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What are the Works/Deeds of the Law?
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According to scriptures, Moses was given "the Law of the commandments of Ahayah" on Mount Sinai for Israel to do that they may live.
Exodus 24:12
And Ahayah said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
Deuteronomy 5:31-33
But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.
32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as Ahayah your Alahayim hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 33 Ye shall walk in all the ways which Ahayah your Alahayim hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.
Leviticus 18:4-5
Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am Ahayah your Alahayim. 5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am Ahayah.
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The Law of the Commandments (including the statutes and judgments) were given so that a man may live, be well, and prolong his days by doing them. They ensure life and good if a man chooses life to do them.
Deu 30:15-16
15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; 16 In that I command thee this day to love Ahayah thy Alahayim, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and Ahayah thy Alahayim shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Deu 30:19-20
19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: 20 That thou mayest love Ahayah thy Alahayim, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which Ahayah sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
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Ahayah didn't speak with Israel about burnt offerings and sacrifices at the first when He brought them out of Egypt. He first commanded Israel to obey his voice and walk in his commandments so things would be well unto them when He first brought them out.
Exo 15:22
So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
Exodus 15:25-26
25 And he cried unto Ahayah; ... there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them, 26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of Ahayah thy Alahayim, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am Ahayah that healeth thee.
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There is a difference between the Law of the Commandments as oppose to the Law of Offerings & Sacrifices. For understanding the differentiation of "the Law of the Commandments" as oppose to "the Law of Offerings & Sacrifices," the Law of the Commandments are ordained to life and those who choose life to do them shall live themselves, be well, prolong their days, their seed shall live, and they shall dwell in the Land of Promise to come. Also if one does turn from their sins to do the law of the Commandments without commiting iniquity, they shall surely live. On the other hand, the Law of Offerings & Sacrifices were added due to transgression of the Law of the Commandments but they could not give life or take away sins, nor make a man perfect. Looking at scripture for understanding this, if a person transgressed against the Law of the Commandments, there were offerings and sacrifices required to atone for their sins whether it be any soul of Israel, a priest, the congregation of Israel, a ruler of Israel, or a common person of the Gentiles that sojourned with Israel.
Leviticus 4:1, 3
And Ahayah spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of Ahayah concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them:...3 If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto Ahayah for a sin offering. ...
Leviticus 4:7
And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Ahayah, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 8 And he shall take off from it all the fat of the bullock for the sin offering; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, 9 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away, 10 As it was taken off from the bullock of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of the burnt offering. 11 And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung, 12 Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt.
Leviticus 4:13-14, 16, 20-21
And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done somewhat against any of the commandments of Ahayah concerning things which should not be done, and are guilty; 14 When the sin, which they have sinned against it, is known, then the congregation shall offer a young bullock for the sin, and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation. 16 And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock's blood to the tabernacle of the congregation: 20 And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock for a sin offering, so shall he do with this: and the priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them. 21 And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn him as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin offering for the congregation.
Leviticus 4:22-26
When a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance against any of the commandments of Ahayah his Alahayim concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty; 23 Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish:
Leviticus 4:24 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before Ahayah: it is a sin offering. 25 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering. 26 And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.
Leviticus 4:27-31
And if any one of the common people sin through ignorance, while he doeth somewhat against any of the commandments of Ahayah concerning things which ought not to be done, and be guilty; 28 Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned. 29 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering. 30 And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar. 31 And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto Ahayah; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.
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The precepts show the Law of Offerings & Sacrifices are for atoning for when anyone sinned through ignorance against the Law of the Commandments or if their sin came to their knowledge. Ahayah didn't speak to Israel concerning offerings and sacrifices when He brought them out of Egypt at first because He had no pleasure in them since the offerings of the bulls and goats could not actually take away sins nor make a man perfect.
Hebrews 10:6
In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
Hebrews 10:1
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
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For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
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This is why He spake concerning obeying His voice and walking in the Law of the ​Commandments so that they may live in turning away from their sins instead of just offering a sacrifice that couldn't take away their sins. If a man does obey His voice and does the commandments, he will surely live as that is what Ahayah actually has delight in over offerings and sacrifices.
1Sa 15:22
And Samuel said, Hath Ahayah as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Ahayah? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.
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Even when one may be sinning in rebellion and stubbornness, if one turns from his sin to do whats right unto Alahayim in His commandments, he shall surely live:
Ezk 33:14-16
Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; 15 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. 16 None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
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Alahayim willing, this helps understand "the Law of the Commandments" ordained to life to keep from sin or overcome sin and live are not the same as "the Law of Offerings and Sacrifices" for sins that cannot give life or take away sins to make a man perfect.
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The Law of the Commandments
1 John 3:4
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
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The Law of the Commandments outline what is good and makes a division for us to differentiate good from evil so we can understand what sin is to avoid a transgression.
Romans 7:12
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
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The Law of the Commandments are holy just and good so the Law itself is not sin or bad for us nor the problem per say. Rather, its actually Sin that is identified by the commandments and who deceives us to get us to transgress the Law of the Commandments that is the problem as it seeks to cause us to receive the wages of death through the sins we do:
Romans 7:7
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Alahayim 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.
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Confirming the law of the Commandments is not the problem because it helps us identify sin to abstain from it.
Romans 7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
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Sin knows the commandments and takes occasion by them to work lust within us to our hurt
Romans 7:10-11
And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
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If sin has dominion in us to take occasion by the commandments to deceive us through our lusts to get us to transgress to our hurt against the commandments, the commandments will seem like its unto death to us because we aren't actually pleased to keep it. On the other hand, if we love Alahayim, we would view the Law of the Commandments in truth seeing it as ordained to life to help us live and having pleasure in keeping it by not viewing it as grievous:
1 John 5:3
For this is the love of Alahayim, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Romans 7:12
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
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This is possible to keep the commandments with pleasure when we view the Law of the commandments as they truly are seeing it as ordained to life, holy, just, and good.
Romans 7:13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? Alahayim forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
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The goodness of the Law of the Commandments just expose the exceeding sinfulness of sin itself so it is not made death unto us but is actually ordained to life for us helping us identify what sin is to abstain from its works unto death that we may live unto Alahayim.
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The Added Law of Offerings and Sacrifices
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Though the Law of Offerings & Sacrifices of bulls and goats could not take away sins, Alahayim gave the Law of Offerings & Sacrifices to atone for sins whenever we did transgress the Law of the Commandments by sinning to prepare us for Christ to come who would offer himself to purge our conscience of the sins committed against the Law of the Commandments. We will look at this understanding through precepts going forward:
Gal 3:19
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
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"The law" being referred to here is not the Law of the Commandments but the Law of Offerings & Sacrifices that was added because of the transgression of the Law of the Commandments ordained to life. Moses was the mediator who received the Law of Offerings & Sacrifices ordained by angels {Deut 33:2} and added to the Law of the Commandments to atone for sins when someone was in transgression. Remember, the covenant of obeying Ahayah's voice and keeping his commandments came before the Law of Burnt Offerings & Sacrifices ordained by angels:
Jer 7:22-23
For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices 23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your Alahayim, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
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​Walking in all the ways of His commandments ordained to life and obeying His voice will be well unto us because the law and commandment are holy, just and good:Rom 7:12 Paul taught the commandments of the Law are not sin because we need the laws to have the knowledge of what sin is:
Rom 3:20
..: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Romans 7:12
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Rom 7:7
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Alahayim 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.
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We have the knowledge of sin to identify it by the Law of the commandments and when a person has knowledge that they have sinned by the Law, there are "deeds" that were added because of transgressions that they must perform to atone for their sins:
Lev 4:22
When a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance against any of the commandments of Ahayah his Alahayim concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty; 23 Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish:
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The offerings are "the deeds" of the law, when one has knowledge of a sin committed against the Law of the Commandments:
Rom 3:20
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.​
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No person could be justified by "the deeds of the law" in offering a sin offering when they sinned because the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sins:
Heb 10:4
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
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Though "the deeds of the law" in offerings and sacrifices cannot justify any flesh, "the doers of the law" of the commandments" shall be justified so we can know the differentiation between the two things Paul was referring to in his letter to the Romans. Paul taught doing the laws of the commandments can justify us in the Lord's sight because "the doers of the laws shall be justified" as oppose to "the deeds," which are offerings and sacrifices for sins, cannot justify anyone:
Rom 2:13
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This means by doing the Law of the commandments ordained to life, we shall be justified, but by performing the deeds of the law of sacrifices when we transgress the Law of the commandments, we can never be justified because the blood of the bulls and goats cannot take away sins.
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What was the Purpose of Adding the Deeds of the Law?
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Knowing the deeds of the Law of Offerings and Sacrifices are not able to justify us, they were just our school master to prepare us for Christ, whose offering up and sacrifice of himself could justify us by faith in his blood to enable us to keep the Law of the Commandments ordained to life without a guilty conscience:
Gal 3:24
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
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Justification comes by faith in Christ's sacrifice and doing the Laws of the Commandments. Remember, sin is the transgression of the law, {1 Joh 3:4} so for transgressions of the Law of the Commandments, the Law of Offerings and Sacrifices for sin were added as our school master until the promised seed, Christ, to whom the promise was made would come:
Gal 3:16
Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.​
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For this reason, Christ's sacrificial offering could justify us by faith in his blood:
Gal 3:19
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
Gal 3:17
And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of Alahayim in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
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Abraham was given the promise of his seed when he was 70 years old. 430 years after, the law of Offerings and Sacrifices on the Day of Atonement were added to the Law of the Commandments. This is what Paul is referring to in Galatians 3:17 that the Law of Offerings & Sacrifices given 430 years after Abraham's seed, Christ, was promised cannot disannul the covenant and make the promise of Abraham's seed to come ineffective:
Gal 3:24
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
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For those reasons that the promise of Christ to come that were given 430 years before the law of Offerings and Sacrifices on the Day of Atonement were added, those laws were our school master to bring us unto Christ that we might believe and be justified by that faith. We are no longer under those deeds of offerings and sacrifices for sins of bulls and goats to atone for sins now that the justification by faith in Christ's blood for atonement has come because the Law of Offerings and Sacrifices were just a shadow of good things to come that could not take away sins or make us perfect:
Heb 10:1
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
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The offerings and sacrifices of the Day of Atonement were offered year by year, yet unable to take away sins or make the comers perfect. Paul explained why they could not take away sins or make us perfect:
Heb 9:9
Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
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The reason the sacrifices of animals could not take away sins or make us perfect is because the man that did the service of the sacrifices could not purge his conscience from the guilt of his former sins since by the deeds of the law he could not be justified. Paul goes on to confirmed the offerings and sacrifices couldn't make one perfect in conscience or take away sins by the fact that they had to continue offerings for sins yearly during the Day of Atonement:
Heb 10:2-3
For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. 3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
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The sacrifices that couldn't purge the conscience were just imposed until the time of reformation when the promised seed would come who could purge the conscience and take away sin by making an atonement in the Holy Place in Heaven:
Heb 9:10
Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
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The time of reformation is when Christ establishes a New Testament by his blood as the High Priest of good things to come in his kingdom:
Heb 9:11-15
But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to Alahayim, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living Alahayim? 15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
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The blood of Christ through the eternal Spirit purges the conscience from dead works and the guilty conscience of former sins to go forward and serve the living Alahayim with a good conscience for the redemption of the transgressions of the commandments that were under the first testament of the blood of bulls and goats sprinkled upon the children of Israel. {Exo 24} For this reason, the Letter, which are the sacrifices, killeth because it cannot purge the guilty conscience, but the Spirit giveth life because Christ's offering through the Spirit purged the conscience of former guilt to move forward without fear of doing the work or going through the process to overcome sins and become a doer of the law of the commandments living unto and serving Alahayim with a clear conscience not being weighed down by the past sins and having a good conscience going forward doing the work of avoiding any offense in transgressing the law of the commandments:
2Co 3:6
Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
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Christ was sent to do what the law of offerings and sacrifices could not do by taking away sins that are past and purging the conscience from sins to condemn sin in the flesh: ​
Rom 8:3
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, Alahayim sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
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The Law of Offerings and Sacrifice was weak because the blood of bulls and goats could not take away sins to purge the conscience of sin, so the Father had to send his Son to condemn sin in the flesh by his own body through being a doer of the law of the commandments as a lamb without blemish unto death:
Heb 10:5-10
Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: 6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. 7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O Alahayim. 8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; 9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O Alahayim. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Yache Christ once for all.​​
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Yache was literally offered as a sacrifice for sins by his blood in the second testament to replace the blood of the weak sacrifices and offerings offered by the law of Moses in the first testament that could not purge our conscience from sins. His offering of himself establishes the Law of Faith in His blood as a propitiation for sins that are past: ​
Rom 3:25
Whom Alahayim hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of Alahayim; ​
Heb 10:18
Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
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By His one offering we are given remission of former sins by faith in his atonement. This takes away the first testament of bulls and goat's blood so there is no more offering of animal sacrifices needed for sins since we are sanctified for sins that are past by the offering of the body of Christ once and for all nations that believe.
The Sacrifices for the Body of Christ
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In replacement of the sacrifices of animals, the sacrifices for the believers in the Body of Christ are by communion wherein they offer his body and his blood for an atonement:
1Co 10:16
The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
1Co 11:24-26
And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. 25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. 26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
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The believers literally treat the communion as a sacrifice by precept:
Acts of Peter chapter 2
Now they brought unto Paul bread and water for the sacrifice, that he might make prayer and distribute it to everyone.
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The Body of Christ eat his body and drink his blood of the new testament as a sacrifice so Paul was teaching the Body they no longer needed to perform the deeds of the law sacrifices:
Col 2:16-17
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
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There were sacrifices and offerings in respect of feast days that were all just a shadow of things to come in the kingdom, but the Body is of Christ's sacrifice as we seen with Paul. Acts of Peter chapter 2 The offerings of being doers of the law are also sacrifices for the Body of Christ:
Ecclesiasticus 35:1-5
He that keepeth the law bringeth offerings enough: he that taketh heed to the commandment offereth a peace offering. 2 He that requiteth a goodturn offereth fine flour; and he that giveth alms sacrificeth praise. 3 To depart from wickedness is a thing pleasing to the Lord; and to forsake unrighteousness is a propitiation. 4 Thou shalt not appear empty before the Lord. 5 For all these things are to be done because of the commandment.
How Shall We Be Justified?
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The righteousness of Alahayim through faith in Christ's sacrifice without the law of animal sacrifice was manifested by Paul:
Rom 3:21
But now the righteousness of Alahayim without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
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The atonement that Yache was to come and do was prophesied in the law and the prophets {Luke 24:44-49} so that men may repent and have remission of sins that are past {Rom 3:25} and bring forth fruit worthy of repentance by turning from the power of Satan unto Alahayim {Acts 26:16-18} being doers of the Law of the Commandments abstaining from sin and the lusts of the flesh by faith in Christ and because of their faith in Christ unto justification.
Luk 24:44-47
And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. 45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, 46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: 47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
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He fulfilled the prophecies concerning him regarding his death and resurrection yet he did not destroy the commandments of the law nor prophets by offering himself as a sacrifice.
Mat 5:17
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
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He did fulfill suffering and rising the third day, yet there are more prophecies he must fulfill and the law shall endure until all be fulfilled:
Mat 5:18
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
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Paul was simply preaching that Alahayim sent his Son to offer himself for us that we may be justified by faith in him; {Gal 3:24} the righteousness of Alahayim is faith in Yache Christ's blood for remission of sins that are past because we believe in Yache; {Rom 3:25-26} our faith should work by love {Gal 5:6} being doers of the Law of the commandments to be justified; {Rom 2:13} and we should live by our faith being just as doers of the Law of the Commandments. {Rom 1:17}
Rom 3:26
To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Yache.
Rom 2:13
For not the hearers of the law are just before Alahayim, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
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The law will endure until all things be fulfilled so justification comes by faith in Yache's blood and being a doer of the Law of the Commandments as an example of a believer {1 Tim 4:12} and a living sacrifice {Rom 12:1-2} by awaking to righteousness and not sinning. {1 Cor 15:34} We must obtain justification by believing in Christ and being doers of the law because we cannot be justified without both:
Rom 2:12
For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
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Paul relayed the just shall live by faith {Rom 1:17} in Christ's blood to justify them in conscience believing they have an atonement for the sins that are past so there is no boasting in "the works" of performing offerings and sacrifices since by "the deeds" no flesh shall be justified:
Rom 3:27
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
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Paul was clear that there was nothing to boast in the works of the law for in animal sacrifices because it is the law of faith in the blood of Christ that justifies us, not the blood of bulls and goats or offerings of meat and drinks.
Rom 3:28
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
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Remember the deeds of the law is referring to sacrifices and offerings for sins by the law of Moses, not the commandments of the law because we actually have to do the commandments of the law to be justified {Rom 2:12-13} as the just shall live by faith {Rom 1:17} but we do not have to do the animal sacrifices to be justified {Rom 3:28} because they cant take away sin {Heb 10:4} or perfect the conscience {Heb 9:9} to justify us. {Rom 3:20}
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Paul's Teachings on the Work of the Law
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Paul had to teach the believers the truth of the matter was that the works of sacrifices and offerings by the law would not justify anyone, nor was it necessary to be circumcised as an adult (if prior awareness of the commandment wasn't known to be held accountable) to be saved when one believes in the preaching of faith in the blood of Christ Yache.
Gal 3:1
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Yache Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
Gal 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?
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The question shows that Paul was speaking about whether the works of the law of sacrifices or the hearing of the faith in Yache's sacrifice caused the people to receive the Spirit. There is no account of someone receiving the Spirit by the blood of bulls and goats, but the scriptures show that the hearing of faith in Yache has caused men to receive the Spirit in Acts :10:34-45. So it is evident the answer is the hearing of faith is how we receive the Spirit.
Gal 3:3
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? ​
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As adults, circumcising their flesh would not make them perfect after the hearing of faith is what gave them the Spirit.
Gal 3:4-5
Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. 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?
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He asked them if it was by animal sacrifice that the disciples performed miracles among them or was it by the hearing of faith in Yache's sacrifice. The answer was by the hearing of faith. He goes on to explain that just like Abraham was accounted righteousness by faith in Alahayim, so shall we be accounted righteousness by faith today not by animal sacrifices or circumcision as adults with no prior knowledge of the law requiring it to be done..
Gal 3:6-10
Even as Abraham believed Alahayim, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. 7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. 8 And the scripture, foreseeing that Alahayim would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. 9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. 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.
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As many as are under the works of the law of offerings and sacrifices of animals for justification under the curse of the law to continue in that guilty conscience as those sacrifices could not take away sins which would not lead to receiving the Spirit. On the other hand, Christ became a curse himself to redeem us from the law of offerings and sacrifices to be justified by faith in him to receive the Spirit.
Gal 3:13-14
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: 14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Yache Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
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Christ had to come deliver us from the curse of the law of sacrifices for justification because the law of offerings and sacrifices could not justify us in the sight of Alahayim
Rom 3:20
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight:
Gal 3:11
But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of Alahayim, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
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Paul was not saying a man who does the commandments of the Law cannot be justified because the doers of the law shall be justified. {Rom 2:13}
Rom 2:13
(For not the hearers of the law are just before Alahayim, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
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He is not contradicting himself in Galatians 3:11 because doing the commandments of the law justifies us before Alahayim but the works {Gal 3:11} and deeds {Rom 3:20} of the law, in the sacrifices and offerings for when one transgresses the commandments of the law, cannot justify anyone before Alahayim. He was just saying "the just" which are doers of the law, shall live by faith in Yache's blood not the blood of bulls and goats to be justified.​
Gal 3:12
And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
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The law of sacrifices and offerings of bulls and goats for sin is not of faith in Yache's blood for atonement and the person who does those sacrifices, they will live in those sacrifices which cannot take away sins {Heb 10:4} rather than living by faith in Christ Yache.
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In Galatians, Paul was referring to the sacrifices and offerings as "the law" that was added 430 years after Abraham received the promise because of transgressions of the commandments of the Law:
Gal 3:17
And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of Alahayim in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
Gal 3:19
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
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Remember "sin is the transgression of the Law" {I John 3:4} of the commandments so the commandments of the Law weren't "added because of transgressions" since it is through the commandments of the Law that one knows what a transgression is. {Rom 7:7-10} This helps understand "the law" Paul is referring to is the sacrifices that were added because of transgressions of the commandments. Gal 3:17 and 19 confirms that the works of the law is referring to the sacrifices and offerings for sins, not the actual commandments of the law. Though the law of sacrifices and offerings were added because of transgression and cannot disannul the promises of Alahayim to Abraham, they also are not against the promises of Alahayim either.​
Gal 3:21
Is the law then against the promises of Alahayim? Alahayim forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
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Paul explained in Gal 3:21 that the law of sacrifices were not against the promises of Alahayim because they had to be added because of transgression as our school master to bring us unto Christ Yache who was to come fulfill them. He showed if the law of animal sacrifices could have truly purged the conscience from sin to give life, then the righteousness of Alahayim would have been by the law of sacrifices but since the sacrifices could not take away sin, all were under sin waiting upon Christ to come set them that believe free
Gal 3:22-23
But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Yache Christ might be given to them that believe. 23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
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The sacrifices and offerings were teachers to prepare us to believe in Christ that we may be justified by that faith.
Gal 3:25-26
But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. 26 For ye are all the children of Alahayim by faith in Christ Yache.
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Paul explained faith in Christ makes us children of Alahayim, not living under the school master of doing sacrifices and offerings for sin. ​​
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Understanding "the Letter" ​
Rom 2:17
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of Alahayim, ​
Rom 2:18
And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
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The commandments is what give us understanding of Alahayim’s will and the things that are excellent which helps understand that Paul is referring to the commandments in this chapter.
Rom 2:19
And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
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The commandment enlightens the eye to guide the blind, and the law is a light for them that are in darkness, so it confirms he is referring to the commandments here, not the sacrifices and offerings.
Pro 6:23
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
Psa 19:8
The statutes of Ahayah are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of Ahayah is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Rom 2:20
An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
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The scriptures were given to instruct and teach, {II Tim 3:17-18} so it further confirms that he is referring to the commandments.
Rom 2:21
Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? ​
Rom 2:22
Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
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These are all things that are forbidden according to the commandments. The person who makes the boast of the law and yet breaks them is blaspheming the name of Alahayim because it is hypocrisy to teach another and not be doers of the law ourselves. {Rom 2:13}
Rom 2:23
Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou Alahayim?
Rom 2:24
For the name of Alahayim is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
Rom 2:25
For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
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Rom 2:25 shows that being circumcised is actually profitable if you actually keep the commandments of the law, but if you don’t keep the commandments you are uncircumcised in heart. This further shows that in this chapter, “the law” is not referring to sacrifices and offerings, but the commandments, statutes, and judgments.
Rom 2:26
Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
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In Rom 2:26, he testifies that if the Gentiles keep the righteousness of the law by not breaking the commandments, statutes and judgements, they will be counted as circumcised in heart because they are just and live by faith in Christ's blood {Rom 1:17} being servants in obedience unto righteousness. {Rom 6:16} In the next verse he is going to show that "the letter" is not in reference to the commandments because the Jews who trusted in "the letter" and circumcision were still transgressing “righteousness of the law” which are the commandments, statutes and judgements.
Rom 2:27
And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fullfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
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Paul shows "the letter" and "the law" are two different things because the Jews were by "the letter" trusting in the offering and sacrifices of animals but transgressors of "the law" of the commandments. The Letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life because the Spirit purges the conscience through Yache's blood from sin and writes the commandments into our hearts that we may live a life in righteousness unto Alahayim by obedience to the commandments through faith in Yache Christ.
2Co 3:6
Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
2Co 3:3
Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living Alahayim; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
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​So the Spirit giveth life because She has written on our hearts so that we would be doers of the law because of our faith in Christ unto justification. On the opposite side, the Letter, which kills, was the ministration of death written on stones:
2Co 3:7
But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
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Through Christ, the ministration of death which held us bringing forth fruit unto death through the motions of sin was to be done away:
Rom 7:5-6
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. 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.
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We are delivered from the ministration of death through the law of sacrifices and offerings according to the letters written on the stones given to Moses to serve Alahayim in newness of spirit by the ministration of the Spirit's writings on our hearts:
2Co 3:8-9
How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? ​9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
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This ministration of righteousness by faith in Yache written on our hearts by the Spirit to be doers of the commandments unto justification exceeds the ministration of condemnation through the Letter written on stones in glory because it frees us from sin and purges our conscience to bring forth fruits unto righteousness:
Rom 6:22
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to Alahayim, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
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In closing, "Works" or "the Works of the Law" can refer to either the circumcision as an adult or offerings and sacrifices of animals in scripture. The Deeds of the Law are referring to the sacrifices and offerings of the Law that were added to atone for sins [Lev 16:29-34] due to transgressions {Gal 3:19} against the Law of the Commandments {1 Joh 3:4} ; Gal 3:17,19}