LAWS OF GOD PART II

1 John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin, for sin is the transgression of the law.
Romans 7:7 Is the law sin? God forbid. I had not known sin, but by the law.
Romans 3:20 For by the law is the knowledge of sin. Romans 4:15 For where no law is, there is no transgression.

Put these four verses together and we see that Paul is definitely teaching that by the law is the knowledge of sin in this age. He said that he would not have known sin but by the law. "For without the law sin was dead." "For where no law is there is no transgression." Sin is the transgression of the law, and if God's law is abolished then there is no sin. If there is no sin the preaching of the Gospel is in vain.

The fact that all have sinned is proof in itself that God does have a law that men are transgressing. Paul makes it very plain that he would not have known sin but by the law. The law requires the most extensive obedience; discovering and condemning sin in all its most secret and remote branches. It gives sin a deadly force, subjecting every transgression to the penalty of death. And yet, supplies neither help nor hope to the sinner, but leaves him under the power of sin, and the sentence of death. Only Jesus Christ can blot out this sin.

1 Corinthians 15:1-3 How that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures.
1 Timothy 1:15 Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
Matthew 1:21 He shall save His people from their sins.

The Ten Commandments are tough because the Gospel of Jesus Christ itself enforces obedience to all Ten Commandments. In the second place, the law that defines sin in all the New Testament scriptures is the Ten Commandments. In the third place, we cannot teach Christ without teaching obedience to God's laws. Why did Jesus come to earth? It was to die for our sins. Sin is the transgression of the law. No one can deny that fact. The Ten Commandments before, and at the time of Christ's death, was the law that defines sin. Therefore, according to these facts, Jesus died for the transgression of the Ten Commandments.

This gospel is contained in Christ dying for our sins, being buried, and rising again the third day. Your future salvation, or being brought finally to glory, will now depend on your faithfulness to the grace that you have received. The death of Jesus Christ, as a Vicarious Sacrifice for sin is among the things that are of chief importance, and is essential to the gospel of salvation. He came to take away our transgressions of the law; not the law that defines sin.

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life.
Romans 5:12 So death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.

So at the second death, every sinner earns this by long, sore, and painful services. Every indulgence of sinful passions increases the disorder, and consequently, the misery of a sinner. In the New Testament the wages of transgressing God's laws has not changed. It is death. Christ is our Savior from sin. Through faith in Christ and obedience to the gospel we are forgiven of our sins, and at the same time made free from sin and become servants of righteousness.

Romans 7:7 I had not known sin, but by the law.
Romans 3:20 For by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Romans 4:15 Where no law is , there is no transgression (sin).

Paul is saying that without the law (Ten Commandments) there is no sin. Sin is the transgression of the law, and if God's law is abolished then there is no sin. On the score of obedience to this moral law, there shall no flesh, "no human being," be justified; none can be accepted in the sight of God. It is that which ascertains what sin is, shows how men have deviated from its righteous demands and sentences them to death because they have broken them. For law; any law, are rule of duty. No law makes provision for the exercise of mercy, for it worketh necessarily, subjecting the transgressor to punishment.

Romans 7:12 The law is holy, and the Commandment holy, and just, and good.
Romans 7:22 For I delight in the law of God.
Psalms 1:2 But his (a righteous man) delight is in the law of the Lord.

The law prescribes what is holy, just, and good; for it comes from a holy, just and good God. The law which is to regulate the outwardly conduct is holy; and the commandments good. If the Ten Commandments were holy, just and good for Christians in Paul's day, this same law is just and good for us today. This is the law that defines sin. The Gospel calls men to repent of their sins, and then to accept Jesus as their Savior from sin. How can men repent of their sins when they do not know what sin is?

Matthew 5:17-19 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets.
John 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love.
John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.

“Do not be afflicted at the thought of My being separated from you; the most solid proof you can give of your attachment to and affection for Me is to keep My Commandments. This I shall receive as a greater proof of your affection than your tears." Hence we learn that it is impossible to retain a sense of God's pardoning love without continuing in the obedience by keeping His Commandments.

We must conclude that not one letter or jot has passed from God's law, and won't until all is fulfilled in the writings of those holy prophets. The law referred to here was the Ten Commandments, as the context clearly shows. Jesus was teaching that there would be no change at all in that perfect law until God's great plan is fulfilled as recorded by His holy prophets. Here is a command plain and simple from the Lord Jesus to both do and teach the whole law of God. James says that if we break one precept we are guilty of all (James 2:10-12). In every place He (Christ) emphasized love and obedience to God's law from the heart, and not once did He set aside one precept of God's Ten Commandment law.