Hello Fofer's

This past Tuesday we talked about the LAW and how we are redeemed from the curse of the law.  Law is defined as: the system of rules that a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and may enforce by the imposition of penalties.  But what is biblical law?  It’s Gods means of consecrating his people to himself.  In Romans 4:13, Paul goes to great lengths in chapter 4 to make a theological point.  He traces the Jewish heritage back to Abraham, who lived hundreds of years before Moses and the Old Testament law.  Abraham, says Paul, pleased God exactly as we do: through faith.  The Old Testament law was never meant to bridge the gap between God and people. Only Jesus Christ could do that.  Paul stresses that the law was given not to bring about redemption, but to point up the need for it (Romans 5:20).  In chapter 3 of Galatians, Paul uses clever arguments to put the entire Old Testament law in a new perspective.  The law was never intended to make possible a way to God, he says (Galatians 3:11, 21).  Rather, the law was given to “lead us to Christ” (verse 24) by convincing us of the impossibility of gaining God’s acceptance on our own.