WITHOUT LAW AND UNDER THE LAW

WITHOUT LAW AND UNDER THE LAW

Romans 2.12-15

I often heard from so called "Christians" who are saying that those who lived before Christ are not saved!

This is the only place in the Bible which is precisely explains of how people who lived at different time periods will be save and judged by GOD.

Verse 12 revealed talks about people who lived before the Law of Moses and perish without the Law of Moses. This means that this people lived according to their own Conscience which is given to people when Adam was created.

Conscience is also our Intelligence and involved in thinking and decision making already works in us (in our mind) giving us direction and acknowledgment what is good and what is bad. At this point it is for the people to decide and to choose which of these two choices to choose, the path of evil or of good.


Basically, Paul said here that before the Law of Moses people were judged according to their own Conscience, which is also preliminary Law of GOD, long before the Law of Moses was given.

The next verse 13 a little bit off subject, but no less important than the rest of this chapter. Actually, it is universal statement of Paul that covers all who believe in Christ and call themselves as Christians. Many people claim to be Christians but only few truly and loyally and faithfully follow the Christ.

For this reason, Paul indicated here that listening and not following the Statutes of Christ does not make anyone a Christian, but still remains as an ordinary earthly man or woman.

The only anyone can prove that he or she a true Christians is to show by their own life how they follow Christ and fulfilling His Commandments and Statutes by obeying His will according to His Teachings, Principals, and Ideals without any hypocrisy.

The doers of the Law justified before GOD and not the listeners.

In the next verse 14 Paul continued the same theme of the Law and talks about those Gentiles who never heard about the Law of Moses. Paul perhaps talking here about those Gentiles who lived before the Law or during the Law of Moses but never heard of it. Such people follow their own Conscience which Paul described as "do instinctively the things of the Law," means the preliminary Law of their Conscience works in their souls and direct them in their decisions process.

Verse 15 specifies precisely that the Paul meant in verse 14, that the Law of Moses is written in their soul-Conscience and their acts judged by their own Conscience of the Law of Moses giving them distinction between good and evil and remains Witness for a Judgment Day to save or to reject them.

The Conscience and the Law of Moses is the same Law, the only difference is that one is written in our Conscience, but another was written first in the stones and them copied numerous times on writing materials.

Verse 16 summarize all this in one Statement that Father GOD through His Son Jesus Christ will judge all secrets of every soul ever lived according to His Gospel, which is interpretation and a Copy of the Law of Moses presented in Spiritual Terms and Form.

Paul called it, "according to my Gospel," which is in reality the Gospel of Christ, but he said this because he is one who delivered it. Similar to that of Moses who did not create the Law himself, but the Law was given through him to Hebrews by GOD.

The summery of the point is that those who lived before the Law of Moses judge by their Conscience, those who lived under the Law of Moses judged by the Law of Moses, and those who live under Spiritual Commandments of the Law of Moses (the Gospel) to which Christ teach us, we will be judged precisely according to that Law.

 

Doers of the Law and not the listeners are justified by GOD:

(Ezekiel 33.31-32) (Matthew 7.21.24-27, 15.7-9) (Mark 7.6-7-13) (Luke 6.46-49) (Romans 2.13) (James 1.22-25).


Ezekiel 33.31-32
31.And they come to you as people come, and sit before you as My people, and hear your words, but they do not do them, they do the lustful desires expressed by their mouth, and their heart goes after their gain (Isaiah 29.13) (Jeremiah 12.2.6).

32.You are to them like a sensual song by one who has a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument, they hear your words but they do not practice them.


Matthew 7.21.24-27. Luke 6.46-49
21. Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father Who is in Heaven.

24. Therefore, everyone who hears these Words of Mine and acts upon them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house upon the rock.

25. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and burst against that house, and yet it did not fall, it had been founded upon the rock.

26. And everyone who hears these Words of Mine and does not act upon them, will be like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand.

27. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and burst against that house, and it fell, and great was its fall.'


Romans 2.12-16
12. All who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law.

13. Not the hearers of the Law are just before GOD, but the doers of the Law will be justified.

14. For, when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these not having the Law are a Law to themselves.

15. In that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their Conscience bearing witness, and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them,

16. on the day when, according to my Gospel, GOD will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus.


James 1.22-25
22. But prove yourselves doers of the Word and not merely hearers who delude themselves.

23.If anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror,

24.once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was.

25.But one who looks intently at the perfect Law, the Law of Liberty (the Spiritual Commandments of the Law of Moses - the Gospel of Christ), and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man shall be blessed in what he does.


Matthew 15.8-9. Mark 7.6-13
8. 'This people honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far away from Me. (Isaiah 29.13) (Jeremiah 12.2.6) (Ezekiel 33.31) (Matthew 15.7-9) (Mark 7.6-7-13).

9. But in vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.' (Isaiah 29.13) (Jeremiah 12.2.6), (Ezekiel 33.31-32) (Matthew 15.7-9) (Mark 7.6-7-13) (Colossians 2.20-22).