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The Law was given to give a knowledge of sin !
The Law was given to give a knowledge of sin !
Rom 3:20
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
This was one of the many purposes of the Law of God to give to His Elect a Knowledge of sin and their need of their Head and Saviour Jesus Christ, for this World was Created for an Redemptive Purpose. Adam was Created for an Redemptive Purpose, a purpose of Grace established before the world began 2 Tim 1:9
9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
That means before Adam began ! Now after Adam's Creation he was immediately given a Law by God His Creator, a Command as to what he could not do, hear ye the Law or Command Gen 2:15-17
15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
This prohibition was the then manifested and declared Law and Will of God, made known to Man at this Time, and we know from later Revelation that the purpose of the Law was to give a Knowledge of Sin Rom 3:20 and Rom 7:7
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Paul is saying,if it had not been for the Law, he would not have known [experientially] sin or that he was a awful sinner before God in need of His Saviour See how Paul thought of himself before the Law was applied to him spiritually Phil 3:4-6 !, and so it was for Adam, he would have known that he was sinful before God without the law given him in Gen 2:16-17. Again remember what Paul writes here in Rom 3:20. Since Adam was Created for an Redemptive Purpose in Grace, he must know transgression experientially, for if God would not have given him a Law or Command to Obey, then there would be know Transgression Rom 4:15
15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
You see, It was already determined before the World Began that Christ would undergo the Wrath of God for the sins of the Elect 1 Pet 1:20 and so the Law must be given that caused the Transgression that brought the sin and guilt into the world against God's People of which Christ was already slain for in the Purpose of God Rev 13:8
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Now Transgression is the trespass of God's or overstepping of God's revealed will or command, which was stated clearly to Adam/ man here Gen 2:15-17. Now by disobedience, man in adam came to have a experiential knowledge of sin Rom 3:20;7:7, now man had come experientially acquainted with both good and evil Gen 3:22
And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
The Law was given to give a knowledge of sin !
Rom 3:20
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
This was one of the many purposes of the Law of God to give to His Elect a Knowledge of sin and their need of their Head and Saviour Jesus Christ, for this World was Created for an Redemptive Purpose. Adam was Created for an Redemptive Purpose, a purpose of Grace established before the world began 2 Tim 1:9
9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
That means before Adam began ! Now after Adam's Creation he was immediately given a Law by God His Creator, a Command as to what he could not do, hear ye the Law or Command Gen 2:15-17
15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
This prohibition was the then manifested and declared Law and Will of God, made known to Man at this Time, and we know from later Revelation that the purpose of the Law was to give a Knowledge of Sin Rom 3:20 and Rom 7:7
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Paul is saying,if it had not been for the Law, he would not have known [experientially] sin or that he was a awful sinner before God in need of His Saviour See how Paul thought of himself before the Law was applied to him spiritually Phil 3:4-6 !, and so it was for Adam, he would have known that he was sinful before God without the law given him in Gen 2:16-17. Again remember what Paul writes here in Rom 3:20. Since Adam was Created for an Redemptive Purpose in Grace, he must know transgression experientially, for if God would not have given him a Law or Command to Obey, then there would be know Transgression Rom 4:15
15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
You see, It was already determined before the World Began that Christ would undergo the Wrath of God for the sins of the Elect 1 Pet 1:20 and so the Law must be given that caused the Transgression that brought the sin and guilt into the world against God's People of which Christ was already slain for in the Purpose of God Rev 13:8
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Now Transgression is the trespass of God's or overstepping of God's revealed will or command, which was stated clearly to Adam/ man here Gen 2:15-17. Now by disobedience, man in adam came to have a experiential knowledge of sin Rom 3:20;7:7, now man had come experientially acquainted with both good and evil Gen 3:22
And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: