Wednesday, 11 June 2025

Romans part 87 - Victory Over Sin 26

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Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Messiah Yeshua has set you free from the law of sin and death.

The law is the law, whether of the Spirit of life (in Messiah Yeshua) or of "sin and death." The law doesn't change, we do. Our "born again" experience through faith in Messiah Yeshua is the birth of the Spirit of God in us, the purpose of which is to make us into the righteousness of God. This is the expressed reason for Yeshua's first coming.

2 Corinthians 5:21 He made the One who knew no sin to become a sin offering on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

Speaking of "righteousness," ... the Hebrew word for "righteous" is tzadik or its variation (and feminine form), tzedakah. The rabbinical definition of a tzadik is a person who can control every action AND every thought so that he/she never violates or even thinks of violating any commandment of God. The one who is perfect from the cradle to the grave. The rabbis believe and teach that such a person can become a "tzadik, and that every generation has one. The Bible contradicts that thought.

Ecclesiastes 7:20 Surely there is not a righteous person on earth who does what is good and doesn't sin.

Isaiah 64:5(6) For all of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a filthy garment, and all of us wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away, like the wind.

Of course, the New Testament makes this point dozens of time. But, notice I chose two verses from the Hebrew Scriptures to prove that there cannot be a human Tzadik. This is why God had to send His own Son, as the man/God or God/man to repair the problem of sin. We all have had that problem and there is no way to fix it if you've got it other than to receive the Spirit of God. Colossians 1:27b Messiah in you, the hope of glory!

"Trying harder" was never an option. That is actually the solution of secular humanism. Can you imagine pinning your future on the hope that you might somehow behave your way into heaven. If that is your reality, you have to hope that the paper clip you flicked at a person in the sixth grade doesn't keep you out of God's presence for eternity. (The "weight" of that paper clip might be enough to tip the scale against you and keep you eternally out of the presence of God.) Such a "works" mentality, can never be our plan for salvation.

Our plan for salvation requires the presence and the power of the One Whose name is "Salvation," Yeshua! He is the law of the Spirit of life, as our subject verse clearly states. Put your future hope in Him.

Titus 2:11-13 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, training us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live in a manner that is self-controlled and righteous and godly in the present age. We wait for the blessed hope and appearance of the glory of our great God and Savior, Messiah Yeshua.

Shalom shalom.