
On the LAW of GOD
On the LAW of GOD
It was God's Broken Law the Placed Jesus on the Cross!
BUT, there was much, much, more "many times more" involved than just the redemption of a fallen race! If your mind can grasp just the "pin-tip" of what took place and why it took place this day, your faith in (The Faith of JESUS) will be forever "unshaken" and you like (John Huss) would rather burn at the stake alive with your hands tied behind you back, rather than to deny such a great LOVE extended from Heaven towards you. Jesus wasn't on that CROSS ALONE friends!
Look through His chest, see His heart beating in unimaginable pain, look into that heart and see the entire world within it "destined to eternal death" for those who refused this Divine Act of MERCY through GOD'S GRACE. Look into that heart and look close and you will find your NAME written there and you will see yourself there in His heart. He wasn't called the Savior of the World erroneously, but there was much more than just saving the World with its fallen inhabitants involved. The Earth as a tangible physical creation suffering under the curse of Sin with all of its created life was in the heart of Jesus. Fallen mankind as a WHOLE from Adam to the Second Coming was in that heart of Jesus, but most of ALL within that heart was the "absolute Perfect Divine Character of God Himself" that was placed in question by the fallen angel Lucifer before the unfallen Creation of God. IT HAD TO BE RECTIFIED AND RECONCILED IN THE MINDS OF those "sons of God" who met with Job in Job 2:1
It is impossible for fallen man to understand what took place completely at the Cross of Jesus. We will not fully understand the Cross and what it detailed, and it will be the study of redeemed humanity for all eternity and then we will never grasp its true meaning. There will be new fresh aspects of it revealed throughout eternity to the minds of the saints. For most Christians, today who say just look at the Cross and believe and you'll be saved doesn't understand the Cross because all they see is Jesus nailed to the tree in their place and that's "a good thing", but there was so much more involved friends.
Many live from birth to their deaths 70-80-90 years and never understand the Cross and what it details. The God of all Creation hung there between heaven and earth specifically for His Creation and His Character. It was truly the day God Died! Imagine that for a second! The eternal God chose to lay His own eternal life down for His Creation. One who has never died eternally died eternally for you, but because He is God He has the power to come back from the death of which He didn't create. This eternal death is what constitutes the "Mystery of Iniquity!" 2Th 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
This eternal death "mystery" will take the wicked and rebellious "out of the way" away from the Universe of God. Eternal death is a mystery a result of Iniquity found in Lucifer turned Satan. Death is the opposite of life be it physical or eternal life, it never existed prior to the shenanigans of the fallen angel Lucifer. Therefore, God could go through eternal death and return back again and pay the price you and I owed. It will be destroyed in the Lake of Fire forever gone from the Universe of God. Rev 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
The Love of God is so much more than what you see and hear in this life. When we love let's say our children we would face death to protect them from harm. This is exactly what Jesus did for us, but the death we face for our children is just the physical death. God went to the FULL LIMITS of death for His children and He did so as a man, and as a man, Jesus being in such a state in the flesh wasn't sure He could survive eternal death dying it as a man on the Cross. This is what made Him cry out to the FATHER as a man hanging on the Cross. When Jesus said this: Joh 2:19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. He was speaking as the Son of God, but as a man, He couldn't say such a thing, as NO MAN has the ability of themselves to resurrect from the dead.
When Jesus died as a man on the Cross it was His personal faith in the Father that allowed Him to say "It is Finished" and Jesus wasn't speaking of His death on the Cross as being finished, He was speaking of the agreement made between Himself and the FATHER in the Council of Peace, that is what was FINISHED at the Cross. The PLAN of Salvation was completed!
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Rom 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
This verse says many things! To read it and see only the LAW is to misread it and misinterpret it.
- First it speaks of the actions i.e. "deeds" of the one who claims to believe in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
- Then it speaks of the "law", but the "law" spoken of here encompasses both the ceremonial law and the "Law of God" that supersedes it. How do we know that the Law of God is spoken of here? Because the scripture says so here: 1Jn 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. Who's law? God's Law!
- Then the verse speaks of "justification!" Who's justification? God's justification! How is this justification of being righteous before God applied to the sinner and why? ANSWER: The FATHER sees the sacrifice of the Son on the Cross and credits His righteousness, His perfect life lived in the midst of SIN, His victory over sin to the sinner's account. We are indeed "justified by faith" but it's NOT your personal faith in the finished work of Jesus, it's the faith of Jesus Christ Himself that is credited to your sinful account.
A sinful creature even if they are a believer is still a sinful creature and will be so until they are changed when Jesus returns. Just because you believe in Jesus doesn't change your sinful physical condition. It only changes your MIND to believe that what Jesus accomplished for you "on the Cross" is "freely given to you" when you believe and are baptized and have then been by the Spirit of God "Born Again" into a lively hope. 1Pe 1:3-5 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith (This is Jesus' faith NOT YOURS) unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. Although you're a sincere true believer in Jesus and walking with Him daily, you're still a sinner by your physical birth, born into sin and you will remain in that sinful physical condition until God affects the change from mortal to immortal, from corruption into incorruption when Jesus returns the Second time.
The terms mortal and corruption identifies the fallen condition of mankind as the mortal is subject to death which then brings corruption to the flesh of the mortal which is called by the mortal "RIGOR" or the decay of the physical body. The changed believer in MIND who dies in Jesus Christ still suffers from corruption i.e. RIGOR as the body decays in the grave as God designed it, but the believer who is obedient until death has "hope" in the resurrection of Jesus Christ who as a mortal man on the one side, but God the Son on the other side suffered "no corruption" in the grave but came forth from that grave with a glorified human body complete with the scars of death He suffered on the Cross forever to be an eternal witness in His own Creation who sees those scars in His body, a witness to them of God's Love for His entire Creation especially for those in whom He created and designed in His own image and invested them with a "Spirit." Beings capable of identifying the one true God and making a choice to either accept Him as their God or reject Him as did the fallen angel.
The human experience is about much more than just existing and having physical life and growing into adulthood, aged, and dying which is a result of SIN, as God never intended for His creation called "mankind" ever to suffer "non-existence" mankind "In Adam" was never intended to die, even though God knew that they would fall from His Grace, the very instant He finished fashioning Adam from the dust of the ground and before He ever breathed His own life-force into the molded man of dirt. Due to God's permissive will, the longer humanity exist in their fallen state as sinners alienated from God the more they become mentally and physically deteriorated and physically diminished as their inherited "genes" from one generation to another become lesser and less able to really be human as God intended Adam to be "In the Beginning."
Corrupted bloodlines after time can be only more corrupted as time passes as corruption i.e. death of the physical body is more subject to death as their ability to be immune to disease fades away with each sinful generation. This result is seen in those resurrected dead in the Second resurrection of the wicked at the close of the 1000 years of Revelation 20. They have become so corrupted in mind that when they are raised from their graves of which I might add here God's doesn't have to do for them, but because of their life choices is done for a three specific purposes alone.
- That they acknowledge God as sovereign of the Creation.
- That the Un-fallen Universe of God sees the results of SIN left unchecked.
- That they are eradicated eternally from the creation of God.
Even "the fact" of their resurrection is a showing of God's Mercy and Grace because He doesn't really have to do all this, but does so to vindicate "His character as God" over ALL creation. For seven thousand literal years He restrained Himself from the "eternal death of mankind" spoken to Adam in order to redeem back to Himself as many as would believe in Him during the six thousand years allocated for humanity. However, now those resurrected wicked have so deteriorated in mind that they actually believe that when they join Satan's army, that they can rush the New Jerusalem and overthrow the City of God. The entire un-fallen Universe of God witnesses this event and when God rains down "Fire and Brimstone" upon them to ignite the flames of the Lake of Fire that act of God does two specific things. It destroys for all eternity Satan and all the wicked and purges the Earth by fire (2Pe 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.) AND from the curse it has suffered because of a bad decision made seven thousand years previously by a woman and a man in the Garden of Eden and the death of God on the Cross was required to redeem those who see God as the sovereign Creator back to the family of God. GOD THEN IS "JUSTIFIED" IN HIS ERADICATION OF A SPIRITUAL CANCER CALLED "INIQUITY."
Therefore, even God Himself requires "JUSTIFICATION" but not as the believer, but as the God of the Universe. His character had been called into question by Lucifer, and God was then forced to be "justified" before His Creation as being the God of Love that He really IS. He did this by laying down His own "eternal life" in death as a man on the Cross to show His Creation that He was willing to DIE to redeem those under the curse of death because of Iniquity back to His eternal family. There was much more to the Cross of Jesus, than just the redemption of mankind friends. The redemption of mankind if I should say so, was just a different "role" in the GRAND PLAN of God to vindicate His Character before the Creation He has made.
Now back to the verse above without the added cursive word "is." Rom 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law the knowledge of sin. Paul then covers the "law" that identifies sin. Today's fake ministers teach you that the "Law" that gives one knowledge of what SIN IS, has been (done away with), made void, no longer required for the believer since Jesus who is GOD came and died on the cross. Nothing is further from the truth! Without knowledge of the law of God, you cannot recognize sin in your life. To do away with the law of God is to tell the sinner who comes to believe in Jesus that they can live in that belief and disregard the law of God. This is a masterful Satanic lie. Satan knows that the "Law of God" points out the sin of man AND HIS OWN REBELLION IN HEAVEN, and his motive is to destroy that law, and his disciples dressed in the garb of the dirty cloth, standing in the pulpits of every church denomination, are preaching satanic lies when they tell you that God's GRACE supersedes His Law.
God's
Law demands the "death of the sinner" because the sinner cannot keep that Law
doesn't mean that the Law is null and void. The Law of God governs heaven
itself and has existed from eternity past, present, and will exist in eternity
future. Then why does your preacher tell you it's no longer necessary since
Jesus came as the Redeemer? It was because of that same Law of God that Jesus
had to die the eternal death on the cross for you and me. The broken Law of God
required the "eternal death" of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and it was
there that God's GRACE was first shown to the human being, NOT at the Cross of
Jesus Christ did GOD'S GRACE appear. It was because of God's Grace in heaven
that the fallen angel Lucifer was NOT instantly destroyed when he rebelled
against God and broke every one of the commandments of God in heaven, in
REVERSE ORDER from number 10-1 and back again from 1-10.
Without a knowledge of God and His Law a sinner can't see themselves as sinners in need of a Savior. A Savior of what, better yet a Savior from what? If you're a preacher/minister that preaches that God's Law is no longer necessary for a believer then you're an "antichrist" minister. Preaching AGAINST Christ Himself and that makes you ANTICHRIST!
Isa 14:12-15 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Here, we can see if we so desire, that Lucifer "coveted" the very Throne of God his CREATOR. This is why the 10th Commandment is IN the Law of God. "Lucifer coveted" which is SIN the Throne of God. However, God has revealed to me that Isaiah 14:12-15 are NOT the words of Lucifer, but the mind of Lucifer and a prophecy of God about Lucifer turned Satan. God in Isaiah was revealing the "heart i.e. the mind" of Lucifer. Lucifer did NOT make these statements audibly, God made these statements about Lucifer. How do we know this? The statements:
"I will exalt my throne", Where in the word of God does it ever say that Lucifer had a throne in heaven? IT DOESN'T!
"I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north." The Throne of God alone is said to be in the direction of the NORTH, so the throne spoken of here is the Throne of God in which Lucifer COVETED.
"I will be like the most High." Lucifer however, didn't realize that GOD Himself was prophesying his demise in the statement "I will ascend above the heights of the clouds." There were NO CLOUDS in heaven when Lucifer turned Satan was being spoken to by God in this discourse of God to him. Yes, Satan said these things in his own mind, but God revealed the mind of Satan to us in Isaiah 14:12-15. These verses are the word of God about Lucifer, NOT Lucifer's spoken words. However, Lucifer did disseminate his heart, his mind, to the angelical host and in the process of using these words to the angels, he deceived one-third of them with his desires to overthrow the Throne of God. Only God, Lucifer, and the angelic host who heard Lucifer knew of what was in the mind of Lucifer UNTIL God revealed what was in Lucifer's mind to us here recorded in the book of Isaiah the prophet.
Lucifer didn't really speak these words to anyone in heaven other than to the angelic host, but because God knows all things, God knew the mind of Lucifer and what he said to the angels in order to deceive them, and God revealed what Lucifer said to the angelic host to us here in Isaiah14. In this process of Lucifer, God also reveals to us that His Law concerning "coveting" was present and existed in heaven long before they were ever written by His own finger in stone and given to mankind at Mt. Horeb a.k.a. Sinai. Lucifer turned Satan in his deception of the angels the 10th commandment in that he coveted the Throne of God. The phrase God used here of "I will ascend above the heights of the clouds" one of the thoughts of Lucifer turned Satan does one of two things. It either reveals that there are "clouds in heaven" or it reveals that God was prophesying to Lucifer, that his designed endeavor to overthrow the Throne would result in his banishment to an area of God creation where there would be clouds i.e. the Earth after it was created where there would be an atmosphere with clouds.
After the discourse between God and Lucifer, Lucifer knew he would NOT be forgiven, and that he would eventually be banished from his position in heaven and be cast to an area in which God would create for him to be bound there, an area with clouds, an area with an atmosphere. He just didn't know at the time of what it would be called, or where in creation it would exist. The point is that God's Law governs His creation! The next one of these laws the ninth law of "of bearing a false witness" Lucifer broke in heaven in that he was lying to the angels about God, and because of his false witness against God, he convinced one-third of the angelic host to believe his lies against God, and they who believed him were also banished from their high estate in heaven along with Lucifer.
The next Law of God that Lucifer broke in heaven was the eighth Commandment that states "thou shalt not steal" and Lucifer stole from God one-third of the angels through his lies. Then comes the seventh Commandment the one that says "Thou shalt not commit Adultery." There are two words in scripture both are used when speaking of the one who turns their backs on God as did Lucifer in the spiritual realm. They are the words "adultery and fornication." To the human these words are confined to the physical acts of "sex", fornication is sex outside of a marriage union, adultery is sex within a marriage union. To God however, in the spiritual realm fornication and adultery is used in scripture as acts against God in the spirit "spiritual fornication, spiritual adultery." Lucifer committed "spiritual fornication" against God in his act of rebellion against God, and he broke the seventh Commandment in committing that "spiritual fornication." Even though the seventh Commandment doesn't use the word "fornication" it does use the word "adultery."
Adultery is confined to a "union" between the bride and the bridegroom. Jesus is called the "bridegroom" and his church on Earth is called the "Bride" both Jesus and the church are in reference to obedience to God are done in the spiritual realm, and therefore because Lucifer is a spiritual supernatural being a created fallen angel, his rebellion against God the "Bridegroom" is spiritual adultery against God. Still moving in reverse order from 10-1 we come to the sixth Commandment the one that says "Thou shalt do no Murder." Did Lucifer move the people of Israel to "murder Jesus on the Cross?" Luk 23:20,21 Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them. But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. What did Jesus who IS GOD say to the religious elite of His day say about Lucifer turned Satan? Joh 8:44(b) Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. (b) He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
The beginning Jesus was speaking of here is NOT the same as the "In the Beginning" of Genesis 1:1. Oh, no this beginning is the beginning of the rebellion in heaven that Jesus was speaking of when God knew that Lucifer's actions would lead to the "murder of God" Himself. Therefore, Lucifer broke the sixth Commandment from the beginning of his rebellion. It just didn't take place at the time physically until Jesus the Son of God i.e. God in the Flesh (IMMANUEL) which means (IM/MAN/U/EL) or "I'm man your God" was murdered at the instigation of Lucifer turned Satan working through wicked religious leaders.
Then
Lucifer came to the fifth Commandment of God. The one that states "Honor thy
father and they mother" even though Lucifer didn't have a mother, he did have a
Heavenly Father of whom he did "dishonor" by his rebellion, and coveting, a
Father he desired to murder, a Father he resisted spiritually and committed
spiritual adultery against, a Father he chose to lie about, and stole the
angels from. Lucifer broke the fifth Commandment in that he
dishonored God as his Heavenly Father. This brings us to the fourth
Commandment the one on the Seventh Day of creation week the Sabbath, the
one singular Commandment that identifies God as the CREATOR over ALL things and
finished His work of creation and rested on this special day made holy by God
Himself. This commandment Satan especially hates with a supernatural hatred
because it does identify the CREATOR in whom he Satan hates with a supernatural
hatred. And because it is a special day for humanity to commune with God.
This brings us to the very important question and one naturally to be asked by the reader of this essay. The question: Did the Seventh Day Sabbath of God exist in heaven at the time of the Lucifer in the rebellion in heaven? A very good question indeed and one that needs to be answered. When speaking of the Sabbath Jesus the Son of God stated the following: Mar 2:27,28 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath. What did Jesus mean? To comprehend this verse, one must allow their minds to go backward in time, all the way back to the rebellion in heaven with Lucifer. Ask yourself this reasonable question. Did God need a specific special day for worship in heaven's realm? NO! He did NOT. The "day" the 24 hour period we call a day did NOT exist in heaven at the time of the rebellion as heaven is eternal i.e. eternity.
It was ONLY after mankind was made did God make a "holy day" the seventh day of creation week called the Sabbath Day as Sabbath means "seven" for the "man" He made in ADAM which means "mankind" to commune with Him as the new creation straight from the Creators hand. This is why Jesus said that "The sabbath was made for man" and the Lord continued and followed up His statement with "and not man for the sabbath" which means that mankind cannot stipulate his/her own day for worship. It must be done alone (if it's done properly) on the seventh day and no other day will God deem the worship of mankind as viable true corporate worship. It's only because of His Mercy and Grace towards mankind through His passive and permissive wills, that God allows any of mankind to worship on a different day other than the one He made for the specific purpose of communion between Himself and with mankind.
Why was the Sabbath made for man? Well the answer to this is that because of God's foreknowledge, His Omniscience, God knew that the Earth would be created and that His creation of a being made in His own image i.e. with a spirit, i.e. a mind capable of recognizing God for who He IS would dwell upon that Earth, and that they would fall from His Grace and need a Savior to redeem them back to His family. God knew that He would come as the Savior and establish His Temple upon the Earth i.e. the church and that is where His people would gather together to worship Him as their Creator. Therefore, God made a special day at creation and made that day "holy" He hallowed it for a specific purpose. Gen 2:2,3 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
The word "sanctified" means to "set-apart" made for a specific purpose and God sanctified the seventh day by making it a "holy" 24 hour period. Why? Because God is HOLY! Before the fall humanity in Adam and Eve was "holy" and for God to meet with them on the seventh day meant that the meeting between the three was a "holy convocation", a holy worship service. What made the meeting Holy, it was God's presence in the meeting that made the meeting between the three HOLY on His Holy Day! Mankind needed a "Holy Day" to meet with God because God is Holy. Adam and Eve was "holy" at the time in the fact they had no sin and the three of them God, Adam, and Eve his wife was a "holy convocation" a holy meeting together. The Seventh Day Sabbath was not needed in heaven when the angels came to worship God because heaven's atmosphere is completely HOLY and time doesn't apply to eternity. Time was set in motion for the new creation of God when the fourth day of creation was completed that specified TIME.
Gen 1:14-19 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Because of God's Omniscience God also knew that those redeemed from SIN who have practiced the worship of the seventh day that He made for (man) for 6000 years on Earth would be accustomed to worship Him on that day, that He would then carry the same day over into eternity specifically for them who believed in Him and obeyed His voice. No, the Sabbath didn't exist in heaven prior to it being made for man, but it was made for man specifically for man while mankind is upon the Earth. But, because it is ONLY mankind alone that is made in the "Image of God", God is going to restore the seventh-day Sabbath in eternity specifically for redeemed mankind, but because God gave His life for mankind, in eternity ALL heaven will worship before Him on the day He created for mankind. Why? Because God Himself in the Son, came to Earth as a "man" called Jesus, and gave His life to redeem the fallen race.
Because of this ALL Heaven will honor the Son of God on His designed day of worship called the Sabbath Day. Isa 66:22-24 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD. And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh. It's going to be a special day for the glorified redeemed "flesh" found in eternity with God. QUESTION: Do the angels of God have flesh? Yes, when it necessary for them to take on the flesh. Here's a good example of the angel Gabriel in the flesh. Dan 9:21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
Daniel saw the angel Gabriel as a "man", he did not say "angel" here, but he said "the man" a specific article which implies that Gabriel took upon himself the "flesh of a man." The pre-incarnate Savior of the World did the same thing for Joshua here: Jos 5:13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries? The Lord was so much in the form of the flesh of man, that Joshua approached Him to question Him, because Joshua saw Him i.e. the pre-incarnate Savior of the World as simply being a man dressed for battle.
The Lords Response to Joshua's question!
Jos 5:14,15 And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD (GOD, ELOHIM in the Hebrew) am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant? And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so. This was the same "I AM that I AM" that spoke to Moses on Mt. Horeb from the Burning Bush.
Every moment in heaven is a "holy moment" to worship God since time doesn't exist in heaven it's eternity and time (as we know time) doesn't govern eternity, and Lucifer turned Satan broke the fourth Commandment of God not so much as breaking the Sabbath Fourth Commandment as he did by breaking away from God in his deception and rebellion against God to abandon ALL worship of God. Since the Sabbath didn't exist as man knows the seventh day today which is only a "type" of the "antitype" of heavenly worship in the honoring of God as the Creator, Lucifer broke from the worship of God and therefore broke the meaning of the Seventh Day Sabbath that was made of "man."
This brings us to the third Commandment that says "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord they God in vain." Lucifer broke this Commandment when he claimed to be the "god over the Earth" in Job 2 which was vanity on his part. Job 2:1,2 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD. And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. (It's MINE) Here Lucifer turned Satan claimed by his presence in this meeting that he was one of the "sons of God" and claiming the Earth as his own.
God did NOT dispute Satan's claim over the Earth, because by this time the "FALL" had already taken place and Satan roamed the Earth as his own. Because he is a fallen angel, a creation of God, Satan's claim before God was a "vain" attempt to deceive those other "son's of God" present in the meeting. Satan without saying it, was presenting himself as still a "son of God" taking the name of God in vain before them. What Satan didn't realize is that they (The True sons of God) knew he i.e. Satan had already been unmasked before them. Satan's "vain claim" by his presence here broke the third Commandment of God.
This
brings us to the second Commandment the one that states "Thou shalt not make
unto the any graven image", Satan broke this Commandment in that he made
himself an "image of God" before the un-fallen Creation of God when he rebelled
against God in heaven, and before the heavenly host of angels. His deception of
"I can be better than God" mindset made him into a false image of God. Now we
come to the last or rather the FIRST Commandment of God in the Law of God we
call the Ten Commandments. The Commandment that governs all the Law of God for
both man and angels. The Law that says: I AM the LORD thy God, thou shall have
NO OTHER GOD before ME." Lucifer turned Satan BROKE this Commandment last and FIRST in
that He made himself a "god" before the angels other than THE GOD of Heaven thereby convincing one-third of them that he was right and God was wrong and they bought it.
In ALL the Law of God that we have today, Satan broke them ALL both forwards and backward in the heavens of Heaven, in the Third Heaven Paul called Paradise, the dwelling place of God. 2Co 12:3,4 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
THE POINT!
QUESTION:
Do you SIN? Then you need the Law that identifies SIN. Will the keeping of the Law
in your own efforts "SAVE YOU" NO! If
that were the case Jesus died in vain, because it was the LAW of God that required
and demanded His DEATH on the Cross. Since by the knowledge of the law SIN is
identified and recognized as SIN, then without the Law you would have NO SIN
and you wouldn't need a Savior because SIN is the TRANSGRESSION of the LAW. 1Jn
3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the
law: for sin is the transgression of the
law. As long as you SIN the LAW of God is in
FORCE for you. It's NOT Rocket Science!
For the Christian believer who believes that they are NOT to strive to walk in obedience to the Law of God, their walk with God is a sham as the Law identifies their SIN and their need of a Savior. You cannot have a Savior without the Law, and you cannot have the Law without a Savior. The reason the Scripture says that:Rom 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law (Being your own Savior) there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: (Because it's the work of Jesus who kept His own Law perfectly and if you're in Christ it's His obedience to His own Law, that the Holy Spirit of God IMPARTS and IMPUTES to you that affects your Redemption and eventual Salvation back to God. But that free gift does NOT negate the Law of God. It is the Law of God that required the DEATH of God on the Cross) WHY? for by the law is the knowledge of sin. And the scripture state clearly that Jesus was made to be "SIN for US"
How was Jesus made to be SIN for US if His death on the Cross didn't involve the Law of God that demands the ETERNAL DEATH of the one who breaks the Law? 2Co 5:21 For he (GOD the FATHER) hath made him (GOD the Son) to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. GOD the FATHER placed GOD the Son UNDER the LAW since Jesus had NO personal SIN and the knowledge of the Law identifies SIN. The SIN made and attributed to the Son of God was done by placing the Son of God "under the Law" that demanded the death of the transgressor. 1Jn 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. And since Jesus had no personal SIN, the death He died on the Cross was the death we deserved because of our personal SIN.
How
did God the FATHER make Jesus to be SIN for US? Better yet, WHEN did God the
FATHER make Jesus to be sin for us? The answer is the very second the Holy
Spirit came upon Mary and affected the pregnancy of a virgin. It wasn't at the
Cross of Christ that Jesus was made sin for us. It was 33 ½ years earlier when
Jesus was born AS US, as a human being IMMANUEL God with US is better spoken as
GOD AS US! The entire life of Jesus Christ all 33 and a half years represented
every fallen aspect of humanity from Cain the first murderer to the last unrepentant sinner before Jesus utters Revelation 22:11. Jesus was a CORPORATE
SAVIOR, just as Adam was the CORPORATE man from which all humanity has come
from. 1Co 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 1Co 15:21,22 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
1Co 15:46-49 Howbeit that was not first (Adam) which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that (Jesus Christ) which is spiritual. The first man (Adam) is of the earth, earthy: the second man (Jesus Christ) is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, (The Descendants of Adam) such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, (The Justified Believer in Jesus Christ) such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, (Adams Humanity) we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. (The Glorified Jesus Christ)
Many are born and live their entire lives all claiming to know Jesus and for the most part, they know nothing of Him. Jesus could NOT be the Savior of the World unless the entire World from Adam to the last unrepentant sinner wasn't placed within Him at the Incarnation. You didn't live when Jesus died on the cross for you and neither did I, but what Jesus did there 1990 years ago for the both of us WHO DIDN'T EVEN EXIST AT THE TIME is just as efficacious towards our Salvation as those who stood at His feet the day He died on the Cross? HOW, WHY? Because Jesus was the CORPORATE SAVIOR of all humanity. YOU and I were there IN HIM the day He was born, through the life He lived and the day He died as was every human being who has ever lived on planet Earth. And we were also raised up with Him in the Resurrection after the third day. Jesus saved the whole of humanity but NOT the whole of humanity will accept Him as the Savior of the World. God the Son made provision for everyone, but not everyone will accept the provision made.
For those who reject Him the provision made is not applied to them, even though it's available. When Jesus came forth from the tomb the scripture states: Eph 2:5,6 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. This is indeed is what constitutes the "GOOD NEWS" of Redemption and Salvation. Since we were ALL (IN CHRIST Spiritually) at the INCARNATION, in the Life of Jesus throughout His life, at His death on the Cross, and with Him in the Resurrection. TRUE SALVATION from SIN and ETERNAL DEATH has already been accomplished IN CHRIST!
When He lived on Earth, we lived IN HIM, when He died on the Cross, we died together IN HIM, and when He Resurrected we RESURRECTED together IN HIM. This is the GOOD NEWS of SALVATION friends. ALL because the Law of God was broken! Don't ever try to convince me that God did away with His own Law written with His own finger in stone. It was because of that "Broken Law" that Jesus came to live His life perfectly UNDER that LAW. He then because of keeping it perfectly, and because we were IN HIM when He kept it perfectly, then we have also kept the Law perfectly before God the FATHER "IN CHRIST JESUS." However we don't negate the law of God in this life and teach others that it's NO longer in force for the believer, when we do we teach them a false GRACE better known as "Cheap Grace" the idea that the Law of God is no longer necessary for the believer in Jesus when that same obedience to the Law of God cost Him His life because "no human being" is capable of walking in obedience to the Law of God apart from being in JESUS.
Why because the Law is "just, holy, and good" and we are not. Rom 7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
If the aspect of keeping the Law of God was removed from the efficacious actions of Jesus on the Cross in you're and my place, then Redemption would be impossible and Salvation non-existent for humanity.
God's LAW has always existed from eternity past, present, and future and any preacher/minister/ or pope who says and preaches that God's Law was made void and no longer necessary for the creation of God, which includes you and me, is an ANTICHRIST FALSE PROPHET preaching to you a masterful LIE spawned from the very pits of hell itself. If you believe these charlatans you deserve "ETERNAL DEATH" as you like Lucifer have turned your back on the God of Heaven and Earth.
The WATCHMAN !!!