50. If You Think You Can Keep God's Law, You've Watered It Down

There are many people who say that as believers in Christ we are to keep God's law, including the Ten Commandments and many other Old Testament laws and commandments. In this podcast, I make a bold statement: God's law is not doable, and anybody who thinks they can actually keep God's law has watered it down to a point that may seem doable to them.  They have effectively changed God's law, making it into something that is not!

You see, the standard of God's law is not just that you "do your best" or "try hard" to keep it or parts of it, but rather than you keep it perfectly - and not just some laws, but all of it, in its entirety. You must keep it perfectly. So if you think you can actually keep the law, or even "do your best" to keep it, you've watered it down into something that it's not.

I encourage you to accept God's free gift of righteousness, that comes by grace, through faith, apart from His law, and give yourself over to His life in you, rather than making it about your own efforts.


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7. When Behavior Isn't About Rules But Is About Dignity and Worth

God has created us with such a great deal of value! We are worth a lot to Him. If we see ourselves as worth less than the astounding opinion that He has of us, we will act accordingly. But if we see ourselves as the objects of beauty and nobility that He has bestowed upon us, we won't need laws and rules to govern our behavior, but rather we will naturally want to walk accordingly and we will treat each other accordingly.


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