EXODUS 20:1-17
The Mosaic Law was not given to produce salvation. The purpose of the Law was to help people
see how far short they had fallen of God’s righteous demands so they would cast themselves on
the grace of God.
Even during the time of the Law, grace was made available through the specified sacrifices for
sin. These pointed forward to the Lord Jesus Christ, who was the sacrifice for sin. But because
Jesus Christ came and offered Himself as the sacrifice for sin, the Law is no longer needed.
According to Romans 5:20, the Law was given so that God could reveal more of His grace:
“Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did
much more abound.”
When the people gathered at Mount Sinai and heard God speak, they became frightened and
“stood afar off” (Ex. 20:18). This is also the result of today’s preaching of the Law apart from the
context of the grace of God.
Law set forth what man ought to be; grace sets forth what God is. We behold the face of Christ in
the Holy Scriptures, and we see who God is by beholding Christ, “for in him dwelleth all the
fulness of the Godhead bodily” (Col. 2:9). We know and understand what Christ has done for us
as we study the Scriptures and see Him revealed in even the Mosaic Law.
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by
faith (Gal. 3:24).
Theodore Epp
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