The Purpose Of The law

                What is the purpose of the law? What is the point of the Ten Commandments? What is the point of all of these rules? Many would think that the point of these rules is to show you how to live right. That is not necessarily true. Yes, the law shows you how you should be living, but that is not the main function of the law.

                God knows that we are naturally sinners. We do not need any more help with sin; and we are unable to keep the law. God knows are imperfection, but look around and ask yourself how many people know their own imperfections. Many people either underplay most of their flaws or totally ignore some of their short comings. Without the law, how would we for sure know that stealing or sex before marriage is wrong? Jesus had to tell us to do unto others as we would want them to do to us (Matthew 7:12). If Jesus had to tell us, how much does that say about our ability to be good and think of others naturally. Without intervention, we are sinful creatures that will not see the depth of our depravity.

                That is where the law comes in. Pull up the Ten Commandments and see if you have committed any of them, with actions or in your heart. I guarantee you that you have gone against, or thought of going against, at least half of the list. The point of the law is this very thing!

                The law was not made just as a check list of how to become a better person. We utterly fail at upholding the law on our own. The point of the law is to show us God's standard and how aw don't match up. The law shows us our sinful nature and how bad we truly are.

                Galatians 3:24 says, "Therefore the law became our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith."


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