Ever been clumsy? I've been a real clutz at times. But I wouldn't know about that if I was only given manageable things to do, would I?
Take the top clutz in the world, and they would not know they are the least bit clumsy if they sat on their hands all day and did nothing. They need to get up and move, and do something that they cannot manage in order to learn their true condition, rather than be puffed up with the false notion that they can handle everything.
I'm really talking about pride, and self-exaltation - thinking that you are something when you are not. This is part of the human condition.
With this in mind, it makes sense when Paul wrote:
Romans 5:20 -
"Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound..."
God's wisdom was that every clutz goto the kitchen and fetch plate after plate, and glass after glass, two / three / four or more at a time, until they got the message ... they are clumsy. They couldn't get that message sitting on their hands, could they?
Ever try to manage the law ... and I mean the full law - every command (not just some manageable watered-down version) - on your own? I wasn't sitting on my hands, when I tried. I was learning. I learned that I needed a Savior!
Galatians 3:24
Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith.
Jesus saved me from continuing in my clutz-y trespassing. He saved me by infusing me with His Holy Spirit ... that as I walk by the Spirit, I do not as often break that which I consistently broke when left to myself.
What a relief! What a miracle!
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Romans 3:31
Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.
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