CARNAL UNCONVERTED PEOPLE MUST KEEP THE LAW, THE OLD COVENANT TEN COMMANDMENTS

 

It is the responsibility of every carnal person to keep the Ten Commandments.  Carnal people are not in Christ, not converted and do not have the Holy Spirit.  Carnal people must keep the old covenant, which is the Ten Commandments.  The Ten Commandments are holy, just and good because GOD gave them in response to all the evil that people think about.  The last or tenth commandment says, “Thou shalt not lust or covet”, and all people break this commandment and along with it the other nine because if you break one commandment you have broken them all.  James 2:10

The law is called a schoolmaster in the scriptures and this is because it has a lesson to teach.  If GOD did not give the law the lesson could not be learned.  The Ten Commandments also served as a powerful deterrent to sin because in most cases if you are caught breaking them you die without mercy.  No one has ever been able to keep the Ten Commandments because ALL have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of GOD.  All this and more are some of the lessons the law can teach a person if the have the Holy Spirit.  The law was designed to lead a person to Christ when they see their utterly hopeless condition under the law.  

Since the Ten Commandments cannot provide salvation, forgive sin, produce GOD righteousness, show mercy or provide immortality then GOD had to have another covenant, a new covenant, that would provide all these things.  

In order for the carnal world to have any hope of being led to Christ they must keep the Ten Commandments and if a person responds in the proper manner then GOD may want to choose them and put them in HIS church.  GOD opens the mind of the people HE elects to become a saint and the person begins to experience true repentance by realizing the letter kills but the spirit gives life.  The guilt experienced under the law is to produce a repentant attitude in a person.  The person comes to a basic understanding of the gospel and now, with knowledge, loves GODS law, HIS Ten Commandments, because they have learned the lesson of the schoolmaster.  Now they must PASSOVER from the law, the Ten Commandments into grace and the two commandments of Jesus Christ, love GOD and love your neighbor.  This person now is in the new covenant.  The love of GOD is shed abroad in the human heart by the spirit of GOD empowering the person to fulfill the laws intent.  To love with GODS love will cause no harm to anyone and this love was not not possible under the Ten Commandments.

To add clarification to my articles on this blog I now say that if you are a carnal person you should be keeping the old covenant, the Ten Commandments, because it is your hope of being drawn to Jesus Christ.  As Jesus said, 

“No man can come to me unless the FATHER who sent me DRAWS THEM and I will raise them up at the last day.”  John 6:44

This is how ideally the Ten Commandments are to operate but most carnal people use them to become self righteous.  In this they deceive themselves thinking that their keeping the Ten Commandments somehow justifies them when they can only condemn them.  No one is justified by keeping the Ten Commandments.  Galatians 5:4

So then, all you carnal people out there, keep the Ten Commandments, all of them,  perfectly and be honest with yourself in the doing.  Keep an accurate truthful account of your progress, because GOD will.  Then read all of Romans chapter 7:1-25 and if you see yourself in the verses then there may be hope for you.