Is the law sin?

Rom 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

The law isn't sin.
Sin is defined by the law.

We live in a society today that says it's perfectly fine to covet. Is it any wonder we live in a society where lusts control people and people do not control lusts?

We are taught to indulge in lust, not fight it, not forsake it, not to look upon it as something to abhor. We are a very materialistic society here in the USA and elsewhere around the globe.

The law says we shall not covet.
We say it's impossible NOT to covet.
The law says we are not to commit murder.
We say it's impossible for us NOT to WISH people dead.
The law says we are not to commit adultery.
We say it's impossible for us NOT to LUST and DESIRE to have other men and women outside our marriage partners- it's HUMAN NATURE.


All of it is HUMAN NATURE.

All of it is CARNAL NATURE.

All of it is our FLESH NATURE.


We say because it is ALL just nature, and therefore natural for us, the law is impossible to keep- especially the way Jesus magnified it.


Before Jesus we believed that it was only a sin to actually murder someone. After Jesus we are told that to wish someone dead is sin too.


Impossible….the law is impossible to keep.


People say Jesus came to DO away with the law because of its impossibility to be kept.


Jesus didn't do away with the law, we've already pointed out that He MAGNIFIED the law- far from doing away from it.


Some say the Jesus kept the law for us so we don't have to even try.


Yet Jesus told one seeking to follow Him that it was GOOD that he was keeping the law. Jesus didn't tell that man it was wrong and to no longer even try to keep the law. Jesus even told him to do more than just keep the law. Keep the law and MORE.


So if we believe the law is impossible to keep how can we even begin to imagine keeping the law AND more?


The thing is the law reveals our sinfulness, the law reveals our inability to save ourselves. The law reveals the perfection of our Savior who kept the law in all ways. And yes, showed us that it is possible to keep the law through HIS power. Jesus would NEVER want us to stop obeying the law, the same law He kept perfectly. Jesus would NEVER want us to do away with the law He told someone that it was good to do- never. Jesus would NEVER say okay, go ahead and murder now it's okay, I know you can't help yourself. The idea that the law- God's ten commandments could ever be done away with is completely ridiculous. The law was given in love and reveals love.


By the law sin is revealed.

While we say the law is impossible to keep it isn't impossible, not through Christ. We do all we can and where we fall short our Savior has overcome for us. Is this a license to sin? NO, God Forbid, NO!


Gal 3:21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.


Rom 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.


Rom 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.


We are under grace, but the LAW is not abolished, the law is not made void, Jesus kept the law, Jesus praised the law being kept. The LAW does not save us. JESUS saves us. Out of love for the one who gave the law, out of love for the one who lived the law perfectly, out of this love we will strive not to SIN. Jesus told us to sin no more, but sin is only revealed by the law. We must know the law to know sin and to sin no more we must keep the law. Jesus would have us not sin.


Joh 8:11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.


He was telling her to go and KEEP THE LAW.


We are to keep the law and by our faith in HIM and HIS sinless-ness we live!


While it seems impossible to us to keep from sinning, Lord we know that you would not instruct us to do the impossible. We have an advocate when we fall short which is often, and you are that Advocate. Only through complete hope and complete faith in You and the Salvation You offer do we live.


By Your grace!


By Your love!


Amen.