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(Rev 20:15), are the same Master (Josh 1:8, Deut 30:10, John 1:1, Rom 10:4, Rev
20:15, 22:19). However, in a mystery, this same Master has given Man two
alternative targets in response to Man's challenge to God, that he be God (Gen 3:5,
22). One target is the Law and to keep it (Mat 5:17-18, Rev 22:18-19) but the
second is to escape it by Christ (Rom 10:4) by which the applicability of the Law
is ended (Rom 10:4) through its fulfillment in the life of the Christian (Rom 8:4).
Both targets are God (Deut 30:10, Psalm 138:2, John 1:1, Rev 22:19-19) and have
always existed (Josh 1:8, Deut 30:10, Mal 3:6, John 1:1, 14, 11:25, 14:6, Rev
20:15, 22:19). To try and simultaneously keep the Law and obey Grace is like
having two Masters (Mat 6:24, Rom 10:4).

The love of money is the root of all evil (1 Tim 6:10). Money here means
dominion, the desire to be God and to stamp one’s image on the world, as well as
cash itself (Gen 1:26, Mat 22:20-21, Mark 12:16-17, Luke 22:24-25). Man, made
in the image of God, wants to be God (Gen 2:17, 3:5, Rom 1:23, 25). The love of
money is another set of words meaning to want to be God, this is established by the
fall of Lucifer who had no need for money but did want to be God (Ezek 28:2-6,
15) and the fall of the individual Adam, an allegory for all mankind (Gen 5:1-2),
who also wanted to be God (Gen 2:17, 3:5, 22). He was in Paradise and so also
had no need of cash as such (Gen 1:28-29, 2:15). The dominion being sought by
the love of money is the dominion of the Godhead (Gen 1:28-29, 2:17, 3:22) and
not just that of being a god, contrary to the distortion of Satan (Gen 3:5, 22). To
want to be a god is to want to be God (Gen 2:17, 3:5, 22, Ex 20:3, Psalm 97:7).
The one necessarily involves the other (Gen 3:5, 22, Neh 9:6, Psalm 97:7).
Obviously it is impossible to accept God as God and want to be God oneself (Mat
6:24, Luke 16:13). When money is loved it becomes Mammon (Mat 6:24, Luke
16:13, 1 Tim 6:10). To come under the Law which is to judge between good and
evil (Gen 2:17, Rom 3:20) is not just the desire to be an independent god (Gen
2:17, 3:5) but to be the Godhead (Gen 3:22). It is the love of money and root of all
evil (Gen 2:17, 3:5, 22, Mat 6:24, Luke 16:13, 1 Tim 6:10) and the curse (Gen
3:14, Gal 3:10). The first of the ten commandments actually redirects those under
the Law from that state to the state of accepting that one is not God (Ex 20:2). To
keep the Law one has to escape from the Law just as Christ kept it but is also the
means to escape it (Rom 8:1-2).

Salvation is by faith and grace exclusively (Eph 2:7-9) and this commandment, to
be saved, is the Law of Christ (Rom 6:6-7, 7:7-8, 10:4, 1 Cor 9:21). Fulfillment of
this commandment is not the same as obedience (Gal 6:2) and instead describes the
saved lifestyle of fellowship i.e. being saved (Gal 6:2), though not as law or
commandment (Mat 22:40, Rom 10:4, Gal 6:2). As Christ is God He is the end of