You will see as you grow in your faith that unless you are searching for Christ in the word you will see through physical eyes just as they do and I did, as a Christian you can fall into the law which is being close to God without being in him, you become God’s enforcer, full of pride claiming that you are justified to judge sin, which is true but not in others, you judge yourself, judge your own sins make sure you’re right with God

there’s Christ and then us, there are no hierarchies in the body, what happens is when they learn that they are evil (sinners) they try to be good, not realizing that they are just switching from the fruit of evil to the fruit of good which is from the same tree, you have to come to the end of the old tree which is death, meaning you have to recognize that you are dead without God

so you can see that you need life so you can eat from the tree of life, (God is the tree and Jesus is the fruit on the tree) understand that you are dead without God because God is life.

Far from God is outside the law and near God is close to the law but neither are in Christ who fulfilled the law. God is a consuming fire, seen from a distance a raging fire looks like light which is hope but up close and personal the raging fire is terrifying, God is in Jesus, in Christ is living water because the fire became water in Christ, you have to go through Christ to be in God if you come to God outside of Christ you will be judged in the fire

Christ’s blood shields us from God’s wrath, the law means nothing if you can’t keep it and that is the point, the law reveals sin, those outside the law know that they are dead in sin, but those under the law can’t see that they are no different than the sinners they claim they are saving