Keeping the Law

Welcome to the Days of Praise podcast, a daily devotional by the Institute for Creation Research. Keeping the law; for whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. James two ten. The law of God, centered in the Ten Commandments, is holy and just and good, and expresses perfectly the will of God for holy living. The man that doeth them shall live in them.

The problem is that no man can possibly do them all. He may keep most of the commandments most of the time, but he will inevitably fail in some of them some of the time. Since the law is a divine unit, breaking any commandment, as our text reminds us, breaks the whole law, bringing to guilty when under God's curse of death. Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. Therefore, by the deeds of the law, there shall no flesh be justified in his sight.

All men, having sinned against God's law, are therefore lost and in urgent need of salvation. This is where God's wonderful grace comes in. But now the righteousness of God, without the law, is manifested. Even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all and upon all that believe. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us.

He kept the law for us and bore its curse for us. Thus, we are saved through trusting Him. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid!

We now desire to keep His commandments, because we love Him. For this is the love of God that we keep His commandments, and His commandments are not grievous. We are now able to keep them because His Spirit now lives in us, and we are strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man. Ephesians 3:16. If you've enjoyed today's devotional, be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, and please rate.

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