The Law Reveals the Lack of Our Love.

 We know sin by the law.

When we do not love God- we sin.

When we do not love others- we sin.

We are not forced to love anyone at all whatsoever.  Love is a selflessness that is only perfected in God. Love is a self-sacrifice, a complete and utter sacrifice of self without thought of self-preservation. You are not forced to love. You can go your whole life with the intent not to love God, He will not force you to love Him. He's explained to all what He is, what He's done for us, how things are. He's made no bones about what is expected from us as His creatures. He's given us a brain that can think all on its own and allowed us to make a choice to love Him or not. He's even allowed us to have the thought that He is not our Creator, He forced NOTHING of Himself upon us. We choose.  

Love. 

Without love we sin, the law tells us this. 

Mat 22:37  Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 

Mat 22:38  This is the first and great commandment. 

Mat 22:39  And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 

Mat 22:40  On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. 

The law reveals sin. The law reveals the lack of our love.

The royal law, the ten commandments written by the finger of God Himself in stone and placed inside the ark of the covenant put in the most holy place of the sanctuary beneath the mercy seat between covering angels, the place where God would meet with His people. This royal law of all the laws given was the only set of laws put inside the ark of the covenant. This royal law encompassed the laws to love God and the laws to love our neighbors (all others). These love laws truly do reveal our LACK of love. When we break a law we are unloving of either God or man. We sin by the law because the law reveals the sin. 

As we pursue self-love we sin, yet so many people would have us believe that self is most important above all else. Satan would have us believe this so completely it's incredibly hard for us to break away from the desire for self-contentment, self-peace, self-satisfaction and so on.

God, please help us to be loving, not self absorbed in any way. Guide us to this end according to Your will that we LOVE YOU and LOVE OTHERS. All through Jesus Christ our LORD and SAVIOR, now and forever!  Amen!

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Articles on Romans  by E. J. Waggoner Chapter 7

Sin by the Law. 

The apostle says that 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." What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Far from it. The law is righteousness. But it is only by the law that sin is known. "Sin is not imputed when there is no law." "The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law." 1 Cor. 15:56. "Sin is the transgression of the law." So there can be no sin but by the law. But the law is not sin; for if it were, it would not reprove sin. To convince of sin is the work of the Spirit of God, and not of Satan. He would make us believe that sin is right.