Sin and the Law

1 Corinthians 1:8… who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. The day of the Lord being His return at the last trump…Day of Atonement is “the last trumpet’ in Judaism.

1 Corinthians 5:6-8 … Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?  Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. In other words early believers observed Passover.

1 Corinthians 5:11… But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral (a fornicator), or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person. Think about how many members live out of wedlock today! This is an instruction widely ignored today.

1 Corinthians 6:2-5… Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?  If then you have judgments concerning things pertaining to this life, do you appoint those who are least esteemed by the church to judge? I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, not even one, who will be able to judge between his brethren? For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? These verses are in reference to the on immediately above.

1 Corinthians 6:9… Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites…a very tough word to the assembly.

1 Corinthians 7:19… Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters. There it is…we are to obey God’s laws…but that does not make us righteous. It makes us obedient.

1 Corinthians 9:21…to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law…Paul understands the law is to be obeyed, but it is not our claim to righteousness…only faith is Yeshua’s blood makes us righteous.

Galatians 2:16-18… knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified. “But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not!  For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. The law points out the sin we should avoid—therefore we need to obey the Torah.

Galatians 3:13…Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree” …We are redeemed from the curse of the law—not from obeying it.

Galatians 5:18-21…But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law .Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. If you are led by the spirit you are not breaking the list of laws (committing the sins) listed herein. Get it?

Hebrews 9:22-27…And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission. Therefore Jesus obeyed the law and shed His blood for our redemption—because God obeys His laws!

Paul continues to explain the greatness of Christ’s sacrifice…Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these (blood), but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another— He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.  And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment.

Hebrews 10:3…But in those (blood) sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year…and sin is the transgression of the law as explained in 1 John 3.4… Whosoever commits sin transgresses also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

Hebrews 6:1-3…The Peril of Not Progressing…Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this we wil do if God permits. Paul says understanding the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment are foundational doctrine. The church has done very little teaching on these doctrines in the context of Revelation 20.

2 Timothy 3:16-17… All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. It is important to remember that when Paul wrote these words the only scripture was the Old Testament…all things were proved and taught from it!