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What Can Your Obedience To The Commandments Not Do?
In the world if you want something you must work for it, right? Is that the way it is in the kingdom of God too? Many people think so. They think that if they want to have eternal life in heaven, they must obey God’s commandments to earn it. What about you? Do you think that’s true?
To begin this series of brief Bible studies on the Ten Commandments, let’s look into the Word of God to learn what your obedience to the Ten Commandments cannot do.
The beginning of Galatians 2:16 says, “A man is not declared righteous as a result of works of law.” Works of law are what a person does to obey God’s commandments. This verse declares that a person is not declared righteous as a result of obeying God’s commandments. What is more, Galatians 3:10 states that people who think they are declared righteous and saved by obeying God’s commandments are actually under a curse of God and are condemned: “For as many as are of works of law are under a curse; for it is written, “CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO DOES NOT KEEP ABIDING BY EVERYTHING THAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW TO DO THEM.” Such persons are cursed and condemned because they have not always obeyed everything in God’s commandments perfectly. And so the end of Galatians 2:16 says, “As a result of works of law no person will be declared righteous.”
So what, then, can your obedience to God’s commandments not do? Your obedience cannot make you righteous before God and save you.
How, then, does a person like you become righteous and saved? Through faith alone in Jesus Christ, as Romans 3:21,22 says, “But now a righteousness of God apart from law has been made known, . . . that is a righteousness of God by means of faith in Jesus Christ, for all those who believe.”
To begin this series of brief Bible studies on the Ten Commandments, let’s look into the Word of God to learn what your obedience to the Ten Commandments cannot do.
The beginning of Galatians 2:16 says, “A man is not declared righteous as a result of works of law.” Works of law are what a person does to obey God’s commandments. This verse declares that a person is not declared righteous as a result of obeying God’s commandments. What is more, Galatians 3:10 states that people who think they are declared righteous and saved by obeying God’s commandments are actually under a curse of God and are condemned: “For as many as are of works of law are under a curse; for it is written, “CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO DOES NOT KEEP ABIDING BY EVERYTHING THAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW TO DO THEM.” Such persons are cursed and condemned because they have not always obeyed everything in God’s commandments perfectly. And so the end of Galatians 2:16 says, “As a result of works of law no person will be declared righteous.”
So what, then, can your obedience to God’s commandments not do? Your obedience cannot make you righteous before God and save you.
How, then, does a person like you become righteous and saved? Through faith alone in Jesus Christ, as Romans 3:21,22 says, “But now a righteousness of God apart from law has been made known, . . . that is a righteousness of God by means of faith in Jesus Christ, for all those who believe.”
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