Buying Back

Truth time again. I've never really truly understood the law and what the law was, why we had to have the law, and why was it for me if I wasn't an Israelite.

Well, I guess you now know my little secret. I don't know much but that doesn't mean I don't ask questions, which I do; a lot of them in fact. So throughout my life, I've asked the same questions over and over where the law is concerned.

When I came across this little devotional, the thing that stood out was Jesus. And to be honest, I think I knew the answer all along, I just never had the light bulb moment until now.

Jesus is the reason for the law, He is the law, He is a must have if we are going to get through this crazy life, and He's for me because He is no respecter of people.

Jesus is for everyone. He's is everything we need all bunched up into this crazy thing we call life and without Him, we would have a world full of crazies, just like me, on our hands.

God Bless.



If that promise was enough for salvation, wherefore then serveth the law?

The Israelites, though chosen to be Gods peculiar people, were sinners as well as others. The law was not intended to discover a way of justification, different from that made known by the promise, but to lead men to see their need of the promise, by showing the sinfulness of sin, and to point to Christ, through whom alone they could be pardoned and justified.

The promise was given by God himself the law was given by the ministry of angels, and the hand of a mediator, even Moses. Hence the law could not be designed to set aside the promise. A mediator, as the very term signifies, is a friend that comes between two parties, and is not to act merely with and for one of them.

The great design of the law was, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ, might be given to those that believe that, being convinced of their guilt, and the insufficiency of the law to effect a righteousness for them, they might be persuaded to believe on Christ, and so obtain the benefit of the promise.

And it is not possible that the holy, just, and good law of God, the standard of duty to all, should be contrary to the gospel of Christ. It tends every way to promote it.

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