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18 For [gar] if [ei] I build [oikodomeo] again [palin] the things [tauta] which [hos] I destroyed, [kataluo] I make [sunistao] myself [emautou] a transgressor. [parabates] KJV-Interlinear
18 "For if I rebuild what I have once destroyed, I prove myself to be a transgressor. NASB All of the scriptures of the Old Testament, are about Jesus Christ, Jn. 5:39, 46; Lk. 24:27. Jesus Christ came to fulfill the Law of Moses, Matt. 5:17-18. The Law was kept perfectly by Christ, Rom. 10:4, and therefore fulfilled by Christ. No one ever fulfilled the Law or any or all of its requirements in all of human history, except Christ. And yet even His fulfillment did not provide salvation for humanity, but it did qualify Him for being the perfect and only redeemer for the securing of salvation for all of humanity. Therefore to revisit the Law, which has been fulfilled and therefore no longer applicable to anyone, is to reinvent sin and the old ways prior to salvation. Peter and the Apostles were trying to reinvent and apply the requirements of the Law, and in particular the principle of circumcision, as a requirement of salvation. And in that attempt, they were returning to the old ways and returning themselves to the status of sin or transgressors, by defying the new principle of salvation by faith, not of works. If a thing has been destroyed, then it needs to remain destroyed. If the thing is evil in itself, then if does not need to be brought back to resume its promotion of evil. Peter and the Apostles previously mentioned, were trying to appease both traditional Jews and the gentiles by playing both sides of a cultural ritual game. This was just an early application of political correctness, which whenever it is applied in life, becomes an evil in itself. To try to reinvent again something that Christ had already completed was not only a sin, but an insult to all that Christ had done. So, Paul states in the first person, 'I,' meaning to apply this principle to anyone including himself. But the reference is to Peter and the Apostles for the practices that they had been pursuing, but also to you and me and to everyone in general who tries this. If you try to do something that Christ has already fulfilled, like works, then you are transgressing the very principle of His work, and that makes you a sinner merely by the nature of your insult, which is a form of rejection of what Christ has already accomplished. Christ did the work of salvation. You cannot do anything to add to that work. You cannot do anything to improve upon His work. You cannot do anything that would be a better substitute for His work. So do-gooders or workers for the Lord take heed, lest your very pattern of life disqualify you from spiritual advancement.
Now is the time to post a prayer. End Of Lesson Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth. |
