2ND QUARTER: LESSON 9: CHRIST, THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL KEY TEXT: JOHN 1:17 Law and grace are inseparably linked. Their methods of operation may be different, but together they reveal that righteousness must triumph over sin. The manifestations of God’s law and His grace provide powerful evidence of His love for humanity and His desire to save us into His eternal kingdom. SUNDAY: SIN AND THE LAW (Romans 7:7–12). Paul so closely relates the law and sin that he asks the rhetorical question, “Is the law sin?” The answer, of course, is that it’s not; on the contrary, at the end of the section he says, “Therefore the law is Holy, and the commandment holy and just and good”. The “there- fore” shows the conclusion of his argument: that, far from being sin, the law is indeed holy and good. Paul made uses of a specific commandment (covetousness’) instead of some of the others because it’s not so obvious that it’s wrong. Many people, in and of themselves, might not believe that coveting is wrong. Murder, stealing, yes; one generally doesn’t even need the Ten Commandments to know that. But coveting? So it is a perfect example to make his point that it’s the law that shows us what sin is. Otherwise, he might not have known that coveting was wrong.
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