The Law

[JM]

"A quaint Scotch preacher said that the needle of the law opens the way for and carries the thread of the Gospel. I once quoted this saying in a tent-meeting, and a hearer remarked to me afterwards: "Yes, you're right; but the needle should be pulled out and not left behind." H. G. Guinness

 

[JustAsIam77]

"A quaint Scotch preacher said that the needle of the law opens the way for and carries the thread of the Gospel. I once quoted this saying in a tent-meeting, and a hearer remarked to me afterwards: "Yes, you're right; but the needle should be pulled out and not left behind." H. G. Guinness

Amen, as the apostle Paul stated in Romans 5 regarding justification apart from the law, sin through Adam and salvation through Christ.

 

[Soyeong]

The law is God's instructions for how to be holy, righteous, and good. We couldn't become holy, righteous, and by by obeying the law because sin nature prevented us from obeying it. The law points toward Christ because he is the one who set us free from sin so that we can obey it by faith and the leading of the Spirit.

 

[rnmomof7]

No one can keep the Law.. its purpose is to lead us to Christ

 

[Soyeong]

No one can keep the Law.. its purpose is to lead us to Christ

Because Christ is the one who paid our penalty for transgressing the law and can cause us to keep its righteous requirements.

 

[rnmomof7]

Scripture clearly tells us the purpose of the law..

Gal 3:23But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.


Our justification is not through the law.. it is totally through Christ.. Our new nature loves the law

 

[Soyeong]

Scripture clearly tells us the purpose of the law..

Gal 3:23But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.


Our justification is not through the law.. it is totally through Christ.. Our new nature loves the law

I agree that one of its purposes is to bring us to Christ, but I was explaining why it had that purpose.