Occasionally I hear from someone, who wants to know what relationship believers have to the law. My reply is always the same. — Believers are not under the law in any way, shape, form, or fashion. God’s people are free from the law’s curse, because “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us” (Galatians 3:13).

The law was not given to give life, or sanctification, but to reveal how sinful we really are. Can that which pronounces death give life? Can that which demands perfection give a man the ability to perform perfectly? — “Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law”? (Galatians 4:21) — Do you not hear it say, “by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified in the sight of God”, or “as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse”? — Have you not heard it say, “Moreover the law entered that the offence might abound”?

Thank God that Christ came to fulfill the law, to render to it absolute perfect, full and final obedience. In doing so he satisfied Gods infinite justice on behalf of his elect, who were under its curse, bearing its curse for them. It demanded perfection, he gave it. It demanded death, he died for those he represented; and now, — “CHRIST IS THE END OF THE LAW FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS TO EVERYONE THAT BELIEVETH” (Romans10:4).