It is believed that by the law of God some specific sin is known, for example adultery, but adultery is the external manifestation of sin or rebellion and opposition to God and sin itself is in the heart, in the inner nature of a man and it controls from within the behavior of a man.
Where did humanity get sin?
According to the Holy Scripture, sin entered all people through the progenitor of all Adam, and at that very moment when Adam sinned, having tried the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, all humanity sinned, that is, all of his descendants, it happened because God had already created all the humanity and all of us were inside of Adam at that moment when he sinned.
Adam sold all his descendants to sin.
Adam is the progenitor of all people and all people originated from him and even Eve is taken from him as well as information for all descendants so you can say all the descendants were already in him and began to be born from him after his fall inheriting the nature of sin.
The Scripture tells us this:
1Cor 15.22 For as in Adam all die...
Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
13(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
14Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
Romans 5:17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one(Adam)…;
18 Therefore as by the offence of one(Adam) judgment came upon all men to condemnation…;
19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, …
Because of the offence of Adam, all his descendants were subject to God's condemnation, that is, they, like Adam, accepted death, became mortal and came short of the glory of God. For the Adam's offence, sin and death passed into all his descendants and got power and dominion over the humanity.
Many of Adam's descendants did not commit a sin like Adam did, but they still were carrying sin and death in themselves because they had sinned and died in Adam.
Ephesians 2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
The scripture says that because of Adam's sin, all his descendants fell into the slavery to sin and the prince of the darkness, that is, the devil or Satan gained power over them and the ability to dominate and rule over all the fallen mankind.
All mankind was sold by Adam under slavery to sin or the devil and he controls the behavior of all his slaves by producing in them desires and thoughts that they take for their own and follow these desires and thoughts.
Rome 7:14 …but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Romans 7:17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
To be saved from the slavery to sin, people need to be shown that they are slaves of sin and cannot sin because they cannot realize it without the law and it was the reason why God gave the law through Moses.
Romans 3:20 …for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Rome 7:7 .......I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
A person had to pay attention to his heart or inner nature and to the wishes that it produces.
To whom did God give the law of Moses? What were those people like? They were descendants of Adam who inherited the fallen nature and were spiritually dead and the slaves to sin.
The law provokes sin into action and sin is discovered through the law.
A person who is in the power of sin and has no law cannot determine that sin lives in him because if there is no law, then there is no crime and sin can act and kill only on the basis of the law and the commandments but as the Holy Scripture says without the law, sin is dead so it does not work or cannot kill.
When God introduced the law, sin immediately reacted to God's commandments and began to produce thoughts and desires in a man, or like the Holy Scriptures says, the motions of sins that were resisting the fulfillment of those commandments, sin or the power of darkness were doing it to kill a person by putting him under the curse for non-fulfillment of the law. The devil, a God’s enemy, resists His will and he is a man-killer from the beginning and this is his essence therefore he always acts this way.
God gave the law to provoke sin and that sin revealed itself that it lived in every fallen man.
It works like this:
1. God introduces the commandment and punishment for its violation.
2.Sin responds to the commandment given by God and begins to produce in its slave thoughts and desires that lead to the violation of this commandment, sin tries to kill a person using the commandment of the law.
3. A person should see that in him or his inner nature there is something that is opposed to the law of God and to understand that he will not be able to get rid of this by his own strengths, a person should realize that he is a slave of sin.
Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
Romans 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
You must understand that the law does not remove sin from the heart but only discovers it and shows the person that he is stricken by sin and he has a problem in this regard, because such a person cannot please God.
3. A person should see that in him or his inner nature there is something that is opposed to the law of God and to understand that he will not be able to get rid of this by his own strengths, a person should realize that he is a slave of sin.
Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
Romans 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
You must understand that the law does not remove sin from the heart but only discovers it and shows the person that he is stricken by sin and he has a problem in this regard, because such a person cannot please God.
Although the law of Moses as well as any criminal code was useful because it could deter a crime in the people of Israel and also regulate relationships in society and the service to God which was to be performed by the people of Israel because the fear of falling under the curse or being stoned people still tried to observe the law, the curse of the law included death, sickness, poverty and other punitive measures (described in Deuteronomy) coming to life for violating the judgements and ordinances of the law.
After a man discovers that sin lives in his heart and that he is a slave of sin he must seek a way out of this situation and find this way out in the Savior whom God sent, that is, in Jesus Christ. The law itself never saves anyone and even if you try to observe it, it still does not save you because salvation is not a function of the law, the purpose and function of the law is to show the person that he is under the control and in the slavery of sin.
Galatians 3:23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
The law led man to realize the need for the Savior Jesus Christ and for faith in the saving grace of God. Only God can make man free from the bondage of sin and change his inner nature and essence and remove sin from his heart.
The great mistake that the Israelites were committing during the time of the Law of Moses was that they believed they could become righteous scrupulously fulfilling the commandments of the law and it was their great delusion. They rejected faith in the Savior and the saving grace of God and trusted themselves and their strengths in the work of salvation, they were doing their best to obey the law although, as we have already considered, the law could not make them righteous and remove sin from their heart, but only showed its presence in their hearts. They believed in themselves and their strengths and were trying to establish their righteousness and absolutely did not understand what is the righteousness coming from God by faith, that is, they did not understand that only God Himself could change the inner nature and remove sin from the heart.
The law was designed to lead to Christ so that man could receive righteousness from God by faith, and the end of the law is Christ, that every believer becomes righteous by his inner nature or spirit.
Romans 10:3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
After a man discovers that sin lives in his heart and that he is a slave of sin he must seek a way out of this situation and find this way out in the Savior whom God sent, that is, in Jesus Christ. The law itself never saves anyone and even if you try to observe it, it still does not save you because salvation is not a function of the law, the purpose and function of the law is to show the person that he is under the control and in the slavery of sin.
Galatians 3:23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
The law led man to realize the need for the Savior Jesus Christ and for faith in the saving grace of God. Only God can make man free from the bondage of sin and change his inner nature and essence and remove sin from his heart.
The great mistake that the Israelites were committing during the time of the Law of Moses was that they believed they could become righteous scrupulously fulfilling the commandments of the law and it was their great delusion. They rejected faith in the Savior and the saving grace of God and trusted themselves and their strengths in the work of salvation, they were doing their best to obey the law although, as we have already considered, the law could not make them righteous and remove sin from their heart, but only showed its presence in their hearts. They believed in themselves and their strengths and were trying to establish their righteousness and absolutely did not understand what is the righteousness coming from God by faith, that is, they did not understand that only God Himself could change the inner nature and remove sin from the heart.
The law was designed to lead to Christ so that man could receive righteousness from God by faith, and the end of the law is Christ, that every believer becomes righteous by his inner nature or spirit.
Romans 10:3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
People who are trying to establish their own righteousness are moved by their delusion and pride and in fact they declare that they are able to rise to heaven and bring the Savior from there and are able to descend into the abyss and resurrect Christ from the dead, that is, they would provide their salvation for themselves without the participation of God.
Of course, good deeds are acceptable before God, but when because of pride people try to earn their salvation with good deeds, then God regards it as a sin, for whatsoever is not of faith is sin, and in this case people do not believe in God and His ways and His promises but rely on themselves.
Ephesians 2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
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4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
God changes the heart or spirit of a person and after that a person becomes capable of good deeds and good deeds are a sign that God has given man birth from above because now the person is not moved by sin and the Holy Spirit of God lives in his heart and produces in him the will and the work, this Holy Spirit resists sin, that’s why it is written that a man born of God does not commit sin and all the deeds of the flesh are putting to death by the Spirit. And we are not under the law but under the grace of God, because we are led not by the letter of the law but by the Spirit of God.
1 John 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
The seed of God or the Spirit of God suppresses and resists sin in the life of the born again and he who is born again and has the mind of Christ, that is, the Spirit produces thoughts in him, so he does not want to commit sin.
1 John 5:18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
Victory over sin be achieved only through the presence of Holy Spirit of God in the heart of the born-again and the action of the saving grace of God, which is aimed to eliminate the sin and all the consequences of the fall of man.
And without the saving grace of God, man cannot withstand the action of sin and will be always beaten by sin.
Of course, good deeds are acceptable before God, but when because of pride people try to earn their salvation with good deeds, then God regards it as a sin, for whatsoever is not of faith is sin, and in this case people do not believe in God and His ways and His promises but rely on themselves.
Ephesians 2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
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4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
God changes the heart or spirit of a person and after that a person becomes capable of good deeds and good deeds are a sign that God has given man birth from above because now the person is not moved by sin and the Holy Spirit of God lives in his heart and produces in him the will and the work, this Holy Spirit resists sin, that’s why it is written that a man born of God does not commit sin and all the deeds of the flesh are putting to death by the Spirit. And we are not under the law but under the grace of God, because we are led not by the letter of the law but by the Spirit of God.
1 John 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
The seed of God or the Spirit of God suppresses and resists sin in the life of the born again and he who is born again and has the mind of Christ, that is, the Spirit produces thoughts in him, so he does not want to commit sin.
1 John 5:18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
Victory over sin be achieved only through the presence of Holy Spirit of God in the heart of the born-again and the action of the saving grace of God, which is aimed to eliminate the sin and all the consequences of the fall of man.
And without the saving grace of God, man cannot withstand the action of sin and will be always beaten by sin.
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