Why we need to look away from the law for justification before God


Good Day fellow believers of Christ. Hope you doing well.

I am for God's law but for the purpose what God designed the law for.

We cannot call the law what it is not. As we know the law cannot save us. There is nothing wrong with the Law,It is Holy and Righteous because it's God' own commandment. The law is like a mirror, if it shows you to be ugly or handosme, then you cannot blame the mirror. However with that being said, we need to understand why God gave the law and what's it's function and what has happen to it under the light of the new covenant.

The Law is weak and useless

Hebrews 7:18 (KJV) - For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof

Romans 8:3 (KJV) - For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh,

The Law cannot impart Righteousness or Life

Galatians 3:21 (NIV) - Is the law, therefore, opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.

The Law is a ministry of death
2 Corinthians 3:7 (NIV) - Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, transitory though it was,

The Law is not the reality

Hebrews 10:1 (NIV) - The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming--not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.

The Old Covenant is obselete, there is a change

Hebrews 7:12 (NIV) - For when the priesthood is changed, the law must be changed also.

Hebrews 7:11 (NIV) - If perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood--and indeed the law given to the people established that priesthood--why was there still need for another priest to come, one in the order of Melchizedek, not in the order of Aaron?

Hebrews 8:13 (NIV) - By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear

The purpose of God's law is to trigger sin.
Romans 5:20 (NIV) - The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more,

1 Corinthians 15:56 (NIV) - The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.


Why then did God gave the Law?

Galatians 3:19 (NLT) - Why, then, was the law given at all? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come. The law was given through angels and entrusted to a mediator.


The Law was design to cause man to acknowledge sin. This is the meaning in Galatians 3:19...The Law was added because of trasngression. There is NO OTHER reason other than this. Well besides to trigger sin, but that is part and parcel of God's Law.

The law was never design to save man, neither impart righteousness. It is to bring Man to the end of himself. To give up trying saving himself by own performance ie through obediance to the Law. I use this as the strongest emphasize to easily understand.

Where then is the Hope?

Well as how the Bible says it. Thanks be to God for Jesus Christ. THERE is your hope, there is your Salvation.

With all that's being said, look away from the Law, Look to Jesus Christ

God Bless