The Plan of the Ages

God’s Dispensational Dealings with Humanity

The Law at Sinai

Lesson XXV1

December 4, 2005

 

 

Israel boasted of all “we will do”

Exodus 19:8 all we will do

Exodus 24:3 all we will do

Exodus 24:7 all we will do

So God gave them the law, something to do that they could not do

I         The Law is Spiritual

Romans 7:14 spiritual because of its source

Romans 7:12 holy, just, good

1 Timothy 1:8 good if used for its intended purpose

II      The Law is Dispensational

Galatians 3:19

Beginning: added 430 years after Abraham; Abraham had not the law

Purpose: because of transgression; to manifest sin as transgression

1 Timothy 1:9 if people were not bad, there would be no need of law

The End: "till the Seed should come"

Romans 10:4 end of the law

John 1:17 from Moses to Christ

Romans 6:14 not under law, under grace

Acts 15:10 an unbearable yoke

Galatians 3:24 “was” not “is”

III   The law is National

Romans 2:14 Gentiles have not the law

Romans 9:4 given to Israel; to "SAVED" people, not "to save" people

IV   The Law is Obligational

Galatians 5:3 debtor to the whole law

James 2:10 keep the whole law

Romans 3:19 law proves all men guilty

V      The Law is Demonstrational

Romans 3:20 by the law is the knowledge of sin

I Timothy 1:9 demonstrates how bad people are

VI   The Law is Revelational

Romans 4:15 no law, no transgression; a sign “keep off grass” makes trespass transgression

Romans 5:13 sin is always morally wrong; law makes it legally wrong

VII      The Law is Operational

Romans 7:5-7 it stirs up sin within

VIII   The Law is Incapable

Romans 8:3 because of the weakness of the flesh the law could not work

Romans 3:20,28 the law cannot justify

Romans 3:21 the law cannot give life

IX         Conclude: what ever are we going to do without the law?

Romans 8:4 fulfilled in us, not by us

Galatians 5:18 led of the Spirit, not under the law

Titus 2:11-14

We have One living in us that is better than the external law

Galatians 2:20 Christ liveth in me

1 Corinthians 9:20,21 under the law to Christ—the law of love