The Christian, Righteousness, and the Law
Deuteronomy 5:1-21; Romans 7:6-14; 21-25
I. Reveals Our ___
What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin …—Rom. 7:7
II. Reveals God's _______
So the law is holy, & the commandment is holy & righteous & good.—Rom. 7:12
III. Reveals Our _______
… the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.—Rom. 7:14
Be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect.—Matt. 5:48
IV. Leads us to ________
Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.—Gal. 3:24
WLC #95: [The use of God's law] "to help them to a clearer sight of the need they have of Christ, and of the perfection of his obedience."
V. Gives us a ____________
For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.—Rom. 8:3-4
… whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.—Matt. 5:19