Daily Post

What than shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would have not known sin. For I would have not known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “you shall not covet.” But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. Romans 7:7-8. The God-ordained role of the law in a fallen world is to reveal the nature of human sin. The law not only defines sin, but acts as a catalyst, provoking the precise sinful reactions that it forbids and condemns. In itself the law, which brings us to know the reality of sin in our own moral and spiritual system, is “holy and righteous and good.” The law is a faithful revelation of what is right or wrong, and does not lose its validity to measure and direct moral behavior. If you were to randomly ask five people on the street to name the 10 commandments (God’s law). I bet 4-5 couldn’t. Ask the same five to name 15 types of beer, and 5-5 probably could. Which category do you fit in?