How do you love If GOD has not first put the love In you?
The New Covenant teachings are centered upon the healing of our hearts.
God can not command us to love him and our neighbor.
Why?
Because we were born in his image!!!
So why do we sin?
When Adam and Eve sinned...sin became our master.
Well it didn't happen quite that fast..but over a few generations, when the Sons of God (Those who had come from the Garden of Eden) had children with the daughters of men, God simply let man do whatever their wretched hearts wanted to do.
Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves.
(Romans 1:24)
So, in order for is to keep Gods commandments, AKA do what is righteous......we need a New Heart.
The hearts we were born with Hate God and hate his righteousness. This is what Paul was writing about in (Romans 1:22-31), and this is what is marriage analogy is about in (Romans 7)
So...how does God change our hearts?
The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. (Psalm 19:7)
Why did Jesus have to die on the cross, if the Law is perfect?
Because the forgiveness and cleansing of sin, which we need to walk in the light, was only afforded to us though his sacrifice. God wouldn't accept any other...(Hebrews 10:5-8)
Without his sacrifice, the Law wouldn't do us any good.
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