4. No morality ...a better way?

If you realise that keeping the Law is impossible and you hear that the cross put the Law to death, and you think: "right no rules...how can that be a better way?" I jump for joy! you have heard the Gospel of Grace. Paul twice in the letter to the Romans punctuated his discourse with "what if I sin and God grace is bigger, then shouldn't I sin more?"

Because hearers of the gospel of grace usually have no idea of:
1. what sin is,
2. what Holiness of God is, and
3. what christ has done that blows all previous understanding away.

The first two are related and the 3rd item is the answer to the rules question.

Natural man thinking is looking for the right set of rules but Paul referred to something 'new'. This 'new' was planned from before the foundations of the world, the universe, its a paradym he spoke of in terms of "acts of the flesh" v "acts of the spirit" and the power of the change was a wooden cross, and one Son of God, not one rule in sight.

Now the solution for sin is completely shocking to legalists (moralists is the new word). The solution was put forward to the variouus Jewish assemblies across the Roman Empire, many believed but to many it was so shocking. Rabbi Saul (apostle paul) was beaten by rods, lashed 39 times and stoned, on many occassions. What drove the man to persist. Something was revealed to him that was the solution for sin and every man needs it.

So what is sin? Who was Jesus? What did the cross do? Whats this to do with 'morality'?