The ministration of righteousness

2Co 3:9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

Truly when the moral ten commandments were given they were given as a blessing to God's people. God who rescued His people from SLAVERY through miraculous means, truly miraculous means. God who revealed His love for those who would be His, revealed His glory to them.  The ten moral laws meant to be a standard, meant to be a revelation of God's love to be kept out of love for Him, to reveal OUR willingness to understand His love, were truly a part of the ministration of condemnation.   The moral ten commandments reveal the truth of our inability to obey perfectly.  We might go through our entire lives never murdering anyone, never committing adultery, never stealing, never putting another before God, etc, but we will never go through our entire lives without breaking at least one of those commandments whichever it may be. Some of us will go through life breaking many of the commandments unfortunately.   The fact is the law was kept only perfectly and completely by one human being and that human being was Jesus Christ, God's only begotten Son, God in the flesh, God who divested Himself of His divinity to become fully and wholly human. When the law was kept perfectly by Jesus Christ, God with us, His grace became fully and wholly available to all who choose to believe in His grace, His ability to save us.  It is Christ's righteousness and the ministration of Christ's righteousness that exceeds in glory.  The revelation of the love of God given in the ten moral laws reveal the glory of God, the revelation of the love of God given in the sacrifice of our Savior reveals the exceeding glory in the love of the law.  God is love, and if we love God we keep His commandments because we realize they too are the revelation of love. When we fail to see the love in the law we fail to see the glory of God. All too often we truly fail to see the love in the law and instead we just see restrictions, we just see our own failures. And we need to see our failures to see His glory. He is our GOD, He is our EVERYTHING, He is  all we need.

Too many would have us believe that the law - the moral ten commandments were done away with as if they were no longer important- they fail to see the love in that law, the law our Savior kept.

Logic tells us that to sin or be a sinner we must be doing something. If there is no defining sin then no one sins and we know that isn't true. We know there is a great wrongness in our world and that wrongness comes from somewhere. We know that the word of God defines sin the transgression of the law.  The law was defined clearly for us in the ten moral commandments given by God to His people so they'd know what they were doing, how they were transgressing by not keeping that law.

When the Savior came- He came and kept the law perfectly and He did so while showing His love.  If you believe in Christ then you must believe in the laws He kept perfectly. You must believe He revealed their LOVE perfectly.

1Jn_3:4  Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

Joh_14:15  If ye love me, keep my commandments.

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.

Jesus came to prove the law was GOOD, not to DESTROY the law. Clearly He would have told us if He was abolishing or changing the moral law of God. He told those who were keeping the law that they were doing good!  He told people to go and sin no more and what is sinning? Transgressing the law. If Jesus were doing away with the law then there would be no sin to do no more.

The glory of the law of condemnation was amazing but our Savior KEEPING that law perfectly was exceedingly glorious!

May God bless us, and keep us IN HIM in the love of HIM who kept the LAW perfectly.  All in His glorious love!

Amen.