Now this verse 16 of Galatians is a good example of that. It's kind of hard to sort out, but here it is in Romans chapter 3.
Romans 3:19
"Now we know that what things soever the law saith,
(now that's the Ten Commandments but there's one given by command which
when it was broken it became law for all were under its governing,
we're referring to Genesis 2:17) it saith to them who are under the law:
(in other words both the command and then the Ten Commandments which
were directly given to the Nation of Israel, not to the Gentile world.
But since there both the Law of the Sovereign Creator God, how far does
their influence of Law go? To the ends of the earth, and look what the
rest of the verse says) that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God." Now
we need to look at the command given to Adam not to eat of the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil. As this is a command or rule producing a
state or condition approved by God which carries a penalty or in this
case a curse of sin and death on all, a law. No man can say, "from birth
I've been innocent, I've never sinned". Now in the moral code of the
Ten Commandments we find that, even a Gentile can't come up after having
stolen something and say, "Well I never did anything wrong." Yes, we
did because the moral code or Law of God says, "That it's against His
will, against His Law to steal." So every mouth is stopped, and all the
world becomes guilty before God. Now just here we need to come to an
understanding of the Mosaic or Levitical Law they are statutes or a
ordinances to guide or form a corral for Israel come in compliance with
the Commandment or Law. These were to be enforce until God's Love came,
the promised seed of woman, which is Jesus because His Love is the
fulfillment of the Ten Commandments and the Law, Paul say's until the
Love of God be received in our hearts. How? By the Holy Spirit's
infilling. No, but by God's indwelling as found in John's gospel account
in chapter 17. Now that being the case:
Romans 3:20a
"Therefore by the deeds of the law (in other words by Law-keeping, by works of mans own sufficiency) there shall no flesh (Hebrew or Gentile) be justified in his sight:..." Why?
Because the Law only has one function - You know we have people all
over this part of the world that think by keeping the Mosaic or
Levitical Law, the statutes and ordinances by keeping of these, that
they are making brownie points and someday God will just let them slip
in under the door, but it's not going to work that way. The Levitical
Law wasn't given for that reason. That Law and the Ten Commandments had
one function and that was to show mankind (and the Hebrews in
particular, as a called out peoples) how utterly sinful sin is (without
Love), they really are. Every human being has been by commandment and
Law-breaker, though we're ( Gentiles) not under the rule or penalty
(curse) of the Levitical Law or Mosaic Law the statutes and ordinances,
that we're sinners by nature or because of our fallen nature. We can't
change what is in our flesh makeup, we can through God's doing put it to
death. Now this is not in any way a physical death but a death none the
less and whats are bases of example? Well Israel is of course, they
were called out from where? Egypt of course, just as Noah was called out
from the world before the flood came and Abram was called out from his
fathers home to wonder in the wilderness, until God. So the nation of
Israel though set up by God to be in Egypt about 230 years and with that
added to Abrams wanderings comes to the prophesied 430 years in exile
and bondage. Remember that they were a called out or called into being, a
nation who were to be holy onto God as His particular treasure and set
apart for one reason and purpose to bring Christ through them into the
world. So therefore the law came into being to reveal to them their
total undoneness and their propensity to sin and then the exceeding
sinfulness of sin by condemnation and the required penalty of death. To
which the offering of blood was their atonement for that guilt and
knowledge of sin which is the knowledge of the tree of good (God alone
is all goodness) and evil (the devil is all evil, pride-fulness) of mans
flesh.
Romans 3:20b
"...for by the law is the knowledge of sin." This reaches all the way back to Genesis 2: 16-17. Now let's come on down to verse 23.
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