LoveGodsWORD wrote: I know what transitory means Bob and know it means temporary. Let me explain myself better in relation to 2 COR 3 ,
Hebrews 8 and
Romans 3, 7-8 (all 4 chapters should be read together).
Before we come to Christ to be FORGIVEN for our SINS we are "UNDER THE LAW" Convicted by the LAW and guilty before God as SINNERS, breaking God's LAW (
Romans 3:19-20).
We are IN SIN and the wages of SIN is death and like PAUL we cry out. O WRETHCED MAN THAT I AM, WHO shall deliver me from this body of death? (
Romans 7:24)
This is a TEMPORARY process that ALL believers must go through before they can truly FIND and KNOW Jesus as their personal LORD and Saviour and LOVE him because he FIRST LOVED us.
LOVE is the fulfilling of God's LAW written on the fleshly tables of the heart. LOVE is the power to OBEY and FOLLOW God and when the LAW of God brings the WRTECH SINNER (me) to the cross of Chirst and when we reach out by FAITH to BELIEVE God's promised FREE GIFT of FORGIVENSS LOVE is written on the heart to FOLLOW Jesus. LAW AND LOVE are ONE if you have NO LOVE you cannot OBEY God. If you LOVE GOD however you have been set free from your SINS. This is what the NEW COVENANT promise is when it says he will write his LAW in your heart so that you can be his people (
Hebrews 8:10-12)
God's LAW shows us that there is nothing that we can do of ourselves to save ourselves from our sins because we are a slave to SIN (
Romans 7). Only then can we see God's LOVE and sacrifice for our SINS at calvarys cross.
God's LAW leads us to the cross of Jesus where we can see him dying for our SINS and by FAITH we see that it is by his stripes that we are healed. Now we are prepared to recieve the GIFT of FORGIVENESS as we BELIEVE God's WORD.
2 COR 3 is talking about this same process but in a different way as does
Romans 7-9 and
Hebrews 8:10-12.