The Impossible Law of Moses vs. Gospel Righteousness and Transformation

The Impossible Law of Moses vs

The Impossible Law of Moses vs. Gospel Righteousness and Transformation

A Gospel Tip by Roger Himes, The Gospel Coach, Castle Pines, Colorado USA

In the Garden of Eden, after we humans ate from the forbidden tree, The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, God required the impossible from us. The Tree of Knowledge basically required an impossible lifestyle.

In the Old Testament, the impossible life was by means of the law of Moses. This defined The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil to the Nth degree. The law defined everything good, and everything bad that man could do.

Total compliance was demanded. James says that, under this system, "Whoever shall keep the whole law, but shall offend in one point, he is guilty of all." This caused the Apostle Paul to write, "There is none righteous, no not one. All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." Of course, righteousness is what God demands from us if we are to relate to him.

WE COULD NOT LIVE BY THE IMPOSSIBLE BEHAVIOR CODE OF THE LAW!

In the New Testament, The Tree of Life was re-instituted at the cross. Mankind had lived by The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil for 4,000 years. Now, in Hebrews Paul says there was total 'reformation.'

God still requires the impossible from us, but not in the form of behavior, under the law. Paul says the New has been established in place of the Old - it has replaced the Old (See Heb 10:9, Eph 2:15, Col 2:14).

But the New Testament still requires the impossible: we are called to believe the impossible. We are called to believe in our total imparted righteousness, even though we are not totally righteous in our behavior.

WE ARE NOW CALLED TO A LIFE OF BELIEF, NOT BEHAVIOR.

All of the Old Testament prophets focused on sin, including John the Baptist, who is found in our New Testament. Their message was very simply, "Repent from sin" (Mark 1:4). The focus was on behavior.

But Jesus focused on belief, not behavior. He seldom mentions sin. His focus is belief, not sin and behavior. Instead, he preached the gospel of the kingdom of God: "Repent and believe the gospel" (Mark 1:14-15).

Jesus knows a secret most of us have yet to discover. This is that correct belief will eventually produce good behavior, but good behavior will never produce correct belief.

THE POWER OF LIVING LIFE IN THE GOSPEL

What you will discover in GOSPEL TIPS is the power of gospel belief will transform your life!

The gospel is a heart gospel: it comes from the inside and works through us to what we think, do and say. Thus, belief changes behavior. Paul says the Gospel produces good fruit from us (Col 1:5-6). Thus Paul says the gospel is the power of God in us (Rom 1:16-17). It causes us to live better by accident than we ever could on purpose.

Under the Old Covenant law, life was impossible to life. Paul concludes, "There are none righteous, no not one." But in the New Covenant gospel, all believers are righteous in Christ. The Old demanded what it could not produce. The New produces in us what it does not demand.

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