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THE BAD NEWS COMES FIRST, BUT THEN THE GOOD NEWS!
All Mankind’s Problem: Disobedience!
Have you ever told a lie, just a “little” one? The Law, the Ten Commandments, was given to show us that we could not keep them and to show us God’s perfection. Only He can keep His Law perfectly. In Romans 3:19-21 we are told that the Law was given to show that the whole world is guilty before God and that every mouth will be stopped. No one can say or do anything to make oneself right before God. No one can be justified or be made righteous (right before God) by the Law. We have all broken His Law. We are all guilty.
In Galatians 3:21-25 we are told that life and righteousness (being right before God) cannot happen through the Law. The Law was given to bring us to Christ, to point us to a future event that would happen. The Law was given to bring us to Jesus, the Savior from sin. We all broke His Law; we are all guilty sinners and have no hope in ourselves. The Law points us to Jesus.