieving…

The new LAW of faith and the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus only condemns one sin; the same sin that set the stage for all mankind down through the ages: The sin of unbelief / faithlessness. For Adam and Even did not believe God, and so they partook of that tree of God’s whose fruit was death; typology for the law “of God” whose fruit; end result, is the same.

Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. °And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: °Of sin, because they believe not on me; — John 16:7-9

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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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