You miss what Jesus did through grace and truth and the blood of the cross because you have been blind-sided by the law. You are a do and do not do person and that is not being lead by the Spirit or walking in the Spirit. Let's use the act of adultery to illustrate because it is used in scripture. Not only has the law forbidden adultery but the Holy Spirit convicts me of adultery because it violates the nature of God. If I commit adultery I grieve the Spirit not the law. The law condemns me because of my transgression but the Spirit convicts me and provides grace to restore me through the blood of Christ. The purpose of the law is to expose sin and condemn the sinner. The purpose of the cross was to put away the sin of the flesh and provide redemption to sinful man by the blood of Christ through the Holy Spirit.
The act of adultery was already judged by the death that Christ suffered when he bore my sin on his own body on that tree. Because Christ was judged for my sin, I am no longer condemned by the law and the blood of Christ cleanses me from the unrighteousness of my act and takes away the effects of my sin. The law can only condemn me but never take away my sin or its effects. This is why that the ministration of the Spirits excels and exceeds the glory of the law and because it does it makes the law inoperative and abolishes it, along with its condemnation.
2 Cor 3:6-12
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
You didn't read Leviticus 19, Deuteronomy 18, and Deuteronomy 30. These are not condemning.
http://christianchat.com/bible-discussion-forum/101219-law-not-good-enough.html#post1734157Let's just quote one verse and see if it is nothing more than condemnation.
Deuteronomy 30:6 And the LORD thy
God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to
love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Now let's compare this law with the new covenant in Christ Jesus.
Romans 2:28-29
28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly ; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly ;
and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Colossians 2:10-11
10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision
made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the
circumcision of Christ:
Luke 10:26-27
26 He said unto him,
What is written in the law? how readest thou?
27 And he answering said,
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
Leviticus 19:11-18 sounds very positive to me as we follow the instructions of loving God's way that are written in the law. I'm not condemned by this and am very happy to have these instructions that extends God's righteousness toward me.
This is very graceful on His part. I'm am chagrined that you are condemned by these instructions in righteousness. That is a very sorry circumstance.
11 Ye shall not steal , neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
12 And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
13 Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.
15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD. 17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
18 Thou shalt not avenge , nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people,
but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.