Law and gospel

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The law, which bears witness to the grace of God, points ahead to its fulfilment and climax in the gospel of Jesus Christ. The gospel does not abolish the law, but fulfils it, by allowing it to be seen in its proper light.

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Human beings cannot fulfil the law by their own efforts

Ro 3:20; Ga 2:15–16

The law brings knowledge of human sin and the need for redemption

Romans 3:20 KJV 1900

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

The law points to the coming of Jesus Christ

Galatians 3:24 KJV 1900

Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Believers are not justified by works of the law, but through faith in the blood of Jesus Christ

Ro 3:28; Ga 3:11

See also Hab 2:4; Ro 4:1–5; Ga 3:10–14; Eph 2:15

The relationship between believers and the law

Dying to the law through Jesus Christ

Galatians 2:19 KJV 1900

For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

The law remains valid for believers

Ro 7:11–12; 1 Ti 1:8; 1 Pe 1:15–16

See also Le 11:44–45; Le 19:2; Le 20:7; Ro 7:7–11; Ro 13:8–10; Jas 2:8–11

The Holy Spirit enables believers to fulfil the law through Jesus Christ

Romans 8:3–4 KJV 1900

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.