1. "I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD. YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME." EX20:2,3
2."YOU SHALL NOT MAKE UNTO YOU ANY GRAVEN IMAGE, OR ANY LIKENESS OF ANY THING THAT IS IN HEAVEN ABOVE, OR THAT IS IN THE EARTH BENEATH, OR THAT IS IN THE WATER UNDER THE EARTH. YOU SHALL NOT BOW DOWN TO THEM, NOR SERVE THEM: FOR I THE LORD THY GOD AM A JEALOUS GOD." EX20:4-6
3. "YOU SHALL NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THE LORD YOUR GOD IN VAIN; FOR THE LORD WILL NOT HOLD HIM GUILTLESS THAT TAKES HIS NAME IN VAIN. " EX20:7
4. "REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY, TO KEEP IT HOLY." EX20:8
5."HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER: THAT YOUR DAYS MAY BE LONG UPON THE LAND WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD GIVES YOU" EX20:12
6. "YOU SHALL NOT KILL." EX20:13
7. "YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY." EX20:14
8. "YOU SHALL NOT STEAL." EX20:15
9."YOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST YOUR NEIGHBOR." EX20:16
10."YOU SHALL NOT COVET YOUR NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE; YOU SHALL NOT COVET YOUR NEIGHBOR'S WIFE; NOR ANY THING THAT IS YOUR NEIGHBOR'S." EX20:17
HOW STRICT IS GOD'S LAW?
FOR WHOEVER KEEPS THE WHOLE LAW AND YET STUMBLES AT JUST ONE POINT IS GUILTY OF BREAKING ALL OF IT. JA2:10
THE LAW WORKS WRATH. RO4:15
WHAT IS JESUS CHRIST'S RELATIONSHIP TO THE LAW?
WHEREFORE THE LAW WAS OUR SCHOOLMASTER TO BRING US TO CHRIST, THAT WE MIGHT BE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH. GA3:24
FOR THE LAW WAS GIVEN BY MOSES, BUT GRACE AND TRUTH CAME BY JESUS CHRIST. JN1:17
THE CURSE OF THE LAW
BUT IT SHALL COME TO PASS, IF YOU DO NOT OBEY THE VOICE OF THE LORD YOUR GOD, TO OBSERVE CAREFULLY ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS AND HIS STATUTES WHICH I COMMAND YOU TODAY, THAT ALL THESE CURSES WILL COME UPON YOU AND OVERTAKE YOU:
DE28:15
ALSO EVERY SICKNESS AND EVERY PLAGUE, WHICH IS NOT WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK OF THE LAW, WILL THE LORD BRING UPON YOU UNTIL YOU ARE DESTROYED. DE28:61
CHRIST HAS REDEEMED US FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW, HAVING BEEN MADE A CURSE FOR US (FOR IT IS WRITTEN, "CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO HANGS ON A TREE"), GA3:13
THAT THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAM MIGHT COME UPON THE GENTILES IN CHRIST JESUS, THAT WE MIGHT RECEIVE THE PROMISE OF THE SPIRIT THROUGH FAITH. GA3:14
I WILL NOT FRUSTRATE THE GRACE OF GOD: FOR IF RIGHTEOUSNESS COMES BY THE LAW, THEN CHRIST DIED IN VAIN. GA2:21
GOOD CLEAN LIVING
BEING A "GOOD" PERSON WILL NOT JUSTIFY ANYONE WITH GOD. GOD SAVED US ACCORDING TO HIS OWN PURPOSE AND GRACE, WHICH WAS GIVEN TO US IN CHRIST JESUS BEFORE THE WORLD BEGAN. 2TI1:9
CHRIST IS BECOME OF NO EFFECT UNTO YOU, WHOSOEVER OF YOU ARE JUSTIFIED BY THE LAW; YOU ARE FALLEN FROM GRACE. GA5:4
WHOSOEVER COMMITS SIN TRANSGRESSES ALSO THE LAW: FOR SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW. 1JN3:4
I AM A GOOD PERSON
MOST MEN WILL PROCLAIM EVERY ONE HIS OWN GOODNESS: BUT A FAITHFUL MAN WHO CAN FIND? PR20:6
JUST IN MEN'S EYES ONLY
JESUS SAID TO THE PHARISEES, "YOU ARE THE ONES WHO JUSTIFY YOURSELVES IN THE EYES OF MEN, BUT GOD KNOWS YOUR HEARTS. WHAT IS HIGHLY VALUED AMONG MEN IS DETESTABLE IN GOD'S SIGHT." LU16:15
BUT THAT NO MAN IS JUSTIFIED BY THE LAW IN THE SIGHT OF GOD, IT IS EVIDENT: FOR THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH. GA3:11
CAN WE BE MADE RIGHT THRU THE LAW?
NO.
BUT NOW THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD WITHOUT THE LAW IS MANIFESTED, BEING WITNESSED BY THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. RO3:21
NO MAN IS JUSTIFIED BY KEEPING THE LAW OF GOD
KNOWING THAT A MAN IS NOT JUSTIFIED BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW, BUT BY THE FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST, EVEN WE HAVE BELIEVED IN JESUS CHRIST, THAT WE MIGHT BE JUSTIFIED BY THE FAITH OF CHRIST, AND NOT BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW: FOR BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW SHALL NO FLESH BE JUSTIFIED. GA2:16
BEING IGNORANT OF GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS
FOR I BEAR THEM RECORD THAT THEY HAVE A ZEAL OF GOD, BUT NOT ACCORDING TO KNOWLEDGE. RO10:2
FOR THEY BEING IGNORANT OF GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND GOING ABOUT TO ESTABLISH THEIR OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS, HAVE NOT SUBMITTED THEMSELVES UNTO THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD. RO10:3
FOR CHRIST IS THE END OF THE LAW FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS TO EVERY ONE THAT BELIEVES. RO10:4
FOR MOSES DESCRIBED THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS OF THE LAW, THAT THE MAN WHO DOES THOSE THINGS SHALL LIVE BY THEM. RO10:5
IF YOU CHOOSE TO LIVE BY THE LAW, YOU WILL BE JUDGED BY THE LAW
FOR NOT THE HEARERS OF THE LAW ARE JUST BEFORE GOD, BUT THE DOERS OF THE LAW SHALL BE JUSTIFIED. RO2:13
THE LAW WAS WEAK THROUGH THE FLESH.
FOR WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO, IN THAT IT WAS WEAK THROUGH THE FLESH, GOD SENDING HIS OWN SON IN THE LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH, AND FOR SIN, CONDEMNED SIN IN THE FLESH: RO8:3
THAT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE LAW MIGHT BE FULFILLED IN US, WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH, BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT. RO8:4
WHO COMMITTED THE FIRST SIN?
ADAM.
FOR AS IN ADAM ALL DIE, EVEN SO IN CHRIST ALL SHALL BE MADE ALIVE. 1CO15:22
WHY IS GOD SO STRONG AGAINST SIN?
FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH; BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. RO6:23
THE EFFECT OF SIN?
BUT YOUR INIQUITIES HAVE SEPARATED YOU FROM YOUR GOD; AND YOUR SINS HAVE HIDDEN HIS FACE FROM YOU, SO THAT HE WILL NOT HEAR. IS59:2
WHAT WAS GOD'S SOLUTION FOR SIN?
FOR GOD MADE JESUS, WHO KNEW NO SIN, TO BE SIN FOR US, THAT WE MIGHT BECOME THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IN HIM. 2CO5:21
BUT WHEN THE FULLNESS OF THE TIME HAD COME, GOD SENT FORTH HIS SON, BORN OF A WOMAN, BORN UNDER THE LAW, TO REDEEM THOSE WHO WERE UNDER THE LAW; THAT WE MIGHT RECEIVE THE ADOPTION AS SONS. GA4:4,5
SO LOVED
FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. JN3:16
THE GOODNESS OF GOD
GOD, I WILL NOT BE SO BLIND AS TO DESPISE; AND UNDERESTIMATE THE WEALTH OF YOUR KINDNESS, AND FORBEARANCE, AND LONG-SUFFERING PATIENCE. YOU ARE NOT WILLING THAT I SHOULD PERISH. I AM MINDFUL OF THE FACT THAT YOUR KINDNESS IS INTENDED TO LEAD ME TO REPENTANCE. RO2:4 (AMP);2PE3:9
GRACE
FOR SIN SHALL NOT HAVE DOMINION OVER ME, FOR I AM NOT UNDER THE LAW; BUT UNDER GRACE. RO6:14
I WILL NOT QUESTION, CONTRADICT, IGNORE, OR DEFLECT YOUR WORD.
QUESTIONING
NOW THE SERPENT WAS MORE CUNNING THAN ANY BEAST OF THE FIELD WHICH THE LORD GOD HAD MADE. AND HE SAID TO THE WOMAN, "HAS GOD INDEED SAID, YOU SHALL NOT EAT OF EVERY TREE OF THE GARDEN"? GE3:1
CONTRADICTING
THEN THE SERPENT SAID TO THE WOMAN, "YOU WILL NOT SURELY DIE. FOR GOD KNOWS THAT IN THE DAY YOU EAT OF IT YOUR EYES WILL BE OPENED, AND YOU WILL BE LIKE GOD, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL." GE3:4-5
IGNORING
SO WHEN THE WOMAN SAW THAT THE TREE WAS GOOD FOR FOOD, THAT IT WAS PLEASANT TO THE EYES, AND A TREE DESIRABLE TO MAKE ONE WISE, SHE TOOK OF ITS FRUIT AND ATE. SHE ALSO GAVE TO HER HUSBAND WITH HER, AND HE ATE. GE3:6
DEFLECTING
AND HE SAID, "WHO TOLD YOU THAT YOU WERE NAKED? HAVE YOU EATEN FROM THE TREE OF WHICH I COMMANDED YOU THAT YOU SHOULD NOT EAT?" GE3:11
THEN THE MAN SAID, "THE WOMAN WHOM YOU GAVE TO BE WITH ME, SHE GAVE ME OF THE TREE, AND I ATE." GE3:12
AND THE LORD GOD SAID TO THE WOMAN, "WHAT IS THIS YOU HAVE DONE?" THE WOMAN SAID, "THE SERPENT DECEIVED ME, AND I ATE." GE3:13
GRACE ABOUNDS MORE
MOREOVER THE LAW ENTERED, THAT THE OFFENCE MIGHT ABOUND. BUT WHERE SIN ABOUNDED, GRACE DID MUCH MORE ABOUND:
RO5:20
THAT AS SIN HAS REIGNED UNTO DEATH, EVEN SO MIGHT GRACE REIGN THROUGH RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO ETERNAL LIFE BY JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.
RO5:20-21;6:1
SHOULD WE CONTINUE IN SIN?
WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? SHALL WE CONTINUE IN SIN, THAT GRACE MAY ABOUND? GOD FORBID. HOW SHALL WE, THAT ARE DEAD TO SIN, LIVE ANY LONGER THEREIN? RO6:1-2
JESUS, I KNOW THIS: THAT MY OLD MAN IS CRUCIFIED WITH YOU; THAT THE BODY OF SIN MIGHT BE RENDERED IDLE; INACTIVE; INOPERATIVE; THAT HENCEFORTH I SHOULD NOT SERVE SIN. RO6:6
LORD, YOU DIED UNTO SIN, ONCE: YOU LIVE FOR GOD FOREVER. RO6:10
IN THE SAME WAY I LOOK UPON MYSELF AS DEAD TO THE APPEAL, AND POWER OF SIN; BUT ALIVE AND SENSITIVE TO THE CALL OF GOD; THROUGH YOU, JESUS CHRIST, MY LORD. RO6:11
TO WHOM I PRESENT MYSELF, AS A SLAVE FOR OBEDIENCE, I AM A SLAVE OF THE ONE WHOM I OBEY; EITHER OF SIN RESULTING IN DEATH; OR OF OBEDIENCE RESULTING IN RIGHTEOUSNESS. RO6:16
REBELLION AND STUBBORNNESS
FOR REBELLION IS AS THE SIN OF WITCHCRAFT, AND STUBBORNNESS IS AS INIQUITY AND IDOLATRY. 1SA15:23
LUSTS
I AM DRAWN AWAY OF MY OWN LUSTS AND ENTICED. JA1:14
SOWING TO THE FLESH
IF I SOW TO THE FLESH, OF THE FLESH I WILL REAP CORRUPTION. IF I SOW TO THE SPIRIT, OF THE SPIRIT I WILL REAP LIFE EVERLASTING. GA6:8
CARNALLY MINDED
TO BE CARNALLY MINDED IS DEATH; BUT TO BE SPIRITUALLY MINDED IS LIFE AND PEACE. RO8:6
SATAN
DO NOT REJOICE OVER ME, SATAN. THOUGH I FALL I WILL RISE. THOUGH I DWELL IN DARKNESS, THE LORD WILL BE A LIGHT FOR ME. MI7:8
LORD, YOUR HAND IS NOT SHORTENED, THAT IT CANNOT SAVE; NEITHER YOUR EAR HEAVY, THAT IT CANNOT HEAR: IS59:1
BUT INIQUITY SEPARATES BETWEEN YOU AND I; AND SIN HIDES YOUR FACE FROM ME; THAT YOU WILL NOT HEAR. IS59:2
IF, IN MY LIFE, THERE IS STEALING, KILLING, AND DESTRUCTION; IT IS EVIDENCE THAT I HAVE TRANSGRESSED; AND THAT I HAVE BEEN JUDGED. PR13:15;LU6:37;JN14:13
THESE CURSES ARE A CONSEQUENCE OF DISOBEDIENCE TO YOU, GOD; WITH A DOOR OPENED TO SATAN. JOB1:12;JN10:10;14:13;1PE5:8;2TI2:26;MK11:24
I UNCOVER SIN; AND PROSPER; AND I CONFESS AND FORSAKE IT: AND RECEIVE MERCY. PR28:13;JN14:13
GOD, WHEN I SIN, I RUN TO YOU, AND NOT FROM YOU.
I CONFESS MY SIN.
FATHER, BECAUSE [OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS; YOUR MERCY; AND YOUR LOVING-KINDNESS; AND BECAUSE] YOU ARE TRUSTWORTHY, AND JUST: YOU FORGIVE ME MY SIN; AND CLEANSE ME FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. 1JN1:9
I DRAW NEAR TO YOU, GOD; FOR YOU TO DRAW NEAR TO ME; AND I CLEANSE MY HANDS; AND I PURIFY MY HEART; FROM BEING DOUBLE MINDED. JA4:8;MK11:24;JN14:13
SEARCH ME, O GOD, AND KNOW MY HEART: TRY ME, AND KNOW MY THOUGHTS: PS139:23
AND SEE IF THERE BE ANY WICKED WAY IN ME; AND LEAD ME IN THE WAY EVERLASTING. PS139:24
EVEN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD WHICH IS BY FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST UNTO ALL AND UPON ALL THEM THAT BELIEVE: FOR THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE: RO3:22
FOR ALL HAVE SINNED, AND COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD; RO3:23
BEING JUSTIFIED FREELY BY HIS GRACE, THROUGH THE REDEMPTION THAT IS IN CHRIST JESUS: RO3:24
WHOM GOD HAS 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 GOD; RO3:25
TO DECLARE, I SAY, AT THIS TIME HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS: THAT HE MIGHT BE JUST, AND THE JUSTIFIER OF HIM WHO BELIEVES IN JESUS. RO3:26
THEREFORE, JUST AS SIN CAME INTO THE WORLD THROUGH ONE MAN, AND DEATH THROUGH SIN, AND SO DEATH SPREAD TO ALL MEN BECAUSE ALL SINNED— RO5:12 (ESV)
FOR SIN INDEED WAS IN THE WORLD BEFORE THE LAW WAS GIVEN, BUT SIN IS NOT COUNTED WHERE THERE IS NO LAW. RO5:13 (ESV)
YET DEATH REIGNED FROM ADAM TO MOSES, EVEN OVER THOSE WHOSE SINNING WAS NOT LIKE THE TRANSGRESSION OF ADAM, WHO WAS A TYPE OF THE ONE WHO WAS TO COME. RO5:14 (ESV)
BUT THE FREE GIFT IS NOT LIKE THE TRESPASS. FOR IF MANY DIED THROUGH ONE MAN'S TRESPASS, MUCH MORE HAVE THE GRACE OF GOD AND THE FREE GIFT BY THE GRACE OF THAT ONE MAN JESUS CHRIST ABOUNDED FOR MANY. RO5:15 (ESV)
AND THE FREE GIFT IS NOT LIKE THE RESULT OF THAT ONE MAN'S SIN. FOR THE JUDGMENT FOLLOWING ONE TRESPASS BROUGHT CONDEMNATION, BUT THE FREE GIFT FOLLOWING MANY TRESPASSES BROUGHT JUSTIFICATION. RO5:16 (ESV)
FOR IF, BECAUSE OF ONE MAN'S TRESPASS, DEATH REIGNED THROUGH THAT ONE MAN, MUCH MORE WILL THOSE WHO RECEIVE THE ABUNDANCE OF GRACE AND THE FREE GIFT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS REIGN IN LIFE THROUGH THE ONE MAN JESUS CHRIST. RO5:17 (ESV)
THEREFORE, AS ONE TRESPASS LED TO CONDEMNATION FOR ALL MEN, SO ONE ACT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS LEADS TO JUSTIFICATION AND LIFE FOR ALL MEN. RO5:18 (ESV)
FOR AS BY THE ONE MAN'S DISOBEDIENCE THE MANY WERE MADE SINNERS, SO BY THE ONE MAN'S OBEDIENCE THE MANY WILL BE MADE RIGHTEOUS. RO5:19 (ESV)
NOW THE LAW CAME IN TO INCREASE THE TRESPASS, BUT WHERE SIN INCREASED, GRACE ABOUNDED ALL THE MORE, RO5:20 (ESV)
SO THAT, AS SIN REIGNED IN DEATH, GRACE ALSO MIGHT REIGN THROUGH RIGHTEOUSNESS LEADING TO ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. RO5:21 (ESV)
FOR SINCE BY A MAN CAME DEATH; BY A MAN ALSO CAME THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD. 1CO15:22
FOR AS IN ADAM ALL DIE, EVEN SO IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE. 1CO15:22