SUMMARY: LAW VERSUS FAITH: WHICH WAS THE WAY TO PLEASE GOD.


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Purpose of the Law:

- "All the world may become guilty before God" Romans 3:19

- "By the law is the knowledge of sin" Romans 3:20

- "Is the law sin? Nay, not know sin, but by the law" Romans 7:7

Law weak because of flesh:

- "Law is spiritual: but I am carnel" Romans 7:14 - "Law could not do..weak through the flesh" Romans 8:3

Law produces death:

- "By the law..our members bring forth fruit unto death"Romans 7:5

- "Cursed is every one that continues..in all..law" Galatians 3:10

- "Every man ..circumcised..debtor to do the whole law. Christ is become of no effect..ye are fallen from grace" Galatians 5:3-4

Law Never Replaced Faith as God's method:

- Promise to be heir was not by law, but of faith. Romans 4:13

- "Man is justified by faith without deeds of the law" Romans 3:28

Law in place until Christ was manifested:

- "Christ is the end of the law for righteousness" Romans 10:4

- "The law..added..till the seed {Jesus}should come"Galatians 3:19

- "Law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ"Galatians 3:24

Law is not void but established by faith:

- "Void law through faith?..we establish the law." Romans 3:31

- Righteousness of law by not flesh walk but by Spirit. Romans 8:4

- After faith is come, we are no longer under law. Galatians 3:25

Love fulfills the law:

- "He that loveth another hath fulfilled the law" Romans 13:8, 10

- "All the law is fulfilled in one word..love..." Galatians 5:14




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