God gave his children two things a promise and a gift. The promise was redemption and by the promise he would give the gift. What is the gift..He is. "I am thy shield and exceeding great reward"...Grace means gift...the flesh looks at grace and confuses it with the promise...which Christ fulfilled at his cross...grace is the gift of Gods life put in you that you may be one with him...but if we confuse it and think the promise is all we get...then we are sinners saved by grace...we try knowing we will fail...we are just flesh...and God shares his glory with no flesh...
when salvation became a future event we lost our way...Our God is now...the way of life in his law was veiled ...shown by them veiling Moses face because of the glory of God emanating from it...for this reason they could not see that the law was someone to be not things to be done...they could not hear that if they gave God all heart soul and might by love that he would put these things in their heart as Moses tried to tell them in deut 6: 4-5
In the same way they are blind to the new covenant...they see being a christian as things you do not as the life of God in us making us one...so by will worship they perform and come and offer their apologies when they fail exactly as they did in the old...they have replaced the bulls and goats with a great man but still do not see the glory....the old was weak not because of the law but because of the death in us...the life we received from Adam could not generate the life found in being the law...so Jesus placed the Adam in all who trust him within himself and carried it to Calvary where it died in him and was buried...it was the Spirit of God that raised Jesus....Adam was formed then God breathed into him and he became a living soul..(not having his own life but Gods life shared)...then iniquity was found in him and he became a self (dead...separate)he passed that death of self to all....but Jesus came that we might be one with him as he is one with the Father that we may all be one....this is life that they know you...Adam knew his wife and the two became one flesh...Depart I never knew you....I came that they might have life....when Jesus breathed out his life he died and was buried...three days later God breathed his breath (Spirit) into him and both Jesus and those in him by faith became a living soul...hence Paul's title of second Adam...so if we lean on the arm of our dead buried man we find our members filled with death and sin...but if we trust in the breath(Spirit)to both will and do in us we will see His glory and righteousness revealed and our members filled with life.
