The Law Is Good If...

Good morning. I've been busy getting ready for next week's Rocky Mountain Shepherds' Conference.

But we know that the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully, realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching, according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted. 1Tim 1:8-11

Since He’s contended the straying men suppose to teach the Law, Paul clarifies why we have it.

Used the way God intended, the God-given Law is good. Paul made the same assertion in Romans 7 where he added it is holy.

Paul here reminds us that he knew for whom the Law was written. The righteous don't need it; the others do. Gay advocates have to ignore this passage since it lumps homosexuals in with murderers and kidnappers. I don't think serious science has stooped to the level of saying murderers were born that way; but they may have.

Wrongly used as it was in the hands of the Jewish leaders of Jesus’ day, the Law was oppressive, but that was not God’s intent. In our own ministries we must understand and serve God’s intent with Scriptures. My adult Sunday school class spent the last two weeks speaking about church discipline, which can be misused but works every time when properly and graciously applied.

Pressing on, Ed