Those Who Have Been Released From The Law Of Commandments!

2009-03-07 20:13

The law of commandments was given through Moses to all the people who passed through the Red Sea. Therefore the law of commandments applies not only to Jews, but also to the alien.

The Bible said about it, "The same law applies to the native-born and to the alien living among you." (Exodus 12:49). And also, "fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As he has injured the other, so he is to be injured. Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death. You are to have the same law for the alien and the native-born. I am the LORD your God." (Leviticus 24:20-22). And also, "One and the same law applies to everyone who sins unintentionally, whether he is a native-born Israelite or an alien. But anyone who sins defiantly, whether native-born or alien, blasphemes the LORD, and that person must be cut off from his people." (Numbers 15:29-30).

And also, the Lord Jesus said, "...A man had a fig tree, planted in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it, but did not find any." (Luke 13:6). The vineyard means the whole world, and the fig tree means Israel. It is written, "'you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites." (Exodus 19:6).

Therefore, the law of commandments that God gave to the world applies to everyone in this world equally. It is written, "Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God." (Romans 3:19).

The Bible says, "For God has bound all men over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all." (Romans 11:32). By the law of commandments, God condemns everyone in the world who has been born of the blood of disobedient Adam. Therefore, the disobedient children who have not died with Jesus are still under the law, and slaves to sin.

If anyone does not die, the law also is inevitably with him. It is written, "Do you not know, brothers--for I am speaking to men who know the law--that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?" (Romans 7:1).

The Bible says, "Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God--children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God." (John 1:12-13).

In the above passage, "those who believed in his name" are those who have been united with him in his death. And so, those who did not die with him are not those who believe in Jesus.

Therefore, for anyone who believes in Jesus, his natural body died with Jesus by the cross, and his spiritual body was raised with Christ. It is written, "For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin--because anyone who has died has been freed from sin." (Romans 6:6-7).

Whoever under the law does not die can never be raised a spritual man. Therefore, by the will of God, Jesus was sent in the same flesh as ours, and was united with us in faith, and offered himself on the cross once for all, and became the end of the law.

Therefore, the Bible says about those who have been united with him in his death, "But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code." (Romans 7:6).

And the Bible confirmed it, "And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires." (Galatians 5:24). And also, "Here is a trustworthy saying: If we died with him, we will also live with him." (2 Timothy 2:11).

"Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes." (Romans 10:4). "With our flesh..." Amen. Thank you, Lord.