disciplemike A lawless person is one who breaks, violates, disobeys or transgresses the law go I John Chapter 3 verse 4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. That verse means when you commit a sin you "transgress" break the law and it is your sin that breaks the law and it is a lawless act a act God didn't tell you to do. That verse is a general one and not specific one of breaking down specifics commandments like the 10 commandments. Any sin is a lawless act and it builds up Gods wrath builds against unbelievers who practice habitual sin "lawlessness" or rebuke believers that practice lawlessness like king David when he kept on going until he murdered Bathsheba's husband and those where lawless acts he practiced until he took what wasn't rightfully his. God gave a commandment to Adam and Eve don't eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they performed a lawless act of sin "disobedience" and ate the fruit and He ran them out of the garden. Now Sodom and Gomorrah did lawless things as well homosexuality they practiced "lawlessness" abundantly in that act of habitual sin. Another way of saying this is "to offended a point" breaking a "specific" commandment in the law as in James 2:10 now if you have broken a single law now that person is cursed by the whole law and Galatians 3:10 shows if you don't do the law perfect you are cursed by the whole law as well. Now onto I Timothy 1:8-11
8 But we know that
bthe law
is good, if a man use it lawfully;
9 Knowing this, that
cthe law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and
ddisobedient, for
ethe ungodly and for
esinners, for
funholy and
gprofane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
10 For
hwhoremongers, for
hithem that defile themselves with mankind, for
kmenstealers, for
lliars, for
mperjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to
nsound doctrine;
11 According to
othe glorious gospel of
pthe blessed God,
qwhich was committed to my trust.
To live by the law you dishonor Jesus and say your works are equal to His verse 8 shows that the Law is good for those who do it and that is every one single law you have to be sinless like Jesus and fulfill all rightoueness but if you break one then you are one of the unrighteous verse 9 and 10 and only then your faith in Jesus Christ and His works which are the works of God in the flesh will you be saved. To go back to living the law is going against Jesus and the whole new testament. And Isiah said our works are this Isiah 64:6 [SUP]
6 [/SUP]But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. If you love Him your works are for him and not as a show of what you can do like the Pharisees who turned the law in religion and man mad traditions that is practicing lawlessness. There is your answer.