*** Like what most if not all of the world's religions and beliefs teach - it sets people up for total failure; because they can never live a sinless life... ***

Date:   11/2/2015 12:26:38 PM ( 9 y ago)

A wrong understanding of the purpose of the Old Testament Law leads to a misunderstanding of the nature of God. Most people believe God gave the Law to show us what we needed to do to obtain relationship with Him.
But the Law was never intended to bring us into relationship with our heavenly Father.

It was intended to show us our sin and our need for God.

It was given to show us how unholy we were so we would despair of trying to earn salvation and just receive it as a gift by faith.
It was to turn us from self-righteousness to a faith-righteousness that could only come through a Savior (Rom. 10:3-4).

Consider some of the things the Scripture says about the Law:
• The Law strengthened sin (1 Cor. 15:56).
• The Law was a ministry of death and condemnation (2 Cor. 3:7 and 9).
• The Law gave guilt and knowledge of sin, not salvation (Rom. 3:19-20).
• The Law made sin come alive, and killed us (Rom. 7:9).
• The Law magnified sin and produced hopelessness (Rom. 7:13-25).

Why would God give us something with all these negative effects?
It was because we were already beaten by sin and didn’t know it.
Before we could be motivated to receive God’s gift of salvation by grace through faith in a Savior, we needed to be convinced that we couldn’t save ourselves.

So, the Lord revealed His standard of holiness (the Law), which was infinitely higher than any of us could ever attain. We had to come to the end of ourselves before we could begin to find God. The Law was perfectly suited to do that.

It shut us up to use our faith; which is the only way that we can look was up (Gal. 3:23).

{Because He (Christ) did for us what we could never do for ourselves!}
When the Law is used for that purpose, then it is good beyond compare! (1 Tim. 1:8).

But when people are taught that God’s blessings are dependent upon our performance, this directly kills our faith in what Jesus did for us.

Most if not all of the world's religions and beliefs teach this approach - which sets people up for total failure; because they can never live a sinless life...

What most of the Religion has taught is that we have to fulfill some or all of the demands of the Law in order for God to love us or use us. Which is a lie of the Devil.

That’s totally wrong!

Do you get it yet??

 

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