11 For sin, seizing the opportunity and getting a hold on me [by taking its incentive] from the commandment, beguiled and entrapped and cheated me, and using it [as a weapon], killed me.
When the Law was alive sin had an opportunity to grab a hold of us. But now that the Law is dead sin no longer has that opportunity. Sin has lost its ability to cheat us and entrap us. Sin has lost all of its ability to harm us because the free and undeserved Grace of our Father has now replaced the Law. Where sin did abound, our Father’s Grace now much more abounds, Romans 5:20.
12 The Law therefore is holy, and [each] commandment is holy and just and good.
The Law was Holy. It did exactly what our Father intended for it to do. He gave the Law to show us that we could never live on our own. The Law showed us how much we needed our Father. The Law showed us that even though we have flesh, it is the Spirit that gives us life and life abundantly, John 6:63. Without the Law sin no longer has any opportunities to work death through us. Through Christ we now have only life, just as Jesus has life. There is no longer any death for us, John 5:24. Because of Jesus’ success we have passed from death to life. There is no longer any condemnation for us, Romans 8:1.
13 Did that which is good then prove fatal [bringing death] to me? Certainly not! It was sin, working death in me by using this good thing [as a weapon], in order that through the commandment sin might be shown up clearly to be sin, that the extreme malignity and immeasurable sinfulness of sin might plainly appear.
The Law showed us sin, or in other words, the Law showed us that on our own we couldn’t see our Father and His Truth. Sin didn’t stop our Father from being active in humanity. When we were still in sin He sent Jesus and saved us, Romans 8:3. Jesus healed sinners. He forgave sinners. He ate and drank with sinners. Our Father caused Herod and Pilate, two notable sinners, to do what He wanted and they didn’t even know it, Acts 4:27. All things exist by our Father and through our Father, Colossians 1:16. Sin doesn’t stop Him, it stops us from seeing the Truth and from seeing Him. So the Law served its purpose and heralded in Jesus. Sin was the problem. It needed the Law, so our Father did away with all of the rules and replaced it with His Grace. Now sin has no opportunity to harm us because there is nothing to convict us with.
The Law is now dead and there is only Grace. We now have a Savior that intercedes and serves us, so that we are saved to the uttermost, Hebrews 7:25. In Jesus we have all things. There is nothing in Him that is against us. Sin has no ability to seize anything from us through Him. We have complete and total freedom. Because of Christ the Law of sin and death has been destroyed, Romans 8:2. We are now more than conquerors through Christ. Every old things of sin has passed away from us and now all things are new for us. Our Father is now able to do far more through us then we can ask, think, believe, or pray for.
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