The Law is Good

What we are saying is:

1. The law is good.
2. It cannot give life.

The principles within the law are good. They are perfect. God’s law is good. The only problem is that we cannot live by the law because it cannot impart the power to fulfil it. “The law is weak through the flesh.” (Rom 8:3). Only Christ imparts power by His grace.

Wherefore the law is holy and the commandment holy and just and good… For we know that the law is spiritual (meaning good and right). (Rom 7:12, 14).

Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness should have been by the law. (Gal 3:21).

The law is not against the purposes of God. The law is good. It is sin that is the problem. Christ in us is the answer to sin. Since the law is good and since we cannot derive life from it, does the law then have any purpose for the believer today? Yes, it can teach us. We do not live by the law, but we can learn from it.