Comments by Some Famous Christians about the Law

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Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: "The trouble with people, who are not seeking for a Savior,

and for salvation, is that they do not understand the nature of sin. It is the peculiar

function of the Law to bring such an understanding to a man’s mind and conscience. That

is why great evangelical preachers 300 years ago in the time of the Puritans, and 200

years ago in the time of Whitefield and others, always engaged in what they called a

preliminary 'Law work.'”

John Newton (wrote "Amazing Grace"): “Ignorance of the nature and design of the Law

is at the bottom of most religious mistakes.”

Charles Spurgeon: “I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not

preach the Law.” Then he warns, “Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man

perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather than a gain; for it lessens

the likelihood of his conviction and conversion. I say you have deprived the gospel of its

ablest auxiliary [its most powerful weapon] when you have set aside the Law. You have

taken away from it the schoolmaster that is to bring men to Christ . . . They will never

accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy Law. Therefore the Law serves a

most necessary purpose, and it must not be removed from its place.”

Jonathan Edwards: “The only way we can know whether we are sinning is by knowing

His Moral Law.”

George Whitefield said to his hearers, “First, then, before you can speak peace to your

hearts, you must be made to see, made to feel, made to weep over, made to bewail, your

actual transgressions against the Law of God.”

John Wesley: "...it is the ordinary method of the Spirit of God to convict sinners by the

Law. It is this which, being set home on the conscience, generally breaketh the rocks in

pieces. It is more especially this part of the Word of God which is quick and powerful,

full of life and energy and sharper than any two-edged sword."

Martin Luther: "The first duty of the Gospel preacher is to declare God's Law and

show the nature of sin."

John Wesley: "It remains only to show...the uses of the Law. And the first use of it,

without question, is to convince the world of sin. By this is the sinner discovered to

himself. All his fig-leaves are torn away, and he sees that he is 'wretched and poor and

miserable, blind and naked.' The Law flashes conviction on every side. He feels himself a

mere sinner. He has nothing to pay. His 'mouth is stopped' and he stands 'guilty before

God.' To slay the sinner is then the first use of the Law, to destroy the life and strength

wherein he trusts and convince him that he is dead while he lives; not only under the

sentence of death, but actually dead to God, void of all spiritual life, dead in trespasses

and sins."

Charles Spurgeon: "The Law cuts into the core of the evil, it reveals the seat of the

malady, and informs us that the leprosy lies deep within."

C. S. Lewis: “When we merely say that we are bad, the ‘wrath’ of God seems a

barbarous doctrine; as soon as we perceive our bad-ness, it appears inevitable, a mere

corollary from God’s goodness…”

Martin Luther: "...we would not see nor realize it (what a distressing and horrible fall in

which we lie), if it were not for the Law, and we would have to remain forever lost, if we

were not again helped out of it through Christ. Therefore the Law and the Gospel are

given to the end that we may learn to know both how guilty we are and to what we

should again return."

J. I. Packer: "Unless we see our shortcomings in the light of the Law and holiness of

God, we do not see them as sin at all."

Charles Finney: “Ever more the Law must prepare the way for the Gospel. To overlook

this in instructing souls, is almost certain to result in false hope, the introduction of a false

standard of Christian experience, and to fill the Church with false converts... time will

make this plain.”

John Bunyan: “The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the

nature of sin.”

D. L. Moody: “Ask Paul why [the Law] was given. Here is his answer, ‘That every

mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God’ (Romans 3:19).

The Law stops every man’s mouth. I can always tell a man who is near the kingdom of

God; his mouth is stopped. This, then, is why God gives us the Law—to show us

ourselves in our true colors.”

A. W. Pink: “Just as the world was not ready for the New Testament before it received

the Old, just as the Jews were not prepared for the ministry of Christ until John the

Baptist had gone before Him with his claimant call to repentance, so the unsaved are in

no condition today for the Gospel till the Law be applied to their hearts, for ‘by the Law

is the knowledge of sin.’ It is a waste of time to sow seed on ground which has never

been ploughed or spaded! To present the vicarious sacrifice of Christ to those whose

dominant passion is to take fill of sin, is to give that which is holy to the dogs.”

Augustine: “The Law is not in fault, but our evil and wicked nature; even as a heap of

lime is still and quiet until water be poured thereon, but then it begins to smoke and burn,

not from the fault of the water, but from the nature and kind of the lime which will not

endure it.”

Matthew Henry: “Herein is the Law of God above all other laws, that it is a spiritual

law. Other laws may forbid compassing and imagining, which are treason in the heart,

but cannot take cognizance thereof, unless there be some overt act; but the Law of God

takes notice of the iniquity regarded in the heart, though it go no further.”

Martin Luther: “Satan, the God of all dissension, stirreth up daily new sects, and last of

all, which of all other I should never have foreseen or once suspected, he has raised up a

sect as such as teach…that men should not be terrified by the Law, but gently exhorted

by the preaching of the grace of Christ.”

John Wesley: “While he cries out, O what love have I to thy Law! all the day long is my

study in it. He sees daily, in that divine mirror, more and more of his own sinfulness. He

sees more and more clearly, that he is fullness a sinner in all things -- that neither his

heart nor his ways are right before God, and that every moment sends him to Christ.

“Therefore I cannot spare the Law one moment, no more than I can spare Christ,

seeing I now want it as much to keep me to Christ, as I ever wanted it to bring me to

Him. Otherwise this ‘evil heart of unbelief’ would immediately ‘depart from the living

God.’ Indeed each is continually sending me to the other--the Law to Christ, and Christ to

the Law.”

Martin Luther: In a sermon published way back in 1537, Martin Luther spoke of the

Law being used as a schoolmaster the bring sinners to Christ. Listen to his words of

warning:

“This now is the Christian teaching and preaching, which God be praised, we know and

possess, and it is not necessary at present to develop it further, but only to offer the

admonition that it be maintained in Christendom with all diligence. For Satan has

attacked it hard and strong from the beginning until the present, and gladly would he

completely extinguish it and tread it underfoot.”

http://www.websiteevangelism.net/Quotes_on_using_the_law.pdf

[MrLee]

True: Without the Law, there's no Sin, no Guilt, no Condemnation, no Punishment, and therefore no need of Salvation... BUT, if you are really in Christ, you have already passed the cycle under the Law - Sin - Condemnation - Punishment (Death) - Born in Christ! Complete New Creation! No more Burden any kind! Free indeed! Praise the Lord! Glory Forever and Ever! Amen!

[MrLee]

If you are NOT sure of your Salvation, then just open your heart and call to Jesus to come into your heart Right Now! He is eager to come into your heart and help you all the way... Avoid all kinds of Do this, Do that, whatever... Jesus is the Only Way and He is waiting for you to call for Help! Remember, He died for YOU...to be saved! Don't go to the Law, but to Jesus!

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