Good News #104: It is Only Through Jesus Christ That I Can Be Forgiven, Not By Obeying the Law of Moses!
The grace of God and our Lord Jesus is the gospel (the good news).
Did it ever occur to you that the children of Israel have had the Law (Ten Commandments) and its fine prints summing up to 613 laws for over a thousand years from the time of Moses to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ?
IF and ONLY IF man’s obedience and keeping of the Ten commandments and all:
- was the good news (gospel)
- could earn total absolution and forgiveness of sins
- could have earned justification before God
Then there would have been no need for Jesus to come, right?
Yet Jesus came because the law was never given to justify man by. The Law (Ten Commandments) and its fine prints were given so that man realizes that on his own, he is doomed, and so he sees the need for a Saviour.
Romans 5:20 puts it this way…
NKJV:
Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound.
NIV:
The law was added so that the trespass might increase.
NLT:
God’s law was given so that all people could see how sinful they were.
In other words, the law makes people see how sinful they are and at the same time, the law stirred up the sinful nature in humanity.
Romans 7:5 puts it this way…
NKJV:
…the sinful passions which were aroused by the law…
NIV:
…the sinful passions aroused by the law…
NLT:
…the law aroused these evil desires that produced a harvest of sinful deeds…
The law cannot and will not justify man…because our insufficiency can never attain the holy standards of the law…only The One Man Jesus can and He did for us…that what we cannot earn through our own obedience, He gives freely to those who believe in Him, His obedience and what He has done.
The gospel is this — everyone who believes in Jesus and His sacrifice receives eternal forgiveness of sins and perpetual justification by the shedding of His blood, His death, His burial and His resurrection.
Whatta gracious God we have!
Whatta Saviour and Redeemer Jesus is!
✨❤️✨❤️✨❤️✨❤️✨❤️✨
