WHAT THE LAW COULDN’T DO!
The law is a shadow and type of the future.
Heb:10:1: “the law having a shadow of good things to come, and
not the very image of the things”
The law is a shadow or
image of the things to come under the New Covenant.
Rom:15:4: For whatsoever things were written aforetime were
written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the
scriptures might have hope.
We are to learn from the
things written in the Old Covenant.
The law could not save us from the consequences of our sins.
1Jn:3:4:
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth
also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
What is sin?
Sin is the transgression
or the breaking of God’s law.
When we break God’s law,
we are guilty of committing sin.
The law was given by
Jn:
1Cor:9:9:
“it is written in the law of Moses”
Guilty under the written law.
Jms:
Breaking even one of the
least of God’s laws makes us as guilty as if we had broken all of them.
Rom:
11: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after
God.
12: They
are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is
none that doeth good, no, not one.
The law makes all men
guilty before God.
The law came to prove that everyone was a sinner.
Rom
13: Was
then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might
appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the
commandment might become exceeding sinful.
The law was sent to
reveal sin.
Rom:
The brings the knowledge of what
sin is.
Rom:7:7: “I had not known sin, but
by the law”
What are these laws of God?
The ten
commandments are the law written in stone.
Exodus chapter 20 records
the ten commandments for us.
They are;
1.
Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.
2.
Thou shalt not commit idolatry
3.
Thou shalt not take the Lord’s name in
vain
4.
Thou shalt remember the sabbath day to keep it holy
5.
Thou shalt honor thy father and mother
6.
Thou shalt not murder
7.
Thou shalt not commit adultery
8.
Thou shalt not steal
9.
Thou shalt not lie
10.
Thou shalt not covet
What are the consequence for breaking God’s
law?
Ezek:18:4: “the soul that sinneth, it shall die”
Under the Old Covenant
the penalty for sin was death.
Under the New Covenant
the penalty remains the same.
Rom:
God’s judgement
for those that transgress one or more of His laws is death.
Isa:64:6: “we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags”
the New Covenant commandment called the royal law.
James 2:8:
If ye fulfil the royal law according to the
scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour
as thyself, ye do well:
This law came from
royalty, the
The New Covenant law is
to love thy neighbour as thy self.
1Jn:2:7:
Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye
had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard
from the beginning.
:8: Again, a new
commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because
the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
The written word we had
from the beginning was the law of God as recorded by
The New and old Covenant commands are the same law.
Rom:13:9: For this, Thou shalt not
commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not
bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if
there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying,
namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour
as thyself.
This is the new commandment, that we should love.
Rom:
Practicing love fulfills
the law.
The new covenant law is written on our hearts.
Heb:
Under the new covenant
God will write His laws on our hearts.
Jms:
Transgressing the law
written in our hearts is just as much sin as breaking the law written in stone
tablets.
Rom:
The law reveals our need of
Both the New and Old
covenant laws do the same thing, they prove us to be
sinners in need of a Savior!
:25: But after that faith is
come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
We are justified by
It is by
Titus 3:5:
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he
saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
6: Which he
shed on us abundantly through
7: That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs
according to the hope of eternal life.
We are vindicated before
God by faith in
Rom
Rom:
Whether it be the New or Old covenant law that we break,
Gal 3:10:
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is
written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in
all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
13:
Have a GOD-Day!
