Bought With A Price

In the beginning

MAN (Adam) was given

DOMINION and AUTHORITY

over earth by God.

 

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Because of repeated transgressions

& so that the offences may increase,

& establishes a day when the DEBT – is due

 

THE LAW was ADDED +

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THE LAW now establishes DOMINION & AUTHORITY

OVER Man while he lives

 

 

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Laws are put in place for the well being of others and yourself,

to keep peace and justice, and to establish order.  (ie. for our own good). 

 

Just as the term  “NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW”

is used in our legal system, the same applies for God’s Law

which means you are “UNDER IT”

OUT OF BOUNDS

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DISOBEDIENCE

to the covenant

led to Curses

-vs-

IN BOUNDS

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OBEDIENCE

to the covenant

led to Blessings 

DEuteronomy 30 : Restoration Promised

1And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where the LORD your God has driven you, 2And shall return to the LORD your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul; 3That then the LORD your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the nations, where the LORD your God has scattered you. 4If any of your be driven out to the outmost parts of heaven, from there will the LORD your God gather you, and from there will he fetch you: 5And the LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers.

6And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live. 7And the LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and on them that hate you, which persecuted you. 8And you shall return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command you this day. 9And the LORD your God will make you plenteous in every work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers: 10If you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.

THE CHOICE OF LIFE OR DEATH

11For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not hidden from you, neither is it far off. 12It is not in heaven, that you should say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, that we may hear it, and do it? 13Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, that we may hear it, and do it? 14But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it.

15See, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil; 16In that I command you this day to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that you may live and multiply: and the LORD your God shall bless you in the land where you go to possess it. 17But if your heart turn away, so that you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish, and that you shall not prolong your days on the land, where you pass over Jordan to go to possess it. 19I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your seed may live: 20That you may love the LORD your God, and that you may obey his voice, and that you may hold to him: for he is your life, and the length of your days: that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

The Law serves to warn what will happen due to disobedience

and reward those who are obedient.  This is why we are to fear the Lord.

PSALM 19

7The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. 8The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. 9The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. 10More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. 11Moreover by them is your servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. 13Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. 14Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.   

PSALM 119 : 

49Remember the word to your servant, on which you have caused me to hope.  50This is my comfort in my affliction: for your word has quickened me. 51The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from your law.  I remembered your judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself. 53Horror has taken hold on me because of the wicked that forsake your law.  54Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. 55I have remembered your name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept your law. 56This I had, because I kept your precepts.

 

THE LAW ESTABLISHES

 

THE LAW of SIN & DEATH,

EVIL & CURSING

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THE LAW is Spiritual but we are carnal,

SOLD UNDER THE LAW of SIN and DEATH ,

because we have all sinned

and fallen short of His RIGHTEOUSNESS .

 

SIN is an Archers term for

“MISSING THE MARK”. 

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THE LAW of RIGHTEOUSNESS & TRUTH, LIFE,

GOOD, & BLESSINGS

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If there was no mark or target, 

there would be no way of distinguishing if their arrow landed in the correct place. 

 

The LAW establishes the mark

which we are to aim, which is

RIGHTEOUSNESS and TRUTH. 

Romans 8 :No Condemnation in Christ

1There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 3For 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: 4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 5For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

Sin does not exist without the Law. 

 

The Law is not sin, but it gives life to it, by defining what sin is. 

 

Sin is defined as transgression of the Law.

 

EXAMPLE:

 

There would be nothing considered ILLEGAL if 

STATE or FEDERAL LAW did not define it. 

ROMANS 7 : GOD’S LAW IS HOLY

7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. No, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, You shall not covet. 8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, worked in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. 9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be to death. 11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. 12Why the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. 

STRUGGLING WITH SIN

13Was then that which is good made death to me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. 14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. 16If then I do that which I would not, I consent to the law that it is good. 17Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me. 18For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. 19For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me. 21I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. 22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.  

ROMANS 4:15

Because the Law Works Wrath: for where No Law is, there is no transgression.

A law does not take effect until broken.   

When it is transgressed, it works wrath and debt.

 

EXAMPLE:

 

If you are convicted of a felony by transgressing a man made law,

you are in debt to repay society by serving time in prison,

therefore a slave and in bondage to it.

The covenant made with Israel did not make them Righteous,

it made them in debt to do the whole Law.

 

EXAMPLE:

 

Becoming a US citizen makes you in debt

to act within all the Laws set forth in the constitution

THE LAW of SIN and DEATH  works DEBT and BONDAGE

and ultimately WRATH & JUDGEMENT based off the CURSES it enacts

 

 

Every sin committed is like borrowing money

that you have no way of paying back.

The Debt from Sin continues to Pile up.

 

 

EXAMPLE:

 

The US is over $20 Trillion in debt, with no possible way to repay it,

and each day that debt continues to grow. 

Our debt has doubled just within the past 10 years.  

 It has increased at a compounded (exponential)

annual rate of about 9% per year since 1971.

    

Every Transgression of the Law Adds to the Wrath being piled up

and ultimately a due date for when the debt is due to be paid…

where the curses enacted in the LAW ultimately devour the earth

 

What’s the point in trying to obey the Law if Righteousness cannot be obtained from the Law?

Under the Old Covenant they were counted righteous for striving for obedience to the Law. 

Those who strived to keep the Law through faith is analogous to them doing everything they could to pay down the debt owed through obedience.  God in turn, because of his grace, allowed them to take part in the Promises and Blessings they were bearing Fruit towards God.  Those who rebel, is analogous to not paying anything down on the mortgage and bear no fruit towards God. 

 

EXAMPLE:

If a mortgage lender sees you are doing everything you can to pay down the mortgage, the lender will not foreclose on the house because it is still bearing them some profit.  However if you just bail, and make no effort to pay the bills the lender will take the house from you. 

THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH

 

The sacrificial system required the blood shed

of an innocent animal to cover the sins from God eyes

 

Because The Law states, there is no REMISSION OF SIN

without the shedding of blood,

God sent his only begotten son to be a PROPITIATION for our sin.

 

REMISSION is the cancellation of a debt,  charge, or penalty. 

WE ARE NOT LONGER SOLD UNDER

THE LAW of  SIN and DEATH

BECAUSE HE REDEEMED US BY PAYING THE PENALTY OF SIN FOR US,

OUR DEBT IS NOW SATISFIED

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WE ARE NOW UNDER HIS BLOOD &

THE LAW of  RIGHTEOUSNESS and TRUTH

THROUGH FAITH IN HIS BLOOD

WHICH COVERS OUR SINS

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We are JUSTIFIED (declared RIGHTEOUS) 

and SAVED from WRATH through Him by FAITH 

in His Blood that was shed for us.

Strong’s Greek Concordance

Justified ^[g1344] δικαιόω dikaióō^,  occurs 48 times in 36 verses

• to render righteous or such he ought to be

• to show, exhibit, evince, one to be righteous, such as he is and wishes himself to be considered

• to declare, pronounce, one to be just, righteous, or such as he ought to be

•  from G1342; to render (i.e. show or regard as) just or innocent:—free, justify(-ier), be righteous.

 

Not because we deserved it, or through adherence to the Law, 

but through our Faith in the one who did fulfill all Righteousness on our behalf.

 

THIS DOES NOT MAKE THE LAW VOID however, it ESTABLISHES THE LAW

 

EXAMPLE:

 

If we were charged with murder, and we were somehow acquitted (Grace/Mercy),

this should make me even more gracious and mindful of never doing it again (obedience) 

 

OUR DEBT IS NOW SATISFIED

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Strong’s Hebrew Concordance

Reconcile ^[h3722]כָּפַר kâphar^, occurs 102 times in 94 verses

• to cover, purge, make an atonement, make reconciliation, cover over with pitch

• a primitive root; to cover (specifically with bitumen);
• figuratively, to expiate or condone, to placate or cancel:—appease, make (an atonement, cleanse, disannul, forgive, be merciful, pacify, pardon, purge (away), put off, (make) reconcile(-liation).

Strong’s Greek Concordance

Reconcile ^[h604] apokatallássō  occurs 3 times in 3 verses

1. to reconcile completely

2. to reconcile back again

3. bring back a former state of harmony

Ephesians 2 : One in Christ

11Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)— 12remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. 13But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.

14For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility15by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace 16and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He extinguished their hostility.

17He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. 18For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

Colossians 1 : The Supremacy of Christ  (Hebrews 1:1-14)

15The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him.

17He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. 18And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.19For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him, 20and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross.

21Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds because of your evil deeds. 22But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence— 23if indeed you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant. 

is an accounting process in which two sets of records are compared to make sure that the figures are in agreement.  The goal is to make sure there is no difference between accounts and that the ending balance is $0, and that no mistakes have been made by either party, by matching expenses.

 

to make one account consistent with the other, by allowing for transactions begun but not yet completed.

BANK RECONCILIATION STATEMENT

 

A bank reconciliation statement is used to assure no mistakes were made by either party. 

 

A bank reconciliation statement is a summary of banking and business activity that reconciles an entity’s bank account with its financial records. The statement outlines the deposits, withdrawals and other activity affecting a bank account for a specific period. A bank reconciliation statement is a useful financial internal control tool used to thwart fraud.

 

Bank reconciliation statements ensure payments have been processed and cash collections have been deposited into the bank. The reconciliation statement helps identify differences between the bank balance and book balance, in order to process necessary adjustments or corrections. An accountant typically processes reconciliation statements once a month.

 

• A bank reconciliation statement summarizes banking and business activity, reconciling an entity’s bank account with its financial records.
• Bank reconciliation statements confirm that payments have been processed and cash collections have been deposited into a bank account.
• All fees charged on an account by a bank must be accounted for on a reconciliation statement.
• After all adjustments, the balance on a bank reconciliation statement should equal the ending balance of the bank account

Though we know Christ made it possible for the return to begin, the restoration would not fully come fruition until we were in the 3rd day of the punishment.  Is there a way for us to know where we are  in the grand scheme of things in this timeline?

EZEKIAL 4 : THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PREDICTED 

 In the book of Ezekial, The Northern Kingdom should have begun being restored after390 years, which is331 BC

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• However, history shows that the Northern Kingdom never returned to their land.
•  So what else does Scripture give us that can shed light on this.   
• Let’s look back at his LAW 

390 years x 7 = 2,730 years

1 day =1000 years  

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2009, the same year my grandfathers passed away and God stirred up my heart, began the process of the hearts of the Northern Kingdom coming back to Him in large numbers, thus concluding the Northern Kingdom’s judgement. 

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• Which is after 2 days and in the 3rd of the punishment.
• The work of Christ started the restoration but its in the 3rd day that He completes the restoration.  
• After 2 days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us,  that we may live in his presence.  (as it says in Hosea 6:2)
• He is bringing people back to his ways.

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