9 Once I was alive, but quite apart from and unconscious of the Law. But when the commandment came, sin lived again and I died (was sentenced by the Law to death).
10 And the very legal ordinance which was designed and intended to bring life actually proved [to mean to me] death.
Look at what our Father has Paul write here: The Law brought death. Our Father repeatedly tells us in the Book of Romans that Law only brings failure. Trying to keep a set of rules and ordinances will cause every one who tries to keep them to fail. Our Father knew that this would happen. He wanted it to happen, because He wanted His children to see the Truth that would set them free. Our Father wanted us to know that He was always with us. He wanted us to enjoy the glory of never doubting that it was His power that was operating through us. The Law tells us that we are left alone to do things correctly. The Law causes us to look to ourselves and our flesh and not look to our Father. And remember what Jesus said: there is nothing good in human flesh, Luke 18:19. Our Father sent Jesus to absolutely do away with all Law except love.
Having cancelled and blotted out and wiped away the handwriting of the note (bond) with its legal decrees and demands which was in force and stood against us (hostile to us). This [note with its regulations, decrees, and demands] He set aside and cleared completely out of our way by nailing it to [His] cross. Colossians 2:14
Sin can only live when there is Law.
[To be sure] sin was in the world before ever the Law was given, but sin is not charged to men's account where there is no law [to transgress]. Romans 5:13
This Truth is why our Father has me preach so hard that there is now no laws for us. Because without any Laws, there isn’t any sin. Jesus came and did away with all laws for us, so there is now no sin for us! Yes and amen, there is now no sin for us. If a person believes any other way, then they are calling our Father a liar and going against His Word. We are plainly told that we are to consider ourselves to be dead to sin, Romans 6:11. The only way that we are able to consider ourselves to be totally dead to sin is by being enlightened by the Holy Spirit. He Alone must reveal the Truth to us that there are no longer any laws to convict us of sin!
When a person believes that our Father has a set of rules that we must follow, then they are being killed by their belief. This means that they will absolutely fail. There is no opportunity for them to succeed. They will 100% of the time commit the very acts that they believe that they should not do. The only way to not lie, not kill, not covet, to love everyone, not hate, or any other thing, is to be empowered by the Holy Spirit to believe that there are no longer any laws that say to do or not to do these things. That means being given the Mind of Christ to believe that it is all free and undeserved grace. It means being empowered to accept that our actions in no way bring us closer or distance us from our Father. This faith is freedom and this faith can only come from Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith, Hebrews 12:2.
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