law of sin

[phareztamar]

When Adam disobeyed, he ushered a new law into the world…one that wasn’t previously here. It was a law as powerful as gravity, floatation, or light. 4,000 years later, Paul would call it: …the law of sin which is in my members. On the coattails of this new law came death. The law of sin and death not only affected Adam and humanity, but the entire creation. Wild animals became vicious, carnivorous, and territorial…plants began to whither and die…trees were felled by parasites…big fish began eating little fish, etc… The entire food chain was rocked…none more than Adam, at the top. He had life unending…with no aging, sickness or death…to dress and keep the garden of God. This life unending resided in his blood, for: …the life of the flesh is in the blood. If then, this eternal life in Adam’s blood was poisoned…of his own doing…then of necessity, a change has taken place in his chemistry. Before the arrival of sin and death, Adam’s blood sample would be worth a million Pulitzer’s. What coursed through his veins was pure blood…the original recipe…eternal life. After the forbidden fruit, Adam’s blood…and the blood of all who would issue from his loins…was forever changed. Yes, life still flowed there…but not eternal life. What now flowed through his veins, was some lesser manifestation of life. It included a process of aging, a slow devolution of disease, degradation, corruption…and in the end, death. Gone was the pure, original recipe. It was now infected. The blood flowing in his veins was literally, chemically contaminated, with the law of sin. This is that same law working in Paul’s members some 4,000 years later, and in our members today. The blood where our life resides, is poisoned blood. Free will, the wrong choice, brought 6,000 years of infection never cured. Adam did surely die, that very day. He and Eve are the only humans to have ever tasted that purity. Only they had a reference point, from which to gauge sin, and its debilitating effects. Everyone after them has lived on the consequence side of that breach. Infected life, and death, are normal to us. They are the only base line we know.
As a law, sin shares some basic properties with other creation laws. God’s laws fascinate me. They’re sorta split into higher laws, and lower laws. The lower laws are always in force…24/7. Man is given no power over the lower laws. They are as solid as a rock, and man cannot stop, change, or impede them. Higher laws are just the opposite. They are only in force when man chooses, and man has been given power over the higher laws.
Gravity is the classic lower law. It is in force at all times, 24/7. Man has no power over this lower law. In God’s economy, there’s only one way to overcome a lower law…you must choose to apply a higher law. Today, we fly through the air in steel airplanes, hauling thousands of people an hour, to places throughout the world. Thousands of pounds of flesh and steel, defying gravity. How? By applying the higher law of aerodynamics, we suspend the lower law of gravity. But it never really went away. Just turn off the airplane engines and see. You have that choice.
If an object is lighter than water, it floats. If it is heavier than water, it sinks. Pretty simple lower law. So then, how is it that we sail the seven seas in huge steel warships…much heavier than water? We apply the higher law of displacement, and suspend the lower law of floatation. Is the lower law gone? Punch a big hole in the side of the ship, and start taking on water in the displaced void. Lower law wins. Steel is too heavy to float.
Have you ever gone to the hardware store, and asked the clerk for a “dark switch “? Something you could control the dark with? They don’t sell them. Man has no power over the lower law of darkness. It remains in force at all times, 24/7. But, besides the sun beating it up all day, we can ask the clerk for a light switch. These they do sell, and they’re the coolest thing. Every time I choose to engage the higher law of light, I flip the switch, and darkness hides in the closet, or flees under the bed. It just sorta lurks there, until I choose to remove the higher law, and flip the light switch off.
The point I’m trying to make, is that sin…the law of sin…is a lower law. It resides in each of us, coursing through our veins. This truth cannot be overstated. The law of sin is in force at all times, 24/7. It will live inside you until the day you die. We have absolutely no power over this global disease. Every human being now living, and every human being to have ever lived since Adam, is infected with this law of sin. It couldn’t be helped. It was passed on to you at your conception…chemically and biologically…by the laws of pro-creation. The entire human race became infected at the source. We have no power over this lower law…this global disease. It remains uncured after 6,000 years. All are doomed to live life, with this raging law of sin running riot through their bodies. At the end of that ride, all are appointed to die. This is the pitiable state of the human race. But there is hope. God, being like He is, has given us a higher law to deal with our disease. As long as we choose to apply it, the lower law of sin remains suspended. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. Or, to put it another way: This I say then, walk in the spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.