Sunday, October 11
The Gospel-Centered Life
(World Harvest Mission, 2009), 27
The law, Jesus, and obedience
We are unable to do what the law commands us to do, but Jesus did it for us. And because he lives in us by his Spirit, we are enabled to do it, not from obligation, but from delight. So every command in Scripture points us to our own inadequacy, magnifies the good and holy nature of God, and causes us to look to Jesus as the One who forgives our disobedience and enables our obedience. In other words, the law drives us to Jesus and Jesus frees us to obey the law.
The Gospel-Centered Life
(World Harvest Mission, 2009), 27