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INTRODUCTION:
Can rules change us?
Over the years many public policy scholars have suggested
>>>>>the difference between a criminal and a law-abiding citizen is mere knowledge.
One prominent scholar suggested exactly that.
That the reason the inner-city families have higher crime rates is because they lack the cultural literacy
to be able to keep a job,
obey the laws,
and just be a good to citizen of this country.
That in order to succeed in this society, there are hundreds of just cultural understandings that we need.
That because people don't know idioms like," I got ran over by a bus".
They can't be successful.
And in that professors mind that idea made a lot of sense.
The inner-city crime problem was because they just don't know better.
Then one day, that same professor was pulled over by a policeman and a thought came to mind.
Did that professor not know it was illegal to speed?
>>>>>>>>>Yet.
He broke the law anyway.
Have you ever had a speeding ticket?
Was it because you didn’t know you were breaking the law?
In other words - rules don’t change us.
In other words, that professor had bigger problem than what he didn't know.
Our problem is not that we don’t know the rules.
Knowing
>>>>The problem is we have a sin nature.
Many scoffers of the Bible have suggested… It's not fair for God to judge people who don't know God's rules.
Yet, teaches us that we all have the Law written on our hearts.
We might not know the 10 commandments,
but our conscience knows it is wrong to
steal,
commit adultery,
murder,
and lie …
So is our problem is not because we don't know that sin is wrong?
Our problem is that we have nature.
Our passage this morning addresses the question – Is there something wrong with the law?
Is the law sin?
Is the law evil and unjust?
Is the law the reason that people go to hell?
And this text will teach us that it is not the law that's the problem.
>>>> It’s you and me.
From this text we ought not to trust in rules to change us,
but
PROP: We ought to trust Christ alone to change us.
TRANS: This text teaches us two reasons why our sin nature is the problem.
Why should we trust Christ and not rules?
Because
1) The Law is not the problem.
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Many scoffers of the Bible have suggested… It's not fair for God to judge people who don't know God's rules.
Yet, teaches us that we all have the Law written on our hearts.
We might not know the 10 commandments or even the name Moses per say,
but our conscience knows it is wrong to
steal,
commit adultery,
murder,
and lie …
To be frank, you don’t need the Law to teach you those things because it is part of being human.
Our hearts were made knowing what God’s law required.
But even so, this passage makes that even a mute point.
The problem is not ignorance to the Law,
nor what the law says.
Because,
As our text teaches us that Law is not the problem.
How do we know that the Law is not the problem?
a) The Law by itself is not sin.
(v.7)
b) The Law is pure and good.
(v.
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