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 Supreme Love supersedes the Law of Quarantine. 
                                                   God's protective Law is spiritually first.                                                   
                                                The TRUTH Cutting the Roots of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil          
                                            Heresy abounds in its fruit, but the TRUTH of God shall stand forever.
Sin's Vapor Trail is the Stench of Death.              
                                                                                      
The Law of Sin and Death.
O wretched man that I am, who will save me from this body of death?                                                         The Law, a Quagmire of Confusion.   Do we make void the Law? God forbid!                 
                                                                        Sin is the problem, and not God's Law in Commandments that exposes sin's wickedness.
God's Amnesty Program.                                     
                 
Draw close to God, and He will draw close to you. 
God's Provisions for Life in the Spirit.                  

Supreme Love supersedes the quarantine of the Torah.
 

Before Adam committed treason against his Maker, and certainly long before God gave the Law in Commandments to Moses, sin already existed in time.  Rebellion was first conceived within the mind of Lucifer, and in his insurrection against Holy God Almighty, he became, as it were, sin itself.  (See Genesis 4 verse 1 thru 7.)  Lucifer, with his leading opposition to the God of the living, now becomes Satan, the accuser of God, and will foment his opposition with his beguiling intrusion into God's creation of the new order of Man. (See Revelation 12 verse 10.) In the Garden of Eden, Satan, disguised as the beguiling serpent, shoots forth from his mouth, his poisonous dart of philosophical rebellion into the mind of Adam and Adam's wife-Woman/Ishshah. (See again the Creation of Man.) The words, coming from a common serpent, with such wondrous wisdom, were so enticing that lust for the serpent's wisdom, began to be conceived with in the minds of both of our first parents.  The mind's of Adam and his wife Ishshah were blinded by confusion, for they foolishly chose the lie of the deceiver, rather than the Truth of their Creator.  With the flowering of the seed of sin within their minds of flesh,  the very souls of Adam and Ishshah were changed from the Light of Life to the darkness of death. 

Adam, thinking that he knew better than the Almighty God of creation, chose his own will, and having acted on his own will, challenged the good and all knowing Will of the only Creator and the God of the Living.  Adam's willful disobedience set in motion sin's idolatrous root within the matrix of his mind, where sin's willful essence of death became the corrupting source that brought death to all human souls.  With sin's conception of self reliance having been fixated in the spirit of the minds of Adam and his wife Ishshah, to be called Eve, then sin was set in motion to replicate its seed of self serving will, and thereby, would dictate its own will within the minds of all the captive offspring of Adam and Ishshah.  With God's one warning law of prevention having been broken without humble repentance, then the poisonous sting of sin brought death to Adam and Eve, and that same poisonous seed of Satan, brings death to all of their offspring. 

Holy God's Spirit of unending Life, would leave Adam and Eve to their own independent self rule, where the rule of selfish flesh took on the nature of sin's corruption into death.  Beginning with the first Man, Adam, sin has reigned in man-kind, bringing the order of death to all of the generations of humanity until this present time.  Sin's cursed corruption, was instilled within the core thoughts of what is called the heart of man, with sin's corrupting outcome becoming evident in death.  Dust thou art and to dust thou shall return.  And Adam called his wife Eve, for she was the mother of all living.  (See Genesis 3 verse 19 thru 20.)

With Adam's treasonous action against the only God Who gives Life, then God's Holy Spirit of Life left the soul of Adam and Eve to be maintained by a soul residing in blood and flesh derived from the earth.   Without the Spirit of the God of the Living, then all of mankind, having emanated from the loins of Adam, would be souls born to die like the souls of all animals. (See the Soul and the Life.)

The inevitable evidence of Death itself, also reveals the evidence of the existing poisonous force of sin, as being entrenched within the fleshly being of each and every prodigy of our first parents of corruptible flesh.  Simple understanding leads us to conclude that God's Spirit of Life within the soul of Man/Adam, was displaced with the spirit of sin and death, and so it is with all of man-kind.

For if by one Man's offence death reigned by that one Man, Adam, much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in Life by one Man, Jesus Christ.  Therefore as by the offence of the one Man Adam, judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one Man Jesus Christ, 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 Man shall many be made righteous.  

Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound [be made evident].  But where sin abounded [flourished], Grace did much more abound [flourish]:  That as sin has reigned unto death, even so, might grace reign through righteousness unto Eternal Life by Jesus Christ our Lord.  (Romans 5 verse 17 thru 21.)

In full accordance with Elohim's Holy Word given in the Garden of Eden, the Promised Messiah of God, came through the original genetics of the first Adam, by way of the Adam's wife Ishshah.  So as to bring His Word to pass, God would give laws within the Torah to protect His Covenant Word within the seed of Israel.  Now, with the Law in Commandments, given at Mt Sinai, the strength of sin unto death, is not only confirmed, but is exacerbated by the knowledge of the condemning Commandments of God.  Israel was to know of the importance of the Covenant Laws of God, so that the Messiah would be born of the seed of the Woman of Adam, and not of the corrupted seed of mingled humanity from Ham's children.  Sin reigned from the beginning of the fall of Man, until the just laws of God were given in commandments to Moses for the protection of Adam kind so that the Messiah would come in the flesh of the original Adam.  The Law of God in Commandments was never the problem, but all of the instructions given in the Torah were to be protective of God's Holy Word until Messiah would come in the flesh of the original Adam.  The corrupting entity is sin, even Satan, that causes death and corruption to the seed of man kind.

James, the natural half brother of Jesus, gives Godly wisdom that remains today: (See James 2 verse 9 thru 10.) For indeed, if one of the just and holy laws is broken, then all the laws are broken, and sin continues to show its sovereignty in the heart of the man of idolatrous flesh.  Surely it is understood that even God Almighty is not the Sovereign God of the corrupted heart of man.  Our choices for good and evil  have made us our own little gods, and our will has displaced the First Commandment of God that declares that the Lord Elohim is God Alone.   However, the Almighty Creator, gave the Law to protect Israel with His Covenant Word, and the only Infinite God of the Living will not have any disruptive self determining gods of any sort before Him.  There is only One God of the Living, Yahweh God Almighty, and all the rest of the gods are as dead souls!  Therefore, in any period of time, no one is justified by the Decalogue, because with the Law in Commandments, came the knowledge of sin with sin's ensuing death.  All, who are naturally born of Adam are sinners, and all sinners are self condemned to death, because of the willful reign of sin that imprisons all the souls of lost humanity.

Paul, who understands the total corruption of self serving flesh says; "For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing". (Romans 7 verse 18.) Therefore, He says later in another letter: "Have no confidence in the flesh." (Philipians 3 verse 3.) In the corrupted nature of man kind, both the good and the bad autonomous root of the Tree of Knowledge, remains twisted, as one causative root, within the the mind of the natural man of flesh.  This convoluted root, within the mind of man, will seek its own gratification and justification of self, maintaining its right to the preservation of self determination, whether the individual's choices are good or bad, or even life or death. 

There can be no overall parity in human judgment over what is good or what is evil.  What one person decides is good or what is evil, is judged to be for the immediate good of themselves, and may be completely different, when compared to another person's individual judgment, of the same subjective good or subjective evil.  One man's good, may be another man's evil, or vice versa, and both persons, are justified in their own eyes of human judgment.  Wherefore, from generation to generation, the conflict of judgment over good and evil, is manifested with ebbs and flows of moral decadence and violence, all being orchestrated by Satan's controlling will of sin within humanity.  The Lord Jesus says to the supposed knowledgeable and religious of the day:  You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do.  He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.  When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: For he is a liar, and the father of it. (See John 8 verse 42 thru 47.) If God were your Father you would Love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God.

Make no mistake on this matter of life and death:  We are not all God's children with entitlements to His Kingdom.  If we were God's children we would Love/Agape the Almighty God and His Son, as the Word of Life, without any reservation.  We are, by our sinful nature, of the seed of our father the devil.  Satan's rule of sin is a renegade force of death, existing completely outside of the Will of Holy Lord God Almighty, the only God of the Living.  With Adam's treasonous rebellion against Elohim (the Almighty God), all of man kind has become the offspring of sin and death, making us the spitting image in the acts of our father the devil.  He was  a  thief, a liar and a murderer from sin's beginning corruption of his soul.   Now our souls are conceived in Satan's corruption, and existing in his nature, and we will do the traitorous and unrighteous will of our father, the devil.   Sin, having stolen the heart and soul of mankind, leaves the soul absent of the Love of God, with the Creator being relegated to an after thought.  If sin is in control of the self minded person, then the Spirit of God's Life and Love, is certainly missing within the soul that continues in their own unrighteous self determination of what, in their eyes, is good and evil. 

The inquisitive mind of man may be ever learning, and gaining knowledge through life experiences, and perhaps a little from scripture, but even so, knowledge does not perfect the heart and soul into the image and likeness of God.  Many, in their twisted philosophy, remain mired in the darkness of death, while failing to comprehend the greatness of the Infinitely Holy God and His free Gift of Life in Christ Jesus. 

The current humanistic consensus, believes that with more right education, we will build an individual's self esteem, and with self-esteem comes love of self, ending in a well rounded individual and a credit to society.  Much of today's churches, walk along hand in hand with societies philosophical thinking.  The churches that are in agreement, go on to say that; "to be able to love another person, you must first begin to love yourself".  It sounds good in humanity's acceptance of self, but in the end, this is a dead branch of human logic, centered in man's rational thinking of what is 'good' for the making of the individual 'self' determined person.  The singularity of the root of the Tree of Knowledge of 'good' and 'evil' remains entrenched in the flesh, even in the structure of today's churches that are built on human doctrines. 

We certainly agree that love is the missing essential that needs to be nurtured in a person's heart, but there is a special Love/Agapao that needs to be birthed in the heart of every child of humanity.  That Love should begin at home, with a beginning nurturing from both Mom and Dad, for they are to know in their hearts the Truth of God's Sacrificial Love in Jesus Christ, given for the Salvation of all of man kind.  For God so Loved the world, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.  As responsible parents, entrusted with a precious gift from God, they must foster, and try to emulate this special Love of God to each of their children, even with good disciplines within the family structure.  Train up a child in the Way he should go, and when he is old, he shall not depart from the Way.  For if the restraining Love of God, is missing within the heart of the children of man, then those straying souls that are left to their own devices, may not become the righteous sons of God that are being led by the Spirit of God.  For as many are being led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. (See Romans 8 verse 13 thru 17.) But if they are sons, following the leading of the Spirit of God, then they are relinquishing their right to their own self determined will of what is good and evil, so as to be obedient to the good and perfect will of the God of the Living, Who Loves us perfectly.  There is no possibility of sin's unrighteousness in the living expressions of Perfect Love.  God indeed Loves the World with His creation of Man, but only those persons who abdicate their individualistic rights, and then receive in new faith the Sacrificial Life of God's Christ, are then born again of God's Spirit of Life, and have become the children of the Most High God. (See John 1 verse 11 thru 13, Romans 8 verse 14 thru 17, 1st John 3 verse 1 thru 10.)

If God has set within Scripture His two great Commands to Love, then this reasoning is not natural knowledge within the self governing nature of the independent human.  If we love, it is a selfish love that only benefits our own selves.  The essential for Life, within God's universe, begins first, by responding to the Spirit's call to repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ(Acts 20 verse 20 thru 21.) That One Faith of the Spirit of God, leads the believer to the same Perfect Love for God that is in Christ Jesus.   The rule of the Law of God, begins with a spiritual knowledge of the Holiness of the Infinite Lord God Almighty, where now the natural self of a person, being first in priority, begins to disappear. 

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is One LORD:  And thou shall Love the LORD thy God with all your heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.  And these Words, which I Command thee this day, shall be in your heart:  And thou shall teach them diligently unto thy children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. (Deuteronomy 6 verse 4 thru 7.) Even the second of the great commandments, "Thou shall Love thy neighbor as thyself", may show that there is natural love of self, but that love of self is to be relegated, through humility, to the same proper level of loving our fellow man, even as we might love ourselves. 

Jesus brings even greater clarity to our hearts, as He says at His Supper Table.  A New Commandment I give unto you: That you Agapao/Love one another, as I have [sacrificially] Loved you.  By this shall all men know that you are My disciple, if you have Agapao/Love one to another.  Greater Love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.  You are My friends, if you do whatsoever I Command you. (See John 13 verse 34 thru 35, and chapter15 verses 12 thru 14.) Sacrificial Love is and expressed Command of the Lord Jesus Christ, for there is only the One Body of Christ, where all the individual members of that One Body of the Lord, are dependent upon every member to manifest Agape/Love with their utmost strength, within this One Body given by Yahweh God in the Supreme Grace of His Sacrificial Love.  At the later ending of His Passover Communion Table of Unleavened Bread, Jesus the Christ of God, prays to His Father: Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also, which shall believe on Me through their word.  That they may be one as Thou Father art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also, may be One in Us that the world may believe that Thou has sent Me. (John 17 verse 20 thru 21.)

Hopefully, in the redundancy of our continuing thoughts, we have enabled the reader to begin to see through the darkness, that any enforced quarantining Law of conduct, devised even by God, will not destroy the existence of the lethal infection of sin within the carnal heart of man.  There is no partiality with God, for all who have sinned without the Law, will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law. (Romans 2 verse 11 thru 12. N.A.S.) In our humanity, we are all guilty of self serving sin, culminating in death.   With God, it makes no difference if we are ignorant of God's just law, or if we know each and every commandment of the Decalogue, for in the end, the Holiness of God condemns the rule of sin, that makes all of humanity sinners. "The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the Law". (1st Corinthians 15 verse 56.)   The sting of sin, is a lethal dose of poison, and without remedy from the Law of Commandments, then the person who remains in their sin shall die from its poison.  The strength of sin is revealed in each of the Commandments of the Law that further condemns sin because of its poisonous sting that brings death to a soul.

As a man thinks in his heart, so he becomes. (See Luke 6 verse 44 thru 46.) (Consider the anomalies within the genetics of  mankind.)  The present genetic evidence reveals that the newly discovered Epigenetic's of the Genome of man, becomes corrupted even in wrong thought, initiating wrong actions of lust, and bringing mutations to the DNA of mankind. (See Human Genome.)

The TRUTH Cutting the Roots of the Tree Knowledge
 

 

The Alpha and the Omega, the Alef and the Tav of Almighty God proclaims the TRUTH of the Good News:

For God so Loved the world that He gave His only Begotten Son that whosoever believes IN His Son should not perish, but have ever lasting Life. (See John 3 verse 14 thru 16.)

Being justified freely by God's Holy Grace through the redemption that is IN Christ Jesus: Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith IN His Blood to declare His Righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance (tolerance) of God: To declare, I say at this time, His Righteousness, that He might be just, and the Justifier of him, which believes IN Jesus/Yeshua. (See again Romans 3 verse 24 thru 26.)

The above Scriptures presents the TRUTH of God's Salvation Grace IN Jesus/Yeshua: But, is there something wrong with the message of faith that is currently being preached by many churches?  The evidence of persistent sin being ever present in this world of darkness, and in the flesh of Christianity, says Yes!!!  The evangelical tendency is to by pass the fullness of Paul's message in Romans 3 verse 25, as if the new Christian, with a few incantations, has no other responsibility for their future foolish actions. To be sure, the Faith of Jesus Christ declares that God is Righteous, and is Just to remit the sins that were committed in the past.  But the word 'past', transliterated from the Greek word 'proginomai', presents a definitive line of demarcation for the new believer IN Christ Jesus. Therefore if any man be IN Christ, (then) he is a new creature: Old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. (2nd Corinthians 5 verse 17.)  A person needs to be IN Christ Jesus to be a new creature that will flourish IN the LIFE of the risen Christ.

In the beginning verses in 2nd Peter 1 verse 1 thru 8, Peter speaks about the virtues that the believer is to promote within his soul. 

Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises that by these you might be partaker of the Divine Nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.  Beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, and to virtue add knowledge, and to knowledge add temperance, and to temperance add patience, and to patience add godliness, and to godliness, add brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness add Love.

Then Peter admonishes the same: 

But he that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. therefore brethren, the rather, give diligence to make your calling and election sure.  For if you do these things, you shall never fall.  (2nd Peter 1 verse 9 thru 10.) 

Peter and Paul, as witnessed within their letters, both agree that God's judgment for past sins of believers were completely obliterated in the propitiating Serum Water and Life giving Blood of Jesus Christ.  Therefore being justified by faith, (like  Abraham's Faith in his Redeemer), we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. In the Grace of God's mercy, the believers IN Christ are made free of past condemnation, and have Peace with God Almighty with our new born living faith IN the Life of Christ Jesus.

Therefore, if any man be IN Christ Jesus, he is a new creature for old things are passed away: Behold all things are become new. All things are of Yahweh God, Who has reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and has give to us the ministry of reconciliation. To wit, that Yahweh God was IN Christ Jesus, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, but has committed unto us His Word of reconciliation. (See 2nd Corinthians 5 verse 17 thru 20.)

The Word of God was incarnately born as the Only Begotten Son of God, therefore IN Christ birth, Yahweh God was IN Christ Jesus, reconciling the world unto Himself.  If Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh God was IN Christ, then it would behoove the believer to be holy as He is, and to be holy committed to Yahweh's Word of Reconciliation that is One with IN Christ Jesus.  Are you IN Christ, even as Yahweh Father God is well pleased to dwell IN Peace with His Son Christ Jesus?

Do you know what is Yahweh's Word of reconciliation?  Are you among those who think they are righteous without the TRUTH of Yahweh's Word of reconciliation? 

In our flesh: We are 'all' as an unclean thing, for all our righteousness is as filthy rags, and we fade as a leaf, for like the wind our iniquities have taken us away. (Isaiah 64 verse 6.)

Are we, the enlightened, to be found in the 'all' of this reproving Word of God or is the Scripture, only for the blind Jew alone?

Let's consider the Word of God in full view with the Light of the TRUTH, as we examine the Apostle Paul's revelation of the Law of Sin and Death.

Saul, whose name would later be relegated to Paul, was on the road to Damascus to further persecute the Christians, when all of a sudden he encountered a remarkable experience when the Light of Jesus Christ surrounded him.  Saul having fallen to the ground in apparent astonishment, hears in the midst of the Light a Voice saying unto him:

Saul, Saul, Why do you persecute Me? Then Saul asked the Voice: Who are you Lord? And the Lord said: I AM Jesus/Yeshua, Whom you persecute. It will be hard for you to continue to kick against the ox goads. The trembling Saul asked the Lord: What would you have me to do? And the Lord Said: Arise and go into the city, and it will be told you what you must do.

And Saul arose from the earth, and with opened eye lids he saw no one; but the men that were with him, led him by the hand, and brought Saul into Damascus. (See Acts 9 verse 1 thru 9.)

In the Light of God, all of mankind are revealed to be blind, and Saul was no exception. In Damascus, the physically and spiritually blind Saul would encounter Aninias, a disciple of the Lord, who saw in a vision the Lord Jesus instructing him to go to Saul and give him God's Salvation healing.  Aninias was obedient to the Word of the Lord, and went to where the blind Saul was staying.  After entering the house, Aninias laid his hands upon Saul, and told Saul he was there to give sight to Saul.  Immediately, the scales of blindness fell from Saul's eyes, and he was made to see, and in seeing Saul was then baptized IN the Water of the Word of God. (See Acts 9 verse 10 thru 18.)

Saul, now being led by God's Holy Spirit through his trials of faith, would come to understand the infallible TRUTH of the Word of God that is the Lord Jesus Christ.  "Except a man be born again, he can not see the Kingdom of God!"  The old man of Saul was born spiritually blind in sin and death, but then having been born of faith through the Grace of God's Holy Spirit, he was now a brand new soul in the likeness of God's Spirit of Holiness.  In a moment of time, the old life of Saul had passed away, and a new Life had begun in Saul's soul because of his new faith IN the death, burial and resurrection of the the crucified Christ.  Saul was made alive for the first time in his existence; for the soul of Paul was born brand new in his faith IN the resurrected Christ, Yeshua haMashiach.  The old sinful things of Paul's previous life of self righteousness, had passed away into oblivion, and behold all things of Life had become brand new in the mind of Saul. (See Romans 3 verse 23 thru 25.)

Paul would grow in the knowledge of God, through experience with God's Holy Spirit that would reprove him of sin, with judgment.  The day came when Paul would come to understand that the root of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil continued to exist in his whole body of flesh,

We have seen in a previous chapter that the soul and the life of a person resides in their blood, and the life in the blood courses throughout the flesh of the whole of man's being. (See The Soul and the Life.) Now it should appear to the reasoning mind that the unredeemed soul knows only the will of the flesh, and as such, the soul, being one with the body of flesh is held in the possession of sin and death.   The enslavement of sin and death in earthly man is expressed by the innate self centered actions within the corrupted flesh of man, for that flesh will inevitably pass away in the corruption of death.

Now the ax is laid to the root of the trees: Therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit, is cut down and thrown into the fire. (Matthew 3 verse 10.)

For Life to exist in man kind, then there needs to be a change in the possession of the soul that is made dead because of sin. God's Savior of mankind, Yeshua haMamashiach, declares to Nicodemas: Truly, Truly I say unto you; except a man be born again of the Spirit of God, He can not see nor enter the Kingdom of God. 

But oops; what do we do about the new transgressions of the flesh? Say what? I thought all things were finished, and there are no more sins to condemn us!  Nay, the vanity of the idolatrous flesh of man has not changed, and heresy flourishes in man's flesh of self idolatry. Witness again that when sin finds the wretched man Paul out, he concludes that the good Law of God convicted him of sin, and it is like he is already in the grave of the dead under 6 feet of earth.  

Paul originally saw himself to be alive IN Christ Jesus, with Christ being his all sufficiency, (See 2nd Corinthians 5 verse 5.) but the reborn Paul states:

For when we served the flesh, then the (stirring) motions of sin, Which were revealed by the Law in Commandments, worked in our members to bring forth its fruit of death. But now we are delivered from the condemnation of the Law that showed us to be dead with death holding us as prisoners.

What shall we say then? Is the Law (Decalogue) sin? God forbid. No, I had not known sin but by the Law (Decalogue): For I had not known 'lust' except the Law said: "Thou shall not covet."
For Sin, revealed by the (10 good) Commandments, worked in me all manner of concupiscence
. [Concupiscence was first used in English language in the 14th century. Now not to minimize sin, but to maintain continuity with Greek Scripture - the Greek word epithumia {ep-ee-thoo-mee'-ah} should be interpreted simply as 'lust'.] For without the conviction of the Law (Decalogue), sin (lust) was dead in my mind.

For I was alive once without the Law (Decalogue), but when the Commandment came, sin was shown to be alive, and I was dead. The Commandment, which I thought was ordained to promote Life, I found to reveal my death. For sin, being revealed by the Commandment, deceived me, and by sin's deception sin slew me.

Wherefore, the Torah is Holy, and the Commandments Holy, Just and Good. (See Romans 7 verse 5 thru 12.)

Witness Paul's spiritual rational as He came to understand that his body was already corrupted thru and thru by spiritual sin, and was just awaiting death's ultimate corruption. Paul continues to elaborate on man's inextricable dilemma. Remember Paul says the Commandments are Good.

Was then the Law, which is Good, made to be death to me. God forbid! But that Sin may be revealed to be sin working its death in me by that which is good, so that now sin being revealed by the the Good Commandment of God,  might be revealed as being exceedingly sinful in that sin causes death.

For the Law (Decalogue) is spiritual, but I am carnal (of the flesh), sold, that is enslaved, in the bondages of (spiritual) sin.

For what I am doing, I do not approve of the evil: And what I know to do, I don't do the good. But the evil which I hate, I wind up doing.
If I wind up doing that which I know is not good, then I contend that the Law (Decalogue) is Good, for it reveals and condemns sin for the death that it is.

Paul already knows that by his new found faith IN Christ Jesus that he, Paul, also died IN the death of Christ Jesus, and IN the Resurrected Christ of God, sin's death has no more hold on Christ, and likewise sin's death has lost its hold on Paul, who is hid in the Risen Christ Jesus.  Therefore Paul can say:

Now it is no longer I that sins, but it is sin that dwells in my dead flesh.

The above statement by Paul would be an absolute cop out of irresponsibility, if it weren't for Paul's emphasis on the new birth of the soul that is to acquiesce IN the following of the LIFE of God's Spirit IN Christ Jesus. If Yahweh, who raised up Christ from the dead, dwells in you, then you will no longer allow sin to reign in your mortal body, but will mortify sin's deeds in the flesh through the LIFE giving Blood of our Savior Jesus Christ.  Now if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, the man does not belong to Christ.  But if Christ is IN you, your body is already dead because of the law of sin in your flesh is death: But the Spirit of God gives LIFE because of the Righteousness of the One Man Christ Jesus. (See Romans 8 verse 9 thru 11.)

I have found a law that when I would do good, evil is present within my flesh.
For I see this other law in my flesh, as warring against the Torah of my mind that I delight in, for this other law is the law of sin which exist in my dead flesh.
 (See Romans 7 verse 21 thru 23.)

Oh wretched man that I am, who will save me from this body of death

We also have a conundrum along with St Paul.

Like St Paul, the earthly flesh that we exist in, is unredeemed and by nature our self centered flesh will sin in its own idolatry. Therefore, as it is with sin infected idolatrous flesh, sin will  always seek its own self centered gratification and the vanity of the flesh will wallow in the mire of its own independent reasons to justify its illicit actions.  Sin has a short memory in our double mindedness, for sin's self justification makes us forget what manner of man we were, before the Christ of God came into our lives to lead us IN His WAY, His TRUTH, and His LIFE that is of His Holy Father, Yahweh God. 

Mark this: The Word of God does not change in one jot or tittle, nor the Words of the prophets, for all things will come to pass, for the Torah is the unsurpassing Word of God.  Therefore the sin that kills us is revealed by the letter of the good Law in Commandments that are found in the Torah Word of God.  But now what shall we do when sin finds each one of us out?  God provides the only  WAY out of our death dilemma through Christ Jesus.  If we have God's Gift of faith IN Christ Jesus, then by the Grace of Holy God's Spirit of TRUTH, He will free us from under the weight of the guilt of sin.  For the Law of the Spirit of Life IN Christ Jesus has made me free from the Law of Sin and Death. Otherwise the gravity of sin will continue to burden us with condemnation guilt as sin seeks its own way in the flesh. 

Come unto Me, all of you that are laboring under a heavy burden (of sin), and I will give you rest.  Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me for MY YOKE is easy and MY Burden is light.

Can you not hear with the ears of God's Spirit of Grace?  Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh Lord God Almighty has not changed, for He remains Eternally Holy.  The Wisdom of Holy God has provided His WAY for sinful man to enter into His LIFE, for He has provided in the TRUTH of His Covenant of Grace, the WAY of LIFE IN Christ Jesus.  Christ's Spirit of LIFE and GRACE provides the Sanctifying Grace within the shed LIFE giving Blood of His Father's Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ; by Whom also we have access by faith into this Grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the Glory of God.  For hope makes one not ashamed, [for the shame of our weight bearing sin is obliterated in the Life Blood of Christ] and the Love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the HOLY GHOST, Which is given to us. (See Romans 5 verse 1 thru 5.)

I Thank God though (the Grace) of our Savior Yeshua haMashiach, Jesus Christ.

So then with the mind I serve the Law of God as in the Torah: But with the flesh, I serve the Law of Sin and Death.  Therefore, there is no condemnation to those who are IN Christ Jesus, who do not walk after the flesh, but walk IN the Spirit of Christ. 

The obedient redeemed IN Christ Jesus are no longer under the Judgment of the Law of God: For we can avail ourselves to God's Grace through His Holy Spirit of Grace that He has given to us, whereby His Spirit of Grace that is One with the Life giving Blood of Christ Jesus, cleanses us from the guilty weight of sin in our flesh.  It is only  through the believer's trusting obedience in God's Word of Faith IN Jesus Christ that we have access to Father God through Faith in the Grace --- of our High Priest Jesus Christ: For at His Passover Table, Jesus/Yeshua says: No one comes to the Father except by Me. (See John 14 verse 4 thru 6.) Why would I or any other true believer IN Christ remain up to their neck in the mire of our sin with its inclusion of death, when we have access to the Almighty's Grace IN the Blood of His Son.   Our Holy Righteous Lord God Almighty provides the antidote for our sin IN the Life giving Blood of Christ Jesus, for the Holiness of His Blood allows us in His Spirit of Grace, to stand to our feet in the Almighty's Presence,   If sin continues unabated in our body of flesh, it will swallow us up from the bottom of our feet to the top of our heads.

You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?  Therefore whosoever will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.  Do you think that the Scripture say in vain that the spirit that dwells within "us" lust to envy?  But God gives more (of His) Grace, (through His Spirit). Wherefore He says, God resists the proud, but gives (His Spirit of) Grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.  Draw nigh to God, and He will draw close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double minded. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He shall lift you up. (James 4 verse 4 thru 10.)

James, the half brother of Jesus, knows what he is talking about, for he includes himself among the double minded, for when he speaks of the spirit within 'us' lusting because of envy: then we can surmise logically that his own human spirit is among the inclusive 'us'.

Paul says to those being saved: Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it (sin) in the lusts thereof. (Romans 6 verse 12.) Then a few thoughts later, Paul confirms his teaching on the form of doctrine that God had provided in the Words of our Lord Jesus Christ. (See Romans 6 verse 17 thru 18.) That Form of Doctrine, is in the Holy Communion LIFE giving Blood of Jesus Christ. given by God's Holy Spirit of Grace that frees us from sin and makes us sanctified servants of His Righteousness.

This is My Blood, of the New Covenant, that is shed for many for the remission of sin.

In the following pages, try to witness with your own eyes of faith, the depths of the Infinite God's Faith in His unchangeable Word that repeats that the only WAY of Salvation Grace is through: Our Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom also we have access by faith into this Grace wherein we (are able to) stand, and rejoice in hope of the Glory of God.  The new beginning of LIFE IN Christ may have begun gloriously; but seemingly was stopped at the door of our double minded heart.  There are so many pastors and evangelist speak about the Grace of God and the Glory of God like it is a philosophical abstract permeating the space of nothingness. Apparently. we finite creatures have failed to realize that the unseen substance of the 'Glory' and the 'Grace' of Yahweh God is given by the Almighty's unseen Holy Spirit of Grace. (Zechariah 12 verse 10 and Hebrews 10 verse 29.) In Faith, the Glory and Grace of God has come into the soul and spirit of the person of faith IN Christ Jesus, and will supply new Life to the members within the Body of Christ, 

Now God's Spirit of Grace rejoices our hearts in the unseen hope of this Glory of God's Spirit of Life.  We see in the substance of faith, that through the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the knowledge of the Salvation Grace of justification, was first administered to our souls in conjunction with the spirit of our minds.  Then also, the same unifying Grace of the One Spirit of God gives the believing sinners, who give thanksgiving through their participation in the Sanctifying Body and Blood of His Son, Jesus Christ. an entrance into God's Throne room of Grace, through Christ's Righteous enablement for us to stand before Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh Lord God Almighty. (See Hebrews 10 verse 19 thru 29.)

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Sin's Vapor Trail is the Stench of Death.
The Law of Sin and Death.
O wretched man that I am, who will save me from this body of death?

Even when a person is saved from their past sin's, nevertheless sin's enticements innately remain in their flesh and are waiting activation at the sensual entrances within the thoughts of our being.  If you say that you no longer sin, then you make God a liar and the TRUTH is not in you(See 1st John 1 verse 8 thru 10.) As we have seen in the Garden of Eden, sin is stealthy, and spiritually hides itself in the mind of flesh even within those who say they are saved.  We all remain subject to the gratifying pleasures akin to this world, and when ignoring God's Spirit of unseen Grace IN Christ Jesus, the saved may even succumb to sin's grosser pleasures. (See John 16 verse 7 thru 15.)  Sin is death, and death separates man from the only Holy Lord God of the Living. 

Note: Paul, the Jew, was instructed at the feet of Gamalial, in accordance to the perfect manner of the Law (Torah). (See Acts 22 verse 2 thru 3.) Paul, being an educated Jew, was without excuse in his knowledge of the Jewish ordinances, traditions with the sayings that were inscribed in the Torah.

In his flesh, the Apostle Paul the man, was just like you and I.  Paul, through our first parents, Adam and Eve, was an offspring from the root of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, wherefore he originally did not understand that he was being held in bondage by the Tree's one tap root of self absorption.  

But sin, taking occasion (exacerbated) by the Commandment (in the Decalogue), wrought in me all manner of concupiscence (cravings). For without the Law (in the Decalogue) sin was dead. For I was alive without the Law once (at one time): But when the Commandment (Decalogue) came, sin (was shown by the Decalogue to have) revived, and I (now) died. And the Commandment (in the Torah), which (I thought) was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. (Romans 7 verse 8 thru 10.)  

These scriptures, in Paul's letter to the Romans, presents a number of questions that need to be answered through God's Spirit of TRUTH:  For without the Law (in the Torah) I was alive, once! Think about it! Paul, the Jew, was educated in the Torah according to Gamalial. Then at what point could it have been when Paul was seemingly without the knowledge of God's Law in Commandments?  There is one time to consider.  It was at Paul's conversion into the saving Grace WITHIN Christ Jesus. (See Acts 9 verse 3 thru 18.) At that beginning point of Paul being IN Christ, Paul was made free of his past sins, for it appeared that the old man of sin had passed away, and behold all things were made new for he became new born soul. But oops! 

A conundrum of confusion came to the forefront of Paul's mind.  Now let's take into consideration what  ‘Saint’ Paul has to say about his real, and not allegorical struggles with his flesh: For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.  But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law [of God], confessing that the Law is good.  So now, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin, which lives within me.  For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my nature of flesh: For the willing is present in me, for I have the desire to do what is good, but I do not practice the good.  For what I do, is not the good I want to do: No, the evil I do not want to do, this I keep on doing.  But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. (See in full context Romans 7 verse 15 thru 20.)

And so, the born again Paul with his revelation of himself, mirrored in the Law of Commandments which he had previously said that we establish, continues with his thoughts, “I see another Law working within my members, warring against the Law of my mind [with his conscience of sin quickened by the knowledge of the Commandments of God], and bringing me into captivity to the Law of Sin and Death, which is in my members! (See Romans 7 verse 23 thru 25.)  We are to understand, that sin continues to reside within Paul's physical body of flesh as well as in the flesh of all of the redeemed. O wretched man that I am, who will save me from this body of death. I Thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So now, with the mind I myself serve the Law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin (and death.)

Now what is this other law, but the evil force of sin itself that is made more manifest by the knowledge of the quarantining Laws of God, the Ten Commandments.  Paul discovers another unseen force within him he calls the 'Law of Sin and Death', which is distinct from the Decalogue Law of God that condemns sin for what it is, 'death'.  In a prior chapter we metaphorically established sin, as the ultimate spiritual virus, which seeks its own rights to exist on its own terms.  Apparently, we have not known that the renegade rule or "Law of Sin" was the agent that brought death to humanity, for sin is that ultimate unseen spiritual virus that promotes itself in death, and that of its captives.

After Paul's Salvation of his soul, stealthy sin, with its idolatrous deceptions in the flesh of humanity's natural being, was originally dead to Paul’s knowledge.  How can this be happening to "Saint Paul", God's apostle to the gentiles?  The joy of Paul's salvation IN Christ Jesus had been displaced by Paul's new awareness of the flesh's propensity to do its own will.  Stealthy Sin, remained hidden deep within the neuronal roots of Paul's self preservation, for sin will seek to preserve itself at any cost.  Then the movements of sin's desires in the flesh were exacerbated into wrong action, and the quarantining spiritual Commandments of God came again to Paul's mind, and the knowledge of the presence of sin was shown to have already revived in his flesh, and thereby held Paul in the possession of sin's deadly tentacles.  But sin, finding opportunity in the Commandment (the Commandments weakness because of the weakness of the flesh) to express itself, (but sin) got a hold on me and aroused and stimulated all kinds of forbidden desires, lust and covetousness.  For without the Law. [in Commandments], sin is dead; that is the sense of sin, is inactive and seemingly a lifeless thing.  Once I was alive, but quite apart from and unconscious of the law [of sin and death].  But when the Commandment came, sin lived again, (that is, stealthy sin was shown to be still existing in the corrupted flesh), and I died, for I was sentenced by the Law of God [in Commandments] to death.  (See Romans 7 verse 8 thru 9.) Amplified

Now, after your Salvation IN Christ Jesus, can you not hear in your own self, the unrighteous call of sin in your flesh?  The Infinite God Almighty is Spirit, and His Word in the Law of Commandants is Spirit, and the Holiness of His Spiritual Law condemns the spiritual renegade Law of Sin and Death.

* The Law of God in Commandments condemns sin's desires at its source in the flesh of man kind.  However the same Law of God in Commandments doesn't cause a person to sin, but nevertheless God's holy and just Commandments exacerbates the knowledge of sin's lawless condition in the flesh.  A little example would be like encountering the existence of a splinter in the surface of the flesh. The more we poke, prod and needle at the splinter, the more excited the physical flesh becomes.  With all the the probing in the flesh, the offensive splinter may cause enough pain that we may try to ignore it's presence until the flesh festers up, and may require more extensive attention from a physician.  Likewise, the Commandments of God needles the deep infection of sin, but even so, the good and Holy Commandments can not extract the causative agent that causes death.   The renegade Law of Sin and Death will continue to rebel against God, and when sin is discovered by the Law of God of isolating Commandments, then sin will arouse all kinds of excuses to justify the offense, and the sting may react with more violence.  A person will have to recognize the stench of death that sin emits, and then with godly sorrow, humbly submit themselves to the Chief Physician of their souls for the extraction of the deadly infestation.  Jesus Christ, alone is the only WAY Who has within Himself the cure for sin's sting of death. (See 1st Corinthians 10 verse 12 thru 17.)

Consider that in the Garden of Eden, Elohim gave Adam one warning Command that Adam needed to obey for his own protection: Thou shall not eat of the Tree of Knowledge, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.  When the first Man/Adam and his sin is confronted by His Maker, then sin's own law immediately seeks to adds more sin to sin. Please note sin's exacerbation of itself, for Adam first blames his wife, as an excuse for his treasonous actions against the Almighty God, and then Adam blames God for giving him his wife, Ishshah.  (Genesis 3 verse 9 thru 12.) 

The Blame Game

In the free flowing course of time, both Cain and Abel presented an offering to God.  Abel offered worship to God through the sacrifice of his best lamb.  The lamb was of God's creation, that was naturally born and then the lamb grew without any effort of man.  The offering was in respect to Abel's heart of thanksgiving to Elohim.  Abel's mind set was pleasing to Elohim God, and the Almighty excepted Abel's offering.  However, we witness that Cain's offering to God was of the works of Cain's own hands, and the offering was less than acceptable to the Creator God.   Cain's offering was the result of his own effort, derived from his tilling of the land and his earthly plantings of seed into the soil of the earth.  Cain's harvested vegetable offering was tied to the infertile condition of his heart, and the self importance of his mindset was unacceptable to God.  Cain became indignant, then God said to Cain: Why are you angry, and why is your countenance fallen?  If you do well, shall you not be accepted?  If you do not do good then 'sin' crouches at the door, and 'his' desire is to have (rule over) you, but you are to over rule 'him'. (See Genesis 4 verse 4 thru 7.) 

Satan is the entity of sin that lays in wait to consume the person that relies on the will of their own selfish flesh.  Sin's hidden desire exploited the unrepented anger in Cain and fomented its will in Cain's anguish, thereby overruling Cain's conscience. Then Cain, in his jealous rage, murdered his brother Abel.  The good in Cain's mind had no desire to over rule his own willful emotions, therefore Cain's jealousy would ignore his conscience and his mind would acquiesce to the vile entity of sin and death.  Cain's unabated jealousy resulted in the murderous death of his brother Abel.  Cain's murderous action against his brother was quite apart from the existence of any 'just rules' that would condemn the violent actions of sin.   The law of sin has many etceteras, and without the quarantining Laws of God then sin exacerbate itself in the flesh of man.  If there is no declared sin in the flesh of man, then the many etcetera's of sin have hardened the the conscience of man and sin and death are increased, for there is no condemnation of sin to convict the person who lives in this body of death.  With Paul's conversion to the Messiah, he came to understand sin's collusion with his own body of death.  However, the wisdom of man kind confuses the understanding wisdom of the Apostle Paul, and remain entrenched in sin and death.

In the flow of time, the Almighty God would give to Israel the Decalogue of Commandments contained within the first five books of the Torah.  God's Ten Commandments were set forth on Mount Sinai to  reveal the causative agent of man kind's entanglements within the clutches of death. Sin remains innately in the corrupted flesh of all men, and proliferates its cause and affect throughout the course of time.  Throughout the centuries, it is impossible to conceive of the total consequences of the violence of sin's rebellious nature in the flesh of all of mankind.

Paul, after his Salvation encounter with Jesus Christ, came to understand the nature of the deadly infection of sin that remains in his body of flesh.  This awareness is because of sin’s symptoms of self-promoting desires, that were being exhibited as confusion within the flesh of Paul's mind.  We could liken the nature of sin to be the ultimate spiritual viral singularity, promoting it self, while dwelling secretly within the flesh of all human kind.  Paul came to understand the self promoting Law of Sin and Death, and the sin that exist within himself that he hates.  The self idolatrous nature of sin, exist in Paul and at times sin overpowers his own will, and makes him do the 'evil' things he is opposed to, and prevents him at times, from complying to that which he agrees is 'good'.  WHO shall save me from this body of death?

As good and as holy as the Commandments of God are, they fail to relieve the double minded Paul of his sense of failure when sin encourages his desire within his corrupted flesh.  Ironically, that sense of the presence of sin, is brought about by an awakened conscience through the Commandments of God that condemns (judges) sin for the death it promotes.  In man's very best state of the Salvation of Christ, latent sin is hidden in the flesh of our minds, and will revive to bring forth the nature of self idolatry that triggers one's death and separation from the heart of Holy God, even as demanded by Holy God's Laws of quarantine promoted in the Decalogue. 

Thus, Paul in his schizophrenic, self-illustration has concluded that the Commandments of God, which he is mindful of, cannot save him from his lethal infection of sin in his body, for sin has already brought the corruption of death to his self serving flesh.  The Commandments of God were never meant to be curative, and can never bridge the chasm of sin and death that had totally corrupted the genetic flesh of all of man kind. 

So this brings us again to Paul's lamenting question, followed with his definitive answer, which also should be that of all the disciples of Christ: "O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this body of death?" and his affirmative answer: "(Giving) Thanks to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind, I am serving the Law of God, but on the other [hand] with my flesh, the (self serving) Law of Sin". (Romans 7 verse 24 thru 25.)

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the Law, but under (God's) Grace (His Protection IN the Body of Christ Jesus).  What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the Law, but under (God's Spirit of) Grace? God forbid.  Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? (Romans 6 verse 14 thru 16.)

Who then is your master to whom you obey?: 
Is it the author of sin, whose fruit is death, or
Yahweh God, the Creator of Life, Whose Fruit IN Christ Jesus is His Holiness that brings forth fruit onto Life?

In Chapter 7 of his letter to the Romans, Paul had revealed the strength of sin, but previously in his writings in Chapter 6, Paul had already made the full case for the Grace of God IN Christ Jesus that brings to believers, freedom from the sting of sin and death.  Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it (sin) in the lusts thereof. For sin shall not have dominion over you; for you are not (to be) under (the control of) the law (of sin and death), but under (the control of God's Spirit of) Grace(See Romans 6 verse 12-14.)

However, we have seen that the leaders in the various churches have presented a liberality in their shallow interpretation of grace.  Branding about the word grace, these leaders fail to realize that God's Grace is administered by Holy God's Holy Gift of His Spirit of Grace IN Christ Jesus.   In their ignorance of the Holy, the self acknowledged pastors and teachers, leave the people of the pews, wallowing in the mire within the clutches of their own sins. Through God's Holy Spirit, Paul presents a rebuke to any sinful liberality: What then, shall we sin, because we are not under (the condemnation of) the Law (in Commandments), but under grace? God forbid. (Romans 6 verse 15.) For they that are after the flesh, do mind the things of the flesh: But they that are after the Spirit, mind the things of the Spirit of God. This word is cemented to Paul's following spiritual logic: For to be carnally minded is DEATH, but to be spiritually minded is LIFE and Peace (with God). (See Romans 8 verse 4 thru 6.)

Unfortunately, we shall see in the King James version of the Bible that the beginning of the following scripture in Romans 6 verse 17 is less than the fullness of  Paul's thoughts, for the scripture erroneously reads: But God be thanked. The words 'be thanked' should have been correctly interpreted from the Greek word 'charis' that has a true meaning of 'grace'.  Therefore the scripture should more properly be rendered: By God's Grace, you were the servants (slaves) of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart that form of Doctrine which was delivered to you. Being then made free (by God's Communion Doctrine) from sin, you became the servants of righteousness. For now, (meaning 'at this time') being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto holiness, and (in) the end (of time) everlasting Life. (Romans 6 verse 17 thru 18 and verse 22.)

What then is that form of Doctrine that Paul speaks about?  Please consider, with a diligent mind, that the apostles' doctrine as seen in the 2nd chapter of the Book of Acts, is God's Doctrine IN Christ. (Do not miss Repent and Believe.) Yahweh, the Almighty God is Eternally Holy, and has not changed His Covenant Doctrine IN Christ Jesus.  Take and drink all of you: This is My Blood of the New Covenant that is shed for many for the remission of sin(Mathew 26 verse 26 thru 28.) For a greater understanding of the TRUTH and Mercy of God, please review Paul's scripture writings taken from Romans 6 verses 17 thru 21, and witness the results of God's Covenant Words of LIFE, spoken by the WAY, the TRUTH and LIFE of men, Jesus Christ: Being then made free from sin, you became the servants of Righteousness. For now, (at this very moment) being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto holiness (purification, consecration, separation) from sin), and (in) the end everlasting LIFE. (See Romans 6 verse 17 thru 23.) It is within the redeems participation in fellowship with Holy God's unseen Spirit of Grace and Life that makes a person of faith IN the Christ of God, to be freed from the condemnation of their fleshes' sins of death. 

Hopefully, through the Spirit of God, the reader would grasp that the form of doctrine, is God's structured Instructions that brings about His Spirit of Grace IN Christ Jesus too provide His Grace for the remission of the sins of our flesh.  We call that form of doctrine, Holy Communions, but the word 'Communion' did not exist within Paul or the other apostles' vocabulary, but later the Greek word 'Koinonia' was rendered in English as 'fellowship'.  It is thought that the word Communion is attributed to the early church father, Augustine. who used the Latin 'communionem', in his belief that the word was derived from "com"- meaning "with, together" plus "unus" meaning "oneness, union." The Infinite Yahweh God Almighty did not predestine any man to perish in sin, but through His New Covenant in the Blood of Jesus Christ, all that He for knew IN His creation of time, should come to repentance and be saved in the Righteousness of our Lord God Almighty. God's New Covenant does not leave those He is saving in the clutches of the sin that is innate to our corruptible flesh, but the Almighty makes the willing soul IN Christ Jesus victorious, and more than conquerors over our flesh of sin through the Life giving Blood of His Righteous Son:  There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are IN Christ Jesus, who walk not after the (control of the) flesh, but after the (leading of God's) Spirit. For the Law of the Spirit of Life IN Christ Jesus, has made me free from the law of sin and death. (Romans 8 verse 1 thru 2.)

Not by Might or Power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord!

 The Grace from God's Holy Spirit of Grace and Life abounds to the repentant saved person with our Confessed Failures of the Flesh.
We are being sanctified through Christ's cleansing Blood at God's Table of Grace.

Therefore brethren, having boldness to enter into the Holiest by the Blood of Jesus, by a new and living Way, Which He (Christ) has inaugurated for us, through the veil that is to say His Flesh: Let us draw near with a true heart, in the full assurance of faith, having are hearts sprinkled (with His Life Blood) from an evil conscience.  (See Hebrews 10 verse 19 thru 22.)

The only remedy for the death of man-kind is faith in the poured out Life Blood of Jesus Christ, the innocent Son of Adam, and the Incarnate and Only Begotten Son of God.  The proof stands as the TRUTH:  For Jesus Christ, the Man, was crucified to death on a cross, but was raised from the dead by the Spirit of God, and God's justification by His Grace for all of mankind that would believe.  Therefore, by the imputed Living Faith of Jesus Christ, we the believers are justified, even as transgressors, because of faith in the Son of Man's absolute obedience and Trusting Faith IN His Holy Father God Almighty.  Now, Paul fully recognizes that he and we through God's Gift of Faith IN Christ Jesus are absolutely dependant upon God the Father, Who gives Life and Love, more abundantly to all repentant sinners, through His Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ. Therefore, if any man be IN Christ, he is a new creation: Old things are passed away; behold all things are become new.  For all things are of God, Who has reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and has given unto us the ministry of reconciliation. To wit, that God was IN Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and has committed unto us His Word of Reconciliation. (See 2nd Corinthians 5 verse 17-21.)  And what is His Word of Reconciliation?  Drink all of you, for This is My Blood of the New Covenant which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

After God's justification by the Faith of Jesus Christ, then the fullness of God's New Covenant is that 'form of Doctrine', which provides for the redeemed of God, to continue to reap the benefits of Cleansing and Sanctification of the flesh of our natural being.  If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the TRUTH is not in us. If we continue to say that we have not sinned, we make Him (God Almighty) a liar, and His WORD of TRUTH is not in us.  But if we confess our sins, He (God Almighty) is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (by the Life giving Blood of Christ Jesus). (See John 1 verse 8 thru 10.) Nothing is hid from the Eyes of Eternal God. (See Hebrews 4 verse 12 thru 13.) In our fellowship at God's Table of Grace, the nakedness of our flesh of sin, is covered IN the Righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Gift of God is His Life Saving Grace given to us in the Life Blood of His Only Begotten Son, administered through God's Holy Spirit of Grace. For the Spirit and the Water and the Blood are One.  For if we walk in the Light as He is in the Light, we have fellowship, one with another, and the BLOOD of JESUS CHRIST, God's Son, cleanses us from sin.  There is no code or standard that leads to eternal Life except through the Sanctifying Life giving Blood of Jesus Christ.  Jesus Christ alone, as the Incarnate Son of Man/Adam, is the absolute Standard of Love and Grace acceptable to His Holy Father God Almighty.  Jesus Christ is the very last genetic Son of Adam, for He was incarnately born of the Love of His Father Yahweh God, and Jesus defeated our sin and death within the original genetic flesh of Adam through His Perfect Sacrifice, as a Son of Perfect Love and Obedience to His Holy Father God Almighty.  With the Love of His Father within His Bosom, Jesus Christ pours out His Soul within the Spirit of His Holy Life Blood as a Presentation Offering to God, for the souls of mankind.  Blessed be our Holy God and Father, Who first loved us, even when we were yet sinners, and Who by His Spirit of Life has made our souls to be alive within His Risen and Beloved Son.

Wherefore

If the ministration of death, written and engraved in stones was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look upon the face of Moses because the glory that was on his countenance, but was a glory that was to pass away.  Will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?  If the ministry that condemns men is glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings Righteousness!  For what was glorious, now has no glory in comparison with the surpassing Glory [of the Spirit of God].  And if what was fading away came with Glory, how much greater is the Glory [of the Spirit of God] and that which lasts (with eternal life)!   (2nd Corinthians 3 verse 7 thru 11.)

The Glory of the Commandments of God, was revealed in the face of Moses, who stood in the awesome Presence of the Almighty God, the Law Giver. The Law of God in Commandments does not save a person, but is somewhat glorious in that it reveals the sentence of death for the transgressor.  For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is Life and Peace, (IN Christ Jesus). Seeing that the Glory of the Lord passed away from the veiled face of Moses, so shall the condemnation of the Law in Commandments be done away for the believer that abides IN Christ Jesus.  But consider also that because of a person's unrepented sin, the Glory of God may leave them to their own fleshly council, having spurned the guidance of the Holy Spirit of Christ IN God.  Why would one die in the flesh of their self justification, when God's Good  News of Life and Peace dwells IN the faith of God's Righteous Son, Jesus Christ.  The purpose of the Law of God remains steadfast,  (See Romans 7 verse  8 thru 12.) until all is fulfilled with the conversion of souls that understand that they are lost in sin and death, and need the redeeming Life giving BLOOD of God's Only Begotten Son.  Now, the Glory that is Eternal, is to be found in the faithful souls, where the spirit within their mind is lit on fire by God's Spirit of Life IN Christ Jesus.  The fullness of God's Glory IN His Son shall not pass away. For as many that are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. (Romans 8 verse 14.)

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Law, a Quagmire of Confusion.
 

For what purpose is the Law? 

To begin with, Deuteronomy is referred to as 'The Book of the Law'.  The reader needs to fully understand that: The Law was added because of the transgressions [of Israel], until the Seed [Jesus Christ] should come to whom the Promise was made [to the fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob]; and it [the Law] was ordained by an Angel [of God] into the hand of a mediator [Moses]. (See also Galatians 3 verse 19 thru 21.) For when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the tutelage of the Law (Torah): To redeem them that were under the (condemnation) of the Law  so that they might receive the adoption of sons. (Galatians 4 verse 4.)

The first Man of creation was made of the dust of the earth, and God gave His created son the Hebrew name of Adam.  In English his name of Adam means Man and visa versa.  Man was genetically created from the dust of the earth by Father God to be in the image, and then in the likeness of His Creator.  With the Breath of God, Adam, a created son, was in the likeness of His Father God and without sin. 

But Satan, with his rebellion against God, became the author of sin that breads death, and was cast down to the earth.  We then find him in the Garden of Eden, disguised as a wise serpent, where he is intertwined in the branches of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  From the Tree of Knowledge, Satan's stealthy wisdom was set in motion and sin's coercive wisdom found a place in the mind of Adam:  For in Adam's freewill reasoning, he also chose to rebel against his Maker God.  Thus the first Adam's treasonous sin, enslaved him to sin, and therefore brought forth death to himself, his offspring and to the whole world.  Because of Adam's treacherous rebellion, absent of true remorse for his treasonous actions, it was then that the Likeness of  God, being God's Holy Spirit and the Breath of LIFE, left Adam free to make his own free choices of what he thought was good or evil.  The suborned wisdom of the naturally finite man would set his own standards of what he thought was good and what he thought was evil.  One man's good is another man's evil and visa versa.  Every natural man is right in their own eyes, and so goes man's standard of twisted wisdom.

However, before the foundation of the world was formed in the fabric of time, the Creator of the universe had already set in His creation of time, His Eternal Foundation of TRUTH.  This is a conundrum of unfathomable proportions to the finite mind of man.  Our limited minds can not conceive of an absolute TRUTH where there is no variation or shadow of turning IN God's Person of TRUTH. The TRUTH was and is the God's Lamb slain before the Foundation of the World. (See 1st Peter 1 verse 19 thru 20,  Revelation 13 verse 8.) Because of the Promise of the unchanging TRUTH of the Eternal God, then God's Promised WORD and Messianic Lamb, must be of the very same sinless genetic nature of Woman/Ishshah. taken from the side of the first Adam/Man.  Jesus Christ, the sinless Son of Man as Man also had His own freewill, but Jesus/Yeshua chose to refuse the evil and choose the good, (See Isaiah 7 verse 14 thru 16.) and thereby He always obeyed the Will of His Father Yahweh God Almighty.  Now in His Sacrificial Obedience to the Word of His Father, the Last Adam was crucified to death to offset the first Man's sins: For the first Man's rebellion against His Creator brought death and darkness into all of the world.  But, the Incarnate Man Jesus Christ, in the Righteousness of His Chagagah (Presentation) Offering for mankind's sin, was raised from the imprisoning death of Adam's fomenting sin, and Stands IN the Eternal LIFE of His Holy Father through the Eternal Yahweh's Living Spirit of Holiness.

Now, within the movements of created time, the Lord God spoke to Abram and revealed His Promise Word of Salvation that was to come.  It would be understood that Abram obviously did not have the written Law to guide him.  We saw in the previous chapter that the Law was the Ten Commandments that condemned the renegade Law of Sin and Death, for sin innately dwells in the flesh of every person born on earth.  God's Decalogue (Ten) in Commandments, was given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai.  God's giving of the Ten Commandments occurred some 430 years after Abram was justified because of his believing faith in the Word of the Almighty God. The Word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision saying: Fear not Abram: I AM thy Shield and thy exceeding Great Reward. (Read all of Genesis 15 1 thru 6.) Therefore, Abram, not having the Decalogue that reveals the nature of sin and death, was justified by the Word of God because of Abram's faith.  Abram believed in what the Word of God had Promised to him and his future seed. (See Romans 4 verse 13 thru 16.) Furthermore, from the beginning of the flow of time, the Omniscient Creator God would impute righteousness, not only to Abram by his new faith in the Promised Word of God, but also to all of mankind of the future who would receive the Faith of Abraham with their unfailing belief in God's Promised Messiah.  The Purity of God's Promised Word would come to earth to be born of the pure genetic seed of Abraham, who was a generational genetic Son of the first Adam through Adam's wife Ishshah.

As we affirm here, and have asserted in several past chapters, that the first 5 books of the Torah, was given by the Eternal God to the man Moses.  The English versions of the Bible, and perhaps other language translations, tend to ascribe the instructions of Deuteronomy as nondescript Laws of God.  However, the written instructions in Deuteronomy was God's Wisdom given to His people to cut down on the gross transgressions of the 12 tribes of Israel.   The whole of the 'Book of the Law', in conjunction with the Covenant animal sacrifices, was to protect  God's Promised (genetic) ovum Seed of Ishshah/Woman, that  would be conceived by the Perfect Word of Father Yahweh God, and would be born the Son of Man/Adam.  With God's intervening protection of His Word through out time, the Genetic Seed of Woman/Ishshah, would generationally continue through the Hebrew lineage, to a Hebrew virgin named Mary, for she was a generational daughter of King David.  The Hebrew virgin Mary, was the natural earthly mother of the Son of Man/Adam, for He was conceived as God's Only begotten Son, Jesus the Promised Messiah of God.

The first Adam, also called Man, with his insurrection against Elohim, brought death to himself and to his human prodigy. But the Last Adam, the innocent Man Jesus Christ, with His Perfect Love and Obedience to His Father God Almighty, would be crucified to death, but His death was for the sins of the rebellious world, and not for His sinless self.  In the Perfection of  His selfless Sacrificial Chagagah Offering for sin, His selfless Offering was excepted by His Eternally Holy Father God, and Jesus/Yeshua was resurrected into the Life of His Father God.  In His death and Resurrection into Life, the Lord Jesus destroyed the power of sin and death that was naturally seeded in the flesh of all of mankind. 

God's Spiritual Law, in Commandments, were given on High to Moses, to reveal to Moses and his people of the unseen entity of sin with its spiritual power of death.  God's quarantining Law's, in Commandments, could never cure the entity of sin and death in man, because all of mankind are guilty of sin.  But the Commandments were ordained by God to curtail sin's spread of corrupting evil among those within God's chosen race, who would remain the genetically pure children from the flesh of Ishshah the wife of the first Man we know as Adam.  The Messiah of God was to come through the pure genetic seed of Ishshah/Woman, and Elohim the Creator would protect that Promised Seed of His Covenant Word with the general cooperation of Abraham and Sarah and their descendents of the original Race of the first Adam/Man. 

Unfortunately, there are many who think that the Law of God was the problem, and what they are taught as the Law was abolished in Christ Jesus' death and resurrection, thereby freeing them to do as they please without consequences.  The Good, Just and Righteous Law of God contained in the Commandments of God are not the problem.  No! The problem is the existence of the separating renegade 'Law of  Sin and Death'  The Renegade Law of Sin and Death is stealthily hidden within man's self seeking mind of flesh, and the warning Commandments of God reveal to man that which is not discernable to man.  The will of the 'entity' of sin, that we know as Satan, is the corrupter of the individual self, and this coercive force of sin has made each one of us prisoners of death within our own rebellious mind that is set against the Good Will of the Creator. 

Although God created Man/Adam, male and female, to have free will, the free will was given so they would choose wisely in the Will of their Creator and live.  Deceit ruled their minds and they chose the allurement of sin, and bought the corruption of death to themselves and all of man-kind.  Elohim is the God of the living, and Adam's choice could never be in the Perfect Will of the Eternal God, for as it was then and is now, For one day with the Lord is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day The Lord is patient with (all of) us, and is not Willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. (See 2nd Peter 3 verse 8 thru 9.)

When Man/Adam and Woman/Ishshah were confronted by the Only One Who gives Life, they blamed all but themselves, and remained consigned to death in their choice of rebellion against Elohim.  The impatient Man and Woman in the Garden of Eden, were looking only to themselves, and were lacking in true repentance for their own gross error, for they were ignorant of the true consequences of their sin when they rebelled against their Creator, the Eternally Wise God of the Living.  In Man's ignorance of sin they did not understand the consequences of death that brings a separation from the Eternally Living God.  In the Garden of Delight, the two together broke the one protective Commandment of God that warned them of  the consequences of their rebellious sin that would escalated in time, for mankind would continually eat the cursed fruit of death.

The Eternal God of Creation, knowing the flow of His creation of time, had already chosen His Own Divine Way of Salvation for the dead of mankind.  In time, He would then set apart a people of Adam's genetic lineage and give them warning Instructions to live by.  We  know the Instructions as Commandments, and like Adam we ignore the Instructive Word of God and listen to the lies of the deceiver.  Sin is not perpetuated by the Ten Commandments of God, for they are not the instigator of sin, but the Decalogue is the spiritual revealer of the spiritual sin that kills all of ignorant mankind.  The rebellious 'entity' of sin would come to exist in the fabric of time, even before Almighty God gave to His creation of free thinking Man/Adam the one protective Law in the Garden of Eden that would expose rebellious sin for the death that it is.  For the Lord God warned Adam: Of every tree of the garden you may eat; but of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, you may not eat, for in 'the day' you eat there of, you shall surely die.  The natural man of the earth dies, and does not have any conception of why.

As we continue with this apologetics, we hope to bring a better understanding of why it is impossible for God's spiritual Decalogue to be sin or the conduit of sin.  Scripture states "Wherefore the Law is Holy, and the Commandments are Holy and Just and Good".  (Romans 7 verse 12.) The Good, Just and Holy Commandments, were given by God, to Moses, to reveal God's absolute opposition to the evil destructive force of sin.  Paul identifies this evil destructive force as the spiritual 'Law of Sin' that breeds only Death

*Paul, of the redeemed IN Christ Jesus, had previously posed a rhetorical question in Romans 3 verse 31 "Do 'we' then make void the Law, through Faith? Followed with his definitive answer: God forbid: Yea, [rather] 'we' establish the Law [in the Decalogue]. (Romans 3 verse 31.)

The 'we', of whom God has justified by and through our faith in Christ Jesus, are the same we of Faith that do not void the Law.  But rather, the we of Faith are those who establish God's Moral Law (that is ascribed within the Decalogue, the Book of the Law).  Thus, the Decalogue's revealing 'condemnation' of all sin, which leads to death", would continue to stand firm, revealing to all who will hear of the corrupting nature of the Law of Sin and Death that resides in all of mankind's flesh.  All of the 10 Commandments that we establish, as being true in revealing the knowledge of sin and death, will continue as written.  Yes, even the true Sabbath day of God's rest that is the seventh day of the week we call "Saturday".

We are helpless to overcome our sin and death without God's gracious intervention in time.  The Lamb of God, Jesus Christ died for sin, so that His believers would not be condemned to death by the Law of Sin and Death.  Nevertheless the revealing Law of God in Commandments remains a good teacher to the uninformed and ill advised.  For the Law in Commandments is not an enemy of mankind, but should be considered a valuable friend, for the Law in the Decalogue, instructs us in what we should do, and not do, so as to avoid the condemnation of sin ;and death that is revealed by the good, holy and just Law.  Sin, which God hates, was in the world before the spiritual Law in the Ten Commandments was given to Moses.  The Ten Commandments by the intent of their very nature are to reveal the unseen nature of sin that brings the corruption of death.

From the beginning of His creation of Time, the All-knowing God had concluded that with freewill, all men would sin, and our own sin would condemn mankind to death. So then, all of mankind, born in time are already condemned to death in Adam, and God's just and holy Law reveals the Law of Sin, and under its penalty of Death that condemns all of mankind.  Thus, God's Ten Commandments were protective warning signs given to Israel and remain in the world today as an instructive conduit that leads us to the Risen Christ Jesus, for He alone can save a person from the Law's condemnation of mankind's sin that produces death.  

We can begin to understand Paul's definitive ending statement in Romans 3 verse 31: " we establish the Law ".  Why?  Because the Law of God is Holy, and the 10 Commandments are Holy, and Just, and remain Good, because they reveal death by sin. (See Romans 7 verse 10 thru 12.) Sin and death has not disappeared, so then neither has God's Spiritual Law ceased to exist, for the established Holy, Just, and Good Decalogue continues to show sin for what it is, "Death". 
 

Now, lets continue to investigate the crux of our confusion.  Paul's writings in his Letter to the Romans, distinguishes the difference between the Decalogue Commandments, being the Ten Commandments, verses the renegade 'Law of Sin that brings Death', even as it is reviewed in the previous chapter.   Within this present chapter, we will attempt to further address, the spiritual confusion that is a result of the renegade 'Law of Sin and Death'.  The rebellion of Satan and his angels, brought the violence of sin into the universe after the creation of the world was set into the fabric of time.  

The Law was added because of the transgressions [of Israel], until the Seed [Jesus Christ] should come to whom the Promise was made [to the fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob]; and it [the Book of the Law] was ordained by an Angel [of God] in the hand of a mediator [Moses]. (See Galatians 3 verse 19 thru 21.)

On the 15th day of the First month of Nisan, God freed Israel from their bondage to the Egyptians, and then the Power of the Spirit of God would lead the people of Israel to the foot of Mount Sinai, where they arrived on the 15th day of the Third month of Sivan.  Three days later, Moses went up the mountain to meet with Almighty God, where God gave Moses His Commandments that were written in stone by the Finger of God.  God's Holy Commandments were given to Israel to identify the deadly nature of sin, and to set apart the nation of Israel from sin's additional corruption within the flesh of the chosen people of God. (See Romans 7 verse 13.)

God gave to Moses and His chosen people, the 10 Commandments along with animal sacrifices, whose blood would mediate the Almighty's original Covenant.  The God given dietary laws were inclusive to the Law, so as to maintain the physical health and genetics of the people, from whom the Promised Word of God would come.   God's oversight provisions for the safety of His remnant people would continue until the Hebrew virgin Mary,  would conceive in her ovum through the Holy Spirit of Father God, for His very WORD be born of the genetics of the first Man Adam.   Mary was a child in the lineage of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and of the true genetics of the wife of God's first Man/Adam, After the virgin conception, then 9 months later, Mary would give birth to God's Promised One, Who, as Messiah Yeshuah/Jesus, would become the very last Man from the original genetics of God's creation of Adam.

Broken Commandments revealing a dead relationship with God.

"I AM the LORD your God Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.  You shall have no other gods before Me.  You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth.  You shall not worship them or serve them; for I AM the LORD your God, a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,  but showing loving kindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments".  "You shall not take the Name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His Name in vain".  "Observe the Sabbath day to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.  Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your cattle, or your sojourner who stays with you, so that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.  You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out of there, by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to observe the Sabbath day". (Deuteronomy 5 verse 6 thru 15.)

Broken Commandments revealing a dead relationship with man. 

"Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, that your days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with you on the land which the LORD your God gives you".  "You shall not murder".  "You shall not commit adultery".  "You shall not steal".  "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor".  "You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, and you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant or his female servant, his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” (Deuteronomy 5 verse 16 thru 21.)

Now that God's Promised Messiah has come in the flesh of Adam, then has the Law that reveals the destructive force of sin, passed away?  The TRUTH is the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the TRUTH has Declared the Word of His Father, "I have not come to abolish the (Book of the ) Law, or the prophets, but to fulfill": Which means to finish Yahweh God's Promise of the Lamb of God slain before the foundation of the world. Jesus Christ is declaring that He is the Lamb of God's Covenant Word of Promise that was given in the Garden of Eden: And God's Lamb will finish the Promise of His Eternally Holy Father Yahweh God Almighty that was declared before the world came into being within the fabric of time.

Furthermore the Lord confirms the Covenant strength of His Eternal Word, stating; “Till heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the Law, till all be fulfilled.  Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least Commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven”. (Matthew 5 verse 18 thru 19.)  Seeing that we are still here, then heaven and earth have not passed away: And from the Master's Words, it becomes evident that in any time period, it is not wise for kingdom people, who are saved by God's Spirit of Life and Grace, for them to preach or teach against the Ten Commandments (that are also known as the Decalogue). "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due the person for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad". (2nd Corinthians 5 verse 10.) 

Perfect Love is in opposition to sin and death, and the fullness of God's Covenant of Perfect Love IN Christ Jesus, destroys sin's earthly body of death.  Elohim saw in His creation of time that the first Man/Adam would sin against His WORD, and Adam's sin would bring death to all of mankind.   But, the Eternal Elohim, in His foreknowledge the flow of His creation of time, would provide His Perfect Lamb, slain before the foundation of the world, and obviously before His creation of Man/Adam. The Eternal Yahweh God, saves the souls of those, who believe in His Son the TRUTH of GOD.  Nevertheless, the believers will be tried as they remain in their body of flesh that is subject to the law of sin and death.  Why languish in the dark prison of sin?  Why not come into the Light of Christ that reveals what manner of person we really are?

The fullness of God's New Covenant in the Life Giving Blood of Jesus Christ, is provided by God's Holy Spirit of Grace and is given for the remission of the confessed sins of Christ's disciples of Faith.  The Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty, in His Mercy that is is provided in His Son's Life giving Offering, is Faithful to remit the sins of all of His Son's repentant disciples, and cleanse them IN the Life giving Blood of the Glorious TRUTH of the WORD of God.

Just a few more moderating thoughts.

Let's review the written account of the day after the last Holy Sabbath of the Feast of Tabernacles when Jesus/Yeshua went again to the Temple to teach the Word of God.  The scribes and the Pharisees were there in the temple, and had taken with them a woman they accused of adultery.  Using the woman they caught in adultery, the unbelieving scribes and Pharisees were looking to bring accusations against the judgment of Jesus Christ.  In the end, all were judged as guilty of sin, including the woman, whom Christ told to sin no more.  Then Jesus said to the Jews that believed upon Him.  If you continue in My Word then you are indeed My disciples.  You shall know the TRUTH and the TRUTH shall set you free.  Even so, the Jews answered Jesus: We are of Abraham's seed and were never in bondage.  How can you say that we shall be made free. Then Jesus said to them: Truly, Truly, I say unto you, whosoever commits sin is the servant of sin. The servant (of sin) does not live in the house fore ever. But the Son abides fore ever.  Therefore, if the Son (the TRUTH) shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.  Jesus Christ is the Master of His House, and those who are the true servants of the Master, shall abide in His House forever.

For, the TRUTH of God, His Only Begotten Son, Yeshua/Jesus speaks to those present and to all sinful men born of violence: "You are of your father the devil, and the lust of your father you will do.  He was a murder from the beginning, and did not live in TRUTH. (See John 8 verse 42 thru 47.) All of mankind, was conceived in Satan's perversion of the soul,   Then Christ speaks of Abraham, "Your Father Abraham rejoiced to see My Day: And he saw it and was glad".  Abraham indeed, rejoiced in seeing the day of Christ's Bodily Resurrection from the dead, and in his faith in the Promise of God, Abraham believed in the Eternal Word of His Lord and Savior God.  (See John 8 verse 56.) The Eternal Word of God then declares: Absolutely, Absolutely, I say unto you: Before Abraham was, I AM"This is My Blood of the New Covenant shed for many for the remission of sin."

Choose today and tomorrow and every day after that, the Life of Christ, and live with the expectation of Christ's Faith.  “Till heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the Law, till all be fulfilled.  Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least Commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven”.

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 God's Amnesty Program IN Christ Jesus.

Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed [within his own mind].
Then when lust is conceived [in the mind], it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished,
it brings forth death.
(James 1 verse 14 thru 15.)

Once again, we can hear Paul's lamenting cry: "O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this body of death?".  Paul has experienced God's redemption in Christ, but afterwards he also experiences a confusing conundrum, as he attempts to clarify it in his letter to the Romans.  Paul writes from his past experiences:  For I was alive once without the Law to condemn me, but when the Commandment of God came, sin revived and I died.  The redeemed Paul, lived in his flesh, but his flesh betrayed him and he knowing Scripture, found himself to be dead in his sin that is innate to the flesh.  Sin was exposed by God's holy, just and good Law in Commandments, for the unseen stealthy sin had already slayed the redeemed man of faith. Now Paul, having been reproved by Yahweh God's Holy Spirit, recognizes that in his flesh of self centered humanity, that only death is written in the corruption of his own flesh, and that only IN God's Messiah is found LIFE in the Eternal.  Paul, in his wretchedness, knows that Communion Grace gives Thanksgiving to God through the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, the Savior of mankind. (See Romans 7 verse 24 thru 25.)

The Eternal Holy God, in His justice, accepted in total satisfaction the Chagigah Offering of the absolute Love of the Man, Christ Jesus, Who came in the flesh of Adam, and as the Last Man of Adam's genetics, He over came this world of sin and death, (See Chagigah Presentation Offering.) Now since, by Man [Adam] came death, by Man [Jesus/Yeshua] came also the resurrection of the dead. For as IN Adam all die, even so IN Christ shall all be made alive. (1st Corinthians 15 verse 21 thru 22.)

Paul, seeing with the eyes of understanding, knows that the full sentence for the rebellion of Man's sin and its punishment of death, has been paid for by the Incarnate Holy Son of God. God's Word was made flesh and the sinless Man Jesus Christ, was sacrificially crucified to death on the cross in full payment for Man's rebellion.  Now, through the surety of Jesus Christ's resurrection from his death on the cross, we hear Paul rejoicing: "Thanks be to (Yahweh) God through Jesus Christ our Lord!  So then, on the one hand, I myself with my mind, I am serving the Law of (Yahweh) God, but on the other [hand], with my flesh (I am subservient to) the Law of Sin (and death)"Therefore there is now no condemnation to those which are IN Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.  Now, with God's Holy Spirit, giving birth to a repentant soul, and that soul becoming a new creation of God, then the earthly nature of sin's self rule that is innate to the flesh of man, is being abrogated, and the spirit of the mind is being regenerated into the LIFE of Christ by following the leading of God's Holy Spirit of Grace.  

Yes, it is true that through God's unmerited Grace through His Spirit of Grace IN Christ Jesus, our souls can be born anew by receiving God's Gift of Salvation Life that is born of the Faith of Jesus Christ.  The only Almighty God enables all who come to Him, through their faith in His Son Jesus Christ, to rejoice likewise with Paul. For God Almighty has extended amnesty, to all those who enter into God's freedom, through their repentance from sin, enjoined with their confession of faith in Christ Jesus.  That person who expresses their belief in the death, burial, and resurrection of the righteous Son of Man, Jesus the Christ of God, is completely exonerated from past wrongful deeds, and are now justified in their expressed faith, in the Holy One, Who died for them.  All the past deeds, of the confessing sinner, have past away in Christ Jesus death for our sin, and behold all things are made new to those in Christ's resurrection. (See Romans 3 verse  23 thru 26.) 

The first Adam/Man was created as an innocent son of God, but his freewill mind drew him away into a lust for control of all things, and with its conception in his mind brought him into his treasonous rebellion against his Maker.   With Adam's willful rebellion against Elohim, then God's Spirit of LIFE left Adam to himself,  Adam's treason against the Almighty God submerged all the souls of mankind into the grave of death, for all of mankind have sinned.

But now the Last Adam/Man, Jesus Christ the only Begotten Son of God, having a Perfect Love and Obedience to His Father God Almighty, over came the rebellious sin that brought Adam's death and that of his prodigy.  In Almighty Yahweh God's scale of justice, the rebellion of the first Adam/Man brought death to the souls of mankind, but the Love and Obedience of the Last Adam/Man, brought Life to all that seek God's Pardon.  Now, all who believe in Jesus Messiah's death for our sin and His resurrection into the LIFE of His Father, have been newly born with God's Spirit of LIFE, with a new start into the LIFE of Jesus Christ.  Even the thief on the cross, without an apparent water baptism, was given amnesty and freely justified by Christ with the thief's verbal expression of faith in the Lord: For the thief believed that the crucified Jesus Christ would indeed reign in His Righteous Kingdom of the Living. (See Luke 23 verse 39 thru 43.) 

Almighty Yahweh God is not the author of confusion, but He is the Eternal God of His Word of TRUTH. Wherefore, Yahweh God's Living Spirit of TRUTH and Peace abides in the resurrected Man Christ Jesus (See 1st Corinthians 14 verse 33.)  However, Satan, the author of sin, has entangled finite man into his web of confusion that imprisons the human mind of flesh into our own pretentious mind of idolatrous self importance.  But, if we answer the Call of God and turn away from the lethal direction of sin and death, and toward the leading of God's Holy Spirit, then in our repentance we should remain subjects of the Living Word of God.  For the Lord is not slack concerning His Promise, as some men count slackness; but [He] is long suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (2nd Peter 3 verse 9.) With a person's repentance from sin and a renewing faith in the Righteous LIFE and Resurrection Power of the Son of Man, Christ Jesus, then the Infinite Yahweh God, Who dwells in Eternity, will remit the sins of the past, and justify the person that is given new birth by the Holy Spirit of Yahweh God for He reforms us WITH IN the sinless Body of God Almighty's resurrected Son Christ Jesus. (See Holy Spirit of Truth.)

The first Adam committed high treason, when he broke faith and trust in the Words of his Creator Elohim, and thereby brought the sting of sin and death to his being, and into the bodies, minds and souls of all of his human offspring.  But the second Adam, Jesus the Christ of God, was Elohim's Promised One, Whose Righteous Word through the Spirit of His Father Yahweh God, was conceived into the ovum/seed of a faithful virgin woman of Israel, named Mary, and with His birth, He became the Son of Man, and God with us.  Jesus Christ, the Word of God, came into this world as the True Unleavened Bread of Heaven to become the Son of Man/Adam.  But this Divine Son of God, was birthed with the genetics of the first Man, But Jesus/Yeshua haMashiach with the perfection of His Love and trusting obedience, would do all the Will of His Holy Father Yahweh God, and bring Salvation to all who would believe in the Saving Word of His Father. (See Matthew 26 verse 39.)

What the natural man could not do in his fallen flesh, that is save himself from sin's death, Holy Yahweh Lord God Almighty did the impossible, with the resurrection of the sinless Person of the Last Adam, Jesus Christ.  The Lord Jesus, as the Son of Man/Adam, with the Perfection of His Love and Obedience to His Holy Father God Almighty, was God's Passover Lamb that was sacrificed to death on the cross for the sins of Man. This Son of God gave the possibility of a new birth to the souls of the dead of humanity, who would come to express a trusting faith in Holy God's New Covenant of LIFE that is in God's Resurrected and Obedient Son.  God's New Covenant of Living Faith, is established forever in the Sacrificial LIFE giving Blood of Jesus Christ.  The Holy Spirit of God, breathes the LIFE of His beloved Son, into the repentant souls of the now living dead, giving them new birth into the Way of the TRUTH that leads into the LIFE of Faith within the Living Word of Yahweh God, the Almighty. 

Amnesty

We are presenting a slightly different, but nevertheless an intrinsic biblical perspective, that may help to clear up the churches' rhetorical records of division on this subject of God's Gift of Justification and Sanctification of sinners.  Through out the last 2 thousand years,  the theologians of the Word of God, have been grappling with the meaning of the Eternal God's justification of the person who answers God's Call to repent and to separate themselves from sin. 

We have come to a simple premise that God has provided within His Spirit of Grace, an Amnesty Program for all the rebellious; for all of the outlaws; and all of the unfaithful sinners of humanity; so that they may all come to the Creator of LIFE, by accepting God's Word and His Conditions for His abundant pardon.  YHVH's pardon is more specifically His amnesty for past sins, thereby providing for sinners, a new beginning, with a new born Faith in the Righteousness of Almighty God.  God Provides His Grace. in the Body and LIFE Blood of Jesus Christ, our High Priest,  Jesus, alone, provide the entrance into the Kingdom of God's Love, with His Holy Righteousness and Provisions.  This amnesty program, is called the Gospel, or the Good News of God's Salvation and Mercy through Christ Jesus; and like Paul, with our acceptance of God's Grace in
Christ Jesus, we are Called to be God's new ambassadors of His Peace. 

First let us see if the word "Amnesty", as it is taken from the internet Wikipedia, has spiritual significance in God's Salvation Grace:

Amnesty (from the Greek ἀμνηστία, amnestia, meaning oblivion) is a legislative or executive act, by which a state restores those who may have been guilty of an offense against it, to the positions of innocent people.  It includes more than pardon, inasmuch as it obliterates all legal remembrance of the past offense.  The word has the same root as amnesia.  Amnesty is more and more used to express freedom, and the time when prisoners can go free.

From this definitive excerpt, and by looking at the essential hermeneutical logic of the Good News of Scripture, we might agree together that amnesty, is speaking beyond a pardon, and would be more appropriately known as the obliteration of past sins, as if they had never occurred.  This amnesty is exactly what the Lord God Almighty, in His Kingdom of Righteousness, has provided through His benevolence and justice in Christ Jesus.  (See Romans 3 verse 24 thru 26.)

The Hebrew word for "pardon" is "calach" {saw-lakh'} Strong's H5545, and is found some 46 times within the old testament verses written in the English versions of the Bible.  Witness for yourselves of God's call to His mercy with the abundance of His "pardon": Seek the LORD while He may be found: Call upon Him while He is near.  Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts:  Let him return to the LORD, and He will have mercy on him,  And to our God, for He will abundantly pardon (in Greek calach). (See Isaiah 55 verse 6 thru 8.) In Luke 6 verse 37 N.A.S.B,  we read  “Do not judge, and you will not be judged; and do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; pardon, and you will be pardoned.  We see that the English word "pardon" transliterated from the Greek word apoluo {ap-ol-oo'-o} Strong's G0630, means to set free or to set at liberty. "Apoluo" is found at least 69 times in the English versions of the Bible.  The abundance of that pardon, as in abundantly pardon, affirms our hermeneutical position that God is dispensing His Love and Mercy, as a complete "amnesty" to all who will come to Him, with their acceptance of His terms and His Table Provisions for LIFE IN Christ Jesus.

It should be understood that there is an important distinction between pardon and amnesty.   Pardon is forgiveness for past offenses, but the record remains intact: Where as with amnesty, there is the abolishment of the past record with complete forgetfulness of the former offences, as if they did not happen.  In God's amnesty, the old slate is wiped completely clean, and there is a new beginning of LIFE with the Almighty's Word giving directions in His Righteousness.  For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by His Grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:  Whom God displayed publicly (See advent Psalm 98 verse 1 thru 3.) as a propitiation in His Blood through Faith. This was to demonstrate His [Yahweh God's] Righteousness, because, in the forbearance of God, He passed over [did not judge] the sins previously committed.  (Romans 3 verse 23 thru 27.)  In Adam, all of man kind have died in the will of sin, but the Almighty God reveals His righteousness toward humanity's sins of the past by His own offering of amnesty, and thereby give a new start in life to all that believe in the victorious resurrection from the dead of God's only begotten Son Jesus Christ.  God was well pleased with Jesus/Yeshua's presentation offering of His Perfect Love and Obedience to His Father Yahweh the Lord God Almighty. (See 1st Corinthians 15 verse 21 thru 22.) For God so Loved the world that He gave His Only Begotten Son, so that whosoever believes IN Him should not perish, but have everlasting LIFE (IN Him). (See John 3 verse 16.)

The Infinitely Holy Lord God of creation, has overlooked the past sins of all those who answer His Call,  for He has offered  to them His conditional Amnesty that demonstrates His Righteousness.  In the beginning, the Infinite God Almighty created free flowing time, and in His foreknowledge of all time, He saw the course of time, and that man from the beginning would become immersed in  the sin and death of the First MAN we know as Adam.  From the beginning of time, Yahweh God ordained that His Word would be His Lamb, and as the last Adam/Man, He and would be crucified to death for the sins of all of Man kind.  (See 1st  Peter 1 verse 19 thru 21, and Revelation 13 verse 8.) God's Word in the Messiah/Christ would come in God's time and fulfill all of God's Covenant Word for the Salvation of Man kind.  The first man Adam was made to be a living soul by the Breath of God's Spirit, but this Adam/Man died because of his treasonous sin against his Maker.  The last Adam was conceived by God's LIFE Giving Spirit, and because of Jesus/Yeshua's Love and Obedience to His Father Yahweh God, the Christ/Messiah of God gives HIS LIFE to the souls of all who would believe and follow Him in Love and Obedience.  Whosoever is born of God's LIFE giving Spirit IN Christ Jesus overcomes the world: And this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our living faith IN Christ.

Even as Abraham was justified by His faith when he both heard and saw the Gospel of Salvation preached to him by the Word of Yahweh God, so are all believers justified by Yahweh God through His Gift of Faith in the Messiah's Sacrificial LIFE Giving Blood.  Our redemption from sin and death is purchase by our Faith in the victorious Resurrection LIFE of Christ Jesus.  Now, as far as YAHWEH GOD is concerned, the past is past and forgotten, and God, through a person's faith in Christ Jesus, gives a new beginning of life to that person of faith, bringing about the new birth of the soul, through God's Promise of His Holy Spirit of LIFE.

Jesus calls to all who will hear: Come unto Me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you Rest.  Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I AM meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find Rest unto your souls.  For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light. (Matthew 11 verse 28 thru 30.) 

All that the Father gives to Me shall come to Me; and him that comes (erchomai) to Me I will in no wise cast out. (John 6 verse 37.) For the Father seeks those who would worship Him in the Spirit of TRUTH of His only Begotten Son.  The hearts and minds of all those that come to the Lord will stay on the Lord, and will remain faithful to God's Provisions of LIFE, in His New Covenant of unmerited Grace in and through His Son, Jesus/Yeshua.

The Wisdom and Grace of God is marvelous, and yet humbling, to all who have experienced Holy God's Love and Mercy towards us sinners.  In absolute reality, we were the defiling ungodly nature that the innocent Son of Man, Jesus Christ was made to be on the cross.  For Jesus Christ the Righteous, was made to be a scapegoat for us sinners.  For He [Jesus] Who knew no sin was made [on the cross, by God,] to be our sin and death that we might be made the Righteousness of God IN Him.  (see 2nd Corinthians 5 verse 21.)

Jesus Christ, born the Son of Adam (Man), suffered in the flesh of His humanity, the full indignation of Holy Yahweh God's judgment towards the defilements of Man kind's sin that brought violence upon Jesus Christ and caused His cruel death on the cross.  But Jesus, in His Perfect Love and Obedience to the Will of God His Father, overcame our sin and death, and in His resurrection, He condemned that damnable nature of sin, in His Flesh as the Son of Man, even by that same Perfect Love and trusting obedience to His Father God. (See Romans 8 verse 2 thru 4.)  Knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more; [then] death has no more dominion over Him.  But in that He died, He died unto [the violence of] sin once, but in that He lives, He lives unto (Yahweh) God.  Likewise, reckon yourselves also, to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto (Yahweh) God through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Therefore Let not sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey it in the lusts thereof.  (Romans 6 verse 9 thru 12.) Now by our true confession of faith, in Jesus Christ's crucifixion death for our sin, and because of His resurrection into the LIFE of His Father Yahweh God, we are reckoned by Yahweh God, to have died in Christ Jesus, and in Christ's resurrection from the dead, the believer whose soul was dead to God, is now made alive with God's Spirit of LIFE within our Risen Savior. 

Understandably, The God of all LIFE,  is the God of the living.  Therefore, the true Gospel of LIFE, reveals Yahweh God's amnesty for past sins, bringing the Promise of  new beginning of LIFE, that is simple and free for all to accept. 

God's Amnesty is not unconditional, but provisional

However, God's absolute pardon or amnesty is not unconditional, but on His terms alone, even though His terms are simple.  When hearing of God's gracious offer of amnesty for past offences, then we must turn away from our own corruption of sin and death, and come and receive the liberty which God desires to give to us.  All those who respond in genuine repentance, will make a public confession of faith in the death, burial and resurrection of Christ Jesus.  Their confession of faith in God's Christ, releases them from those original shackles of sin and death.  For scripture says: The Word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is the Word of faith, which we preach;  That if thou shall confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, thou shall be saved.  For with the heart man believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.  For the scripture says, whosoever believes on Him shall not be ashamed. (Romans 10 verse 8 thru 11.) Now those given amnesty should finalize their New Covenant of Grace with the signature of water baptism to publicly show that they are in full agreement with God Almighty's Amnesty.

To Yahweh God Almighty, Water Baptism is not a symbolic gesture, but is of His Holy Spirit that is One with the Serum Water and Blood that flowed from the side of of His Son, Jesus Christ.  Through Yahweh God's Holy Spirit of TRUTH, the Serum Water of the Blood that flowed from Yahweh's Fountain of LIFE IN His Son, separates us from our old life, and obliterates all sins of the past and that which was associated with their old Adamic nature.  Death is expunged, in the LIFE Giving Blood of Jesus Christ, thereby giving that person a new right standing with God. 

To understand the significance of Water Baptism through God's Holy Spirit then see The Fountain of Living Water. IN Yahweh God's Amnesty program of Grace, the former past sin's of the one baptized into Serum Water of God's Spirit, will never come before Yahweh God to accuse that person again of their earlier wicked acts of treason.  All those that come fully to the Lord Jesus Christ, with their declaration of repentance and faith, the Almighty God will not refuse to give His clemency.  After fulfilling their beginning Faith agreement with Holy God's New Blood Covenant IN Christ Jesus, then Yahweh God gives the followers of Christ, His Holy Spirit of TRUTH and GRACE.  God's Holy Spirit of Grace then seals their souls with Christ's cleansing Blood, and then the Almighty's Spirit of LIFE will lead and sanctify (set apart) those who will follow in the WAY of the LIFE of Christ that is paved in His Love.  For Jesus says to His disciples: If you love Me, [then] keep My Commandments: And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of TRUTH; Whom the world cannot receive, because it sees Him not, neither knows Him: But you know Him; for He dwells with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless:  I will come to you. (See John 14 verse 15 thru 21.)

Because of Adam's earthly defiled nature, death reigns IN all of humanity: But contrary wise, all those IN Christ who believe IN the Lord Jesus, through their public confession, and return to God, are made alive unto God.  Through our repentance from sin, and our stated faith in Jesus Christ's death, burial and resurrection, we have signified in baptism that we have fully accept God's gracious Provisions of the amnesty that He has extended to us through our faith in His Word. (See Luke 24 verse 44 thru 48 and also Acts 17 verse 30 thru 31.) That you put off concerning the former conversation of the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that you put on the new man, which after [being created in the likeness of] God, is created in righteousness and true holiness. (Ephesians 4 verse 22 thru 24.)  In putting on the new man, it is a new beginning of life, for those who abdicate their old willful ways, and then follow the Way, the Truth and the Life of Jesus Christ.  For it is written; Everyone that confesses the Name of the Lord, must depart from wickedness (that is the iniquity ingrained within the roots of our willful minds). (2nd Timothy 2 verse 19.). With one's ongoing desire of repentance within the spirit of their minds, it is apparent that, as far as God is concerned, all of the past sins, no matter how atrocious, are not only forgiven with one's repentance and confession of faith, but are totally wiped clean through the Blood of Christ's atonement, as if they had never occurred. 

Before we go any further:

There are several disclaimers and several good instructions that needs to be definitely heeded by the new born person.  First, the penal requirements of any earthly governmental, or civil judicial laws that are deemed broken by the old man of the flesh, may be enforced by society according to their law.  From this point on, the newly redeemed person IN Christ, is to take responsibility and be accountable for their own actions against the Grace of God.  Hear what the Prophet Micah speaks to God's people in chapter 6 verse 8; "He has showed thee O man, what is good, and what the LORD does require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God".  Therefore, if the wise in heart, would see eternal Life, the they would adhere to the Lord's call to the daily cross, with its denial of the selfish old idolatrous man, and to put on the new man in Christ Jesus, for they are called into the Law of God's Love. (See Mark 8 verse 34.) For thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength:  And these words which I command thee shall be in thy heart.  This is the First Commandment. (Deuteronomy 6 verse 3 thru 7.) And the second is of like manner, namely this: Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. (Deuteronomy 10 verse 18 thru 19.) On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. (See Matthew 22 verse 36 thru 40.) But then again, Christ Jesus gives to His disciples a new Commandment that expands the heart of the second great Commandment.  A new Commandment I give unto you; That you Love/Agapao one another, as I have Loved you, that you also Love one another.

God's Love/Agapao needs to begin to be manifested within the heart and soul of our being.  Without repentance, or a change in the direction toward the heart of the Almighty God and His Kingdom people, then a person's continuous willful, idolatrous sin will leave them imprisoned and chained to death.  God's gift of amnesty, with its implied justification of a person, is made void through a willful  heart that continues in disobedience, for the Spirit of God is absent from all wickedness.  A person can not interpret God's goodness, so as to justify their own sin, and maintain the continuance of their own wicked desires.  God is not mocked, nor shortsighted, for from Eternity's vantage, the Infinite sees the desires and directions of the individual hearts of all people. (See Galatians 6 verse 7 thru 8.)

The Word of God gives a warning to the wayward: Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: For I will not justify the wicked. (Exodus 23 verse 7.)

If a person loves their sin, and continues in it, then they will remain imprisoned to their sin, and may not see the freedom that God offers through His Son, our Savior Jesus Christ.  That promised new freedom, founded within God's gift of amnesty, establishes a line of demarcation for the sin's of the past life, and begins a fresh new life with one's ongoing repentance from the demands of the old self.   Our word of faith in the Christ of God, given in our baptism, signifies an abrupt end to the ways of the old man, to a change in the direction of the new man, where the Love of God through His Spirit of Grace, little by little begins to overthrow the willful desires in our mind of flesh.  Again we hear Jesus say to those that proclaim a love for Him:  Take up your cross daily and deny your selfish desires and follow Me

God's love and mercy, is in concert with the Scripture's Good News of amnesty, that is extended to all who come to God in repentance, and to follow with faith in God's atoning mercy that He gives in His Son's Life sustaining Blood.   Now then, the free new born person of the Spirit of God, should understand that there is a brand new beginning, for our former offenses have been tossed into God's sea of forgetfulness, as referenced in Micah 7 verse 19.  Let us listen to this Word concerning God's mercy toward us sinners: "He will turn again, He will have compassion upon us; He will subdue our iniquities; and Thou will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea".  Because of the sacrificial Blood of His Son, Jesus Christ, God willingly has amnesia for our confessed and repented past offences.  Again, we hear comfort from the Living Word of God: For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that fear [worship] Him.  As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.  Like as a father pities his children, so the LORD pities them that fear [worship] Him.  For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.  (Psalm 103 verse 11 thru 14.)

God knows that our flesh is weak, for it is formed of the dust of the earth, and naturally tends to return to earthly diversions.  But we can trust Yahweh, the Almighty with His mercy, and the Sovereignty of His Word, to uphold His Covenant Provisions for His imputed righteousness for the believer, who seeks to worship Him in His Spirit of Truth.  If we walk in the Light as He is the Light, [then] we have fellowship one with another, and the Blood of Jesus Christ His Son, cleanses us from all condemnation of sin.

The strength of sin is in the Law's condemnation of unrighteousness.  But now, with faith in Christ Jesus, God's New Covenant of Perfect Love supplants the condemnation of sin leading to the second death.  Now, the power of God's Love, is sealed in the born again souls of the earthly, by God's Holy Spirit with the righteous poured out Life Giving Blood of the Son of Man, Jesus the Christ of God.  God's beloved Son, as the Son of Man/Adam, perfectly Loves His Father of Holy Righteousness, and overcame the condemnation of the Just Law's of God by His sinless life.  Jesus Christ's Holy Life was made evident with Christ's Bodily resurrection from the dead.  His Perfect Love and trusting obedience to His Father, obliterated all fear of the wrath of sin that was to come upon Him.  There is no fear in Love/Agapao; but perfect Love casts out all fear; because fear has torment.  He that fears is not made perfect in love. (See 1st John 4 verse 17 thru 19.) When Jesus Christ willingly sacrificed His sinless Life on the cross, then the just God of the living accepted Christ's perfect sacrifice of Love, and demonstrated to the world, not only His Eternal Power, but His Justice with Mercy, by resurrecting the Son of Man, Jesus Christ from the dead.   From the beginning of His universal creation in time, God's purpose was the justification of human sinners, who would agree by faith to live by God's Covenant of Love within the Life of His Resurrected Son. 

God's Covenant of Grace was established at the Passover Table of our Lord when Jesus said to His disciples: Take and drink all of you: For this is My Blood of the New Covenant shed for many for the remission of sin.  God extends His Covenant of Grace in our High Priest, Christ Jesus, through His Body and Blood Provisions ministered by and through His Holy Spirit of Grace.

When we sense in our being that our love of God, and that of our fellow man is faltering within us, then it is because that our own self love has again, been set as first in priority.  But God has provided in His Covenant Word, to those of a repentant heart, a restoration of our soul and spirit through the Body and Blood of Jesus in Holy Communion.  God, knowing the weakness within our flesh, is faithful and just to absolve and cleanse the faithful believer of all of sin's unrighteousness.  After giving amnesty, the Majestic God has given Provisions in His Word that is to maintain an on going fellowship of Love with God and His Son, and with the members of Christ's Body.  For all of those who say they love God, they will have issues and struggles with the flesh, but even so, we need to understand that God, in His Amnesty Program, has set forth all of His Gracious Provisions within His Son's Sacrifice of Perfect Love, and His sanctifying Provisions are forever established within Jesus Christ, as God's Word of TRUTH and Salvation.  Then He (Jesus/Yeshua) took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them (His disciples), saying, “Drink from it, all of you.  For this is My Blood of the New  Covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins."  This Cup of God's unmitigated Grace is Holy, and is to be received in Holy Faith and Thanksgiving to Almighty God: For the very Life, that is in the Blood of Jesus Christ, is the very Life that is of God's Holy Spirit of Grace, Who raised Christ Jesus from the dead.  The Life of God's Spirit of Holiness, is within God's Covenant Promise IN Christ Jesus that will raise the faithful from the dead, and into God's Kingdom of the Living.

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 God's Amnesty Provisions for Life in the Spirit.

Again let's look at the definition for the word, amnesty, as it is found in the Funk and Wagnall Dictionary:

amnesty. 1: an official act of oblivion or pardon by a government, absolving without trial all offenders or groups of offenders.  2: Intentional forgetfulness or overlooking, especially of wrong doing. 

Apparently, the word amnesty in Greek αμνηστία was not fully conceived until the 1570's and therefore, was not in Paul's Konia Greek vocabulary at the time of the writings of his epistles.  Nevertheless the hermeneutical imputation of righteousness or justification, are words that are inextricably rooted together, in God's Gift of amnesty given to the receiver who has expressed their faith in Christ Jesus.  The implication is further expressed in this scripture: Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.  Old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.  And all things are of God, Who has reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation;  To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and has committed unto us the Word of reconciliation.  Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: We pray for you in Christ's stead, be you reconciled to God.  For He has made Him [Jesus] to be sin for us, Who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. (2nd Corinthians 5 verse 17 thru 21.)

This New Covenant of God's peace, is signed in the Blood of the Lamb of God, for Jesus Christ has victory over the sins of the world.  The 'past offenses' of the old man of flesh, are obliterated in the Fountain of the Life that flowed from the wounds of the crucified Jesus Christ: For so many of us who were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death.  Knowing this that our old man is crucified with Jesus Christ, so that the body of sin might be destroyed, that hence forth we should not be a slave of sin, but a servant of God's Righteousness. (See Romans 6 verse 3 thru 9.) The Physical Source of the Fountain of Living Water was the Eternal Word of God, conceived in the ovum of a Hebrew Woman and was born of the flesh of the first Man/Adam.  Jesus Christ, the pure Word of God having been born in the flesh from the first Man, Adam, was  pierced through and through unto His death on the cross, as a perfect sacrifice for man kind's rebellion against God,

The faithful believers, through God's Holy Spirit, are immersed into Jesus Christ's death, burial, and then justified because of His resurrection into Life, through Holy God's never ending Fountain of Living Water.  Jesus says: He that believes on Me, as the Scripture has said.  [Then] Out of his belly shall flow rivers of Living Water.  By this He meant God's Spirit, Whom those who believed in Him [Christ Jesus] were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified. (John 7 verse 38.)

Up until this juncture within time, the Infinitely Just God had passed over the final judgment of the sins of world, for even the Truth of God's Righteousness was set on trial in the Garden of Eden, and His Word of Truth would be severely tested by the enemies of God. (See Luke 22 verse 40 thru 44. and Hebrews 4 verse 14.)

God cannot and would not fail His Word of Promise in the Garden of Eden, for His Truth and Righteousness was established in the fabric of time, even before the creation of the world.   The first Man/Adam committed high treason against his Maker and brought death to all of man kind; but the Last Adam, the Man Christ Jesus brought Life to all that belong to His Faith in His Father God.  Now in time, and once and for all time, Yahweh, the Infinite God Almighty, had finalized His Word with the death of His substitutionary Lamb that He gave for the sins of mankind in the Body and Life Blood of the obedient and innocent Son of Adam, Jesus Christ.  The Eternal Salvation Word of the Almighty Elohim was finished on a cross in the dead body of God's innocent Lamb and incarnate Son of Adam.  The Eternal God of the Living Word would raise Jesus Christ from the dead because of His Infinite Satisfaction with a Son' Perfect Love and Obedience that Jesus Christ freely gave for the rebellious sins of mankind. (See Romans 3 verse 19 thru 26.)

The trial, for the souls of mankind, also took place on the cross at Calvary with the substitutionary death of the innocent Son of Man, Jesus the Christ of God.  Now that the Word of God was victorious over sin and death, as seen in the resurrection of Yeshua haMashiach, the Christ of Yahweh Lord God Almighty, then all those that believe and live in Jesus/Yeshua, were justified by their faith in the living Christ Jesus, and would receive the Promise of the Only God of the Living. (See John 3 verse 16 and Romans 3 verse 1 and 2nd Corinthians 5 verse 20 thru 21.)

The sacrificial Life Blood of the Incarnate Son of Man, is all sufficient to pay for sin's required debt of death forever, for there are no more sacrifices to be made with the shedding of the blood of animals.  Now that the Spirit of God has been given to us as a Gift, it is God's Holy Spirit of Grace, Who mediates the Life of Christ within in each and every soul that is made a new man within Christ Jesus. And the risen Christ declares to His disciples: Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and rise from the dead the third day; and that repentance with remission of sins should be preached in His Name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem, and you are witness of these things. (See Luke 24 verse 44 thru 49.)

The Scripture in 2nd Corinthians says that God was in Christ (Messiah), reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing, [that is counting] their trespasses unto them, and has committed unto us His Word of reconciliation.  God's Amnesty program, for the multitude of our sins, is covered in His New Covenant in the shed Life giving Blood of Jesus Christ. The Life that is in Christ's Blood, was the Perfect Love of God that was poured out upon the dust of the earth that justifies the redeemed of the earth by God's Gift of the Life giving Faith within Christ Jesus.  Therefore, there is no condemnation by the Law of God to those who are now living a new life by the Faith of Christ that brings trusting obedience toward Christ Jesus the Very Word of His Father God. (See Romans 8 verse 1 thru 2.) For now we have been delivered from the (condemnation of the) Law (revealing sin and death), having died (through the crucified Body of Jesus Christ), to what we were held by, (as in quarantined), so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. (Modified for understanding. See Romans 7 verse 4 thru 7.)

If God's Holy Spirit has come to the soul and spirit of our being, then the Spirit from the Heart of Infinite God, would be calling us to freely serve the Almighty God, in the Spirit of His Son, Who is One Heart with His Holy Father Yahweh.  However, the soul may be redeemed, but the corrupting influence of the flesh of our being remains a problem for us.  This body of flesh is beyond redemption and cannot be saved, for in its corruption, because of sin, it returns to the dust of the earth.  The Lord God, Who freely justifies us in Christ Jesus, nevertheless maintains His call to repentance with remission of sins, and that it should be preached in His Name among all nations. (See again  Luke 24 verse 44 thru 49.) Sin does not cease in our being nor of its consequences in the world with a one time confession.  If we say we have no sin then we are liars and the TRUTH is not in us. (See 1st John 1 verse 7 thru 10.) God's Spirit of Grace is constant in the fullness of His Covenant in the Life Blood of Jesus Christ, for in the 4 Gospels, Christ's Communion is established within His New Covenant of Grace, given for the remission of confessed sins that are ingrained in our self idolatrous flesh. (See The Sword of the Spirit.)

Emmanuel, the Word of God the Father, Said: Take and eat, This My Body given for you.  Then Emmanuel, the Christ of God, Declared of the new wine after supper: Take and drink all of you, for this is My Blood of the New Covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.  Do This in Remembrance of Me.  Now, the eyes of our heart should begin to recognize that this is the Infinite God's declared New Blood Covenant with fallen mankind.  God's Grace that is full of mercy, is administered in Holy Communion through God's Spirit of Grace for the remission of repented sin.

God's Amnesty and Justification

There are several very powerful intercessory essentials that are provided in the Holy Spirit's ministration of the Almighty's amnesty and justification of Christ's faithful believers.  First, the word "remembrance" in Holy Communion has the very same Greek root word as in "amnesty", with that root coming from (μνήμη,  mními, meaning memory).  The transliteration of the English word Remembrance is from the Greek word ANAMNESIS, which is sited in Strong's Greek Concordance as G0364.  We are positing that there is a strong enough link between the two Greek words amnestia, meaning amnesty, and ANAMNESIS, meaning remembrance, to sufficiently satisfy our understanding of God's Covenant of spiritual maintenance for the redeemed in the Body of Jesus Christ.  Then secondly, working with the same approach, the English word remission is a transliteration from the Greek word aphesis;  having for our understanding, a meaning greater than just forgiveness or pardon.  It is a total release from bondage or imprisonment, letting a repentant person remain free in their heart and spirit, as if they had never committed crimes, and obviously a total remission of any spiritual penalty previously incurred.  (See Strong's G0859 for aphesis.) In God's Amnesty, the new believer in Christ Jesus has been given a new beginning in the life of their soul that will follow after the Life of Christ Jesus.  The Wisdom of God, knowing the flesh of man, provides His remedy for sin in the flesh, with the Live giving Blood of His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ:  If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to absolve us of our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1st John 1 verse 9.)

The Words "remission" and "amnesty", as noted in the Greek language, go hand in hand, for in God's New Covenant in the Blood of Jesus Christ, there is an obliteration of the record of confessed offenses of faithful believers, who live in God's Covenant Word that ascribes love and mercy in the propitiating Blood of the Incarnate Son of Man.  We hope that our simple exegesis of these three words of "amnesty", "remembrance" and "remission", show that God has no desire to hold His children that are called by His Grace, and that honor His Name, to a record of sin that accuses His redeemed of death.  The Blood of Jesus Christ is God's Sanctifying Love that reproves His children of faith, and covers the multitude of confessed sins, so that sin can not be recognized beneath God's Passover Blood of Christ Jesus.

Sin's alluring deception, within the idolatrous flesh of man, is greater than we can overcome by our selves. The nature of the flesh of man tends to seek its own selfish rights. (See 1st John 1 verse 8 thru 10.) Therefore, our God has established within His Amnesty Program, His Life cleansing provisions, in the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, to ameliorate our self conceived deceptions.  Holy Communion was instituted, by the Lord Jesus, the Christ of His Father, to be received by those who are already in Covenant with God.  Holy, Holy, Holy YHVH Lord God Almighty through His Holy Spirit of Grace, furthers His holy ministration of His righteousness, or right standing with Him, through His Life cleansing Provision in the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, given for the redeemed within His beloved Son.  So then, when the symptoms of self idolatrous sin arises again in our flesh, as it will, then we absolutely need to be faithful in following our Chief Physician's instructions, by acknowledging the symptoms that lead to death, and then repenting from those works of sin within our flesh. (See 1st John 1 verse 7.)

Father God seeks those who would Worship Him in Spirit and Truth!
(See John 4 verse 23 thru 24.)

As the redeemed, we are thankful to Holy God the Almighty for sending to earth His Word, the True unleavened Bread of Heaven, to become the Flesh of the Son of Man and that His Word, Jesus Christ would give up His Life Blood within His Body, not only for our sins of death, but also for the sin's of all of man kind. 

Now in Holy Communion, we the redeemed, are to give Worshipful Thanksgiving to the only Holy Lord God Almighty.  In Truth, the Almighty God gave to the believer the True Vine so that in abiding in Christ, we would become His Fruit through His Spirit of Sanctifying Grace: For we are truly partaking of the flowing Life Blood of Jesus Christ that gives cleansing and nourishing Life to His Body of Believers. 

When we, confess our present sins to our Lord and High Priest, Jesus Christ, and then partake in righteous faith of the Body and the Blood of our Savior, then God justly forgives and will cleanse the believer of acknowledged sins.  Within the Divine Process of God's Holy Spirit, our confessed and forsaken sins of our flesh, will not come into God's remembrance again.  Neither should the remembrance of those confessed and forsaken sins, continue to hold us in bondage within the spirit of our minds, for we know that God is Faithfull to His Promise, and will bring about the remission of the acknowledged failures of our flesh. (See 1st John 1 verses 5 thru 10.) Be most careful, for the will of fallen flesh gets in our way and can make one subject to the deception of the deceiver.  Therefore, all who name the Name of Christ must forsake all iniquity. (See 2nd Timothy 2 verse 19.)

God, in His Wisdom, that is One with the Resurrection Power of His Word, gives His needful Provisions within His Spirit of Holiness, for the continued flow of New Life within His kingdom people, through His New Covenant administered by and through His Holy Spirit of Grace that is One within the Body and Blood of our Savior Jesus Christ. (See 1st John 5 verse 8.)

We emphasize again, that Holy Communion with God is forever established for the believers, through the mediation of His Holy Spirit of Grace and Truth, for His Spirit of Grace is One with the Incarnate Son of God, and therefore is One with the Life giving Blood and Water that flowed from the Crucified Christ.  Jesus Christ, Himself, at God's Passover Table of Unleavened Bread, inaugurated His Father's New Covenant in Christ's Blood even before Christ's death on the cross: Yes and even before the foundation of the world!   God's Spirit of Communion brings into remembrance Christ's suffering and death for our sins, so that our absent minded consciences may be cleansed from the encumbrances of sin. 

God has extended His amnesty, and a right standing with Him, to all who will come to Him to worship Him in Spirit and Truth, and remain faithful to His Promised Spirit of everlasting Life in Christ Jesus.  God understands that our souls are housed in the dust of this earth, and that we can not save our selves from the corruption of the flesh that returns to its origin.  When we are born again of God's Spirit, then our souls are justified through faith in God's Grace alone.  If the Spirit of God has given to our souls a new Life in the resurrected Christ, then we should desire to maintain that New Life through His Holy Spirit's Covenant provisions in the Body and Life Blood of Jesus the Christ of God.  God's Provision of Life is given by His Holy Spirit of Grace so that we, in remembrance of our Savior's Sacrificial Love for us, would not fall back into the old nature of sin and death. 

The Righteousness of Christ, is God's New Covenant Gift given to believers that God established through His Love within His Holy Spirit that is One in Christ Jesus, the Son of Man, and is One with the shed Blood of Jesus/Yeshua, and His Spirit would be One in us through our Faith in God's Perfect Sacrificial Love in Christ Jesus.

For though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not Love/Agapao, I have become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.  And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains, and have not this Sacrificial Love, I am nothing. (1st Corinthians 13 verse1 thru 2.)

The Sacrificial Love of Christ, is the end to the quarantine Laws of condemnation, given to the Jews by God.  The Torah was given through Moses to Israel on Mount Sinai to expose the corruption of sin that kept on increasing in the flesh of the Covenant seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  In spite of Israel's failures in keeping Covenant with God, God would bring to fruition His True Covenant in the Christ of God that was promised in the Garden of Eden.  The Law's purpose was to keep intact the genetic seed of Ishshah/Woman, Adam's wife later named Eve, from the satanic corruption of angelic beings, until God's Seed and Word would give Shekinah Life to the Seed of the Hebrew virgin woman, named Mary, so that Jesus/Yeshua, the Promise Messiah would be born the Son of Man/Adam.  Now that Jesus Christ (Yeshua haMashiach) has come in the flesh of Adam, He, as the incarnate Last Adam, has with His perfect Love and obedience to His Father Yahweh God, vanquished Satin's seed of sin and death.

Jesus Christ's victory over sin and death, as seen in His resurrection, is to be our victory in faith, but nevertheless is not a contradiction for the moral Law of God remaining established for its lethal warning signs that expose the renegade law of sin and death. 

Because of the power of sin, over our weak flesh, the Laws of quarantine will not bring about a cure for sin that is totally pervasive in our flesh, for as good as the Torah is for instruction, it does not make alive the Love of God in the heart and soul of man.  Nevertheless, the moral Decalogue from the Torah, which we agree with, must remain for the sin-sick souls of mankind, reminding all people of their helplessness to the infection of sin in the flesh, which culminates in death.  Any person, when hearing the Word of Truth, is pointed toward Holy God Almighty and His Holy One that is, Jesus Christ the Author and Finisher of our faith in Him. (See Hebrews 12 verse 1 thru 3.) The Lord Jesus Christ, in His Perfect Love and obedience to His Holy Father, becomes our Gift of perfection that destroys sin and death.  The Gift and call of God is for all those who hear and come to Christ, and remain in the Lord our Righteousness, for in Christ's perfect obedience, His Love of the Father constrains us to a like love and obedience.  For our covenant is with a Loving God, the Giver of Life, Who has given to us the only cure for sin and death, in the Sacrificial Life Blood of His beloved Son, Jesus Christ.

All Scripture is given by Inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. (2nd Timothy 3 verse 16 thru 17.) 

Psalm 19:

verse 7.    The Law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: The testimony of the LORD is sure, making
              wise the simple.
verse 8.   The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: The commandment of the LORD is pure,
              enlightening the eyes.
verse 9.   The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever: The judgments of the LORD are true and
             righteous  altogether.
verse 10. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: Sweeter also than honey and the
             honeycomb.
verse 11. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.

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