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Rom.7:8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Here the apostle Paul states the fatal flaw most Christian's never really understand, and what is that? Christian's love commandments they see them as making them a good person, in helping others to become a good Christian. It is the pillar the whole Christian's community stands on, as being morally better than all else in society.

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.

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

Romans 10:3 For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Yet, that is not what Paul stated here at all! The Holy Spirit leading Paul stated that if there is no law than there is no sin, what? Yes, the power of the law according to God is “sin”, not the putting away of sin by us applying the commandments. Lets uses this example, all children judge their parents once they grow up. They seem to be devastate by those flaws that upsets them so much that they spend their entire life not doing or being like their parents in that one area, and/or those areas.

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

Yet, if they were honest most of us can say: “my parent didn't teach me to steal, treat people with disrespect, lie, cheat on my mate, be a drunk or drug addict. Surprisingly, very few parents by comparison teach their children to do these things. So why doesn't the parent get any credit for those good things they worked so hard to teach us? Well, honestly, the person is prejudices because of the flaws it blinds them to real love for their parents.

1Cor.13:5 (love) doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

So now Christian's have a really big problem the commandments point out how much we sin, that is, fall short of God's glory, which glory appeared in Christ on earth, without sin! You see, the law did not create love for one another, the flaws pointed out by commandments blinded a person to the good the person also does. If our standards of love, is feeling we are better because we don't do what someone else does, its not love at all!

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? 7:4 Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye? 7:5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.

If the standard is by God: “You obey the commandments without sinning or I won't love you.” Then we are hopeless, without someone looking for the good in us. Religious love is not God's love, or Christ love or he would not have come to this earth by God's sending him to delivery us from our deserved judgments against his commandments.

1 John 4:19 We love Him, because he first loved us.

John 15:12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

This is the folly and the great mystery plaguing, stabbing Christian's all over with many thorns in trying to pick figs off a thorn bush, and than blaming their parents once they have enough knowledge of what is right and wrong by commandments they themselves cannot keep.

Matt.18:21 Then Peter came and said to him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?"
18:22 Jesus said to him, "I don't tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven. 18:23 Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants. 18:24 When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.{Ten thousand talents represents an extremely large sum of money, equivalent to about 60,000,000 denarii, where one denarius was typical of one day's wages for agricultural labor.} 18:25 But because he couldn't pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. 18:26 The servant therefore fell down and kneeled before him, saying, 'Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!' 18:27 The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.
18:28 "But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii,{100 denarii was about one sixtieth of a talent.} and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!' 18:29 "So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, 'Have patience with me, and I will repay you!' 18:30 He would not, but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that which was due.
18:31 So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told to their lord all that was done.
18:32 Then his lord called him in, and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.
18:33 Shouldn't you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?' 18:34 His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him.
18:35 So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don't each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds."

You see, God does not created Christian's victims so they can spend their lives blaming what someone has done to them as a child, and/or as an adult. God freely forgives us what we cannot forgive others, “freely” is the big difference between God and man, which should tell us why we really can't judge matter like a god without being tainted by sin, and/or we should understand that was never our job. Adam was no set upon this earth as its judge and law giver. He was not put on this earth and given a bunch of laws, so how could he image that he should do differently than what had been done to him?

Matt. 7:12 Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

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.

Why would Christian's treat others differently than how God has treated them? How did he treat us? He removed our judgment, putting it squarely upon his Son Christ Jesus, he forgive us freely, the commandments could not do that? Those that read love is obeying the commandment(s) fail to realize the commandant is but one that God gave us freely, his love. Without love we can't obey God, or his commandments. We only have half of the work team we may have the cart, but not the horse.

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

1 John 4:11 Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

1 John 4:12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

1 John 4:16 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

Love fulfills all the commandments, in other words, it not a legal term, or obligation, love, love has no laws of commandments against it, if it did we could never be loved by God, now could we? God chose to do us good, when we did him evil. God said, love cannot fail, is he lying? So if you first judge by commandments than you dole out your love, we don't love like our heavenly Father love us first. We instead practice what these brothers and sisters were practicing bring back the laws designed and created for one purpose to judge, point out, magnify sin in us. Yes, now listen carefully, the “power” of the law is sin! Where does the power of the law come from allowing it to control our lives condemning us to death? It comes from our not being able to stop sinning. If we can't stop sinning according to God's righteous law, than what is left? Nothing but death, we have no hope, not unless you have been trick into false religion that tells you the big lie that you can be righteous by obeying the commandments for magnifying sin?

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

Ephesians 3:7 of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

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

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

So we are forced as Christian's to believe God's love covers a multitude of sins that God's love us despite our failing that he will not lie that the life of Christ is enough. freely given us, or we can turn back to the weak beggarly things of our flesh and its judgments, by the commandments that gain power by our sins over us!

Romans 6:19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

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. 7:19 For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice.

Titus 3:5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit.

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