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The Unveiling of The Letter of Romans
Part One

The book of Romans

Chapter 2

This is an on going work in progress. I would hope it bring peace with you and God for those loving the truth. I will post new verses each week, the Lord willing.

Daniel

Rom.2:1 Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

Can a person judge without condemning themselves? Is Paul's words here a lie? This is a very powerful thought, however, few if any Christian's takes it very seriously, but why? Well, its simple really, they read the rest of this verse thinking if they uses God's word the bible they are authorized by God to judge others, but is this the context of what Paul was writing about?

James 4:12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

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

In fact, shockingly, some Christian's really believe the highest moral standard of God's word is to judge others harshly. The context of Paul entire letter to the Roman's is but one point!

Which is, the Old Covenant verses the power of the New Covenant. So please don't be fooled and get off track, or a person will end up in all kinds of false reasoning's, and judgments towards others.

Galatians 5:9 A little yeast grows through the whole lump.

What stops a person from practicing sin? If you can answer this one simple question the rest of the book of Roman's will be unlocked for you? First, under the old covenant it was blood which set a person right for being a sinner against what? The laws of God. Once again don't be fooled here no one, who is a sinner can keep God's law, they must have innocent blood atoning for their sin rather they live long or short. Hence this is the witness of the blood for or against us.

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

Did that blood of animals still being used for God's people (Christian's) at Paul's writing here, no! The blood of animals was set aside upon the death of Christ and his resurrection, it was no longer enforced or accepted by YHWH. Now stop and think! If a person stayed under the old law, or covenant without blood, they could not stop sinning because they had no atonement for sin left by animal blood it was rejected for Christ blood. Hence, those using animal blood were factually rejected as a “practicer of sin”!

Now read Paul's words again about judging and practicing sin according to this context and you will understand what judging he was speak too.

Romans 2:13 For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified.

The problem for Christian's is they have an amalgamation of two laws although adamantly denying using both, that is, the old, and the new covenant to judge others with.

Here than is another key to unveiling God's word; yeast of old covenant effecting the teachings of the new covenant. In other words, a person can not have a little of both, and gain forgiveness of sin under Christ blood, while under the judgment of the old law that used inferior blood of animals.

The two cannot mix, however, it is very deceiving for most Christian's, why? Paul in the letters to Romans will explain why most thoroughly in why the judgment of law is dead in our flesh, and the judgment of our spirit is found in the law life which is love. The early Jewish Christian's had a very difficult time with this thought, being set upon by thousand's of years of judgment of God's law. Christian's today have a difficult time with two-thousands years since Christ, and false religion which has permeating the whole lump of unleavened bread with yeast of the old covenant into the another type of hybrid covenant making the kingdom of God on earth into a yeast kingdom corrupted with sin!

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.

Rom.2:2 We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things. 2:3 Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

Here is the question? If the law was fulfilled set aside for Christ righteous blood, and God rejects animal blood, which validated the old covenant where does one sins go if they continue in the law? If sin is not atone for it makes us a practicer of sin! The only way a person could keep the law was to have their sins against the law atone for by animal blood, which God was no longer accepting under the new covenant instituted by Christ blood.

1 John 3:4 Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

Hebrews 10:29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

Some will content making the same flawed argument as brothers and sisters were making at Paul writing here, which was, we can uses both old law and new and be under the headship of Christ who is the new covenant. But this is very dangerous thinking, do you know why? It is because we are released by God from the law by death, because our flesh is dead in Christ invalidating the judgment of the laws created to condemn the sin in our flesh. Our being put to death in Christ we are freed from the headship of the law and made another, Christ Jesus, under a new covenant, a new headship.

Rom. 7:1 Or don't you know, brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
7:2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband. 7:3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
7:4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God. 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

Christ, subsequently, become are new legally authorized head, we cannot have two heads without cheating on the one and not the other just like an adulter. We cannot show affection for the both without taking from our God's ordained headship in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, isn't it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn't it a sharing of the body of Christ?

1 Corinthians 6:19 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own.

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.

So Paul is speaking bold here, if were in Christ we have no judgment, why would we go back to judgment incurring God's wrath? Yes, wrath, the law caused wrath for sinners, they could not be declared righteous by it, but judged as unworthy of life as a sinner. They must atone blood their sin too have peace with God. Now what were these legalistic Jewish converts going to do if they preached law, and judged by the law, having no atonement for sin left, they would incur God's wrath in the coming judgment upon all practicers of sin?

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

Romans 6:11 Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Many Christian's think they are not a practicer of sin because they keep a rule or law one from their bibles or their religion, but don't be fooled here we are no longer a practicer of sin because our sinful flesh is accounted as dead in Christ, it has paid the price for sinning – death! Returning to something mundane and inferior to claim superior righteousness by dead works, that is, the law, is a lie, and a fools game! Please understand we cannot put faith in stones tablets of the law, we must put our faith in the unseen, the unseen is the living truth, Christ Jesus a spirit person living in love, written into hearts of flesh this is our worship in Spirit and truth by faith that saves us from judgment.

Romans 6:4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Rom.8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.{NU omits "who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit"} 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
8:3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh; 8:4 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

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 10:4 For Christ is the fulfillment{or, completion, or end} of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Rom.2:4 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? 2:5 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God. 2:6 who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:"{Psalm 62:12; Proverbs 24:12}

Let us not fall into what is so common among false religion, that is, into an application just the opposite of what the apostle Paul speaks to here, and what is that? The Christ, God's goodness, and forbearance towards us, Jews, Greeks, all whom come to our Father YHWH, not through the law, but the Christ.

Rom.2:10 But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
2:11 For there is no partiality with God.

This is Paul's context here, but wait! Don't think your special when Paul's is referring to keeping the law, or sin laws, or your religion laws, he is not! The context of the letter of Roman's is Law Vs. Christ, and how to stop practicing sin? God has wrath against sin, it is the last enemy defeated by Christ Jesus Kingdom, sin enter into our world and death through sin. This world is permeated with the thinking of sin, yeast thinking, corrupting the whole mass of mankind's and their education, why? Because they cannot stop sinning without Christ blood. Instead they practice that for which they were born into and are dying in their flesh. How does one stop thinking sin, when the very brain we have in born into sin? How can we plant with flesh in view, and yet not reap a harvest of death from our own thinking?

Rom.8:6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace; 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. 8:8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

Galatians 6:8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Here then is the real problem all humans must face, our not thinking we can avail ourselves out of sin by more laws that only condemn sin, how can that be? No one goes to a dead body and expect it to breathe life into a person. How can we cultivate death, and think death laws and think it breathe life into us? How can we think life comes from death in self-righteousness something that is dead to God?

James 2:26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

We humans are truly in an unobtainable circumstance, whom will save us out of this body under going death when nothing good dwells in us but sin causing God's wrath upon us? Don't let the fleshly mind deceive you as it had some of these brothers and sisters here, don't twist truth into a lie, God is not partial, he judges us according to the way we think from our fleshly mind, and or He has no judgment of us in the mind of Christ, but not both at the same time! If we are dead under law, and that's how we judged, we will be judged the same into death. Moreover, if we die without law, and that how we judge, so be it we ended up in death. But if we are in Christ Jesus freed of our judgment, and we don't judge by laws of death from our flesh - so will be our reward eternal life.

1Cor.3:10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it. 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.
3:16 Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you? 3:17 If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.
3:18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

Unrepentance comes from when we think we are superior to others like a judge that we are authorized having more authority, and/or more worthy than others, so we sit as their judge. We do this because we judge righteous thoughts from God's word the bible/laws deceiving us into thinking we are above others, and/or the law. This exempts us from the impartiality of the God's righteous judgment. But don't be fooled only one on earth was exempted from the laws of God's perfect judgment, Christ Jesus, no other life from human can give mankind freedom from their sins, no matter how noble, and righteous the world holds such a person to be, they are not sinless, they cannot gives us standing with God by teachings, words, power and or the authority of their religion.

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. 12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

Every person born of sin practice sin, and those born of God cannot practice sin because they have been imputed Christ righteousness, here is the summation of the whole book of Romans let us seek life by truth and Spirit just as it has been recorded for us, by God's own love.

1 John 3:4 Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

1 John 3:5 You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.

1 John 3:6 Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

Jude 1:20 But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.