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Some relationships are complicated.
There are multiple angles to the relationship.
Someone may be just a friend to you, but he’s a boss to another.
Someone may be a friend, yet he have an important position in the world that demands respect.
And that position calls for respect.
Think of the President of the United States.
But he has a position in the world.
He’s the leader of the free world.
Yet, that person is also a friend to pe
He’s the commander in chief.
He leads the executive branch of the government.
Yet, he’s also a father, a husband and a friend to different people.
When my dad was a deputy sheriff, there would be times I’d go to work to see him.
I couldn’t show up and say, “Is my dad here?”
That didn’t show the respect for his position.
I had to ask for Deputy Kirkendall, even though he was my dad.
Some of our relationships are complicated.
We have a complex relationship with the Law.
The Law is a difficult thing to grasp.
And I bet that some of you are confused by the law.
At times we speak of it almost like an enemy.
Like it is our foe.
Then at other times we talk about it being good and useful.
And maybe you are wondering, “Well which is it?
Good or bad?”
And to be honest, we need to figure this out, because it’s a large chunk of the Bible.
Is the Law, good or bad?
The Law tells us how to live.
Should we listen to it?
Or should we ignore it?
Well, it’s definitely not bad.
Let’s just get that out of the way.
But our relationship with it is complicated.
Today as we go through our text we will see 3 uses of the law.
These are 3 different ways we are related to the law.
And hopefully, you will understand how you are to respond to the Law.
The first use of the law is that it is a Jailer.
Look at verse 23, “Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed.”
God is absolutely holy.
God is perfect.
God is supreme.
I say that, but we don’t believe it.
We are like the child who is told to not to go into the pool on a hot summer day.
You tell the child go near the pool and you say, “Do you hear me?”
He says, “Yes mommy.”
Then with his eyes perfectly fixed on you, he slowly walks to the water.
Still maintaining amazing eye contact, he slowly puts his toe in the water.
You want to think he knows your serious.
But he seriously disobeyed you.
While looking straight into your eyes.
We say we know God is holy.
In fact most people will say that.
But when it comes to our actions, we show we don’t believe it.
We are like a child dipping his toe in the water while maintaining eye contact.
And because he disobeyed you, there is a consequence.
And hopefully, that consequence brings with it some pain
So you give him a swat on the rear.
The spanking is a reminder that he has disobeyed you, and disobedience is painful.
I know that it sounds weird to say, “Hopefully that spanking is painful” and maybe it even sounds a little sadistic.
But have you ever seen someone spank a child and it not be painful?
I’m sure you parents can sit around and share horror stories of a child laughing during a spanking.
The pain of discipline is a good thing.
is an encouragement to parents to spank their children.
It says, “Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.”
When you discipline your children, it corrects them.
Let’s go back to the pool incident.
Every year there is the tragic story of a child who fell into the pool and drowned.
I’m sure those children were told not to go into the pool when their parents weren’t home.
But they did it anyway and to their death.
The pain of a spanking is a preventative correction to the greater danger of death.
Just as children need to be taught and reminded that there are consequences to our actions, so do adults.
One of the great problems of mankind is that they have forgotten that there are consequences to our actions.
says, “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.”
What we are seeing in the world around us, and it is nothing new, is that people are like the child who have been told not to go into the pool.
They know the rule, but they suppress the truth, the reject it; they willingly forget it.
And they march forward into danger.
The consequences of knowing right and wrong, but sinning anyway is that the wrath of God is coming.
And it is far worse then falling in a pool.
It is an eternal, conscious Hell.
The Bible describing it as a lake of flaming fire.
Only while you are in the fire, you are never consumed.
The fire never ceases.
It never runs out of fuel.
If you have any desire to see people be spared, then we are to warn them.
And how do we warn them?
By using the Law.
The Law shows that we are sinners.
The Law shows we are sinners and the Law shows what we deserve, which is Hell.
The first way that we use the Law is to show that we are imprisoned and deserving of Hell, it is our jailer.
In fact, it’s only getting worse.
When we go evangelizing, we try and help people understand this.
And at some point it means having to say some hard words.
Because we are trying to get the person to say they deserve Hell.
Most people assume that good people go to heaven, and they also assume that they are good people.
So we use the law to show that they are not good people.
That they have broken God’s law.
And having broken God’s law, they deserve Hell.
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