For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus. (Romans 2:12-16 ESV)
“Don’t tell me what I know and don’t know, I know the law!” comes an emphatic statement from Lieutenant Caffy in A Few Good Men. He is talking about what is actually the truth and what he can prove or not prove. The point is the law will win in the case he is talking about.
Do you ever feel that way? If I only know all of the rules and can uphold them, then I will be good. But knowing the rules really only gives us the clear line by which we will be judged. You see according to this passage it does not matter if we know the law or not we will be judged by Jesus Christ. None of us will avoid being judged.
Knowing the law will not help unless you can follow incompletely and even of you don’t know the law you still must live up to Jesus’ standard…
So who can stand? Only the one found in Him…
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