BREAKFAST WITH JESUS
BREAKFAST WITH JESUS
A daily devotional
Pastor Stanley
31st OCTOBER 2024
THE LAW IS NOT FOR THE RIGHTEOUS
1 Timothy 1:9 We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, (NIV)
What we just read is interesting. It blows the mind to think that the law was not made for a righteous person. A righteous person doesn't need the law of Moses. The Bible just tells us who the law was made for.
The law was made for the sinner. We will read again and into the next verse. 1 Timothy 1:9-10 We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers —and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine
The law was given to people who were bad already. The law of Moses was actually a description of the Righteous Person (Christ). He gave them the law and said something like this "this is how a Righteous Person is; He doesn't lie, steal, commit sexual immorality, He doesn't bow down to idol." And then Moses says to them, "try and do like him." The sinner was given a law to control his evil behavior. If he wasn't a sinner he wouldn't need such a law to control him.
Let us read Galatians 3:23-25, Before the coming of this faith, [^10] we were held in custody under the law, locked up until the faith that was to come would be revealed. So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith. Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.
The law was a guardian and it was to guard until Christ comes. Now that faith in Christ has come we don't need the law. The law described Christ the Righteous Person, now that He is here, we don't need the description about Him, we go to Him instead. In Him we find righteousness, for God made Him to be sin for us so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God, and now we are. The law is not for the righteous, and you are righteous, give expression to righteousness.
CONFESSION
In Christ I have the righteousness that comes by faith. God made Him to be sin for me so that in Him I might become the righteousness of God as I am today, Glory to God!
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