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Rom.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.

When one takes a branch from a tree and grafts it into another tree once it is broken off it is dead for all practical purposes until it is connect again to life, in this case the life of the new tree. These brothers must come to know that they were dead to the law of Moses, they had been grafted into a new life of Christ Jesus; where all life for Christian's stem from one source, until Christ hands over his Kingdom to his Father YHWH when all things have been brought into subjection the things in heavens and on earth, and death is no more.

Rom. 9:30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith; 9:31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness. 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; 9:33 even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed."{Isaiah 8:14; 28:16}

Rom.11:16 If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
11:17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;
11:18 don't boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you. 11:19 You will say then, "Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in." 11:20 True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don't be conceited, but fear; 11:21 for if God didn't spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

There are not two trees for these Christian's to feed upon for life, there is was the Law where life could not be obtain through by sinful humans, which law perfected nothing when it came to mankind. The old law did not remove the cause of corruption from mankind - sin. It instead pointed it out yet more, showing us we needed something more, a greater more righteous law that would remove our sin once for all times. These brothers were mislead, and misleading others when teaching both laws of righteousness, as one law, why?

Hebrews 7:19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

There were only two righteousness for God's people, the law's righteousness, the old law, and Christ righteousness, two trees of righteousness, but they could not be grafted into both at the same time, they could only be attached to one tree at a time for the life of that tree! They were either in Christ, under the new covenant righteousness, or in death, under the old covenant, but not both at the same time. Either they had one owner, but not two husband, which was a lie and an illusion. They were committing adultery; where one adds to the marriage bed defiling both. False religion is a mixture of both the old law and the new law, a prostitute, why? Because the new law of love can't be used to build our world in its lust and greed for power, and control of others, which one must must uses sin laws to capture, why? Because sin laws control sin through guilt, guilt mean's control capturing a person for payment. However, the new covenant which is love means we do not owing anyone a single thing, but love. This is the only law which frees us from guilt, not allowing for control, it is given too us freely breaking the bonds of sin freeing human's from the control of guilt by payment. Stopping our paying time and again to some god like institution for our sins in not keeping their impossible laws for sins.

Rom.13:8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. 13:9 For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet,"{TR adds "You shall not give false testimony,"}{Exodus 20:13-15,17; Deuteronomy 5:17-19,21} and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."{Leviticus 19:18}
13:10 Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

But these brothers and sister wanted more, they want religion where power and control are given to prominent men for sight worship seating themselves at the tops ranks in temple of God, doling out the undeserved kindness of our Lord and Savior, by rules and laws of the religion, just as all unrighteous government, and commerce uses to build and grow power and success in an unrighteous world. Just as unfaithful Israel clamored for a physical king over them, Christian's at Paul's time were clamoring for great men over them wheeling power taking control of their faith for payments of sins!

Luke 9:46 There arose an argument among them about which of them was the greatest. 9:47 Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts, took a little child, and set him by his side,
9:48 and said to them, "Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me. Whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great."

Hence, this mixing yeast into the unleavened bread of Christ was the perfect deceptive tool of all times, using a perfect righteous law, the Law of Moses from God, and mixing it with the law of freedom, calling it righteous for its power to control others by its power to condemn sins in our flesh for payment to men, saying: "if a little righteousness is good than a whole lot is much better,". This is the faulty thinking of the flesh mind sold under sin.

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.

1Tim.1:9 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;

1 Corinthians 15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

Galatians 2:19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

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}

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