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10 Righteousness is appealing, drawing, attractive. But when I try to grasp it directly it turns to fire in my hands, condemnation, torture, death.
Why does something so good, so right – righteousness itself – produce in me the opposite? The law of mathematics. When multiplying numbers with opposite signs the result is always negative. The law is positive but I am negative. No matter what number I achieve I am still negative. So every time I have intercourse with the law to produce offspring (multiply) the outcome is negative.
24 Who will set me free from this formula that always results in death?
25 Jesus was a human who was not a negative number. When He has intercourse with the law (multiplication) He could produce righteousness. He entered a new factor into the equation whereby the result (I have just now been overcome with overpowering emotion and weeping at this revelation) could result in a positive. He became sin for me – a negative – so I could receive righteousness – a positive.
Although by nature and birth He is positive, sin was imputed/assigned to Him. He can somehow represent both depending on the function. As a positive He can multiply with the Father and produce positive. And as a negative, when we choose to have intimacy with Him (fellowship) the result is amazingly – POSITIVE. The mathematical law of multiplication says that two negatives result in a positive.
8:2 The law (of multiplication) of life in Jesus (with Him) sets me free, not from the laws of mathematics but from the wrong results always encountered by trying to produce righteousness directly. It is now produced indirectly through a third factor Who is both positive and negative.
