The Law

Scripture:
John 1:6-13
Galatians 3:10-13, 21-24

Rules of the road affect every driver everywhere.  The laws can change from state to state.  One example is that in Illinois you do not need to wear a helmet when driving a motorcycle.  However, in Georgia you do.  If you are unfamiliar with the laws you could find yourself breaking them without even realizing it.  Every street and highway has a speed limit.  Very few people actually observe these limits.  In doing so you are breaking the law.  In some form or fashion each one of us is probably guilty of breaking some law somewhere. 

In the Old Testament we are given the Ten Commandments.  These laws were given to us as God’s standard for us to follow.  The problem is that we cannot keep all ten laws completely 100% of the time through our entire life.  Just one infraction is a sin.  One time of disrespecting our parents or one little white lie that cannot hurt anyone condemns you.  It doesn’t matter which law is broken it is still sin.  The wages of sin is death.  Just one sin in your life means death, separation from God for all eternity.  Everybody is guilty of something.  Nobody can escape this life without feeling the effects of sin.

There is only one person to ever live and be perfectly sinless.  Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.  It is through Him that we have redemption and salvation.  John 3:16-17 (NIV)

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

Christ did not come to remove the laws.  He came to fulfill the laws so that we might have salvation through His atoning death and resurrection.  Jesus bore the sins of the world so that any who call upon Him will be saved.  Ask yourself what am I guilty of today?  Then ask for forgiveness.  Your sins shall be forgiven through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior…