TUESDAY November 26, 2019
Guilty of All
For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all. For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
James 2:10-11
James had a strong point to make. If a Christian tried to keep the Ten Commandments, but failed in only one area, then they would become guilty of all of them! We should know that! Trying to keep the Law would bring frustration. Knowing there is no way to live up to the Mosaic law, it now becomes like a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ:
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster (Galatians 3:24-25 KJV).
The Apostle Paul teaches the doctrine of grace in such a simple way for all people to understand it:
Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus (Romans 3:20-24).
Concerning law and grace, we now understand that as a person can come to the foot of the Cross, where there is no longer any more condemnation (Romans 8:1). Through God’s grace, there is love, joy and peace.
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord…
~2 Peter 1:2~
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