"Free from the Law, O Happy Condition"
"The law is the light that reveals how dirty the room is, not the broom that sweeps it clean" (Dr. Phil Williams, DTS, 1976).
As our church studies the book of Romans on Sunday mornings (Romans 7:1-6 this Sunday), the thought arises: many professing Christians have a fundamental misunderstanding about the nature of the Old Testament law (think the first 5 books of the Bible) and the relationship the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. "For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ" (John 1:17 NKJV). The keeping/obedience of the law was not meant to be an agent of our salvation - a means of our cleanliness before a holy God. As the saying goes, "the law is a mirror; it was meant to reveal how dirty our faces are. But we don't our faces in the mirror to get clean!"
Galatians chapter 3…
