There is something you may wish to consider,
The TRUE GOSPEL(good news!)[condensed version]
Consider this; believe as you will.
ALL HUMANS, after Adam and Eve, ARE BORN AS TRANSGRESSORS.
Later, the FINGER OF GOD gave us TRANSGRESSORS the 10 Commandments which(according to Scripture) IS THE ETERNAL LAW IN HEAVEN.
When the HEBREWS were walking in the desert 40 years, they were given ANOTHER LAW;
- the Law of Moses a.k.a.(Mosaic Law / Levitican Law)
Levitican Law was NOT GIVEN BECAUSE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, but BECAUSE OF SINFULNESS!
Galatians 3:19
Wherefore then serveth the
law? It was added because of
transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
IF you OBSERVE ONE Levitican Law, then one has bound oneself TO DO ALL.
Break JUST ONE and you are guilty of breaking all!
Galatians 3:10 (KJV)
10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written,
Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things(including sacrifices for sin) which are written in the book of the law to do them.
James 2:10
For whosoever shall keep the whole
law, and yet offend in one point, he is
guilty of all.
Have you ever TRIED TO LIVE by LEVITICAN LAW?
NO HUMAN can live up to Levitican Law.
11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident:
God DESIGNED Levitican Law AS Human's chance to demonstrate unto the universe
human being's INABILITY To ATTAIN SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
One must remember THIS WAS BEFORE CHRIST'S Sacrifice
HAD humans been able to live up to Levitican Law, there would have been no need for Jesus' Sacrifice.
God designed Levitican Law STRICTLY to count ALL AS GUILTY
Romans 3:19
Now we know that what things soever the
law saith, it saith to them who are under the
law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become
guilty before God.
To exalt Christ's sacrifice TO THE FULLEST MEASURE
Romans 5:20
Moreover the
law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
So now,
AFTER Christ's sacrifice,
establishing GRACE
which did what Levitican Law COULD NOT DO,
To RETURN BACKWARD to binding ones self to Levitican Law results in REJECTION OF GRACE and death.
Galatians 2:21
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the
law, then Christ is
dead in vain.
Galatians 5:4
Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are
fallen from
grace.
LEVITICAN LAW was nailed to the cross, NOT THE 10 COMMANDMENTS!
HUMANS COULD NOT KEEP THE LETTER of THE LAW,
So what is the SPIRIT OF THE LAW?
IF you LOVE someone, would you;
Kill them?
Steal from them?
Take their wife?
Lie about them?
If God is love,
1 John 4:7-8 (KJV)
7 Beloved,
let us love one another: for
love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for
God is love.
Would not love fulfill the SPIRIT OF THE LAW?
Romans 13:8
Owe no man any thing, but to
love one another: for he that
loveth another hath
fulfilled the law.
Romans 13:10
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore
love is the
fulfilling of the law.
Galatians 5:14
For all the law is
fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt
love. . . . . . .
But THROUGH LOVE,
WE KEEP THE SPIRIT of the law.
Romans 7:6
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of
spirit, and not in the oldness of the
letter.
2 Corinthians 3:6
Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the
letter, but of the
spirit: for the
letter killeth, but the
spirit giveth life.
Galatians 5 (KJV)
5 Stand fast therefore
in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and
be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised(Levitican Law), Christ shall profit you nothing.
3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that
he is a debtor to do the whole law.
4
Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the (Levitican)law; ye are fallen from grace.
Only those that have TRIED to NOT BREAK ONE LEVITICAN LAW can appreciate the TRUE VALUE of Christ's Sacrifice.