Laws Cannot Help a Righteous Person (TMF:1673)

Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Peace to Live By: Laws Cannot Help a Righteous Person (TMF:1673) - Daniel Litton
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       So, what was the Jewish Law’s purpose? It was to show people their sin, as Paul said earlier in this book of Romans. This also means that the righteous person is never to live by any law system in their lives. Uh-oh. Yes, you have that right. Can you bring to mind any brothers or sisters who try to live under a law system they have created? Are you trying to do that today? Paul’s got bad news for you. A series of laws cannot help a righteous person, a believer, one of us who has been born again, it can only help an unrighteous person by showing them where their sin is. That’s what he just told Timothy in saying “the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient.” Paul also said in Romans chapter 4: “For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void” (Romans 4:14, ESV).