Question 149. Can any man keep the commandments of God perfectly?

 

Question 149. Can any man keep the commandments of God perfectly?

 

Answer. No one can keep the commandments of God perfectly by any grace he receives in this life, but he breaks them every day in his words and deeds.

Romans 7:6-10 But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit, not in the old letter of the law. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. For I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness if the law had not said, ‘You shall not covet.’ But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all sorts of covetousness, for apart from the law sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment which was to bring life turned out to be to bring death to me.

The law only makes us aware of sin, but humans are beings who cannot keep the law on their own. The purpose of God giving the law to the people is to make them look forward to the coming Messiah, as seen in the sacrificial offering, because they are leftists who cannot keep the law. That is why Jesus Christ, the Messiah, came to the world and died for the law.

Romans 7:4 "Therefore, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God." Those who die in Christ are free from sin, and by being free from sin, they can attain to righteousness.

The fulfillment of righteousness can be seen as the fulfillment of the commandments. Romans 8:3-4 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

The fulfillment of the law is death. The saints cannot keep the commandments of the law by their own strength, but since Christ died according to the requirements of the law, the saints in Christ also died according to the requirements of the law (fulfilled the law) and achieved righteousness through the power of the Holy Spirit.

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