There is a God. He chose to reveal Himself to Jews and to us as a Righteous Jew who died on all our behalf, thereby tearing down the dividing wall between Gentile and Jew, Unrighteous and Righteous, Dead and Living, Rich and Poor, Man and God, etc. In fact, His embrace of all mankind in Himself and His unveiling of Himself as equally image and likeness of God as we are in Jesus universally blessed, favored, and advantaged mankind! The fact of the matter is, I am not a Jew. By my Gentile birth, uncircumcised body, and my failure to perform any of the duties commanded of man by Mosaic Law, either intrinsically by conscience nor routinely in obedience to the Law of Moses, my only hope for engaging God would have to be Grace. I'm not a physical member of the family to whom He promised His favored blessing, meaning by law, there wouldn't be glory to my name and I wouldn't have Him to my advantage in life. By law, I was excluded. I had no dealings with Him. In me, God's role was occupied by another roll... a Cinnamon Roll. A religious spirit attracting conglomerations of people who misplaced their appetites (for God and each other) over the present nearness of His Spirit's audible proclamations of His Son's finished work. The Belly was the God then and the furrowed brow of religious intoxication, His prophet.
There was no spiritual glory to my personal individual existence, none at all outside of being the same physical species as God's chosen people, I hadn't my own connection to God. I was in the world without hope, a mind full of myself without God, and without the whisper of a promise. But thank JESUS that God no longer represents Himself in Moses or by Mosaic Law but by the Eternal Priesthood of Melchizedek, The King of Righteousness! Because Jesus, King of Righteousness, died on behalf of all mankind, He defines us all as equally righteous before Him by His sacrifice for us, uncircumcised gentile believers and circumcised Jewish legalistic types alike together abandon their earthen definitions of humanity passed on to us by the dust eating fallen idea of a father, now noticing Yahweh as our parent and no longer deceiving ourselves into believing in man as our source. Our design relates us to Christ Jesus and not to Adam, the risen Lord and not to the fallen creature. I am definitively defined as the favored one whose life is endorsed and sponsored by the God of the Universe for the exhibition of His kindness and grace. Now I, though not a Jew, enjoy the benefits of every blessing God promised Abraham, received by Christ on my behalf, as by Him we were equally made Co-Heirs of the World.
There is only One God, One Creator, and He has One Law and that One Law was the One way to qualify for His blessings. The righteous standard of the law is beyond my reach from birth and I will never overcome this eternal truth, for I was born Gentile not Jew, am uncircumcised, and do not live by the Law of Moses but by the Faith of Abraham in a God who blesses us in response to His own promise to and not our own warranting of it by our human behavior. My human behavior no longer disqualifies me from a clean conscience, and my gentile lineage no longer disqualifies me from Sonship with the Eternal God! May we always remember that there is no chance for me or any other man, Jew or Gentile, cut or uncut, in or out of the service of ministry to ever... and I mean EVER successfully satisfy the law as the Law is a system of condemnation for the exposure of man's inability to qualify for the blessing of Sonship in God but how it must be given from above, as it's been by His incarnation in His Son.
So as far as the Law goes, whether the 10 commandments sound universal or not or whether the subtler laws make sense to your conscience or not, whether the law would judge you guilty or innocent you are no longer under it and being under the law, making IT your source of Life, is an insult to the God who invited man to eat from the Tree of His Life and receive as a gift anything that man could possibly qualify for or disqualify himself from by the works of the law. The Law of Moses exposes all law as the king of all law and it's fulfillment on our behalf by Christ fully frees all men everywhere for all manner of law, heavenly or earthen, as we all live by the One Law regulating the Life of God Himself... The Law of Perfect Liberty.
You are Perfectly Free.
The Law was never for you, and God will never be against you!
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