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Study Section 18: Must We Keep the Law?

18.1 Connect.

God wrote the Law and gave it to the Children of Israel via the hand of Moses. He obviously
gave it to them so that they would obey the hundreds of rules. When someone asked Jesus
how he could inherit eternal life, Jesus told him to keep the Law. Of course, the man who
asked discovered he had not kept the Law but was coveting riches. The Bible tells us that the
Law was given as God’s perfect design for holy living, but that no man could keep it in his own
strength. The book of Galatians was given to us to help us understand that the Law was given to us to
show us how sinful we are, and that we need a Savior. The Law leads us to Christ, because He kept it on
our behalf. Today, we will look at how God views the law versus how Ellen G. White views the purpose
of the Law.

18.2 Objectives:

1. The student should be able to Understand what the Bible clearly says about the purpose of the
Old Testament Law.

2. The student should be able to Understand that no person can be justified before God by
keeping the law of God.

3. The student should be able to look further into the errant teachings of Ellen G. White as she has
placed those in the Adventist movement and church in the stocks of the Law in order to be saved.

18.3 The Purpose of the Law

What does the Bible say?

The Apostle Paul wrote to the Colossians, "Therefore let no one act as your judge in regard to
food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or A SABBATH DAY--things which are a
mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ." (Col. 21:6,17).

Galatians 2: nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith
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in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and
not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified.

21 "I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died
needlessly."

Galatians 3 But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, being shut up to the faith
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which was later to be revealed.

Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith.
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