0045. The Law Covenant–Results

The Law Covenant–Results

"For as many as are of the works of the Law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the Book of the Law to do them" (Gal_3:10).

1. The first covenant, the Law given at Sinai, was holy. "The Law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good" (Rom_7:12).

2. Man utterly failed to keep the Law. "There is none righteous, no, not one" (Rom_3:10).

"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" (Rom_3:23).

There is no one on the wide earth, who has kept all the Law. All are sinners.

3. The Law could not give life. "What the Law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh" (Rom_8:3).

"If there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the Law" (Gal_3:21).

The Law could not justify, because men could not keep the Law. "Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the Law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them" (Rom_10:5). "For whosoever shall keep the whole Law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all" (Jam_2:10).

In these Scriptures we see the utter helplessness of the Law to save.

4. "As many as are of the works of the Law are under the curse" (Gal_3:10). The Law was no more than "the ministration of death" (2Co_3:7), and, "the ministration of condemnation" (2Co_3:9).

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR