Divine grace was not given to us because God has given us impossible commandments (Satan is the one who gives impossible commandments!). Divine grace has been given to us that we might attain our destiny as a son of God and a ruler of the works of God's hands.

Our first personality is a living soul. It never was meant to be anything more than stock on which God grafts Christ.

Paul's frequent expostulations about not being declared righteous by works but by grace has nothing to do with our inability to do what God has said. Paul's purpose was to lift our eyes from the temporary restraints of the Law of Moses so we could receive without hindrance the grafting of Christ onto our personality.

The Law of Moses was added because of the sinful nature of man until Christ, the true Life of man, came on the scene. The Law of Moses could not make the fallen adamic nature righteous because of the law of sin operating in us. Nevertheless, throughout the history of Israel God required that His Law be obeyed, and severe consequences attended every transgression.

The reason Israel and Judah were carried into captivity is that they disobeyed God's laws!

God forgave all the transgressions of the world through the atoning death of Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary. Now He wants us to turn our eyes from Moses and look to Jesus for salvation.

Our salvation in Jesus is not a case of God adding more laws through Christ and His Apostles so we are totally discouraged and flee to Divine grace to keep forgiving us while we continue in our adamic nature.

God saves us by commanding us to go to the cross of Calvary. We are to assign our first personality to death on the cross. We do not struggle to kill it, we reckon it to be dead. We reckon also that our new born-again nature has risen to be seated in Christ in God on the highest throne of the universe.

That we are crucified and risen with Christ is a position we must adopt forcefully, diligently, consistently, every moment of our life. Otherwise we are merely a member of the Christian religion, not a true Christian at all.

God has no intention of saving our adamic personality. God is not saving what we are, He is saving us from what we are.

We cannot begin as a Christian until we count ourselves dead with Christ and risen with Christ. The cross is the only door to the new covenant.

Now we are dead with Christ. Now we are risen with Christ and at the right hand of God. This is the only proper orientation to the new covenant, to the Christian salvation.

What next? We are to look to Jesus constantly so we may have a continual interaction with Him. Anything less than this is not the Christian salvation.

To be continued.