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Rom.9:1 I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit, 9:2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart. 9:3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh.

What is Paul stating here, is his plea based simply on an emotional outburst, wanting to be accursed? No! The law was a curse to the Jews flesh, the law was perfect, good and spiritual, but flesh under sin is not!

Romans 12:14 Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don't curse.

Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"{Deuteronomy 21:23}

James 3:9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.

Paul had just made that case in Chapter Eight of Romans, that is, the flesh cannot be in subjection to God's law no matter how good and righteous it feels in trying to keep the law. The sinful flesh cannot be made righteous by the law, what the law does for the sinful flesh is curse it, condemning it under God's wrath. When law passes judgment upon us as a sinner, than we are under the curse of the law which means its punishment us. What is the punishment for breaking the law? Death, and not only death, but moreover the suffering from the consequences of breaking God's law.

Revelation 22:3 There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants serve him.
1 Kings 8:39 then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men;)

Ps.90:7 For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath. 90:8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. 90:9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
90:10 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away. 90:11 Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Paul is trying to help God's children freed from the curse of the law from those whom were still impressed with the power of the law in the Jewish faith, and for good reason? The law stood for thousands of years, it built the greatest kingdom on earth, from the laws power came all the kings of Israel, the prophets, the holy writings and the temple and its service. But it did not remove the curse of the law from our sinful flesh, it condemn it, so that innocent blood had to be pour out time and again to allow Israel to stand righteous before God, its simply was not enough, it could not perfect us from sin.

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;

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.

Some are offend at Paul's words, but let us consider another point of view. The law was powerful it last thousand of years, yet, the power of the new covenant quickly was removed in less than one hundred years after its birth? The truth for the flesh; the new covenant seems weak, and beggarly it built no kingdom on earth, no kings ruling over the congregation of God, no great leaders, just humble faith in unseen resurrected Christ Jesus.

1Cor.1:18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.
1:19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."{Isaiah 29:14}
1:20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
1:21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
1:22 For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,
1:23 but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,
1:24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
1:26 For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;
1:27 but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;
1:28 and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:
1:29 that no flesh should boast before God.

After the apostle died, the congregation of God was corrupted into the fleshly mind creating a counterfeit kingdom from yeast. Where laws and doctrine were legislated into institutions that one day would control the world, just like a kingdom over the nations. But earthly power did not come from the new covenant it was a spiritual law, one that gave up, it did not claim rights for the flesh, so quickly it was trampled upon by those with fleshly minds.

Matt. 5:42 Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you. 5:43 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor,{Leviticus 19:18} and hate your enemy.{not in the Bible, but see Qumran Manual of Discipline Ix, 21-26}' 5:44 But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you, 5:45 that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust. 5:46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don't even the tax collectors do the same? 5:47 If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don't even the tax collectors do the same? 5:48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

The flesh has no power in the new covenant the new covenant was created for spiritual sons of God's in kingdom ruled by love. There is no curse in love, no condemnation, hence, freedom, freedom from what? The curse of law condemning sin. Now each person loving God must worship him in Spirit and truth, They must trust in the unseen power of heaven over their lives, they must live outside the city of false worship, and be an alien on this earth until their journey is finished.

Heb.13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
13:9 Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
13:10 We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.
13:11 For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside of the camp.{Leviticus 16:27}
13:12 Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.
13:13 Let us therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach. 13:14 For we don't have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come. 13:15 Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God{Psalm 50:23} continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

Yes, like the master they are hated, rejected, of no account in this world, why? Because they live under a new covenant that cannot benefit this world lust for power in its flesh. Their flesh is accounted as dead in Christ, the power they have and are renewed by is the power of Christ life, in his kingdom preparing a place for them when they are called home.

Colossians 2:12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

John 14:2 In my Father's house are many homes. If it weren't so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

John 14:3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

John 18:36 Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here."

This is Paul's objective, he must speak boldly when the flesh is so powerful, he must incite it to hate and jealousy so each one of us can find the truth, in Spirit that nothing good dwells in this flesh that it will corrupt all that is holy and righteous and not even God righteous and good law could stop its sinful nature.

Luke 13:21 It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures{literally, three sata. 3 sata is about 39 litres or a bit more than a bushel} of flour, until it was all leavened."

1 Corinthians 5:6 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

Hebrews 7:16 who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life:

Colossians 1:13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

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