rom 10v04 Christ Is The End of
The Law
"CHRIST IS THE END OF
THE LAW" Roman 10:4
I do not suggest that the law
is evil. It is not. God's law is holy, just, and good (I Tim. 1:8-9). I do not
say that the believer is free to break the law. Not only is the believer not
free to break the law, he has no desire to do so. To those who believe, God's
commandments are not grievous (I John 5:1-3). If we could, we would love God
with all our hearts and our neighbors as ourselves. But we do not have the ability
to do so. I do say that in Christ the believer is entirely free from the law,
because "Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that
believeth." "We are not under the law, but under grace." We have
been crucified with Christ, and have "become dead to the law by the body
of Christ." There is no sense whatsoever in which it may be said that the
believer is under the law.
We have no covenant with the law. We live under a covenant of grace. We have no commitment to the law. Our commitment is to Christ, who obeyed the law for us. We do nothing by the constraint of the law. "The love of Christ constraineth us.
CHRIST IS THE END OF THE
LAW'S PURPOSE. The purpose and object of God's law is to bring us to
Christ. Once it has served that purpose, it has no other (Gal.
CHRIST IS THE END OF THE LAW
IN THE SENSE THAT HE HAS FULFILLED--IT AS OUR REPRESENTATIVE. He has
magnified the law and made it honorable, establishing righteousness to meet the
law's demands as our Representative and dying under the law's just penalty as
our Substitute. By his obedience to the law,
CHRIST HAS TERMINATED THE
LAW'S CLAIMS UPON THE BELIEVER so that in Christ we are entirely free from
the law.