The gospel is not that we cannot keep the whole law. The gospel is that we cannot keep any of the law. We believe we have the ability to keep the law, even if it is partially. Whereas, we do not have any ability at all to keep the law. If the whole law is reduced to a single...
...commandment, we still cannot keep it. It is not that we cannot keep everything but we can keep some. The truth is that we cannot keep even one out of the whole thing. We cannot keep any of it. The belief that our inability to keep the law is merely partial is why many of us...
...often end up mixing Grace with law. We believe we still have some merit in ourselves, no matter how little. This is what always trips us. It is a lie. The inability of any man to keep the whole law is predicated upon the inability of none of us to even keep one out of it.
In the law, the problem is not that we cannot score a 100 out of 100. The real problem is that we cannot even score 1 out of 100. The first commandment to be broken by the Israelites after the law was given was the first commandment that kicks against idolatry.
If the whole law is reduced to just "thou shall not commit adultery", nobody dead or alive will be justified in the sight of God. The law has been compromised so much to ridiculous standards where many believers think they can even keep it to an extent.
When the rich young ruler boasted that he had kept the whole law from his youth, Jesus put him to the test by asking him to keep one more law. What did he do? He walked away angrily. (Matthew 19:16-22).If he had really kept all, how come one was difficult for him to keep (again)?
In James 2:10, the apostle John wrote that if any man fails at just one commandment, he has failed at everything. We do not know the meaning of that statement. We take it for granted. The ability to keep all depends on the ability to keep one. That is what the verse is about.
If any of us think we are doing well in any area, he or she is the most deluded of all men. None of us can keep even a jot or tittle out of the whole law. We are not capable of even the smallest obedience to the law.
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