The ten commandments were given to convict the unbeliever of sin. After we are born again, God's law lives in us, we don't have to try or work to keep them, they come naturally to us. I don't have to try not to steal, I have no desire to, in fact it is repulsive to me, if someone suggested that I steal, I would refuse, not because I am trying hard to obey, but because it is not in my new nature to do so.
If someone is trying real hard to keep the commandments, perhaps they... are still in the flesh, not born again. Many people will work to be good but it doesn't make them saved. We are born again by trusting what Christ did on the cross for us, then He comes to live in us, He is the Law Giver, the Author of the Law.
Galatians 3:19 "Why the Law then? It was added because of transgressions, having been ordained through angels by the agency of a mediator, until the seed would come to whom the promise had been made."
1 Timothy 1:9 "realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers"
Often unbelievers are convicted by us, because they sense the Holy Spirit living in us, the very essence of the Law. The Law convicts of sin.
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