The NXR Podcast - May 23, 2022


DAILY TRUTH - The Entrance of God's Law

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
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Length

6 minutes

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152.42

Word count

965

Sentence count

59


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Sins were in the world long before the Law of Moses, but where there was no law, sin was not imputed for condemnation. In fact, sin could not be imputed as condemnation until there was a law of God. And that law was not until the entrance of the Law at Mount Sinai.

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00:00:19.700 Jesus said,
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00:00:25.480 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:30.000 Verses 13 through 14, we see that there was always a law of God.
00:00:37.700 In your notes, I've written the following.
00:00:39.400 Our text continues in verse 13 by saying,
00:00:42.420 For sin indeed was in the world before the law was given,
00:00:46.340 but sin is not counted where there is no law.
00:00:50.060 This verse serves as an undeniable proof
00:00:52.820 that sin entered into the world long before the law of Moses
00:00:57.400 was provided on tablets of stone.
00:01:00.000 Now, the King James Version is very helpful in regards to this particular verse.
00:01:05.340 For until the law, says the King James, sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed.
00:01:13.220 The ESV and other translations say counted.
00:01:15.960 Imputed meaning it was not accredited to those who sinned.
00:01:18.880 It was not counted to those who sinned.
00:01:20.500 It was not imputed when there is no law.
00:01:24.800 For until, let me read it again, for until the law, sin was in the world.
00:01:29.020 That is, until the giving of the law on tablets of stone by Moses at Mount Sinai.
00:01:33.200 Until that point in real human history, 1500 BC, until that point, sin was still in the world.
00:01:42.120 But sin is not imputed.
00:01:44.840 It is not counted against us as condemnation where there is no law.
00:01:49.880 Now, when sin is said to be in the world until the law,
00:01:53.140 the apostle does not mean to infer that sin merely existed up until the point of the law of Moses
00:01:59.500 when it appeared at Mount Sinai and then somehow suddenly ceased for the law of Moses did not and
00:02:06.780 could not ever take away sin to the contrary sin only increased upon the entrance of the law
00:02:13.480 according to Romans chapter 5 verse 20 that is to say sin became more known or more visible by the
00:02:20.920 entrance of the law on tablets of stone. So on the surface, verse 13 of our text appears to be
00:02:28.440 an objection. If there was no law before Moses' time, then there was no sin, not in any real
00:02:35.100 sense. Furthermore, no action of man could have been known to himself as sinful, and therefore
00:02:43.140 no action, no negative action of man could be known to himself as sinful or justly imputed to
00:02:49.620 him as condemnation, according to verse 13. Simply put, where there is no law, sin is not
00:02:57.160 imputed for condemnation. That's what the author is saying in verse 13. So how is it that death
00:03:04.060 entered the world? That is condemnation. Through sin came death. That is sin being imputed as
00:03:16.140 death, as condemnation. And we know that all of this happened long before Moses ever came on the
00:03:22.860 scene. So what point is the author trying to make? The point is simple. He's saying that there was a
00:03:31.380 law before that law of Moses. Both the natural law of God, or the moral law of God, and one positive
00:03:39.640 law, namely not to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And both of
00:03:48.460 these laws, one set of laws and one positive law, were transgressed by Adam. Therefore, this
00:03:55.300 transgression was justly imputed to all mankind as to condemnation and death. And we see this,
00:04:03.780 this point, this conclusion rather, illustrated in the very beginning of verse 14, the next verse,
00:04:09.200 which says, yet death reigned from Adam to Moses.
00:04:13.780 See, death did not just appear at the time of Moses.
00:04:17.860 Death did not get its start at Mount Sinai
00:04:21.500 when the law was written on tablets of stone
00:04:25.700 and presented before the people.
00:04:27.620 Death did not come on the scene starting with Moses.
00:04:31.580 The logical progression is this.
00:04:33.440 Death only exists because of sin
00:04:36.040 And sin that can be justly counted or imputed to us as condemnation, as death, is only there if there is a law.
00:04:45.000 So if the law never appeared until Mount Sinai, then sin in any real sense could not appear until Mount Sinai.
00:04:51.660 Which means death would not have come on the scene until Mount Sinai.
00:04:55.700 But the point is clear.
00:04:57.800 The very beginning of verse 14, yet death reigned, not from Moses all the way to the present day, but from Adam all the way to Moses.
00:05:08.920 Death came into the world from Adam.
00:05:12.420 And death only came into the world from Adam because sin came into the world through Adam.
00:05:18.840 And sin that can be counted as condemnation and death,
00:05:22.920 sin that can be imputed for death and condemnation,
00:05:25.960 only has its power if there is a law.
00:05:33.500 The point is this.
00:05:35.900 There was always a law of God.
00:05:39.700 Always a law of God.
00:05:41.680 Never has there been a time in the history of the world
00:05:45.100 where there was not a law of God.
00:05:47.880 The law of God is as eternal as God himself.
00:05:53.260 For the law of God is merely a reflection
00:05:56.340 of God's own nature, his own character.
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