Scripture says, “The wages of sin is death…” Romans 6:23
Under the Ten Commandments and the law of Moses people were put to death, who were by the testimony two or more witnesses, found guilty of violating the Ten Commandments.
The Ten Commandments were the statutes and the law of Moses contained the judgments. The Ten Commandments said nothing about the punishment for their violation, it was the law of Moses that gave the prescribed punishment for the violation of the Ten Commandments. Under the law, the old covenant, which is the Ten Commandments, the guilty person died without mercy upon the testimony of two or more witnesses. Hebrews 10:28
There was no repentance or forgiveness of sin under the Ten Commandments, you died without mercy. The carnal world today operates under these Ten Commandments but rarely enforces them and this is the reason why there is so much evil in the world.
Ecclesiastes 8:11 “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.”
This verse is saying that because sin is not punished by death there is no fear of death therefore there is no deterrent to sin. If you know your not going to die for breaking the law, the Ten Commandments, there is no motivation to stop breaking the law.
Jesus taught that it is the thoughts and intents of our human spirit that violates the law and that the actions taken to carry out the thought are only the result of these thoughts. In other words the thought is the cause of sin the resulting action is the effect. If humans could not think then they could not sin. Other animals cannot think therefore they cannot sin.
Sin is the breaking of the Ten Commandments that demands the death penalty and there is no way out, you were killed without mercy. Everyone born into this world is born under the law, the Ten Commandments. The only exception was Jesus Christ who was salvation in the flesh, the messiah of GOD, who was created after GODS nature of righteousness and love. This is what qualified Jesus to be the messiah. Until a person is “in Christ” and partakes of the same divine nature of Christ they have none of the blessings that Christ provides. 2 Peter 1:4
People yet in the world, carnal people, are yet under the Ten Commandments but those in Christ are not. This means that people in Christ are no longer in the old covenant, the Ten Commandments. These people are called and chosen saints with the Holy Spirit and live by the law of love to GOD and neighbor. The saints are no longer under the Ten Commandments but are under the two greatest of all commandments, this is called being under grace and not law. All the unconverted world is still under the Ten Commandments and because they have all sinned they are all condemned to death. Later, in the future, after Jesus returns these condemned will also learn the lesson of the schoolmaster of the Ten Commandments and receive mercy in the second resurrection where they will be given the Holy Spirit and first opportunity for salvation.
The carnal world has butchered the Ten Commandments due to ignorance and Satanic deception. The law goes mostly ignored and is used by carnal people to become self righteous. The Ten Commandments were given to humanity to show how they are hopelessly trapped in sin and when under the Ten Commandments condemned to death. When the Ten Commandments are used lawfully they show us our problem but only the new covenant provides the answer to the problem. There is no grace in the Ten Commandments just death. In order to escape the condemnation of the Ten Commandments a person must be called and chosen by GOD and placed into HIS church. None of the world’s churches are GODS church because these churches are all false and creations of Satan to deceive carnal people.
The ignorance of the law and of grace in the carnal world remains yet today and many false ministers of Satan in the false churches teach people to keep the Ten Commandments which is the old covenant not the new covenant. Some false ministers teach that the Ten Commandments have been done away with which is also a lie.
The carnal people cannot understand how to avoid sin if they don’t keep the Ten Commandments and fail to understand that the Ten Commandments are what condemns them to death in the first place. The only way to fulfill the Ten Commandments is by something that the Ten Commandments did not have and cannot give, the love of GOD. GODS love is the fulfillment of the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments made nothing perfect but the bringing in of GODS love (the better hope) is the only way to perfection that is achieved at the second advent of Christ.
Personally I love the Ten Commandments because they are the schoolmaster that led me to Christ but once in Christ I no longer need the schoolmaster. What we cannot do by commandments we do by a change in nature where the Holy Spirit of GOD works in the saints both to Will and to do GODS good pleasure. It is GOD who works in the chosen saints with HIS love to begin to change our nature to be like HIS nature, a nature demonstrated to us in Jesus Christ.
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