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No amount of “righteous laws”… no particular political party or political candidate… no form of any natural government of any country… no level of any so-called “intelligence” or “brilliance”… no amount of “gifts, talents, and human abilities”… and (most certainly) no amount of money or wealth… can ever possibly keep up with, much less “fix” or “solve,” all of the lusts of our flesh, the lusts of our eyes, and the pride of “our life”. None of the above-mentioned things are of any power to communicate and project into the human heart the true image and likeness of our Heavenly Father; as He is only seen in, and by, and through, and because of The Lamb.
Only The Foolishness of God, or The Pure Gospel of The Lamb & His Finished Work, is of power to transform the human heart into the very habitation of the love of God, toward all men and women. It would greatly behoove us, do us some utmost good, to remember these words penned by Apostle Paul. For these are the very words of Jesus Himself, even some of the “unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter” which Paul heard when he was caught up (raptured) to the third heaven into paradise:
“…for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. But the scripture hath concluded all under sin…,” and again,
“But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”
By the Law is the knowledge of sin; and since when is the knowledge of sin our savior?? Sin is self-worship, true unrighteousness or self-righteousness. The strength of sin… of self-worship or self-righteousness… is the Law! The longer we continue under our presumption of thinking that we must still keep the Law, in order to make and keep our Heavenly Father happy with us; the more and more we will continue to suffer (thereby causing others to suffer) from our condescending, pretentious narcissism, stemming from our current, raging identity crisis and massive inferiority complex… turning everything into a self-absorbed competition, and everyone else into our competitors, opponents, or adversaries. We are become, in the truest sense of the word, “satan” or “satanic,” adversarial and hostile… toward one another!
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