![]() ![]() God gave the law, not to save His people but to teach them how to live. Every person is saved by grace, which is appropriated through faith. ![]() You see grace and faith in Genesis 15:6 when Abraham “believed in the LORD and He reckoned it to him as righteousness.” We’re saved the same way whether in the Old or the New Testament. You find God’s grace in Genesis 3 after Adam and Eve sinned, when God killed an animal and took the skin and covered the first couple. You find grace in the pages of the Old Testament. No man could be saved by keeping the law because no man could keep the law. In the Old Testament, keeping the law did not save people. When you become a Christian it doesn’t mean you have no law it means you serve under the new law that God gives. In the New Testament there is law as well as grace. Many Christians believe the Old Testament teaches that the law saves us and the New Testament teaches we are saved by grace. The law was given for their personal well-being. The Israelites had already been redeemed at this point. Nowhere in the Bible is the idea that we can earn God’s approval by keeping the law. Remember this: never is there any hint that keeping the law would result in their redemption. And now that they were out there on their own, He was giving them the rules that would govern their lives. In Exodus 20:2, God said, “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.” God had already redeemed His people and brought them out of slavery. You may wonder, Why did God give us the Ten Commandments?įirst, God gave the Ten Commandments for the personal well-being of His people. The Ten Commandments are just as important to you today as they were to the Israelites centuries ago because the Commandments are God’s method for liberating us to experience blessings we could never imagine possible. Newsweek did a poll once that showed only 49 percent of all Protestants and 44 percent of all Catholics could name even four of the Ten Commandments. ![]() Sometimes I’m amazed at how few people know the Ten Commandments. Then God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.” ![]()
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