[Dr. Eckleburg]

Great thread, GC. I've always liked Pastor Samson's sermons.

The Law was given not to make people righteous but in fact to forever shut men’s mouths regarding any attempt at self justification before God. The Law reveals sin, and knowing the holiness and righteousness of God, it shows us our desperate condition before Him. When the Law does it work, it reveals sin to the point that we understand the justice we deserve and cry out for intervention from a Savior.

AMEN!

[Quix]

AMEN! INDEED.

[circlecity]

"The Law was given not to make people righteous but in fact to forever shut men’s mouths regarding any attempt at self justification before God. The Law reveals sin, and knowing the holiness and righteousness of God, it shows us our desperate condition before Him."

This is why I've always considered the Sermon on the Mount the ultimate expression of the Law. One cannot hear it without instantly realizing two things:

1. This is undoubtedly the perfect expression of true righteousness, justice and divine goodness. This is truth - the universal normative - what God expects of me; and

2. I have never gone even a single day in my life where I came close to living up to this.