When transgressions are on us, how can we live in the Spirit?

Ezekiel 33;10

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“Therefore you, O son of man, say to the house of Israel: ‘Thus you say, “If our transgressions and our sins lie upon us, and we pine away in them, how can we then live?” Ezekiel 33:10.

The word of God comes to Israel by revealing the question that lies in their heart, “How can we live when our transgressions and sins are on us, and we pine away?”

Today, the Jewish people have their sins laying on them because of turning from the will of God for them to receive Jesus Christ 2000 years ago. They are wasting away in their sin as they only live by the Old Testament scriptures and have tossed aside the entire New Testament (the Gospel of Jesus Christ). How can they live to God again?

Today, the Jewish people who are living within Israel are like the Jewish people living in all other parts of the world. They share their rejection of Jesus Christ and are wasting away in their sin. Even then, the Israelis of the State of Israel are in the global spotlight so that the world will see the judgment that God brings on them, “Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. As men gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the midst of a furnace, to blow fire on it, to melt it; so I will gather you in My anger and in My fury, and I will leave you there and melt you.” Ezekiel 22:19 How can they live to God again?

Possessing the Jewish State of Israel was not the will of God for the Jewish people, He wanted them to live as Christians by accepting Jesus Christ as their Messiah. Because of their hardness against Jesus Christ, God gathered them to Israel to unleash His judgment. Since 1948 (the year of the declaration of the State of Israel), Israel has not had a moment of peace, instead they have had 17 wars since 1948, Click for a list of those wars and scroll close to the bottom of the page. If the Jewish people were Christian and not Jewish, the State of Israel would not have ever existed. As Christians, we do not have a nation on this earth to call our own, our nation is the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and earth. The Israelis are wasting away in their sin, and the question is, “How can they live to God again?”

The answer to the question could be stated in this way, “Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26

When Jesus Christ made atonement for sin by the sacrifice He made on the Cross, that was for each and every person who believes in Him. God raised Him from the dead after three days to demonstrate His power over sin and death and to give us assurance of eternal life. Through Jesus Christ, we have access to God and the Jewish people no longer hold exclusive rights to Him. In fact, they too must come to Jesus Christ for the remission of sin to be reconciled with God and infilled with the Holy Spirit.

We all live with the transgression and sin of Adam laying on us. There is nothing that can change this fallen condition of humanity and we are destined to waste away in spiritual corruption. The question for us is the same as the question for the Jewish people, “How can we live to God again?” The answer to the question is this, “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:12-13 Whoever believes in God through Jesus Christ will not die but have eternal life.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11