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Upholding God’s Law

For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law...Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law (Rom 3:28, 31).

It is very difficult, even impossible for the natural mind to conceive of a way in which a man may uphold the law without actually keeping the law. So great is this natural ignorance that he cannot simply believe the gospel and be confident that God will fully accept Him for Christ’s sake. Instead, the natural man will always find some way to interject the works of the law into the scheme of the gospel.

But faith alone in Christ alone upholds the law. This faith, which upholds the law, is that faith which sees in Christ and Him crucified all that is necessary to render a man acceptable in the sight of God. The sinner who looks to Christ with such faith upholds the law.

Such a believing sinner upholds the condemnation or verdict of the law by confessing that he is a sinner in need of Christ. In some circles, coming to Christ is presented as the virtuous thing to do. But, he who truly comes to Christ is confessing that he has no virtue! He agrees with and upholds the law's declaration that he is a sinner.

The believing sinner upholds the sentence of the law by confessing that what Christ endured is what he, the sinner, deserves. The sinner who looks to Christ is not viewing the work of the cross as merely a demonstration of love, but as the satisfying of a debt to Divine justice. He sees in the cross of Christ the Law's sentence against his sin, and confesses that it is just.

The believing sinner upholds the perfection and strictness of the law by resisting the temptation to gain God's blessings by his own works under the law. He who knows the law yet attempts to gain a blessing by it is proving he has a much too high opinion of himself or much too low opinion of the law. Such a one is a destroyer of the law, for he presents his imperfect obedience as a reason for blessing, thus denying the perfection and strictness of the law.

The believing sinner upholds the justice of the law by expecting to receive all God's eternal blessings by virtue of Christ's obedience to the law and subsequent death under its penalty. That one who abandons any hope of blessing by his own observance of the law, yet is confident of blessing in Christ, is upholding the justice of the law, for he sees that Christ’s obedience and blood requires the law of God to bless Him.

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