The NXR Podcast - May 23, 2022


DAILY TRUTH - The Entrance of God's Law


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6 minutes

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152.41655

Word count

965

Sentence count

59


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00:00:19.700 Jesus said,
00:00:20.820 Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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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