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Heb.3:7 Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice, 3:8 don't harden your hearts, as in the provocation, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness, 3:9 where your fathers tested me by proving me, and saw my works for forty years.

Returning evil for good that is the way of the fallen flesh, but these brothers and sister were no longer in their fallen flesh according to God's judgment of them in Christ! They were to be found in faith, returning good for evil. They had confused themselves with the desires of the flesh thinking it was from God.

Romans 9:32 Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

Romans 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);

Romans 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:

They judged God, as they judged each other under test of the flesh, the good of God's love in delivering them from false gods, idols made from images and ideas of flesh in rulers like Pharaoh of Egypt as though he was God YHWH creation. They has forgotten the sacred blood of the passover lamb that was bigger than their goodness, works, ideas or flesh which saved them out of bondage for some four hundred years. They had not stop sinning, God, God had redeemed them from their own selfish evil ways by one thing?

Titus 3:1 Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
3:2 to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men. 3:3 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
3:4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared, 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,
3:6 whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior; 3:7 that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Faith in the blood! God did not look at them, as they harshly judged each other in the flesh. God looked to the faith of putting blood on the door post. Now in the book of Hebrews, Jewish Christian's wanted to bring the law of commandments that could not be kept in the fallen flesh back. Saying its righteous judgments saved them from the world of darkness they had been delivered from by Christ blood, God's great passover lamb.

Romans 3:25 whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice{or, a propitiation}, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God's forbearance;

Romans 3:26 to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

It was a lie, no matter how fear inspiring such strong demands are upon the flesh by God's righteous laws, it could not be kept. Get the sense the context if you will? Israel was delivered not for their good name, but God's good name, God's promises to Abraham a man loved of God by his faith in Him. When our faith lacks, it is killed by our judgments. Faith comes by love for our creator and all that he has done for us, not judgment of us, that is, our evil fallen flesh.

Ephesians 2:5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved).

Colossians 2:13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses.

James 2:7 Don't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called? 2:8 However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself,"{Leviticus 19:18} you do well. 2:9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. 2:11 For he who said, "Do not commit adultery,"{Exodus 20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18} also said, "Do not commit murder."{Exodus 10:13; Deuteronomy 5:17} Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. 2:12 So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

These brothers and sisters could not stop sinning in their flesh, if they stated they could they were liars. So if we sin, we are disobedient, and if we are disobedient we cannot please God. So how does one get delivered from this horrific place we find ourselves in? By putting faith in God's passover lamb.

Matthew 14:31 Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, "You of little faith, why did you doubt?"

Acts 15:9 He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

Romans 1:17 For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."{Habakkuk 2:4}

There is no power in our flesh when standing before God's righteous law, bring it back did not fix the sin in our flesh or empower it at all unless we lived a lie, how? By judging other peoples flesh, comparing us against them as to whom is better by degrees of sin is the only power the flesh has. But standing before the perfect law of God in our fallen flesh means death, made hopeless and weak in our flesh, striking terror and fear into our heart for fear of the truthful judgment of God.

Isa.6:3 One called to another, and said, "Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!" 6:4 The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. 6:5 Then I said, "Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!" 6:6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. 6:7 He touched my mouth with it, and said, "Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven."

1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

No way out, like Pharaoh who trapped Israel on the red-sea, like Pharaoh great power over his slaves, who could break that yoke off of God's people neck? Who can break the yoke of the fallen flesh off our necks, only God, by faith in his righteousness, by his gift of salvation. Don't be fooled obedience does not come from the fallen flesh, it can't, it is dead in Christ, we live by faith.

Rom.7:23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. 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.

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.

James 4:11 Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. 4:12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

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