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The Cart Before The Horse

Proverbs 28:10 Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good.

We have all heard this old statement. In other words, let put thing in order to get the job done, lets not expect anything good will come from putting the work horse behind the cart it is trained to pull.

Proverbs 19:2 It isn't good to have zeal without knowledge; nor being hasty with one's feet and missing the way.

Unfortunately, many will meaning Christian's do just that when it comes to God's word the bible. When they read it, the first thing they see is the speck in others Christian's eyes, and/or other people not Christian's eyes. Hence, metaphorically speaking, they are putting the cart before the horse thinking it going to get the work done of preaching the Good News of God's Kingdom.

Matt.7:1 "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged. 7:2 For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you. 7:3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?

But later if they are a honest person, stepping back, taking a second look at their life of preaching judgment, what they will find, what they've gained in actual work is nothing but judgment coming back too themselves! They have gotten it exactly backwards, they have put the horse behind the cart, blindly believing God's good works are being done, without the engine pulling their wagon, the horse!

Proverbs 17:13 Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

James 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.

The Horse

The horse is love, now please take a breathe, we know how people hate the idea of weak love, it offends them thinking anyone using love is saying: “lets throw a sin fest, lets have a pitty party on God's good name because we are loved of God!”

Here we have come upon extreme prejudice in final degree, blinding a person mind to any of God's love. Yes, the straw man argument, paint all things of word love evil, than preach judgment instead by law, white washing, it as the truth of God's word. Replace God's love with a legal definition of love, like a good attorney. When in fact, the real extreme is not showing love as a Christian's.

Proverbs 14:9 Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.

1Cor.13:1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 13:2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing. 13:3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.

Truth of The Horse

The identifying mark of truth is love, one cannot be a Christian's without love, nor can they know God without love, or Christ, by law, they must know God, and Christ by love. This is the ear marking of Christ life working in a person the fruit of Holy Spirit. The horse that pulls the cart for a Christian's is love, and without love, no good work is done in the name of YHWH/God.

1 John 4:17 In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

1 John 4:8 He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.

1 John 4:9 By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

The Cart

The cart in this case should be forgiveness from our deserved judgment. Deserved judgments means one cannot get out of judgment which they deserve. They have broken the law, and the law stands, if heaven and earth could be removed, than a person could get out of their deserved judgment for being born a sinner.

Matthew 5:18 For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter{literally, iota} or one tiny pen stroke{or, serif} shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

The cart is not more judgment, as fleshly minded Christian's teach, it is forgiveness of deserved judgment from God for being born into sin, which sin break God's righteous sinless laws.

Ephesians 1:7 in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

Why The Horse Must be Love?

If we deserved something, in this case judgment for being a sinner breaking God righteous law, the only thing that can save us is love, because "law" cannot forgive sin. Laws have no emotions, they our void of love, instead law has wrath towards sinner in accusing, convicting, and punishing them as sinners. Hence, the judge must apply the law even handed to all without emotion, or they themselves are partial and found to be an unrighteous judge.

Romans 4:15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

Weed-Christian's, meaning those walking in their flesh, which fleshly mind means walking in judgment, and teaching it, as the truth of Christ, are putting the horse behind their cart, which cart they've coined, judgment. Yes, their cart is judgment, and not forgiveness.

Romans 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.

What they teach as God's love, is the horse law pushing the cart judgment by obeying the laws of the bible. Hence, their teaching nullifies Christ abolishing our deserved judgment by God's undeserved kindness towards us, which is the highest degree of moral love exceeding the righteousness of laws deserved judgment.

Romans 12:19 Don't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord."{Deuteronomy 32:35}

Matthew 5:20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

In other words, they teach the opposite of what God word states as truth. They teach unless your good enough in doing works of law, you cannot please God at all!

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}

Looking at The Fruit of Putting The Horse Behind the Cart

Christ Jesus made a simple profound statement that can not be understood unless the horse pulls the cart. Here we must pause, and qualify Christ statements before reading them. A person cannot know the truth by words alone, words coming from those that have put the cart in front of the horse. Words deceive a heart towards judgment, but why?

James 1:26 If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.

Because the fleshly mind is a legal mind, which feed from a wicked heart of judgment, when a person is a judge, words are their tool of their trade, each word supports their judgments, each word becomes of life and death importance. Hence, this is why such a fleshly mind will destroy others over words, they will kill a person if not physically than with words, destroying them spiritually.

John 3:17 For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

Isaiah 28:15 "Because you have said, 'We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won't come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.'"

Now we can better understand, why Christ did not say look at their words on the tree to see if they are from God, but look at their fruit from their works, and words. When a person puts the cart before the horse they cannot produce the works of God in Christ Jesus, what they produce is evil fruit, but why?

John 8:15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

John 8:16 Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.

Evil Fruit

Evil fruit, for those whom put the cart before the horse means wickedness that must be destroyed. On the other hand, evil too those putting the horse before the cart, it means all works from sin. Hence, when a person works from their own goodness, and not from Christ Jesus goodness subsituted for them, and given too each of us, as a gift from God. They trade Christ for self-merited making a person unwittingly or wittingly a Christ.

Such false prophets teach they are a good tree producing good fruit by obedience to laws, boasting, and bragging by comparing themselves against other religions, and/or peoples fruit judge against their own fruit. In other words, they can't see Christ fruit because they are judging in a competition with other sinful people having the same evil fruit, sin! Which the same sinful fleshly thinking produces more evil fruit from wickedness of judging, and not the fruits of life found in Christ Jesus, without judgment.

John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

John 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

John 8:15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

Matt.7:1 "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged. 7:2 For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you. 7:3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?

One must always stop and read what Christ actually said in what good fruit are; he did not say a person could have good and bad fruit at the same time, and than claim to be of God's good works.

He stated that a good tree cannot, or does not have any bad fruit on its branches! In other words, it is good tree all the time, and not some of the time. The good tree does not sin, unlike the evil tree that does sin all the time. and than justifies the evil by a good work, to make up for the sin, claiming itself a good tree having good fruit by words or works of law. No! A good tree always has good fruit on it, it can never produce bad fruit. Moreover, a bad tree cannot (at any time) produce good fruit!

Romans 8:8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

Hence, one cannot be in God's good tree, producing good works some times, they must put the horse before the cart to be in the good tree, which is, Christ Jesus all the time. Factually, they cannot produce good fruit by works of law; meaning, from fruit from sin, hence, changing that fruit of sin by a good work thinking it atonments for sin. Conversly, the good tree, Christ Jesus, has no sin at all, he is free from sin, and the corruption coming from sin, which is called yeast in the bible. Christ is free of judgment by laws created for sinners, law that bring one to repentance for conviction of sin, by God's righteousnss.

Human are not sinless, all humans sin, being born into sin, they cannot stop sinning by a good work of their own flesh, which sinful flesh is of no value at all! Thus, they are evil trees with evil fruit all the time, no matter how many good works they perform, but why? It is because they sin, and all sin is lawlessness, and lawlessness is evil all the time too God, not some of the time. Hence, a person cannot be some times a little sin, and at other times lots of sin, sin is sin, you either are a sinner or your not, but you cannot have both and be a a good tree of God's works.

Romans 8:13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Sin is evil, not just bad, but evil to God, why? Because it produces death in us, it must be defeated as the last enemy of God. When one kills their enemy the enemy is evil not good adding too their life, a little bad condone by some good. It must be killed because one cannot survive in peace without destroying it completely. God is not at peace with death, or the cause of death, sin, sin is evil, so much so that a bad tree cannot produce good fruit, it can not be a sinner once in a while, no! The evil tree cannot, not make itself not a sinner, by doing good works, it cannot remove sin from its roots that date back too Adam sin.

Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

The evil tree and its fruit are peace with death,how? By condoning sin/death by doing a good works to offset the evil in its fruit. It compares all things against self, not God's standard of truth. Hence, it blinds itself with words, and than judges other as evil by words, which is an easy thing to do when looking at fleshly mind sinner like themselves, all humans sin. The evil tree measure justice by degrees of sin, not by convicting all of sin as God does, making all sinner evil, it than creates a merit based system building on this falty foundation by obeying some commandments of God, while breaking others in its merit based system of legalism as of no account.

Galatians 5:24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

Once its system is in place it send all eaters of its fruit to a false prophet, which replaces the Christ, who is the good tree. It teaches ones that they can be a good tree, by producing fruit of good and evil, meaning; doing more good works to out weighs the evil ones the same tree. These works of law then blind a person from seeing Christ Jesus good works completed for our salvation. Instead the person climbs a ladder of good and bad works into the Kingdom of God, from works of law.

Matt.7:18 A good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit. 7:19 Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.

They have put the horse behind the cart of forgiveness, pushing it by judgments of good and evil fruit into death by works of law, which works are dead works, why? Simply, because the horse cannot push the cart at all. The cart and the horse is standing still, it has never moved off of death through judgment, and fruit on the tree proves that it has not moved one inches in the history of man since Adam. The tree produce death onto death, and nothing more comes from the fruit seed being planted by works of law than fruit of sin, hence death, and inaction towards life eternal in Christ Jesus the tree of life.

Matthew 8:22 But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."

The Good Tree of God's Planting

Sin cannot be removed from us by human works/words, lets repeat this statement. No human can remove their own sins by a good work, it is impossible, how impossible? If heaven and earth could be removed by human effort than our sins could be removed. Human find themselves on their very best day in need of mercy from God. All of must go to a higher power, and ask for mercy, from God's help in not being a sinners. God the creator must remove our heavens, and earth of judgment produce by fruit of laws for sinner in favor mercy from God's own love, and forgiveness into eternal life, from a new heavens and earth free of sin and its judgments.

This is the foundation of a new heavens and earth where God's righteousness will dwell, not man's unrighteousness by works of law. Man's unrighteousness will not enter in a second time to destroy God's new heavens and earth. God's Kingdom is not formed from some good, and some bad, from mankind's sin in works of laws. God's Kingdom is new, without human sin, or their yeast from the corruption of sin efforts to redeen themselves by a good work. Just as God created our earth created for Adam and Eve. God did not consult with them to created the earth, or the heavens. He is the King, and the Father of us, the human race, He gives us life from birth without our sublime permission.

Deuteronomy 10:14 Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein.

Hence, neither will the new heavens and earth be built upon by mankind's religions, which have both good and evil on the branches of their trees. Mankind can kill each other, destroy their enemies with the sword of their sinful mouths, but it will not change one thing to come in the new heavens or earth created by God's rightousness.

Job 41:11 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.

They can fiercely uphold God's word the bible until their last drop of blood, by harsh judgment against wickedness, but God is not going to build upon their deceptive works of good and evil on the same false prophet tree His righteous Kingdom to come. God has laid the foundation stones of His Kingdom without man permission, He has establish His new covenant, installed His King over us, all without man permission. or his so call tree having evil works of sin on its branches, by works of law.

Psalms 2:4 He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

False religion, false prophets are eating the fruit of their own growing into judgments of death, they are full of hate, not love of Christ, they hate, and go on hating each others, using words of the bible in justifying their evil hearts. Hence, calling evil good, and good evil, but they are not the tree of life by legally dividing sins into a system of good and evil works. Instead they are evil having sin all the time, which produces nothing but death.

Hebrews 5:14 But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

God's tree is planted without human hands or sin from Adam, it is planted by God's love, God Himself put faith in love, knowing such love will redeem all mankind into life by eating off the good tree of his planting Jesus Christ. Love cannot fail, it is the one true mark of God Himself, it is not corrupted by evil/sin, it cannot produce evil fruit, so its the only place a person can find life, eternal life with the Father.

James 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

God himself put the horse before the cart, He did not consult with man to see if he should or should not do what was right in their eyes. God removed the old heavens, and earth in favor of showing us love, in placing the cart of forgiveness behind His love for mankind. He did not first say: “you must obey my commandments, and than I will remove your judgment!” He did not say: “ you deserve death, so works your way out of death by good works like my Son did"!

James 2:4 haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

He sent His Son from His love, completing the old law, and its judgments, He than installed a new righteousness over us, creating a new heaven, and a new earth, by Christ Jesus, life. Thus, inputted freely this precious life to us by our putting faith in God's love. No works was required, because mankind had no good works to be found in them, a fruit with without sin, all their ways are corrupted by sin, and death, God must provide a way out of sin, by allowing forgiveness, through undeserved kindness, unmerited kindness, from His own good works, His own good fruit tree, Christ Jesus, hence, His love, for mankind.

James 3:8 But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Standing on The Foundation Stone

God's Kingdom is built upon the rock-mass of Christ Jesus, the foundation stone laid in heaven, not upon earth, where moth and rust consumed by mans sin and lust for greed in position and power! No works of mankind is going too be used, or built upon by God for His Kingdom in Christ Jesus, God will not take some good having evil from sin calling it a good work of His planting, which, sinful human practice each day in defending their religion, governments, and businesses.

James 4:16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

The truth is pure without sin, human are not truth, they can never be the truth, becaue they are born into sin. They are trees having many shadows varying in the light of truth, from good and bad, to bad and good, all their ways are founded in sin and death. They are yeast and corruption in the fruit grown from their trees. Subsequently, every thing they touch, every thing they build, has both good, and evil in it corrupting the whole mass into sin and death. Not one person can by their good works efforts redeem a human being into sinlessness!

Rom.3:10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.
3:11 There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God. 3:12 They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not, so much as one."{Psalms 14:1-3; 53:1-3; Ecclesiastes 7:20}
3:13 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit."{Psalm 5:9} "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"{Psalm 140:3} 3:14 "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."{Psalm 10:7} 3:15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood.
3:16 Destruction and misery are in their ways. 3:17 The way of peace, they haven't known."{Isaiah 59:7-8} 3:18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."{Psalm 36:1} 3:19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

No matter how proud or great their boast, or their judgments of right and wrong they are but death in all their ways, eventhough they use God's word to justify their actions by fallacious arguments. Yes, we must, Stop! We must stop fooling ourselves and look at their fruits, not one has given another eternal life! Stop, do not listen too words, look at the fruit, the outcome, of their hard work in planting seeds of sin, what has grown? Does it produce by good and evil on the same tree, somthing Christ said could not be done, a lie?

James 3:14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth. 3:15 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic. 3:16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

Is it the new heavens, and new earth where the tree of life is found for us. Is their sin in that new heaven, Christ Jesus? Have false prophets stop sinning, or have they made themselves righteous by their own good works? Are they God's love, no not some of God's love, some of the time, but God's love all the time, never varying in truth and love, like God's fruit tree? Well, If not, than they are death, havivg themselves and you by a good works, a teaching from the bible is a good work, while at the sametime, profoundly judging others by righteous words from God bible?

But does this fruit produced life eternal? Really that is the only question one has to ask if they want life with God. Stop judging, stop looking at men, look to God, and his planting, we are not good enough today, tomorrow, or into the future to take the place of Christ Jesus the good fruit tree. Our eternal life depends not upon ourselves and our fruit, works, but upon God, and His works, which are found in Christ Jesus! Stop judging so you won't be judge, why do you look at the death in your brothers eye, thinking if you judge it by laws of sin you will find life!

Stop judging by unrighteous judgments, judges instead by the works of God, not your own works, compare your works against Christ works, and we will find truth and life. Come up, not down into evil trees and their fruit of deceptive words from the bible. Go to the tree of life, and stop judging by the laws abolished for us by God's love. Stop judging by sins laws, but instead judge by the law of Christ, which, law of love has forgiven us our trespasses by God's good works, His love, in the tree of life Christ Jesus.

Stop working to make yourselves righteous, good enough, without sin, words justfying sin by judgments from the bible, all you are receiving is the same measure back. Instead, rest in God's goodness, believing in His promises made from love, He has forgiven you, in Christ Jesus, He has given you life, by trusting in His words, and/or good works/fruits, put faith in these fruits.

How fearful that is for the flesh, which is set upon sight and judgment, not trusting God, but in law! It is as fearful thing, but we must walk on water, believing it is enough to rest in God's love, in full assurance trusting God has removed our deserved judgment.

Hebrews 4:3 For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;"{Psalm 95:11} although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

Hebrews 4:8 For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.

Hebrews 4:9 There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God. 4:10 For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his. 4:11 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

It is much easier to build an insurance policy with works of law to present too God for a redemption at you deserved death. It much easier to associated with a massive religion claiming too have paid the price for your sin by their good works through that organization, yes it is? It much easier to preach righteousness by law, and/or commandments in judging, and condemning others as sinners, for a good work of law, than trusting God is good to all, in the redemption of Christ Jesus by faith, and not sight.

1 Peter 4:2 that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

It much like the person who climbs aboard a scary ride at an amusement park thinking it will take real courage to take the ride, forgetting that millions before them have take the same ride. Such is not real courage where one knows the outcome before ever taking a calculated risk.

So our works of law not faith but a calculated risk for this life in the flesh pleasing men. But it is nonetheless, a false courage based on sight, and not real faith in walking where no man has walked before in their flesh, in Spirit and truth.

Redemption, is a one person operation between God and us, no one can ride that ride for us , or make it easier for us, you must trust God alone with all your strengthen, heart, and soul that He is good, and we are not good trees saving ourselves by a works of law! Hence, God cares about proving His fruit. by sending us His Son not to judge us, but too forgive us, and redeem us by love.

Rom.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.

We stop our judgments, and accept God's judgment in Christ Jesus, forgiving us of our sin by the price of Christ blood removing our deserved death. We must not repeat like a fools the story of man forgiven a great unredeemable debt, or unpayable debt, and t chock our neighbor for a smalls stupid debt claiming we are doing a good work in judging wickness according to God's word the bible, while ourselves walking in God's love free of judgments.

Obeying Commandments by Putting The Horse Before The Cart

No person can remove sin once born into sin, they cannot go back and obey a bunch of commandments, and not be a sinner. They must be saved by atonement, which atonement does not come because they have obey the commandments, it comes by faith in God's promises.

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}

We are a condemned sinner by all of God's commandments, we are not declared righteous by them, we are convicted and judged a sinner by them!

Romans 3:10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.

Christ made this point abundantly clear when stating if you lust for the opposite sex you have sinned. Than he enumerated other sins of the heart condemns us in God's judgment. But the self-righteous Jews refused to listen, because outwardly they seemingly obeyed the commandments, so Christ profound shut each of ours mouths saying: “Pluck out your eye, cut off your hand.”

Self-righteous people love killing someone else flesh, but not their own. We are to pluck out our own eye, not somebody else eye, we are to cut off our hand not somebody else hand. In other word, if your seeking truth, and you are a honest person you knows you cannot stop sinning even if you do radicalism to you own flesh – it is a heart problem.

Matt. 5:28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
5:29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna. 5:30 If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole

Any honest person knows they can't obey God's commandments enough to be righteous, or even come close to being righteous by obedience to commandments, but they will teach others they must obey perfectly the commandments of God plucking out their eye with evil judgments. This than is were truth separates into fiction an unreality. Those hearing Christ word that lusting in their heart was an evil sin whom loved God, begged for mercy, and God provided His mercy in Christ Jesus.

Luke 18:9 He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.
18:10 "Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. 18:11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 18:12 I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.' 18:13 But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'

On the other hand, those whom were self-righteous they just legalized what Christ Jesus stated, and claimed they could be righteous by some other laws.

Simply put, if you are in Christ Jesus, by God's will, and not your own will you have no sin! That is the context of letter of first John. Subsequently, if you have no sin, you have obeyed the commandments.

1 John 3:9 Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.

The commandments only proved you have sin, not that you don't sin. But you cannot have no sin unless your in Christ Jesus, and if your in Christ Jesus you have fulfilled the commandment. Not the other way around, our sins stop against God's commandments when we are in Christ sinless life. Sin continues when one says they can keep the commandments by themselves.

1 John 5:18 We know that whoever is born of God doesn't sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn't touch him.

A person is one hundred and eighty degree off point when John's letter teaches we obey the commandment when we have no sin, meaning we are in Christ Jesus life. A honest person is not going to pluck out their eye, they are going to know without God's mercy they are hopeless lost!

Any honest person knows they cannot put away the filth of their flesh, hence, if they cannot do the least thing, putting away the filth of their flesh they are a sinner, and no sinner can obey God's commandments.

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.

Now we must have mercy from God, what mercy? God's gift of Christ Jesus life. If we are made a part of his life you have put away the filth of your flesh, because God does not judge it any longer, why?

Because its dead by God's will, God than allows Christ to take our deserved judgment. Christ is sinless, Because he is sinless the commandments cannot convict him of sin, so he has no judgment against him by God's commandments.

Thus, if we are in Christ Jesus we know longer sin, if we no longer sin we keep the commandments of God, and proof of that is Christ life indwelling us by Holy Spirit. This is why he Spirit does not lie, we know the truth of being in Christ because the Spirit does not lie, people lie by saying they keep God's commandments. Those in Christ have been given the gift of Christ Jesus life, so the commandments don't judge the any longer, in this way, and in this way only the keep the commandments by the gift of undeserved kindness.

1 John 5:6 This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

One does not have too pluck out an eye, or kill themselves, or pretend to others they a perfectly obeying the commandments, if they are in Christ, they have no sin, and if they have no sin, there is no need for commandments, because God's commandments are for sinner exposing them as needing salvation by the blood of Christ.

1Tim1:9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
1:10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine.

Let us keep the horse of love in front of the cart of forgiveness, where God gets the glory by His undeserved kindness, not stealing it by our own efforts, where we erroneously teach others they can make themselves clean by laws, rules, commandments, only to be sorely and everlastingly disappointed when their own works are burned up at Christ coming judgment.

1Cor. 3:11 For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ. 3:12 But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;
3:13 each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's work is. 3:14 If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward. 3:15 If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

May The Undeserved Kindness Be With The Spirit You Show,

Daniel

Completed on June, 13, 2013