Post by Questor on Aug 28, 2014 22:50:33 GMT -8
Sha'ul wrote to the Jews in the Diaspora first, and then also to the Gentiles, trying to make all of those that were relying on their performance for salvation see that they were missing the point of the , and the made Flesh...Yehoshua, and His sacrificial death.
Romans 6:1-15 (CJB)
1 So then, are we to say, “Let’s keep on sinning, so that there can be more grace”?
2 Heaven forbid! How can we, who have died to sin, still live in it?
3 Don’t you know that those of us who have been immersed into the Messiah Yeshua have been immersed into his death?
4 Through immersion into his death we were buried with him; so that just as, through the glory of the Father, the Messiah was raised from the dead, likewise we too might live a new life.
5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will also be united with him in a resurrection like his.
6 We know that our old self was put to death on the execution-stake with him, so that the entire body of our sinful propensities might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.
7 For someone who has died has been cleared from sin.
8 Now since we died with the Messiah, we trust that we will also live with him.
9 We know that the Messiah has been raised from the dead, never to die again; death has no authority over him.
10 For his death was a unique event that need not be repeated; but his life, he keeps on living for God.
11 In the same way, consider yourselves to be dead to sin but alive for God, by your union with the Messiah Yeshua.
12 Therefore, do not let sin rule in your mortal bodies, so that it makes you obey its desires;
13 and do not offer any part of yourselves to sin as an instrument for wickedness. On the contrary, offer yourselves to God as people alive from the dead, and your various parts to God as instruments for righteousness.
14 For sin will not have authority over you; because you are not under legalism but under grace.
15 Therefore, what conclusion should we reach? “Let’s go on sinning, because we’re not under legalism but under grace”? Heaven forbid!
The reveals man's inability to stay in righteousness through the outside a Temple Sacrificial System, and that even within it one could not help but sin...one was merely forgiven for the lapses due to Human inability by making sin offerings. The Jews at least knew that the sacrifices were no longer being accepted in Jerusalem after Yehoshua's death, (the Crimson banner no longer turned white on the walls of Jerusalem showing that G-d had accepted the sacrifices when offered by the High Priest), and so the Jews would be just as concerned about why keeping alone did not work.
Sha'ul was not writing about the being old, out of date, and unnecessary as some Christians put it, but the righteousness of the sacrificial system being superseded in Yehoshua made a better sacrifice, and given once for all, did not need to be made again. Consequently, keeping does not become outmoded...only which sacrifice one trusts in for righteousness.
Sha'ul is not saying the is not necessary, and replaced in the New Covenant...he is saying that the sacrifice made by Yehoshua, and our trust in it for salvation and forgiveness is always present and now...ongoing...always the only sacrifice that counts. is how one lives in trust of Yehoshua's constant sin offering, to continuously receive G-d's forgiveness by faith in the sacrifice of Yehoshua, and to do so knowing that the penalty for mitzvoth we omit, or commandments that we break, were already laid on Yehoshua, and that He felt every one of them.
This alone should keep us all striving to do as G-d has commanded in all the Scriptures. Every sin causes pain or trouble or suffering…to ourselves, or to others, and Yehoshua, having died for the sins we are yet to commit, still suffers each hurt as it is given. It isn't pertinent that we cannot, as humans, keep the laws in perfection...only that each one that we do keep...does not pain Yehoshua.
Romans 6:1-15 (CJB)
1 So then, are we to say, “Let’s keep on sinning, so that there can be more grace”?
2 Heaven forbid! How can we, who have died to sin, still live in it?
3 Don’t you know that those of us who have been immersed into the Messiah Yeshua have been immersed into his death?
4 Through immersion into his death we were buried with him; so that just as, through the glory of the Father, the Messiah was raised from the dead, likewise we too might live a new life.
5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will also be united with him in a resurrection like his.
6 We know that our old self was put to death on the execution-stake with him, so that the entire body of our sinful propensities might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.
7 For someone who has died has been cleared from sin.
8 Now since we died with the Messiah, we trust that we will also live with him.
9 We know that the Messiah has been raised from the dead, never to die again; death has no authority over him.
10 For his death was a unique event that need not be repeated; but his life, he keeps on living for God.
11 In the same way, consider yourselves to be dead to sin but alive for God, by your union with the Messiah Yeshua.
12 Therefore, do not let sin rule in your mortal bodies, so that it makes you obey its desires;
13 and do not offer any part of yourselves to sin as an instrument for wickedness. On the contrary, offer yourselves to God as people alive from the dead, and your various parts to God as instruments for righteousness.
14 For sin will not have authority over you; because you are not under legalism but under grace.
15 Therefore, what conclusion should we reach? “Let’s go on sinning, because we’re not under legalism but under grace”? Heaven forbid!
The reveals man's inability to stay in righteousness through the outside a Temple Sacrificial System, and that even within it one could not help but sin...one was merely forgiven for the lapses due to Human inability by making sin offerings. The Jews at least knew that the sacrifices were no longer being accepted in Jerusalem after Yehoshua's death, (the Crimson banner no longer turned white on the walls of Jerusalem showing that G-d had accepted the sacrifices when offered by the High Priest), and so the Jews would be just as concerned about why keeping alone did not work.
Sha'ul was not writing about the being old, out of date, and unnecessary as some Christians put it, but the righteousness of the sacrificial system being superseded in Yehoshua made a better sacrifice, and given once for all, did not need to be made again. Consequently, keeping does not become outmoded...only which sacrifice one trusts in for righteousness.
Sha'ul is not saying the is not necessary, and replaced in the New Covenant...he is saying that the sacrifice made by Yehoshua, and our trust in it for salvation and forgiveness is always present and now...ongoing...always the only sacrifice that counts. is how one lives in trust of Yehoshua's constant sin offering, to continuously receive G-d's forgiveness by faith in the sacrifice of Yehoshua, and to do so knowing that the penalty for mitzvoth we omit, or commandments that we break, were already laid on Yehoshua, and that He felt every one of them.
This alone should keep us all striving to do as G-d has commanded in all the Scriptures. Every sin causes pain or trouble or suffering…to ourselves, or to others, and Yehoshua, having died for the sins we are yet to commit, still suffers each hurt as it is given. It isn't pertinent that we cannot, as humans, keep the laws in perfection...only that each one that we do keep...does not pain Yehoshua.