Our inability to save ourselves is clear, nor do we have the power to ascend into heaven to bring Christ down, nor to descend in to the pit, to raise Christ up. Who is Paul to speak to the Jews in such a fashion to the Roman church. He was part of the Jewish priesthood in Tarsus outside of Roman. He was taught by a Roman Priest the ways of God before he got saved on his way to Damacus. His entitlement of who and how he learn gave him the right to speak up. Who are they to be calling someone ignorant of God's righteousness and saying they went about establishing their own righteousness, instead of submitting to the righteness of God but ot the righteousness of the law. Law in itself was to bring people to God, but instead it became a task master.

Righteousness by the law is washing of the hands by the law, only to still have fifthly hands by stealing, impropted touching, hitting, and not obeying the distancing laws. The hands outwardly is clean, but inwardly the hands are still guilty of sin. God does not want us cutting off our hands, he wants us to cleanse our hands from sin. Yet scripture declares to cut off the hand if it causes one to sin. The extremers of the Bible go about cutting off their hands because it is the law of God, instead of realizing the cleansing of the hands is about learning the discipline of obedience to God's law, but teaching your hands not to sin. Some smokers in time past have tried the rubber band approach to their smoking habit. Anytime they desired a cigarette they would pop the rubber band to say no to the mind and thus conditioning the mind not to desire the cigarette.

What the point the point is teaching discipline of what is correct and not self mulation of the extremenous of the law. Hands are needed for working, but some do work better without hands and arms. Some people more skilled then others. However the point is not about the law but the extremenous of the law that takes one away from the righteousness of faith. The righteous of Abraham, for Abraham did break the law of Moses, however he did not live under the law of Moses, so the law was void in Abraham's life, but faith was not.

Jews claim Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as their father, but do not accept the righteousness of faith without the law. Christians are the sons and daughters of Abraham because of faith. Arab world, had a mixture of Abraham offspring and other tribes that came before and after Abraham's life time. Yet Paul taught there is no different between Jew, and Greek. Christ never showed there was a difference in faith by any group of people, nor did Old Testament law teach this either.

What is the point people of all nations need to know that righteousness of faith come through faith in God and Christ Jesus, the word of God that came in the flesh, died and rose again. To beleive is to have faith in God continual plan of salvation for mankind even before Abraham. Can man ascend into heaven, man tried and the tower of Babel was built and languages of the earth was confused to such a degree man could not finish the tower of Babel. Now astronauts go into space and still can not reach heaven and neither can our satelittes that go into other solar systems/galaxies. God is coming down to live with many one day, but not by the power of man. Man can not make God and Christ ascend.

The point being our understanding of faith, needs to be beyond our understanding of the law for we all sin and fall short of the glory of God. How lovely are the feet that spread good news. How lovely are those that spread the Gospel. We all are called but not all go and share the Gospel message.

Dear Heavenly Father, teach us about your love and grace that comes through faith in Christ Jesus and you. May we know faith is important and discipline is secondary to faith, but important. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study: Job 9:30-31 KJV
30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.