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“ God is true and we are all liars ” I think what we miss here when Paul says we have died to sin, he is really talking about the law here. He is talking about dying to the law which stirs up sin in our lives. Paul just said the law came in to INCREASE sin, not reduce it. The law does not show us how to obey God. The law shows that we CAN NOT OBEY God. Are you God manifested in the flesh? And if you say you have no sin you are a liar and the truth is not in you.
What is helpful for us to understand is that the law of Moses was NEVER given to gentiles, but only to the Israelites. It defined them as a nation and also gave references to the foreshadowing’s and prophetic inferences of the coming Messiah. The old covenant remained in effect until the death and resurrection of Christ. Christ was teaching a people who thought they had no sin to forgive. He was encouraging the law so people would come to the end of themselves and embrace the new covenant. If you will not surrender to the new covenant, you cannot be saved. You cannot live by law and grace simultaneously.
Edwin Blackwood attended the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary. He was ordained to the gospel ministry by the Great Lakes-Gulf Presbytery of the RPCNA, where he pastored a church in Evansville, IN from 1993 until 2000. In 2005 he was called to Australia by the...
