Ecclesiastes 7:20 | Not a single person on earth is always good and never sins.
1st Corinthians 1:30-31 | God has united you with Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made him to be wisdom itself. Christ made us right with God; he made us pure and holy, and he freed us from sin. Therefore, as the Scriptures say, “If you want to boast, boast only about the Lord.”
Read MoreEphesians 2:8-9 | God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.
Romans 3:27-28 | Can we boast, then, that we have done anything to be accepted by God? No, because our acquittal is not based on obeying the law. It is based on faith. So we are made right with God through faith and not by obeying the law.
Read MoreOver the last few weeks, we’ve seen that each of us is under the condemnation breaking the law, or the 10 commandments, ascribed. The penalty for breaking any part of the law, which makes you guilty of the whole law (James 2:10), is death (Romans 6:23). And none of us are capable of keeping the law–
Romans 3:20 | For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are.
Read MoreRomans 8:3-4 | The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins. 4 He did this so that the just requirement of the law would be fully satisfied for us, who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the Spirit.
Read MoreRomans 3:21-25a | But now God has shown us a way to be made right with him without keeping the requirements of the law, as was promised in the writings of Moses and the prophets long ago. We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are. For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins. For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood.
Read MoreRomans 10:4 | For Christ has already accomplished the purpose for which the law was given. As a result, all who believe in him are made right with God.
What was God’s purpose for giving the law?
How did the law guide?
Romans 5:18-19 | Yes, Adam’s one sin brings condemnation for everyone, but Christ’s one act of righteousness brings a right relationship with God and new life for everyone. Because one person disobeyed God, many became sinners. But because one other person obeyed God, many will be made righteous.
What is condemnation?
Galatians 4:4-5 | But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law. God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that he could adopt us as his very own children.
Galatians 4:4-5 makes us consider the timing of Jesus’ birth, death, and resurrection. Why might God have chosen that time as the right time?
