GoD's WorK - God's Puzzle Solved

The Law is Spritual245Letter of The Law kills. In Verse 5, Paul said that because of theweakness of the flesh, you cannot keep God’s Law in The Letter.Ministration Of The SpiritThe flip side of the situation just posed, is that only by keepingThe Law spiritually, can you receive eternal life. So, it is the“spiritual part” of The Law that remains. The spiritual part isdescribed by Paul in two phrases (the ministration of death). Sothe element of death now gives way to, “…the ministration of thespirit…” (Verse 8) and “…the ministration of righteousness…”(Verse 9). One can now become “perfect” through Christ. InRomans 7:6, the word “letter” is translated from the Greek word“gramma.” Strong’s Concordance #1121 defines “gramma” as“a letter,” “epistle” or “book.” It merely means, what is writtendown or what was written in a book. In this case, it was The Lawor Torah. The Letter of The Law was everything written down inThe First Five Books or Torah. These books also included TheTen Commandments (Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5).Why did God include The Ten Commandments in The Torah?II Corinthians 3:7 states that The Ten Commandments were includedin The Law because they were “…engraven in stones…”as a way to show they could not keep them spiritually in theirhearts (Deuteronomy 5:29). These Israelites were carnal and hadhearts of stone and not a fleshly heart, “…not in tables of stone,but in fleshy tables of the heart” (II Corinthians 3:3). Paul saidthis administration by Moses, of The Letter of The Law couldonly produce death (II Corinthians 3:7).The keeping of The Letter of The Law, The Torah can only producedeath (Romans 7:5). If, as a Christian, you believe that onehas to obey The Law in The Letter, the end result can only pro-