What Does it Mean to live

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Sat Apr 16, 11 4:31 am

G-d is Holy. Perfect. That is an infinite statement. Perfect doesn't have a limit. Any change to perfect, and its not perfect anymore. Heaven is the presence of G-d, and is thus, perfect. Nothing can enter Heaven without being Perfect.
G-d gave people, his creation, a standard, measuring his perfection. He keeps this standard perfectly. As creator, and the only one who successfully keeps that standard, it is completely fair of Him to judge humanity by that standard. Indeed it would make Him less holy if He did not! G-d MUST punish sin.
The standard He set has its basis found in the Ten commandments.
"I am Adonai your G-d, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the abode of slavery.
You are to have no other gods before me. Your are not to make for yourselves a carved image of any kind of representation of anything in heaven above or the heart beneath or n the water below the shoreline- you are not to bow down to them or serce the; for I, Adonai your God amd a jealous God, punishing the children for the sins of the parents, also the third and fourth generation fo those who hate me, but displaying grace to the thousandth generation of those who love me and obey my mitzvot.
You are not to misuse the name of Adonai your God, because Adonai will not leave unpunished someone who misuses his name
Observe the day of Shabbat, to set it apart as holy, as Adonai your God ordered you to do. You have six days to labor and to all your work, but the seventh day is a Shabbatfor Adonai your God. On it you are not to do any kind of work - not you, your son or your daughter, not your male or female slave, not your ox, your donkey or any of your other livestock, and no the foreigner staying with you inside the gates to your property - so that your male and female servants can rest just as you to. You are to remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Adonai your God brought you out from there with a strong hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore Adonai your God ahas ordered you to keep the say of Shabbat.
Honor your father and mother, as Adonai your God ordered you to to, so that you will love long and have things go well with you in the land Adonai your God is giving you.
Do not murder.
Do not commit adultery.
Do not steal.
Do not give false evidence against your neighbor.
Do not covet your neighbor's wife; do not covet your neighbor's house, his field, his male or female slave, his ox his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
This is the standard. We all fail this standard. Heaven is perfect, because G-d is perfect, we are flawed, and the two cannot be reconciled. More than that, G-d, who is holy, the ultimate judge of what is fair MUST punish those who have failed to meet the standard because he IS THAT HOLY. That punishment is Hell. (REV 21:
By election (because we choose to sin), by prescription (because we are born into sin), and by necessity (because a holy G-d must judge wrongdoing) every human is destined for Hell.
DOES THIS CONCERN YOU!
A debt is owed. We all deserve punishment. Like in a courtroom, there is a sentence that must be carried out.
Yeshua took that punishment. He was and is perfect, and so, because he met the standard, his death was enough to satisfy that need for justice.
But the question of sin isn't ended. This requires us to understand and admit somethings. First, the Law shows us not only that there is a standard, but that we cannot meet it. That is, the Law shows us that we need saving. Without the understanding of that need, salvation cannot begin.
Second, we must understand that with Yeshua's death, the sin died too. We are saved from sin, from imperfection. We must repent of that imperfection. We already understand that we are imperfect, but then we have to walk away from that imperfection. Does that happen immediately, overnight, not usually, though it can. This is called repentance.
Third, once we have repented and COMPLETELY FORSAKEN anything that is not perfect by G-ds standard, we trust that we are forgiven. Do we stop sinning? No, but we try, fail, get up, and keep trying, because we have repented.
The Law still exists, and is essential to understand. We are free from it, yes, by grace and forgiveness, but following it becomes more important than ever. Not because it is the Law that saves us, but because the imperfections that the Law shows us are what BIND US TO HELL. Freedom fin Yeshua is not freedom from the Law, but freedom to the bondage of SIN. We should have a greater desire to follow the Law, to hold that standard. Not to earn salvation, but because anything else is disgusting to us, and moreso, disgusting to G-d.

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