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Rom.6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 6:2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

Why did the apostle Paul speak like this? Two thousand's year later most of us focus are attention on the word sin to the exclusion of the whole issue of the time. Sin, the word that religion pounds on like a law book fearing people will uses grace as excuse for sinning, but missing the whole point of Paul's words here. How shocking this is not point here, do you know what was?

Romans 2:12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

It was Christian's going back to the law, which promoted sin in us, that is, pointed up our sins to convicted us of unrighteousness. How could brothers and sisters go back to the law that produced dead works? How could they remain in something that did not remove their sins? How could they go back to what Christ died to remove their judgment from? How could they go back to a shadow that condemned them into death?

Romans 5:20 The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

Romans 6:14 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

Romans 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.

Why would they remain in sin, that is, the conviction of the law, so that grace would abound? Please understand, the law was death because no one was righteous, it could not be meant by person born into sin. God sent a perfect sinless man, because none were found upon earth. Christ came from heaven, born as a man, but sinless to free us from death, shocking words for a Jew, but why? Because they believe life is through the law, life was not through the law, death was proven to all mankind by the law, but how?

Romans 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;

Galatians 2:16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

Galatians 2:18 For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.

Simply by the fact, not one person was righteous by the law, a person could be redeemed and made righteous by blood of innocent victim under the law, but not by the law, the law did not remove sin! If Christian's remain in death (the law) which was the conviction of the law, than their only hope was grace, what grace? That God would forgive their ignorance and allow the blood of Christ redeem them so they came under grace, this is how grace would abound. Grace is not a nice word Christian's say, it is a legal action by God, to remove the curse of the law off of humans, by allowing his son righteous blood to redeem, purchase human from the death of the laws legal judgment of sin, which is death, the wages of sin.

Galatians 2:21 I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"

Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."{Deuteronomy 27:26}

In Christ there is no sin for those made apart of him, the law is dead in Christ because Christ fulfilled the requirement of the law without sin. Please do not let anyone deceive you, Christian's have no other standing with God, without grace, that is, undeserved kindness, or unmerited kindness, in God's love, in sending us an undeserved gift of Christ to removed death freeing us from sin. Christ conquered death by completing the law, a law that would not be removed off of us without removing heaven and earth, such is the power of faith, and such is what happen to the Jewish religious system of things their heaven and earth was removed by faith in Christ.

Romans 7:6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

Romans 9:31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness.

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.

Matt.5:17 "Don't think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn't come to destroy, but to fulfill. 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.

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