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The Superior: The Promise of Messiah
Paul constructs several arguments about how the Covenant God made with Abraham carries more weight than the Covenant of the Law.
The Covenant, even human ones, is binding.
verse 15
The Covenant is through Jesus (You can’t get any better than that) vs 16
The Covenant is older, and unaltered nor voided.
v.17
The Covenant benefit (inheritance) can’t proceed from two places, law AND promise.
The Inferior: The Prison of the Law
Right up front it should be pointed out that even though the Old Covenant, the Old Testament, The Covenant of Law is past, the moral expectations it reveals should still be preached.
The covenant of law is long past, but the moral demands of the law have not diminished, having neither begun nor ended with the Mosaic covenant.
That is why preaching the moral, ethical standards of the law today is still imperative in driving men to Christ.
Unless men realize they are living in violation of God’s law and therefore stand under His divine judgment, they will see no reason to be saved.
This is powerful.
Let’s look at the purpose of the law, while reminding ourselves that it is inferior to the grace that comes through faith in Jesus.
It reveals that we overstep
It requires two parties
It reveals that we are imprisoned to sin
A law cannot give life, because we are prisoners to sin, but the promise- BY faith- is given to those who believe.
The law shows that we are prisoners to sin, Jesus came to set the captive free.
(This means that by the new birth, we now have power of sin.. and that power comes from yielding to God’s Spirit)
It guides us toward faith in Jesus
Guardian, leader, guide, in particular for a child.
But when we come to faith in Jesus, in large part because guided to by the law to realize that we were helpless sinners in need of grace, we no longer need the guardian, we are able to follow the Christ on our own.
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