Why Did God Give the Law?
Galatians 3:19-25 · May 25, 2022
In “What Purpose Does the Law Serve?,” this message explores how the law reveals sin but cannot save or give life. Its purpose was to point us toward Christ, through whom we receive salvation by grace and live under the guidance of the Spirit.
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
04:03 Galatians 3:18 - If we inherited eternity through the law, it would no longer be grace
05:13 Being justified is the removal of your sin (Galatians 2:16)
05:49 I do not set aside grace (Galatians 2:21)
06:39 If the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of promise (Galatians 3:18)
07:26 Galatians 3:19 - What purpose does the law serve?
10:21 A gap between that promise of the Messiah (Genesis 22:18) and the coming of the Messiah
10:32 Three things: #1 The Problem, every one sins
11:33 #2 Until (time stamped)
12:06 #3 Given by angels (not permanent)
15:00 By the law is the knowledge of sin (Romans 3:19-20; Romans 7:7)
17:53 The law was a ministry of death and condemnation (2 Corinthians 3:7-9)
19:36 The law diagnoses the problem but can’t cure the problem (Galatians 3:10-11)
22:01 We are no longer under the law (Romans 6:14)
22:30 Galatians 3:20-21 - The Law cannot save
23:46 We are dead to the Law (Romans 7:1-4)
25:19 Galatians 3:22-25 - The purpose of the law was to teach us until we could come to Christ
28:18 Galatians 5:18 - If you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law
28:25 Romans 7:6 - We have been delivered from the law
29:52 John 3:17 - The Son of man did not come into the world to condemn it but to save it
31:43 Closing prayer
