How to Manifest Sin

The Reconciliation: Part 8

If you want to see your enemy in order to kill them sometimes you have to smoke them out. The main reason the law was given was to strengthen and manifest sin.

Rom 7:8 - “But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence"

Rom 5:13 - “For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.”

Rom 7:8 - “For without the law sin [was] dead. (destitute of force or power, inactive, inoperative)”

1 Cor 15:56 - “and the strength of sin [is] the law.”

Understanding the purpose of the law will help us understand the purpose of Israel, sacrifice, and ultimately Jesus’ ministry. God chose the nation of Israel to be the mechanism of dealing with sin once and for all.

Before the law was given sin had no real grip over man. He was producing bad fruit in people and giving death access but without knowing exactly how to rebel against God he wasn’t able to really be utterly sinful. Once God gave the law to the Jews sin revived and manifested everything it possibly could in that people. Sin was trying to exact dominion on the earth through the law.

The other half of the Jews covenant was the blessings and curses of that law. God provided external carnal motivation for the Jews not to be completely destroyed in this process. Sin will always bring death. If they refused to let the fruit of sin physically manifest they received blessing, if they didn’t they were cursed. In essence the law was trying to manifest sin while the blessings and judgments were hedging him back.

PART 9