Thursday, February 25, 2016

Impossible to Keep the Law

For whoever keeps the entire law, yet fails in one point, is guilty of breaking it all. (James 2:10 HCSB)
For no one will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law. (Romans 3:20 HCSB)
What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin if it were not for the law. For example, I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, Do not covet. (Romans 7:7 HCSB)
For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. (Romans 8:3-4 ESV)
Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise was made would come. The law was put into effect through angels by means of a mediator. (Galatians 3:19 HCSB)
What does all this mean? Even though the Gentiles were not trying to follow God's standards, they were made right with God. And it was by faith that this took place. But the people of Israel, who tried so hard to get right with God by keeping the law, never succeeded. Why not? Because they were trying to get right with God by keeping the law instead of by trusting in him. They stumbled over the great rock in their path. (Romans 9:30-32 NLT)

The ten commandments are not for us to keep, because it is impossible for us to keep the law.

Israel saw the great power that the LORD used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the LORD, and they believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses. (Exodus 14:31 ESV)

The Torah consisted of 365 negative commands and 248 positive commands, giving a total of 613 commands.

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