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Was God's law originally the law of the mind? Maybe the fall into sin stripped the heart out of it and just left the letter of the law, the outline, an empty shell that we felt compelled to obey so we could feel satisfied and whole again.
Or maybe God's law used to be what is now called the law of the flesh. However that part was commandeered by Satan and still purports to work for our best interest while always sabotaging us.
The soul is the vehicle for processing and expression but has no internal power to do so. It is dependent on an outside source of power to fuel it. There are two available sources of power, the flesh and the spirit. Was this arrangement in place before the fall?
Before sin the “flesh” was nourished by the fruits in the Garden of Eden as well as the Tree of Life. Did the Tree of Life synchronize the spirit and the flesh? With God's Spirit?
I believe THE LAW (Rom 8:3,4a) was originally encoded into what is now called our flesh. It originally gave the soul perfect guidance as to how to be satisfied and at peace. It was God's perfect will encoded into our guidance system. But did it originally have power to supply to the mind and soul or was it just designed to be a perfect guidance system? Was the spirit always intended to be the sole source of power? Was the deception in Eden a lie that we could use the encoded, internal guidance system as an alternate source of power thereby bypassing the function of the spirit part of us?
Satan proposed to supply power in reverse to how we were designed. THE LAW, the desire to be satisfied, to thrive, to grow was misidentified as our source of energy instead of our library.
Now what is called the flesh is attempting to be a power supply, with Satan's power hidden underneath it, to fuel our soul. This, on the surface, appears to be self-dependent power but actually is depending on Satan for power. This is the deceptive way he gets us to worship him, for worship is simply an admiration and appreciation for “whatever turns our crank”.
(7:11,12) Sin – dependence on a false source of power – took up residence inside the LAW part of our mind that held our encoded guidance system. The LAW did not disappear from our minds. It still has its original function to guide us to peace and perfection, but it is now untrustworthy as a source of power. And the solutions produced by the LAW, or passed to our mind through the storefront of the LAW, are always misleading, though the code of the LAW is still technically correct.
(8:5,6) “Setting our minds” is a phrase that means looking to a source of power. The LAW encoded into us was never intended to be a source of power, the Spirit was to be our power source. When we look to the flesh and LAW for power to fulfill the LAW we try to operate the system backwards and have hostility toward God as well as how we were designed to function (8:7)
Our spirit is the real power cord that is properly configured to be plugged into the heavenly socket which is the Holy Spirit. His Spirit connects with our spirit to supply power and synchronize us with God's heart, will, emotions and mind.
(8:3) The LAW was weak through the flesh – the guidance system had good ideas for the end results of being God-like, but since the fall it has either lost its power to perform or it is attempting to be the power it was never intended to be.
Jesus condemned SIN in the flesh, not the flesh itself. Whatever He did He empowered some arrangement whereby the desires/demands of the LAW could now be realized in us, be fulfilled in us. It does not say that we would be empowered to obey of ourselves or that the LAW would have power to obey in us. Our soul – emotions, mind, will – is not the power center; it is the processing center. The LAW written in the flesh and now deceived and usurped by sin, is also not to be a power source.
The very idea of deriving power to obey the LAW from either of these two sources is the root deception foisted on us by sin via way of the addendums now added to the LAW written in our flesh.
