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What The Law Dees by Dr. Ralph Keiper S o m e pe o pl e have the mistaken and erroneous impression that the law is a yardstick by which one can judge his own efforts in contributing to his personal salvation. In a careful study of the Bible we find that the law in deed is a “yardstick,” not to show one how good he is but rather how bad he is. Paul makes it very clear that the law cannot save when he writes, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, “For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, send ing His own Son in the likeness of sin ful 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” (Romans 8:3). The law never saved anyone. That was not the purpose for which it was given. Israel, to whom the law was originally given, has never been saved by it. There is not one Jew living on the face of the earth, nor from times past, who was ever saved -by the law. When the commandments were given at Sinai, the sacrificial lamb was also provided. There was the purpose of the observance of atonement: it symbolized the covering of human s in ./‘Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world become guil ty before God” (Romans 3:19). The law does not save, it condemns; it does not deliver, it damns; it does ,not bring
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