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The Law of God (How God breaks man's pride).
The Law is the way how God breaks man’s pride. Yes, The Law is the tool in which God uses to break man of his pride. The Law of God is the 10 Commandments.
The wisdom and Holiness of God is revealed By Him giving us the Law. This is because God knows how sinful and prideful man truly is. God knew that we could never keep his Law, however God also knows we have no earthly clue the true depth of our sinful ways and depravity. So, in His wisdom He gives us the Law to show and reveal man’s own sinful ways. In so that man can see his sins face to face, recognize his need for a Savior then turn to Jesus His Son The Savior who will save him from his sins.
So here below I will share just a few things the Law of God does:
The Law breaks man’s pride
The Law exposes man and shows him his sins
The Law shows us how Holy God is and how far we are from Him and His Holy ways
The Law shows us that we are repetitive lawbreakers
The Law leaves us guilty before A Holy God and without excuses
The Law brings man to the end of himself and brings him face to face with A Holy perfect Just God to whom he is accountable to (Hebrews 4:13)
The Law shows us that Everyone has broken God’s Laws thus Everyone has sinned against God. And now everyone needs The Unique One and Only Savior Jesus Christ to save them. No one is better than anyone else for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). When you break Gods law you sin and when you sin you break Gods Law (1 John 3:4) (James 2:10).
No one is righteous no not one (Romans 3:10) (Psalm 14:2-3). The Holy Spirit kept emphasizing those words to me Not One Not One Not One until I finally understood the magnitude of what He was saying. Not One Not One. There is not One single person on planet earth who is guiltless, all are guilty of sin and no one is innocent.
There is nothing wrong with The Law. The Law is Holy and is from God. The problem is with us yes, the problem is with man. We are the ones who are wicked sinful lawbreakers.
Because we are sinners who do not keep The Law we are now condemned apart from Christ.
Jesus comes to save us from the eternal penalty of our sins and from us being condemned before our Holy and Righteous Father (John 3:16-18, 36) (John 5:24) (John 6:40) (Romans 8:1) (1 Thessalonians 5:9).
The Law is the breaker of man's pride. It brings man to the end of himself and shows Him that without Christ he is and will continue to remain guilty of sin. For a better understanding of all of this Read the whole chapter of Romans 3.
Galatians 3:14-29 (NLT)
Through Christ Jesus, God has blessed the Gentiles with the same blessing he promised to Abraham, so that we who are believers might receive the promised Holy Spirit through faith.
The Law and God’s Promise
Dear brothers and sisters,here’s an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or amend an irrevocable agreement, so it is in this case. God gave the promises to Abraham and his child.And notice that the Scripture doesn’t say “to his children,” as if it meant many descendants. Rather, it says “to his child”—and that, of course, means Christ. This is what I am trying to say: The agreement God made with Abraham could not be canceled 430 years later when God gave the law to Moses. God would be breaking his promise. For if the inheritance could be received by keeping the law, then it would not be the result of accepting God’s promise. But God graciously gave it to Abraham as a promise.
Why, then, was the law given? It was given alongside the promise to show people their sins. But the law was designed to last only until the coming of the child who was promised. God gave his law through angels to Moses, who was the mediator between God and the people. Now a mediator is helpful if more than one party must reach an agreement. But God, who is one, did not use a mediator when he gave his promise to Abraham.
Is there a conflict, then, between God’s law and God’s promises? Absolutely not! If the law could give us new life, we could be made right with God by obeying it. But the Scriptures declare that we are all prisoners of sin, so we receive God’s promise of freedom only by believing in Jesus Christ.
God’s Children through Faith
Before the way of faith in Christ was available to us, we were placed under guard by the law. We were kept in protective custody, so to speak, until the way of faith was revealed.
Let me put it another way. The law was our guardian until Christ came; it protected us until we could be made right with God through faith. And now that the way of faith has come, we no longer need the law as our guardian.
For you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus. And all who have been united with Christ in baptism have put on Christ, like putting on new clothes. There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. And now that you belong to Christ, you are the true children of Abraham. You are his heirs, and God’s promise to Abraham belongs to you.
Galatians 2:16, 21 (NLT)
Yet we know that a person is made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ, not by obeying the law. And we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be made right with God because of our faith in Christ, not because we have obeyed the law. For no one will ever be made right with God by obeying the law.
I do not treat the grace of God as meaningless. For if keeping the law could make us right with God, then there was no need for Christ to die.
Acts 13:38-39 (NLT)
Brothers, listen! We are here to proclaim that through this man Jesus there is forgiveness for your sins. Everyone who believes in him is made right in God’s sight—something the law of Moses could never do.
Romans 10:3-4 (NLT)
For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law. For Christ has already accomplished the purpose for which the law was given. As a result, all who believe in him are made right with God.
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