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The Righteousness of The Law

Rom.10:5 For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them."{Leviticus 18:5} 10:6 But the righteousness which is of faith says this, "Don't say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'{Deuteronomy 30:12} (that is, to bring Christ down); 10:7 or, 'Who will descend into the abyss?'{Deuteronomy 30:13} (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)" 10:8 But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;"{Deuteronomy 30:14} that is, the word of faith, which we preach: 10:9 that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10:10 For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Nothing is for free in this world that is the truth and once we get that we stop being a victim and get on with life working for the rewards of this life. Here though we have uncovered the problems of Paul's words written above, and what is that?

Psalms 18:26 With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

Ecclesiastes 1:15 That which is crooked can't be made straight; and that which is lacking can't be counted.

Our human nature under sin we complicate salvation when we make it man's efforts, which is, in essence making ourselves a god. God and not man alone is the author of our salvation, where man does intervene into all endeavors under the Sun he cannot when it comes to God's way to salvation.

Luke 3:5 Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill will be brought low. The crooked will become straight, and the rough ways smooth.

Philippians 2:15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world.

These brothers and sisters anointed by God were falling into self-salvation by works of law making God's seem impossible, far off from them, but how? Simply put, we are not a god, our ways and God's ways are not the same and certainly not the common practice in the way world thinks, for where there is confusion God does not exist.

Isa.40:6 The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
40:7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.

These brothers and sisters had become trapped into trying to save themselves by works of law, but the harder they tried to be perfect the more they sank into the quicksand of sin. The power of the law is sin, now lets says that one more time the “power” of God's law is to point out our sin yet more, why? So that every mouth may be stop, so none of us can brag in our flesh, that is, our sinful nature, as a god! (the issue started in the garden of Eden).

Rom.7:16 But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good. 7:17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. 7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good. 7:19 For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice.

Rom.7:24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death? 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.

Salvation rest with God alone in getting us out of sin. When people deal with breaking a law their solution to the problem is lets make another law, one that will better define the problem, it may work of short term problems, but not with sin. You see the law did not stop us from sinning it only defined what God had told us from creation, after Adam and Eve sinned, our ways are crooked, we think death, because born into sin, we are in death. So our ways cannot be made straight through human effort. Its like having a flawed computer that keeps repeating the same error how can the computer correct the problem when its not programed with the right mind?

Titus 1:15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

1 Peter 3:21 This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Colossians 3:2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

1 Corinthians 2:16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?"{Isaiah 40:13} But we have Christ's mind.

The harder it searches for an answer logically (by mathematical laws) the greater the problem and the deeper its gets until it yells out: “Who will go into heaven and get me what I need to save myself? Who will go into the depth of sea to bring up this hidden treasure so I can be saved?”

There problem is really simple they had been given a new life, a new heart, how had they gotten to thinking they had earned being a new creation by a law that only condemned them into seeing how much of a sinner there were a sinner while living in death thinking? They were flawed from sin, hence, their algorithm (the law) could not solve the problem they must have the mind of Christ (having a new law) to fix the error.

Ephesians 4:24 and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

It is from this rock solid foundation stone all was built upon in the new creation there was no other salvation not even by the genius of this world. No human philosophy, works, thinking under the Sun that could solved what God must fix. This is why Christ made it clear to us, any other means for salvation is a thief stealing what Christ righteously earned for us. Christ fulfilled the law, its really that simple, completed it so we must put faith in him alone, not ourselves, a religion or person we have salvation, not based upon our worth but his worth.

Revelation 5:9 They sang a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,

Hebrews 1:9 You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows."{Psalm 45:6-7}

Titus 3:5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

To rejoice in Christ is not thinking we are better, or more perfect because we have been granted gifts from God, it is instead rejoicing in God's unmerited kindness towards us, it is his love that fixes all problems in the human race, the love that will wipe away every tear of sorrow and fear in our hearts so we can truly believe some one love us that much.

This love is in our hearts when we speak it with our mouths than we have lined up the Christ and God's Spirit in truth, thus, we have salvation because Christ lives in us. This is the Good News of our Salvation open to all mankind, Spirit lead and directed by the will of God, found in our perfect head with no flaws, Christ Jesus.

1 Peter 2:24 who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

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