The Law makes NO PERSON perfect, the Lawgiver Does
No man can be perfected by the 10 Commandments.
No man of himself can keep the law perfectly. Only Jesus Christ can meet to full righteous requirement of the law on our behalf. Jesus did not meet this requirement on his own. It was God in him doing the work. If we take Jesus´ example we will find that only God can do the work of the law. It is in our darkened mind that we believe that we can keep and do the law.
BTW -the in the above paragraph there is a secret that few know. It is the secret of how Jesus is God. Can you see it.
The law was given so that we would see that it is impossible for us to work our own salvation. The law shows us that no matter how good our aim at keeping it is we will fail. By the law no man shall be justified. God never intended the law to be done by man´s will but to be done by his will.
Jesus Christ did not come to do his own will but the will of his father. It was God´s will in Jesus Christ that saved mankind. Jesus himself knew that he himself as an individual had no power to do the will of God. He knew that he could only do what he saw his father doing in him. We could learn a major lesson from this. But as it seems man has missed this secret to peace with God.
God is not telling you to go to the 10 Commandments. Rather he is showing you that he intended to do them in you from the beginning. Notice I said he was going to do them through you as a vessel.
Some might ask, how will God do these Commandments through man. The Commandments are fulfilled through fellowship. As your knowledge and wisdom grows in God´s understanding and intentions through fellowship with him the Commandments become a byproduct of that fellowship. In this fellowship we begin to see that God intended from the beginning that he would do the work.
In the Bible darkness represents ignorance and light represents understanding. Our minds are darkened to the understanding that God is the only one who is doing the work. It is only when we become self-reliant and develop a independent mindset that we fail in the knowledge of his intention.
When we fail to see him doing the work we strike out on our own and begin the process of decay. The things in which we do out of self righteousness began to break down to the point that we see our necessity of Fellowship with God.
The independent mind or what some call the carnal mind, is at enmity with God. Our need for independence is what drives us to see our own inability to save ourselves.
We cannot reward ourselves in this life but rather we can accept the reward of God doing the work.
God gave the 10 Commandments so that man could see his inability to do them independently of God.
The 10 Commandments are a list of things that God does in a man. They are not a list of things that man does for God. They are not really even Commandments they are revealing of the promises of God in man. Darkness through our independent mind have turned the Commandments into what we do(even though we know we can´t) rather than what God does.
Israel boldly claims in self righteousness that they are well able to do what ever God asks of them. So God gives them the 10 things that only he can do in them. What do they do? In their self-righteous mind and in independence from God the Commandments that they do become their salvation, but only in their minds. In reality the more they try to do them the more they need God to do them.
There is only one that is perfect and that is God. What God does is perfect. The independent mind gives us the idea that what we can do can be perfected. God boldly displays that the works of man are filthy rags (literal translation: dirty menstrual cloths).
The Scripture says that it is God and gospel to will and to do all his good pleasure. But we think it is us and us both to will and to do God´s good pleasure. For more we do the law, the more we need a Savior. This is why the law is a schoolmaster until Christ came. Now we see God at work in Jesus Christ fulfilling the law for all mankind.
The truth is the law makes no one perfect, but God is the perfection of all mankind through Jesus Christ.
No man of himself can keep the law perfectly. Only Jesus Christ can meet to full righteous requirement of the law on our behalf. Jesus did not meet this requirement on his own. It was God in him doing the work. If we take Jesus´ example we will find that only God can do the work of the law. It is in our darkened mind that we believe that we can keep and do the law.
BTW -the in the above paragraph there is a secret that few know. It is the secret of how Jesus is God. Can you see it.
The law was given so that we would see that it is impossible for us to work our own salvation. The law shows us that no matter how good our aim at keeping it is we will fail. By the law no man shall be justified. God never intended the law to be done by man´s will but to be done by his will.
Jesus Christ did not come to do his own will but the will of his father. It was God´s will in Jesus Christ that saved mankind. Jesus himself knew that he himself as an individual had no power to do the will of God. He knew that he could only do what he saw his father doing in him. We could learn a major lesson from this. But as it seems man has missed this secret to peace with God.
God is not telling you to go to the 10 Commandments. Rather he is showing you that he intended to do them in you from the beginning. Notice I said he was going to do them through you as a vessel.
Some might ask, how will God do these Commandments through man. The Commandments are fulfilled through fellowship. As your knowledge and wisdom grows in God´s understanding and intentions through fellowship with him the Commandments become a byproduct of that fellowship. In this fellowship we begin to see that God intended from the beginning that he would do the work.
In the Bible darkness represents ignorance and light represents understanding. Our minds are darkened to the understanding that God is the only one who is doing the work. It is only when we become self-reliant and develop a independent mindset that we fail in the knowledge of his intention.
When we fail to see him doing the work we strike out on our own and begin the process of decay. The things in which we do out of self righteousness began to break down to the point that we see our necessity of Fellowship with God.
The independent mind or what some call the carnal mind, is at enmity with God. Our need for independence is what drives us to see our own inability to save ourselves.
We cannot reward ourselves in this life but rather we can accept the reward of God doing the work.
God gave the 10 Commandments so that man could see his inability to do them independently of God.
The 10 Commandments are a list of things that God does in a man. They are not a list of things that man does for God. They are not really even Commandments they are revealing of the promises of God in man. Darkness through our independent mind have turned the Commandments into what we do(even though we know we can´t) rather than what God does.
Israel boldly claims in self righteousness that they are well able to do what ever God asks of them. So God gives them the 10 things that only he can do in them. What do they do? In their self-righteous mind and in independence from God the Commandments that they do become their salvation, but only in their minds. In reality the more they try to do them the more they need God to do them.
There is only one that is perfect and that is God. What God does is perfect. The independent mind gives us the idea that what we can do can be perfected. God boldly displays that the works of man are filthy rags (literal translation: dirty menstrual cloths).
The Scripture says that it is God and gospel to will and to do all his good pleasure. But we think it is us and us both to will and to do God´s good pleasure. For more we do the law, the more we need a Savior. This is why the law is a schoolmaster until Christ came. Now we see God at work in Jesus Christ fulfilling the law for all mankind.
The truth is the law makes no one perfect, but God is the perfection of all mankind through Jesus Christ.
Posted by George Maitland at 3/2/2010 10:23 AM 
Categories: Grace and Truth
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Categories: Grace and Truth
Tags: Righteousness HIM rights His Image Ministry God Logos Grace
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