Monday | 15 June 2026
When we misappropriate the Law, we come under its burning, destructive judgement. This was manifest in a severe manner when Nadab and Abihu presumed to offer profane fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them to offer. We know that ‘fire went out from the LORD and devoured them, and they died before the LORD’. Lev 10:2. Describing the nature of this fire, the Lord, through Moses, declared, ‘For a fire is kindled in My anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell; it shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.’ Deu 32:22.
This destructive judgement begins to impact upon our identity when we misappropriate the Law so that it becomes our other law. Sin then produces death within us through what is ‘good’ – that is, the Law – the commandments of which are holy and just. Rom 7:10‑13. Having come under the judgement of the Law by taking hold of it and making it our other law, we find that evil is present with us; those who, through the law of our mind, ‘will to do good’. Rom 7:21. This evil, that is present with us, is the weariness that belongs to depression and destruction when we misappropriate the Law, applying it to ourselves and to our relationships.
The ‘energy’ that feeds the other law comes from the power that is in God’s Law, creating a strong reaction within us. Paul called this judgement ‘the emotions, or passions, of sin’, writing, ‘For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death’. Rom 7:5. In this mode, we maintain our zealous rage and attitude that despises another based on self‑righteousness. We claim to love the Law, or word of God; however, this is not true. We covet the Law. In so doing, we break the commandment, ‘Thou shalt not covet’, and come under its judgement, which is death. Rom 7:7. This is our most basic human infirmity.
Further Study:
Deuteronomy 32
References:
Lev 10:2
So, fire went out from the LORD and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
Deu 32:22
For a fire is kindled in My anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell; it shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Rom 7:10-13
And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. Therefore, the Law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good. Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.
Rom 7:21
I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good.
Rom 7:5
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.
Rom 7:7
What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the Law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the Law had said, ‘You shall not covet.’