Today's Word -- What The Law Reveals

 

The Law Cannot Give Life (eternal)

Galatians 3:20, 21

Now a mediator is not for just one person, but God is one. Is the law therefore contrary to God’s promises? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly be by the law. 

1 Timothy 2:5, 6

For there is one God, and there is one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all—The Testimony that was given at just the right time. 

 

MEDIATOR: intervenes to restore peace between two parties, especially as it fulfills a compact or ratifies a covenant.  

Hebrews 8:6

Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises. 

Law Cannot Make Perfect 

Hebrews 7:19

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God. 

Law Does Not Justify

Acts 13:39

And by Him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Law Cannot Give Life

1 Corinthians 15:56

The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

Romans 3:20

Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

Law Reveals Sin And Sin Brings Death

Romans 7:9-11

Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.  So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death. For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death. 

Law Reveals The Need For A Savior

Galatians 2:16

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. 

Romans 5:18

So then, just as one trespass brought condemnation for all men, so also one act of righteousness brought justification and life for all men. 

Isaiah 53:3-8

He is despised and rejected of men; a Man of Sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; He was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed. We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

Do you see your need for a Savior? for this Savior which God has given us? Do you see your need for a Mediator between you and God? I do. I need Jesus to intercede on my behalf to God. Every day. 

Blessed Strength_Psalms

Blessed is the man whose strength is in You; In whose heart are the ways of them. --PSALM 84:5

Our physical strength comes from the food we put into our bodies and the physical exertion we indulge in.
But our spiritual strength comes from what we put into our hearts and how we exercise such as that may be. When we allow Christ to come into our hearts, then is The Word placed within us through the power of God's Holy Spirit.
And we exercise our faith in God when we apply this Word we have within us to the rest of our lives. By faith we live according to God's laws, God's Word and by faith we know that He is our Strength and in Him we trust.

Perfect Law

The Law of the LORD is Perfect, converting the soul:

the Testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

It is easy to get caught up in doctrinal differences and religious regulations, and still be blinded to the simple truth: JESUS SAVES.

It isn't "Jesus Only". God's Word reminds us in John 3:16 that "GOD so loved that world that He gave His only begotten Son, what whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life." Matthew 3:16 "the Spirit of God descended on Jesus like a dove"; Genesis 1:26 "and God said, 'Let us make man in our own image"; John 1:1 "in the beginning was the Word, and Word was with God, and the Word was God". Many verses throughout Scripture contradict the "Jesus Only" theory.

It isn't about "he who dies with the most toys/$$ wins". Matthew 18:4 "Whoever shall humble himself as a little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven."

Religious traditions that do not line up with the Scriptures of God are not worth the paper they are printed, nor the air they fill. There are no back-doors, no loopholes, to get one into heaven. There are no glitches in the Word of God. It is perfect and without blemish. The Word is unbroken and complete.

To be allowed into the Eternal Presence of God, one must believe whole-heartedly that Jesus Christ is, indeed, the ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD. That JESUS CHRIST DIED ON THE CROSS AND ROSE FROM THE DEAD, giving each who believes the key to redemption.

What will you do with you key?