من اللحظة, سلم ذلك الرجل سيطرته على الأرض, الذي أعطاه الله من قبل الله, إلى الشيطان من خلال الخطيئة, the devil established his kingdom on earth. من تلك اللحظة فصاعدا, the devil and sin and death reigned on earth. The nature and law of the devil ruled in the flesh of man and the law of sin and death came into being. The earth was no longer blessed but became cursed. ماتت الروح في الإنسان, واللحم; روح, والجسم, became subject to the devil. The devil became the father and god over all flesh that would be born into his kingdom. The law that represents the devil’s kingdom is the law of sin and death. What is the law of sin and death? Let’s have a look at the revealing truth about the law of sin and death.
The law of sin and death reigns over every person
كل شخص, that would be born on this earth, would automatically be bound and subjected to sin and death and the law of sin and death. The law of the devil, which represents his will, is present and reigns in every flesh (اقرأ أيضا: ‘إرادة الله مقابل إرادة الشيطان').
بسبب الحقيقة, that the spirit of man died, the moment that man sinned, man only had the ability to live after the flesh.
لقد أصبح الإنسان روحًا حية, and the soul would dictate man what the do. The soul and body would be bound to the devil and his law. The evil rebellious nature of the devil was present in the flesh of the carnal man. Because man lived after the flesh and was led by his sinful nature, man would live after the law of the devil and establish the law of sin and death.
Transferred from the Kingdom of God into the kingdom of darkness
When God created the heaven and the earth, مملكته; the spiritual Kingdom of God reigned upon the earth. God created man with a spirit, روح, والجسم. Adam’s spirit reigned in his life. His soul and body were subjected to his spirit.
Before Adam rebelled and became disobedient to the commandment of God and sinned, the spiritual law of righteousness and life, reigned on the earth. The law of righteousness and life represents the will of God and belongs to the Kingdom of God.
But when Adam, who was appointed by God to represent His Kingdom upon the earth, listened to the voice of the devil and became disobedient to the commandment of God and His Kingdom, his spirit, who reigned in his life, died.
When Adam’s spirit died, he was transferred in the spiritual realm, from the Kingdom of God to the kingdom of darkness.
Man had freely chosen to listen to and believe the words of the devil, بدلا من الله. Man chose to become عصاة to the words of God and do the will of the devil instead of the will of God.
As I discussed in the previous blogpost ‘The will of God vs the will of the devil’, the devil rebels against every word of God. That’s why the will of the devil is the exact opposite of the will of God.
The will of God represents the law of righteousness and life. The will of the devil represents the law of sin and death.
شريعة الخطيئة والموت
The law of sin and death contains the following commandments:
- You shall love the devil and all there is within the world above all. You shall serve him and obey him
- You shall have gods before you and you shall bow down to them
- عليك أن ترتكب الزنا
- You shall hate God and use His name in vain
- You shall commit adultery
- You shall be unfaithful
- عليك أن تكذب
- You shall murder
- You shall rebel against your parents and not honor them
- You shall covet
- You shall be jealous
- لن تغفر
- You shall….
This law represents the will of the devil and belongs to the kingdom of darkness. عندما تحيا حسب الجسد, you shall be bound to this law of sin and death and you shall walk in sin. When you live after this law in sin, your final destination shall be death. Because the wages of sin is death.
لأجور الخطيئة هو الموت; لكن هبة الله هي الحياة الأبدية من خلال يسوع المسيح ربنا (رومان 6:23)
God chose a people and set them apart
God chose a people and set them apart from other people, from the other nations. God led His people out of Egypt and redeemed them from slavery and the rulership of Pharaoh. لسنوات, God’s people were oppressed by Pharaoh and lived in slavery. His will had become their will and they had adopted the pagan rituals, العادات, and culture of Egypt.
But God’s Kingdom was another Kingdom and God’s will wasn’t equal to the will of the devil, which reigned in the evil carnal nature of man.
God didn’t want His people to be bound to the devil and the works of his kingdom. Because God couldn’t have fellowship with sin; the works of the flesh and darkness. God’s people had to be cleansed and purified. Their minds had to be renewed with the will of God.
God made His will known by His law
That’s why God revealed His will and His Kingdom known to His people, بإعطائهم شريعته. بسبب الحقيقة, that man was carnal and God Spirit, God ‘translated’ His will and made His spiritual Kingdom visible to man, من خلال منحهم وصاياه. لقد أراد الله أن تكون له علاقة مع الإنسان, but since the carnal man was not righteous but a sinner and God couldn’t have communion with sin, أعطاهم القوانين التضحية. The offerings would make a temporary atonement for the sins of man.
شريعة الخطيئة والموت, which belongs to the kingdom of darkness, reigned from the moment that Adam sinned, على هذه الأرض. من تلك اللحظة, the devil had spiritual dominion over man and the earth.
But God had set His people apart from the world. He revealed His Kingdom and His will, من خلال منحهم القانون.
لأنهم كانوا جسديين وليسوا روحانيين, God revealed to them the spiritual truth. By giving His law to His carnal people, قانون الخطيئة والموت, that belonged to the kingdom of the devil was revealed.
The flesh of the carnal man, which is subject to the law of sin and death, قال: “thou shall steal, thou shall commit fornication, thou shall covet, thou shall lie, thou shall be jealous etc”. But God represented His Kingdom and therefore God said: “thou shall not steal, thou shall not commit fornication, thou shall not lie, thou shall not covet, etc”
Sin became revealed by the law
ماذا نقول إذن? هل القانون خطيئة? لا سمح الله. كلا, لم أكن أعرف الخطيئة, ولكن بالقانون: لأني لم أعرف الشهوة, باستثناء ما قاله القانون, لا تطمع (رومان 7:7)
قانون الروح, which belongs to the Kingdom of God is the exact opposite of the law of sin and death, which belongs to the kingdom of darkness. When God gave the law of Moses, God revealed sin.
Sin was no longer hidden but was revealed by the law. God didn’t force anyone to be obedient to His law. He had given and still has given everyone a free will.
Every person will make his/her own choices in life. But…God did reveal to them, what would happen if a person decided to not love God above all and to disobey His law, which represented His will but rather chose to serve the devil and his law of sin and death.
Why the death penalty?
أعطى الله شعبه, who belonged to His Kingdom, وصاياه. But as soon as someone rebelled and didn’t want to submit to His will and obey Him, God had to deal according to the law of sin and death, which the person had chosen to obey.
When a person obeyed the law of sin and death, the person also received the wages for following this law.
The punishment depended upon the sin the person committed. Because there was sin unto death and sin not unto death.
But when a person intentionally sinned and had chosen to obey the law of sin and death, the person got the wages for following this law, وهو الموت.
The person had to be removed from His people and was given to the person’s lord and master: الموت.
That was the punishment for everyone, who became عصاة to the law of God; قانون البر والحياة, and became obedient to the law of sin and death.
The law of sin and death reigns as long as the old man lives
من اللحظة, that you are born on this earth, the spiritual law of sin and death reigns in your body (لحم). Your flesh is corrupted by the sinful nature; طبيعة الشيطان. That means that your sinful nature, which is present in your flesh, serves and is obedient to the law of sin and death. There is only one way to be redeemed from the law of sin and death, and that is through the process of regeneration.
Only when your flesh dies in Jesus Christ, you will be redeemed from your sinful nature and from the law of sin and death, that rules in your flesh. From the moment you die in Jesus Christ, you will be redeemed and set free from this law, that leads you to eternal death.
لأن ناموس روح الحياة في المسيح يسوع قد حررني من ناموس الخطيئة والموت (رومان 8:2)
It is just like a marriage between a husband and a wife. They are bound to each other as long as they both shall live on this earth. By the law, the woman is bound to her husband, during her life on this earth.
When her husband dies, the woman is released from the law that bound her to her husband. But when she commits adultery, while her husband is still alive and marries someone else, she will be an adulterer. Only when one of them dies, the bonds of marriage are destroyed and the law that bounds them together will be annulled. Therefore when the law is annulled, the other person will be free and not bound by the law anymore (رومان 7:2-3)
Dying in Jesus Christ
It is the same with everyone, الذي يؤمن بيسوع المسيح. When you repent and accept Jesus as your Saviour and make Him Lord over your life, you lay down your own life; ال الخلق الجسدي القديم, فيه.
When you are baptized in water, in the natural realm you symbolically lay down your flesh, لكن في المجال الروحي, your flesh dies.
Therefore you will no longer be bound to the law of sin and death, that reigns in your flesh.
The law of sin and death has no longer authority over you, but you are redeemed from this law.
من خلال المعمودية مع الروح القدس, your spirit will be raised from the dead.
من تلك اللحظة, your spirit lives, وشريعة البر والحياة, الذي هو قانون الروح, that belongs to the Kingdom of God, will reign in your life.
Jesus represented the law of the Spirit
فهل نبطل الناموس بالإيمان؟? لا سمح الله: نَعَم, نحن نضع القانون (رومان 3:31)
Jesus represented the law of the Spirit, الذي ينتمي إلى ملكوت الله, على هذه الأرض. ولهذا قال يسوع: “You shall….” Jesus spoke out of the law of the Spirit. عرف يسوع, that the law of Moses represented the will of God and His Kingdom. He knew that this law was given to God’s carnal people, who were only able to live after the flesh.
But because Jesus didn’t walk after the flesh, ولكن بعد الروح, He wasn’t ruled by His flesh. Jesus didn’t think: “I shall not be jealous, I shall not covet, I shall not….”
The nature of God dwelled by the Holy Spirit in Jesus. Jesus knew the law of the Spirit and the Kingdom of God and therefore He walked according to this law.
بالسير وراء الروح, Jesus obeyed and fulfilled the law, that God had given to Moses.
Jesus didn’t give in to the إغراءات الشيطان في لحمه.
كان يعلم, that as soon as He would give in to the الشهوات والرغبات of His flesh, He would automatically obey the law of sin and death and walk in the commandments of the devil. If Jesus would have done that, He would be transferred from the Kingdom of God into the kingdom of the devil, تماما مثل آدم. If He would have obeyed the flesh, He would become disobedient to God and would make the devil His father and would belong to the kingdom of darkness.
لا تعلمون, الذي تقدمون له أنفسكم عبيدًا للطاعة, وعباده أنتم الذين تطيعونه; سواء من الخطيئة للموت, أو طاعة البر? (رومان 6:16)
God’s work of redemption in Jesus Christ
Jesus knew the difference between the two spiritual kingdoms and the two laws, that belonged to these kingdoms. By His deeds and His walk, Jesus made the choice to Whom He wanted to belong to: والده; the God of the heavens and the earth, أو الشيطان; إله هذا العالم.
بالسير وراء الروح, Jesus stayed obedient to His Father. He represented and brought the Kingdom of God upon this earth. Because of His طاعة, He could fulfill the work of redemption التابع الخلق القديم.
فقط من خلال يسوع المسيح, when you die and be resurrected in Him, it is possible to be redeemed from the bonds of sin, that lead to eternal death. Only when you become ولد مرة أخرى and when your flesh dies in Him, you will be redeemed from the law of sin and death.
بواسطة الموت في يسوع المسيح, you will be transferred من مملكة الظلمة; the kingdom of this world into the Kingdom of God. By walking after the Spirit in Jesus Christ; الكلمة, يجب عليك تلقائيا تحقيق شريعة الله, which represents His Kingdom and you shall be able to stay loyal and obedient to Him.
"كونوا ملح الأرض."’
