Col 2:13  And you, being dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you, I say, did he make alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses; ASV

Col 2:13  And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; KJV

Col 2:13  And you, being dead in the deviations and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all the deviations, LITV

Col 2:13  And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, MKJV

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                                            COMMENTARY

  To be dead ladies & gentlemen, means to be under the Law and its condemnation. This is easily demonstrated from the Bible.
Eph 2:1  and (He worked in) you who were once dead in trespasses and sins.
Now, with respect to those of us who are not Jews accordinmg to the flesh... i.e.  Gentiles, we were never under Moses! That means we were never under the Law of Moses, which was given at Sinai, which is the Ten Commandments.   That's because the Ten Commandments were the words of the covenant that God made with the Nation of Israel and them only. So unless you are a Jew you have no part in the Mosaic Covenant, which is the Old Covenant given by God to Moses for the Jews and is distinguished by the words of that covenant, the Ten Commandments.  Exo_34:28  Deu_4:13  Deu_10:4

Objection; Duh-h-h... You're saying that unsaved men are not under the law? That's Antinomian heresy!

Answer. All men, Jew & Gentile are 'under law' and responsible for their breaking of it, which is sin. But -Not- all men are under the ~Mosaic Covenant~ which is a particular & peculiar expression of the Law of God given to the Nation of Israel -exclusively- and to no other.  This is demonstrated by 2 facts of Scripture;

1; The Law Covenant, which is identified by the Ten Commandments, was ~Not~ given until Siani, contrary to Covenant Theology's false doctrine that that Law is "eternal & unchangeable & was given to Adam in the garden." The  Ten Commandments were ~Not~  given to Adam in the garden and no one can show from the Bible that they were, except by a forced eisegesis! Nevertheless both Adam and his descendants were all "under law" and called to account for their actions. Both Adam and Cain were confronted by God Himself to give an account for their sinful actions.
   There is a vast difference between Law as given by God in a general and universal sense which is applicable to all men, and the Law that comprised the Covenant between God and Israel which was given to them at Sinai and applied to them exclusively. So No!  This is not Antinomianism  by any stretch of the imagination. You can rightly reject Covenant Theology and still hold to the principle taught in such verses as; John 14:15,23 / John 15:10 and 1John 2:4. This is because the Law of Moses considered as a ~Covenant~ is exclusive to Israel.

 Before Exodus there was no such thing as the "Nation of Israel".  The purpose of the Ten Commandments was to identify and distinguish the Jewish people as a peculiar Nation which was under the direct government of God Himself. That's called a Theocracy. Such did not exist in the Garden of Eden. Therefore the notion that the Ten Commandments were given to Adam in the garden, or to anyone else before Exodus 20 is unbiblical.
 
  The Deu_10:4 verse teaches that the second writing of the Ten Commandments was an exact duplicate of the first, which of course means that they were the words of the Covenant as well. That's why Moses put the second set of stone tables into the... what? The Ark of the ...  what?  The Covenant! Because they were themselves the actual Covenant. Why am I expending so many keystrokes to bang this truth into the heads of those who read this? Because ladies & gentlemen, to claim that the Ten Commandments are still in effect and are binding on the Christian is to place the Christian back under Moses. But Moses was a ministration of Death so to place a Christian back under Moses is to ~Rob~  him of his salvation. Yet this is what many professing Christians believe; but it is a false doctrine heresy.

  Moreover the Mosaic Covenant, which was the Ten Commandments was ministered and discharged by the Levitical Priesthood under Aaron. That means that only a Levite could be a legal priest and only such could carry out all the necessary requirements, legal & moral in order to properly conform to the requirements of the Covenant set up by God Himself. Anyone other than a Levite from the line of Aaron who tried to minister in the priest's office was -put to death- under that Covenant. And as a matter of fact even if a -legal- priest did not minister according to the directives given by God he was -put to death- ! This is what happened to Nadab & Abihu! They were legal priests, being the sons of Aaron, but they wanted to do things their way and so they offered 'strange fire' and the result was that God killed them. Therefore the only conclusion must be that, as long as Moses is still in force the Levitical Priesthood ~of Necessity~  must also be in effect.  But ladies and gentlemen of the jury...  Messiah was -not-  a Levite!  He was of the tribe of Judah.  That means that if Moses is still in force then anyone ~other than~ a Levite who tries to occupy the office of the Priesthood is an illegal priest.  That can only mean that if Moses is still in force and binding on the Christian, which is what Covenant Theology teaches,  then Jesus Christ cannot be the Messiah because he, being from the tribe of Judah, is not a true priest.  He has 'usurped' the office of priesthood and if that's so then there is no salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ!

  Now... the phrase "Ten Commandments" is found in only Three places in the entire Bible!  which I just cited above. And in all three places we are plainly told exactly what the Ten Commandments were, which is, they were the words of the Covenant God made with Israel. But Covenant Theologians will never ever say that or tell anybody that truth because once they say that their ship goes straight to the bottom where it belongs. To admit that the 10 Cs are what GOD says they were... the Covenant He made with Israel, is to admit that you are placing people under Moses... and that's Death! It destroys the True Priesthood of the Lord Jesus Christ and robs the Christian of his salvation.

  So in order for the truth of this verse to happen which is... "having forgiven you all trespasses;" every last remnant of Law in any form that was against any of the elect had to be taken out of the way by being nailed to His cross. That is to say, not only was the legal covenant of the Ten Commandments nailed to the cross but so also was all and every other law that applied to all men other than Jews, which is the Gentiles. This was necessary because if there remains any law at all that was not nailed to the cross then I as a Gentile am still subject to that law and stand guilty and condemned under it. This is so because the Law is a unit that stands or falls together and James says that if I break any part of the Law I have broken the whole Law and am a transgressor. Therefore the whole Law in its entirety had to be put away by the cross of Messiah and........................... IT WAS!!!


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