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IF RIGHTEOUSNESS COME BY THE LAW
Galatians 2:21 “If righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in
vain.”
The ultimate transgression is at stake when a man turns to the law for
righteousness. For when you turn to the law for righteousness then you
frustrate the grace of God and deny Christ and all that Christ
accomplished. Not only is that so, but when you seek righteousness by
the law you violate the very law you claim to keep. Paul said to the
churches at Galatia, “Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye
not hear the law?”
The law says, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”-Yet, if you
seek justification by law then you make law your god.
The law says, “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.”-But,
when you seek justification by law then you make law your idol.
The law says, “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.”–
When you seek justification by law, calling yourself a Christian, you
take Christ’s name in vain.
The law says, “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.”-But you who
seek justification by law break the sabbath, rejecting Christ who is the
believer’s Sabbath, refusing to rest in him.
The law says, “Honor thy father and thy mother.”-But when you seek
justification by law, you willfully disobey your heavenly Father,
refusing him the honor and glory due unto his holy name.
The law says, “Thou shalt not kill.”-But all who seek justification by
law cry out against Christ, “Crucify Him! Crucify Him!”
The law says, “Thou shalt not commit adultery.”-But he who goes to the
law for righteousness plays the harlot and goes whoring after another god.
The law says, “Thou shalt not steal.”-Yet, all that go to the law for
justification would rob God of his glory.
The law says, “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy
neighbor.”-But when you boast of your obedience to the law you call God
a liar. He declares, “There is none righteous. No, not one. There is
none that doeth good.”
The law says, “Thou shalt not covet thou thy neighbors house, thou shalt
not covet thy neighbors wife nor anything that is thy neighbor’s.”-But
when you go to the law for righteousness you seek for yourself the honor
that belongs to God alone. When you teach others to do so, you seek to
steal God’s bride (his church), and would have her be married to another.
Galatians 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. Wherefore then serveth the
law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come
to whom the promise was made.” Christ is that seed. Christ fulfilled the
law. All those trusting in Him are free from the law, holy and without
blame. Clay Curtis