Benefits of the Son of God no. 25
The Church Choosing Law for Grace
Rev. Brian Kocourek
22) In Continuing with our study of the Twenty fourth benefit of God to us concerning His
Son we will look again today at the Law, but this time we want to take many,
many scriptures, and show that the Law has no life, and is only a school master
showing us our sinful nature,
Galatians 3: 24 Wherefore
the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be
justified by faith.
Not5ice then that law can
never justify you, it can only show you where you have been wrong. And that is
like the legalist who can look all day long and find fault in a person, but
they themselves can never show you the way out of your sin, because they
themselves cannot find the way out for their own selves, yet they hope to find
fault in others so that they might justify themselves in that they aren’t quite
as bad as everyone else.
That is the same way with
those who would gloat over the fact that there are very few who really believe the
Word. How in the love of Jesus Christ who died and was miserably tortured for
your sins and mine could anyone who understands just what Jesus did for you
ever want to gloat at the ill fortune of those who do not know the saving Grace
of Jesus Christ. I can’t even conceive such thoughts in my mind, and neither
can I gain much happiness thinking there are people out there that need this
Great Revelation of Jesus Christ and how could I be happy knowing they don’t
have it.
Only Through Faith (which is
Revelation) do we have access to God into a new and living way. Therefore this morning we shall again examine the promise
that Christ has removed us from under the Law and has made it possible for us
to Live in Him.
This week we will focus our thoughts on the
church and its condition in this hour, because I am
afraid that there are many churches, in fact most Pentecost churches today and
every other denomination has rejected Grace in favor of the Law. The very fact
that the word denominate shows they have come to a determined value, and have placed a period after what they believe
shows they have turned down grace, in favor of that value or law which they
have come to realize is a reflection of the values of those churches. Even
within the Message today many of the churches, not all, but many, who claim to
follow this end-time Message of Grace have actually turned
down this Grace that was brought to us by God Himself in a Shout (which is a
Message) when He Appeared to us in this last hour.
Now, brother Branham preached a Sermon
called “The Church Choosing Law for Grace”,
and in it he said some startling things that we should take note of.
Church choosing law for grace 61-0316 P:30 See,
but we have to have something to do into
it ourself. We want to be like the Methodists,
like the Presbyterian, the Baptist, the Catholic. We have to
make an organization. We have... That's the same thing Martin Luther failed on.
Not Martin Luther, he didn't start it. John Wesley didn't start it. It was the groups after them started it.
That's right. They didn't start it. No,
sir, they kept it clean. But when they left, then the next round of them begin to organize.
And
that's just the same way it was back in the beginning. First group realized it
was God and the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and they stayed with it. But the second group come on, "Well, we
got to do this, we got to separate ourself from them,
they seemingly haven't got the faith, and we've got it. And we'll make our
group over here, and pull away." And then
that made some leader go over here, and pull away this
one, and this one pulling away over here, over here and see, just exactly the
same thing Israel did. They wanted... Exodus 19. They wanted a law. They wanted something they could do
themselves. They had to have something to do into it. They had to make big
fellows, had to have some works they could do themself.
And I see this same pattern
has followed this message until you can’t even get invited to another man’s
pulpit in this country unless you are in their little circle. I receive
invitations from all over the world, and if I could take them all I could be on
the road overseas for six months straight next year holding ministers
meetings, for one week at a time, and still not be able to come back in between
meetings for six months. But to think that you could hold such meetings in this
country it would take a real humbling down for the ministers for that to
happen. James 2: 9 But
if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as
transgressors.
Thus one evidence that the church has turned down Grace is
that they have become respecters of persons. Oh, “if you don’t follow brother so
and so, we do not want you”. Oh, “if you do not say it just exactly like so
and so says it, then we will have nothi9ng to do with you.” Respecters
of persons and that is transgression of the law, and that makes you a legalist.
One who has turned down Grace for Law.
Notice brother Branham said
that first generation wanted what was right but after that the next generation
come along and through fear of losing what they had been given by Grace, they
began to create ways to hold onto what they had, and in doing so they began to
separate themselves from others who did not seemingly have the same amount of
faith as they thought they had. Those are not my words, but the Words of God’s
Vindicated prophet. And we can see the fulfillment right before our very eyes.
Brother Branham said from
his sermon, Deceived church by the world 59-0628M
P:50 But as Israel was bound by their kings,
that they could not follow the real King, and the real King, when He came, they
didn't recognize Him, so is it today, O Lord, the King of glory has appeared in the form of the Holy Ghost, and,
Lord, they don't know it. They don't recognize it. They're so organized so
tight, that they do not understand it, because it's not in their organization.
Lord, this is a work of the Devil
that's done this to the people. May the Samson of God, may the true in
heart, those who are longing and crying, and pleading and holding on, may they
stay with it, Lord, until this new crop
grows out, until there comes forth again a joy in Zion, and there comes forth a group that can
recognize and understand, that can see the Messiah and the hidden power that's
hid from the world, that they will not understand now. Grant, Lord, that
they'll see this. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
What it is, is that the
first groups that come out see the Living God in a Living Word, and they
received that living Word and became alive by it and to it, but those that came
behind them do not see the living God in their midst. They have a message
that’s only a history. It was not a personal thing for them, but something that
someone else had witnessed, so it does not have the same pull nor the same life
pulse to it. Therefore it has become only a creed, a
theology, an intellectual conception, and dogma. A Word without Life in it.
There is no presence of God anointing that Word to them. It is just a study of
Sermons comparing one sermon with another, and they die right there.
In an Audio letter to Lee Vayle 64-0500 P:2 Brother Branham
said, “Would
it be, you think, advisable in here, to say that God then, in
order to proclaim this, has to send a prophet in order to inject this, make this real again, show the people
the hour we're living in? Because if
they only see it in the hour past, then there's no hope for the church. The church must see it in the present tense.
So God sends His prophet to manifest, present tense of
it. You see? And then, after it's over, then history
is.”
And from the sermon, Anointed ones at end time 65-0725M P:168 "For
it is impossible for those which were once enlightened and didn't move on with
the Word as it come to pass..." They're dead, gone. "
And from the sermon World again falling apart 63-1127 P:49 But
the church sets spiritually dead, gone,
the hour's passed them. They're in a
slump and hardly know what to do, one running this way and one that way.
And here every promise that God made in
the Bible, every one of them is laying there just as good as they ever was. It's the hour. What makes the church like this?
We're in the age of the Laodicea, when she has to come
this way. This is the hour for it.
You see people do not have
faith. The Bible has warned us that there would be a Falling away from The Faith.
1 Timothy 4: 1 Now
the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter
times some shall depart from The Faith,
giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; And what are those deceiving spirits and doctrines of
devils? Those doctrines that take them away from The Faith
which is The revelation, and turn them to law.
2 Thessalonians 2: 3 Let
no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away
first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
Now, he is called that man
of sin, so what is sin? 1 Corinthians
So he will come with another
Gospel, one that preaches law for Grace.
Luke 8: 13 They on the rock are they, which,
when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of
temptation fall away. You see, in order to fall away you have to have been there at some
point. This is not speaking of the Catholics or Methodists or any other
denomination. It is speaking of those that have been once for all enlightened.
Hebrews 6:5-6 for it
is impossible for those that have been once and for all enlightened and have
tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made companions of the Holy Ghost
Himself, If they shall fall away, it is impossible
for them to renew themselves again unto a change of the mind; seeing they
crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
And remember, without Faith it is impossible to please
God. Because Faith is the evidence of
something you cannot see with your eyes. Hebrews
11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Paul tells us that Faith is the substance of things
hoped for. That means it is something that we earnestly expect. Yet once it can
be seen, we no longer earnestly expect it, because it is. Romans
Rather, what the
real reason behind the people choosing law for grace is that the law is
something that you can do yourself. It is something that can be seen, so it is
not something that is hoped for, because it is seen. And since it is not Faith
it therefore is of no substance either, for Faith is the substance…And what it
boils down to is that people place more trust in themselves and their own
ability to do and in God’s ability to honor His Own Word. Therefore, they in
essence are calling God a liar and don’t even know that is what they are doing.
Church choosing law for grace 61-0316 P:27 Now,
we notice after all the blessings had come to Israel, yet they wanted (Exodus 19),
they wanted to have a law. They wanted
to have something that they could do themselves, some Sabbath days they
could keep, or some ordinances they could do, or something another that was
in--brought in to them that they could do themselves.
And if you can do one thing to save
yourself, then there's not one speck of it grace. Law is what you do in regards to the grace that God has showed you by saving
you. As I've often said, I don't run around with other women because I'm afraid
my wife will divorce me. I don't run around with other women 'cause I love my wife. That's it. I don't believe that you
should run around. But a law isn't what
keeps it, my marriage vow; it's my love. And it's
reason I love God. Not because I'm afraid He'd send me to hell; I don't believe
He'd do that. But because I love Him so much I don't want to do it. There's nothing in me to
make me do it. I love Him too much; I wouldn't hurt Him for nothing. Certainly,
I love Him.
Martin Luther
said in his Preface to Romans Martin Luther said, Faith is a living, unshakeable confidence in God's
grace; it is so certain, that someone would die a thousand
times for it. This kind of trust in and knowledge of God's grace makes a person
joyful, confident, and happy with regard to God and
all creatures. This is what the Holy Spirit does by faith. Through faith, a
person will do good to everyone without coercion, willingly and happily; he
will serve everyone, suffer everything for the love and praise of God, who has
shown him such grace. It is as impossible to separate works from faith as
burning and shining from fire. Therefore be on guard
against your own false ideas and against the chatterers who think they are
clever enough to make judgments about faith and good works but who are in
reality the biggest fools. Ask God to work faith in you; otherwise
you will remain eternally without faith, no matter what you try to do or
fabricate.
But to fulfill the law means to do its work eagerly,
lovingly and freely, without the constraint of the law; it means to live well and in a manner pleasing to God, as though there were no law
or punishment. It is the Holy Spirit, however, who puts such eagerness of
unconstrained love into the heart. So, too, faith comes only through the word
of God, the Gospel, that preaches Christ..
In fact
the evidence that you are walking by faith is that you can love the unlovable.
You can reach out to the lost and dying soul who has no hope but the hope that
you have given them.
Galatians 5: 14 For
all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Romans 13: 8 Owe no man any
thing, but to love one another: for
he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. 9 For this, Thou
shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou
shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other
commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour
as thyself. 10
Love worketh no ill
to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Galatians 6: 2 Bear
ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. And brother Branham told us that Eternal Life is
living for others.
In Galatians Chapter 5: 22 Paul said, But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. You see if you are living in the Love of God you are above the Law, for the law was not made for the
righteous, but for the unrighteous to show them their unrighteousness.
1 Timothy 1: 9 Knowing
this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and
disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for
murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
And from his sermon Church choosing law for grace 61-0316 P:35 Brother
Branham said, Now, we come out and look, and look around,
and see: eleven day's journey
from theology to total unbelief, from the days they got the law until they
finally went into total unbelief.
And that is about what the
people have done today. And again he said …
Church choosing law for grace 61-0316 P:14 Now,
that's a solemn thing; we should think on it for a little while. Little did
they believe that there was the waters of Marah laid
before them, or the wilderness of Sin, or the Mount Sinai, or the
Kadesh-Barnea, where they totally failed God... When from Kadesh there was only eleven days to the crossing. They
couldn't believe it, because they had already seen so
many great things done. They were sure
that they were in the will of God.
You know that is the thing about the legalist, he is
always so sure that he is the one that is right and everyone else is wrong. And
how is it that they always seem to think they are in the will of God? Because
they say, “we got the real word for our day. We’re in the same camp as brother so
and so, so we got it and everyone else doesn’t have it..”
And yet they were in the same camp as Moses but they didn’t have it. As brother Vayle has told me
on more than one occasion, “we have people right here that have it but
don’t have it.” and the same thing we see in the days of Moses. They
had the Pillar of fire in the camp, and they had Moses in the camp, and they
had the promise of God before them and God’s Very presence leading them, and
yet two million of them perished in the wilderness. Yeah
they had it alright but they missed it by a million miles. And why did they
miss it? Because they turned down the promise God gave to Abraham in favor of
law. They turned down what God was doing in favor of something they could do.
Church choosing law for grace 61-0316 P:14 Just
as our fathers was a few years ago. And they were, but there's where they made their great fatal mistake. The greatest mistake that Israel ever made
was when it renounced grace and accepted law. It made its greatest mistake
in Exodus 19,
was one of the fatal mistakes that Israel made. The covenant that God made with Abraham was completely grace. But grace had provided for them a deliverer, a
prophet, a sacrificial lamb. It had provided the greatest revival they'd ever
had. And yet, they wasn't satisfied with it. They wanted something that they
could argue about. They wanted a place where they could have something to do
into it.
And I am afraid that is where the church is today. God
Himself has come down in this hour in the same way that He did back in Moses
day, and He gave us a Message of Grace, and He gave us a Pillar of Fire to lead
us, and a Prophet to teach us, and He Revealed Himself in the Shout, and He
Manifested His Presence with us in the form of the Pillar of Fire, and He gave
us a way out of here and promised us a change of the mind and a change of the
body, and yet they turned all that down for something to do themselves. All
that did not satisfy the people, they wanted organization like other groups
have and they wanted a clergy and hierarchy like other churches have, and so
God has left them to wander and die in the wilderness of sin just as they did
back in Moses day.
But God has come to remove
the law and to give us His own mind, yet people do not want the mind of God,
for they will not let their own thinking. Paul tells us in Hebrews 8: 10 For this is the covenant that I
will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be
to me a people: Now, why
anyone would not just believe what God promises I do not understand. But Israel
turned down the promise and so God has given this promise to the Gentiles as we
read in Hebrews 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those
days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws
into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
And in Galatians
Then why would anyone want
the law. Why would anyone in their right mind want their own actions and the
things they do and say to be the factor by which they are judged and justified.
Hebrews 7: 11 If therefore perfection were by the
Levitical priesthood, what further need was there that another priest should
rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of
Aaron? You know Paul lays out a very good
question here. Hebrews 7: 12 For the priesthood
being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
In other words, under the Levitical priesthood there
were Levitical laws to follow, but if the priesthood is changed then the law
must also change it. And so we see That Jesus came not
after the law of the Levitical order, but the Priest Hood of Melchisedec, which
was the priesthood that gave the unconditional covenant of Grace to Abraham. Hebrews 7: 16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but
after the power of an endless life. Hebrews
7: 19 For
the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the
which we draw nigh unto God. And so we see
that This Melchisedec priesthood is one of Grace, Grace, Grace unto it, giving
us a better hope.
And then if this Priesthood
which Jesus has come froth to do, and we have been called tot
his priesthood as Kings and Priests, we must come in a certain manner or way,
or order. And that is the order of Melchisedec. Then we find that this order
will also give us a right mind. For Jesus in expressing Himself as a son, said,
I can of mine own self do nothing, speak nothing, teach nothing, for I have not
come to do mine own will but the will of the Father which sent me.
And we know that The Father
was Melchisedec. That is what Brother Branham taught us. He said Jesus was the
prince of Peace but Melchisedec was the king of Peace,
and the prince is the son of the King, therefore, Jesus was not Melchisedec,
but Melchisedec was the Father of the Son. And so we
as Jesus receive a right mind by receiving the mind of their Father.
And that is what Paul
teaches us in Philippians 3: 9 And
be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, (notice, not having mine own right-wise-ness) which is of the
law, but that which is through the Faith (which is the Revelation) of Christ, the
righteousness (right-wise-ness) which is of
(out from) God by Faith, (which is by Revelation):
And Paul tells us in Galatians
2: 21 I
do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then
Christ is dead in vain.
Now, notice what Paul teaches us in the Book of
Galatians concerning the law. Galatians 3: 2 This only would I
learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by
the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Now, that is a
very good question to ask. Does the works of the law produce in you the Holy
Spirit? You’ve got to be crazy if you think so.
Galatians 3: 5 He
therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and
worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the
hearing of faith? Is it your
actions that produces the Life breathing presence of God in Manifestation? If
you think so, you would have to be insane. So then why
would you think your own actions will produce something as spiritual as
salvation?
Galatians 3: 10 For
as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth
not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. Now, if the law has a curse
to all those who do not do the law, then why would anyone hold to it, rather
than to the freedom in the Spirit which comes by Revelation. I am sorry to say,
but what aggravates me more than anything is a people who think they got it all
and everyone else is excluded but them. And so they
become cultish in their own mind, and cling to only those of a like-mindedness
and thus place a basket over what little light that they have been given. This
is a very near sightedness that these kind of people
have and it is full of pride and arrogant behaviour.
Galatians 3: 11 But
that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. Now, we have already shown that the only way to fulfill
the law is not by any act of the flesh, but simply by Faith which is
revelation. And thus there remaineth
Faith, Hope and Love these three, and the greatest of these is Love. Faith is a
revelation, and hope is an earnest expectation that is set in motion by the
revelation. And what it produces is love which is an outward expression of you
revelation given energy by the hope that lays within you.
Paul further tells us in Galatians
Galatians 3: 18 For
if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to
Abraham by promise. Notice then that the law does not speak of Sonship and therefore has
nothing to do with inheritance which is by promise. Therefore
what good is the law to you?
Galatians 3: 23 But
before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which
should afterwards be revealed. But once it did come we were set free from the
law.
How? By the revelation of
Jesus Christ.
Again in Galatians 4: 5 Paul speaks to us of being bought
from the law in order to receive Sonship. To redeem them that were under
the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
And furthermore
Paul tells us in Galatians 5: 4 Christ
is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye
are fallen from grace. And why is
that? Because the law could never justify you. Justification means you never
did it, yet he law can only point the finger that you
did do it, but can not cleanse you from the guilt of
the doing. Galatians 2: 16 Knowing that a man
is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ,
even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith
of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall
no flesh be justified.
Now that ought to settle it
forever. You can not in any way, shape or form be justified by the law, so quit
the legalism, Quit the finger pointing. Quit the back biting, and all those
things that legalists do, and learn about the grace of Jesus Christ that sets
you free from all that. When Jesus was speaking to Peter and said, Peter do you
love me, Peter answered and said, yes, Lord you know I love you, and Jesus said
Feed my sheep. He didn’t say get them jobs. He didn’t say build them houses. He
didn’t say run their houses for them. He said feed my sheep the Word.
And Jesus asked this to
Peter three times, but Peter’s mind was on John who was following close behind
them, and when peter asked Jesus what about Him, Jesus said to him, “what is that to thee, follow thou me.”
In other word, the grace of
God in your life ought to keep you so focused on Him that you have no thoughts
about what others might or might not be thinking, doing, or saying. It should
not matter to you. And Gal
Now, let’s quickly review
Romans to see what Paul tells us about the law.
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. Romans
7: 6 But now we are delivered from the law, that
being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and
not in the oldness of the letter. So you see here one evidence that a person is living under the law and is
a legalist is that they are living to the letter of the law and not by the
newness of the spirit. You can tell when you come into a church that is under
legalism. It’s like a bunch of cookie cutters Christians in there. Everyone
dresses the same, and acts the same, and even uses the same words in greetings
to one another. Why? Because they are afraid to be themselves. They are afraid
to be what God made them to be. They are like Pavlov’s dogs, trained to drool
when the right stimulus hits them. And so they all
have the same reaction to whatever is said or done. They are afraid to discuss
the word freely. Oh, they might discuss the word out of legalism to a creed
that says they must talk the word. And so talk they
do, but not freely, and not openly lest someone might find them saying
something different, and then wham, they are labeled as unbelievers.
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. Romans 7: 8 But
sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of
concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. Romans 7: 9 For I was alive without the law
once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
And so the law can only point
out the letter and the letter killeth so the law in
effect brings death, but Christ alone maketh alive by
the revelation of Himself. For I am crucified in Christ, nevertheless I live, but it is
no longer me that is living, but Christ is living in me, and the Life I now
Live I live by the Faith of the Son of God, His Faith, you see?
Romans 7: 14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I
am carnal, sold under sin. Martin Luther said, And so what does that mean? If the law were physical, then it could be
satisfied by works, but since it is spiritual, no one can satisfy it unless
everything he does springs from the
depths of the heart. But no one can give such a heart except the Spirit of
God, who makes the person be like the law, so that he actually conceives a
heartfelt longing for the law and henceforward does everything, not through fear or coercion, but from a
free heart.(
Just like William Branham said, I am free to do whatsoever I want to do. The
main thing is that all I want to do is to please the Lord.) Such a law is spiritual since it can only
be loved and fulfilled by such a heart and such a spirit. If the Spirit
(Gods own Spirit) is not in the heart, then there remain sin, aversion and enmity against the law, which in itself is
good, just and holy. This we find in 1 Corinthians chapter 2, that tells us no
man can understand the things of God except the Spirit of God be in him.
Romans
Romans 8: 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity
against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. Martin Luther also said concerning this. Therefore you must not understand the word law
here in human fashion, is a regulation about what sort of works must be done or
must not be done. That's the way it is with human laws: you satisfy the demands
of the law with works, whether your heart is in it or not. God judges what is in the depths of the heart. Therefore
his law also makes demands on the depths of the heart and doesn't let the heart
rest content in works; rather it punishes as hypocrisy and lies all works done
apart from the depths of the heart. All human beings are called liars
(Psalm 116), since none of them keeps or can keep God's law
from the depths of the heart. Everyone finds inside himself an aversion to
good and a craving for evil. Where there is no free desire for good, there the
heart has not set itself on God's law. There also sin is surely to be found and
the deserved wrath of God, whether a lot of good works and an honorable life
appear outwardly or not.
Romans
So you see, that although the Law may be able to point out to you what is
right and what is wrong, it can not do the performing
of it. And so Luther said, Outwardly you keep the law with works out
of fear of punishment or love of gain. Likewise
you do everything without free desire and love of the law; you act out of aversion and force. You'd rather act otherwise if
the law didn't exist. It follows, then, that you, in the depths of your heart,
are an enemy of the law. What do you mean, therefore, by teaching another not
to steal, when you, in the depths of your heart, are a thief and would be one
outwardly too, if you dared. (Of course, outward work
doesn't last long with such hypocrites.) So then, you teach others but not
yourself; you don't even know what you are teaching. You've never understood
the law rightly. Furthermore, the law increases sin. That is because a person
becomes more and more an enemy of the law the more it demands of him what he
can't possibly do.
Only Revelation can make alive, and not the law. So then the law represents death, and Faith which is
revelation Life.
Romans 10: 4 For Christ is the end of the law
for righteousness to everyone that believeth.