Seeker's Table
Question
If the law was nailed to the Stake and is no more does this mean there is no more Sin or Sinning
It occured to me that where there is no law there is no Sin. Nothing including Sin/Sinning leads to condemnation by the Father. I dontt think its only for beleivers I think it's a declaration of emancipation for all. Given the above all our outward behaviours or inward thoughts whether bad or good can't separate us from the Father's love and shouldn't be referred to as Sins? Under or in this Aeon the Creator views these as such but not the Father. Although all don't yet beleive in the rupture/ rescue they are in a sense in an illusory prison of the Creator's. In one sense this age life isnt real is it? Time is illusory and the Father sits outside of time ,we are seated now in heavenly places in Christ even though we forget it often.
The Assembly's Answer
The Law as lord is finished. Paul is blunt: “having canceled the certificate of debt with its decrees against us, which was hostile to us; he took it out of the way, nailing it to the stake” (Colossians 2:7 TT). “We have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound” (Romans 7:3 TT). “Sin shall no longer be Lord over us, for we are not under Law but under grace” (Romans 6:12 TT). The Creator’s court does not get the last word. The Father is not that judge.
Paul even gives you the line you are reaching for: “apart from the Law, sin is dead” (Romans 7:5 TT). And: “I would not have known sin except through the Law” (Romans 7:4 TT). That is true. Sin as transgression of the Creator’s code has no life once that code is no longer lord. The Father is not running a second copy of that courtroom. Nothing you do or think purchases His love, and nothing you do or think makes Him stop loving. “Who will separate us from the love of Christ?” (Romans 8:25 TT). “Nor height nor depth nor any created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:29 TT). That includes your worst hour.
The horizon is also larger than “believers only.” “Just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive” (1 Corinthians 15:19 TT). “Through him to reconcile all things to himself, making peace through the blood of his stake” (Colossians 1:19 TT). The stake is not a private ticket for a few. It is emancipation declared over the house.
That is the part you have right.
Here is the part the letters will not let us say.
The Law being nailed to the stake does not mean there is no more sin, and it does not mean we should stop calling sin sin. Paul asks your question out loud and answers it: “Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? May it never be!” (Romans 6:1–2 TT). Again: “Shall we sin because we are not under Law but under grace? May it never be!” (Romans 6:13 TT). “You were called to freedom… only do not make the freedom a pretext for the flesh” (Galatians 5:13 TT). If “no Law” meant “no sin,” those sentences would be nonsense. He still names the works of the flesh: immorality, rage, greed, factions (Galatians 5:19–21 TT). He still says, “Put to death, therefore, what is earthly in you” (Colossians 3:5 TT). He still says you were “dead in your trespasses and sins” (Laodiceans 2:1 TT).
So what changed? Not the reality of the wound. The court. Sin is real. Sin is terrible. Sin is not a charge the Father is preparing against you. It is what flesh does inside a perishing domain. The perishing sin because they are perishing. They are not perishing because they sinned their way onto the Father’s docket. Symptom, not root. Captivity is the deepest name. That is why we still say sin, and why we refuse to let “sinner” become your name before the Father.
The Creator still calls those things crimes against His Law. He would. It is His house, His code, His weather. The Father does not adopt that verdict. He does not need your record cleaned before He can love you. He made the dead alive: “God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ” (Laodiceans 2:4–5 TT). The Father “condemned sin in the flesh” (Romans 8:3 TT). He did not condemn you. Paul goes on, “There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1 TT), and our edition marks that verse Probable, but it only says what 8:3 already says. No condemnation: not condemnation paid, not condemnation postponed.
That emancipation is declared for all. It is not yet arrived as experience for all. People who do not yet believe the rupture are not living in a pretend jail. They are house-dead under the ruler of the air (Laodiceans 2:1–2 TT), enslaved under the elements (Galatians 4:3 TT), still inside a present evil aeon Christ gave Himself to deliver us from (Galatians 1:4 TT). The prison is jurisdictional, not theatrical. Blindness is real. Decay is real. Neighbors are real. Bodies are real. Paul will not let us dissolve the house into a dream.
That is why we cannot say this age “isn’t real,” or that time is illusory. The present evil aeon is a bounded age with rulers, weather, and an end, not a mirage. “The aeon is present, evil, and real.” You do not escape it by deciding it was never there. You are extracted from it. Citizenship can already be above while feet still stand on Creator soil: “Our citizenship is in the heavens above, from where we eagerly await a rescuer, the Lord Jesus Christ” (Philippians 3:6 TT). And yes — already true, not a metaphor you talk yourself into — “raised us with him, and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus” (Laodiceans 2:6 TT). Two coordinates at once: where you still walk, and where you already belong. Forgetting that is not proof it was only an idea. It is proof the body is still in the dissolving order.
The Father is not a creature of this aeon. He is not trapped in the Creator’s clock. That does not make the clock fake. It makes the clock His to end. Hope not yet seen is still hope: “in hope we were rescued; hope seen is not hope, for who hopes for what he sees?” (Romans 8:18 TT). We wait. We groan. We are seated. All of that can be true at once without turning the world into a hologram.
