The Law and the Gospel

If we are going to be gospel people, we need to understand how the law and the gospel relate. Paul shows us here: the law is not the gospel, but it leads us to the gospel. It’s not a ladder we climb to reach God; it’s a mirror that shows us our sin and our need for a Savior.

Big Idea: God’s law exposes our sin and leads us to the gospel, so that we might be saved by grace through faith in Christ.

1. Know the Nature of the Law: It is Good (8)
2. Know the Purpose of the Law: To Expose Sin (9-10)
3. Know the End of the Law: Christ in the Gospel (11)