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NASB | Matthew 7:23 "And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.' |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 7:23 "And then I will declare to them publicly, 'I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME [you are banished from My presence], YOU WHO ACT WICKEDLY [disregarding My commands].' [Ps 6:8] |
Subject: What is iniquity in Matthew 7:23? |
Bible Note: I can see where we differ greatly according to your post, “You say I want to bring us back to the "law", the "law" never left. Anyone who was born again during the time Messiah was on earth was keeping Torah(law).” For starters no one can keep the law because of our old sin nature. Romans 8:3 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: I came to a point in time in my life when I realized that I had broken the Law and that there was no longer any hope for me, or a way to repair it. I was desperate and needed help because I was falling fast and the ground was coming up in a hurry. The law was to me like the links of a chain that was holding me up over the side of a canyon that was many thousands of feet deep. All I had to do was brake one of those ten links and I found myself heading for the bottom of the canyon at terminal velocity. All of my efforts to repair the brake in any one of the links would be futile since I was already falling. The most fantastic thing happened to me while I was falling; I screamed out for God to help me in my hopeless condition because I couldn’t see any way out of my fatal circumstance. Then along came Jesus with a parachute on, that he hadn’t opened yet, and he said that I could have his parachute and he would hit the bottom for me. What a deal, I accepted the gift that he offered and Jesus hit the bottom for me. Now in effect you are asking me to crawl back up and start over with those 10 links, or however many you imply, of the Law that I can’t keep in the first place, and hang over that cliff of death again? No thinks, I will just rest in the eternal life that Christ Jesus has already given me, past tense, as a free gift; I am perfectly satisfied with the parachute he provided but I wish you the best on your trying to keep the links together, but for me I am trusting in Christ provision. 2 Cor. 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. I am sure glad that God showed me those Laws of his though, because I didn’t really know I was falling until he pointed it out to me. But once I realized it I knew I didn’t have a chance on my own, I needed help and then God pointed me to his solution, his Son and my precious Savior. Have a nice day and especially when you hit the bottom, CDBJ |