The Law of God: His Standard Is Inflexible

God's Law requires behavior that is the opposite of the desires of the heart. It goes completely against the grain of the unregenerate heart.The Law calls a sinner to do what he cannot do to do to love what you cannot love. It asks sinners who love sin,who love darkness who love the world the flesh, the lust , to stop loving all of that and to love God with all their heart,soul, mind, and strength, and to love his neighbor as self,to obey the Ten Commandments. The Law requires absolute perfection and accepts nothing less. The Law exacts on all sinners absolute perfect compliance,accepting nothing less so that if you break one Law you have shattered the whole Law. Sinners cannot satisfy the Law of God,who wrote the Law by keeping a portion of the Law. The Law accepts no limited payment for violators. Violations of the Law of God cannot be undone. People think in the end God will take them to heaven because they have done more good than bad. That is a delusion!If you have sinned once your"good deeds" have no effect upon the sin.Nothing you do can cancel out sin. Neither does trying offer a consolation.Trying does not help, it does not matter.You accumulate zero with whatever good you may have done. Nothing short of absolute perfection satisfies God, He will not accept effort or "sincerity" as any consolation. The Law promises to punish the law breaker in Hell for eternity.Sin will not be erased. The Law gives no help to the sinner. Sinners are powerless to obey the Law.Once you have offended the Law , it provides no restoration.Sinners cannot follow some legal path to God.But the Law is not the problem the criminal (sinner) is the problem. Until the sinner is crushed by the Law sees his constant violation of it and the depth of sin in his rebellious heart. Until he sees that he is under the curse ,the wrath of God he will not flee to Christ. Christ kept the Law perfectly ,he bore the wrath of God as payment for the sins of His people. The most deadly of all sins is to believe you can merit salvation from God. Christ alone is worthy. Christ alone is Lord and Savior. Christ alone saves from the curse, penalty and dominion of sin. Christ alone is the perfect righteousness of His people." Seek the Lord while He may be found." Confess your sins, repent, turn and be converted. Why will you die in your sin? " "Therefore if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away;behold the new has come." " God made Him(Christ) to be sin who knew no sin, so that we might become the righteousness of Christ." 2 Cor. 5:17,21 "Unless one is born again they shall not see the kingdom of God." John 3:3 To Christ alone be the glory!

~Four Functions of the Law Part 2, John MacArthur