The 10 Commandments Cannot Save Us…

If you believe the 10 commandments are to be strictly followed, you need to re-examine your faith. Yes they are principles to practice. Yes, they reveal God’s character, which we are to imitate. But they are impossible to follow. God is perfect, and that perfection is the standard that only He can accomplish. If you break one commandment, regardless of when it happened, you are guilty of breaking them all. The 10 commandments cannot save us, they only point us to the One Who can, a God full of mercy and grace, Who loves us enough to give us the freedom to choose. We cannot be perfect this side of Heaven, but we can be perfect in Christ. Viewing the 10 commandments in the right perspective, starts the process.

Yet we know that a person is made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ, not by obeying the law. And we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be made right with God because of our faith in Christ, not because we have obeyed the law. For no one will ever be made right with God by obeying the law.” 17 But suppose we seek to be made right with God through faith in Christ and then we are found guilty because we have abandoned the law. Would that mean Christ has led us into sin? Absolutely not! 18 Rather, I am a sinner if I rebuild the old system of law I already tore down. 19 For when I tried to keep the law, it condemned me. So I died to the law–I stopped trying to meet all its requirements–so that I might live for God. 20 My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. 21 I do not treat the grace of God as meaningless. For if keeping the law could make us right with God, then there was no need for Christ to die. Galatians 2:16-21