A Breaker Of The Law

For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. - Romans 2:25

    There is only one who kept the law of God, and that is Jesus Christ the Lord. All others who claim to do so are liars—yea, let God be true, but every man a liar (Rom 3:4). There is no merit or profit in man’s claims of who he is, or professions of what he has done to justify himself before God. As a matter of fact, Almighty God has pronounced judgment upon those who say they are righteous and are not—Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee (Rv 3:9). The Apostle Paul, by the inspiration of God, makes it crystal clear that we all, both Jew and Gentile, are lawbreakers. Even if we could obey the law outwardly, what about inwardly?

    What about the motions of the evil heart and carnal mind? That is where God looks. That is where God demands perfection. If we could obey only one outward demand of God, would it be done in perfect love, by faith, and all for the glory of God and his blessed Son? Can we do this by the mere exercise of the will of the flesh? Or does God accept it because we are of a certain sect or believe a certain doctrine? There is only one hope for us lawbreakers, whom God has made to know our guilt. That hope is the one who kept the law for us, both inwardly and outwardly. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins (1 Jn 4:10). Not only does a believer know and own his guilt, he knows and owns the Lord Jesus Christ as his justification before God.

    For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him (2 Cor 5:21).