Question 96. What use is the moral law to unregenerate men?

 

Question 96. What use is the moral law to unregenerate men?

Answer. The moral law is of use to unregenerate men, either to awaken their consciences, to flee from the wrath to come, and to bring them to Christ, or, if they continue in the state and way of sin, to leave them without excuse, and under the curse.

 

The moral law has a similar effect to parents disciplining their children with a stick. However, the moral law may have a reason for beating children so that they will do well, but the fundamental purpose of beating them is to help them realize their mistakes.

1 Timothy 1:9-10 "Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of their fathers and mothers, for manslayers, for sexually immoral people, for homosexuals, for traffickers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is anything else that is contrary to sound doctrine."

It may be necessary to teach morality to those who are called to the church community and to new believers about the order of the church community, but it can be said that moral law is unnecessary for believers because it has the character of punishing them to make them realize their sins.

Today, in the New Testament era, we do not realize sin through the law, but through a repentant heart, and the Word of God becomes the law of conscience to realize sin. The principle of the Bible is not to make people realize sin by the law of the conscience, but to make them realize sin by the Word moving their conscience.

Romans 2:14-15 『(For when Gentiles, who do not have the Law, do by nature the things of the Law, these, even though they do not have the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their heart, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts one with another accusing or else defending them.)』

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