Comparing The Law to Jesus

• The law makes people guilty to where they owe God.
  Jesus paid everyone's debt & offers to remove everyone's guilt.
  
• The law does not justify even with complete obedience.
  Jesus justifies regardless of our deeds.
• The Law brings the knowledge of sin.
  Jesus takes away the consciousness of sin.
• The Law brings wrath.
  Jesus brings peace.
• The law charges people with sin.
  Jesus does not charge people with sin.
• The law increases transgressions.
  Jesus turns people from their wicked ways.
• The law makes sin your master.
  Jesus is your master through the loving-favor of His grace.
• The law arouses our bodies to bear fruit for death.
  Jesus bears good fruit for God & others through us.
• The law binds.
  Jesus frees.
• The law brings sin to life & sin kills us.
  Jesus kills sin & brings us to life.
• The law is too great a burden for any person to bear including the apostles, prophets, & Moses.
  Jesus' burden is so light you'll hardly notice it because His "burden" is His arm around you.
• The law could not condemn or weaken sin in our flesh.
  God condemned sin in His flesh for us all removing its power over us.
• The law empowers sin.
  Jesus condemned sin & broke its power over us.
• The law cannot give you the Spirit of God.
  Jesus sends His Spirit into our hearts.
• The law cannot produce miracles even if we obey it as hard as we can.
  Jesus is able to perform miracles when we trust Him.
• The law curses you for not obeying every bit of it.
  Jesus became a curse for you so that you would never be cursed.
• The law is not based on God's promises to us.
  Jesus has given us His very great and precious promises which allow us to participate in His divine nature.
• The law was temporary.
  Jesus & His love for us is eternal.
• The law cannot give life even if you keep all of it all of the time.
  Jesus gives eternal life freely to those who come to Him.
• Law keeping blinds you to Christ & His grace toward you.
  Jesus illuminates your righteousness through Him & His loving-favor toward you.
• Adherence to the law prevents you from being led by the Spirit.
  Jesus is the life giving Spirit who leads you.
• Keeping the law is a reason to boast in the flesh.
  Knowing Jesus is a reason to boast in the Spirit of our Lord.
• The law separated Jew & Gentile.
  Jesus abolished the law to make Jews & Gentiles into one new man.
• The law charges us with guilt for our actions.
  Jesus sets us free from the guilt our actions may cause us to have.
• The law only has power through the obedience of physical requirements.
  Jesus has the power of indestructible life.
• The Law made nothing perfect.
  Jesus makes God perfectly satisfied & God's children perfect in Spirit.
• The law appointed weak & mortal humans as high priests.
  The perfect Son of God Jesus is appointed as high priest forever.
• The law's sacrifices & offerings were not desired by God, He took no pleasure in them.
  Jesus' sacrifice was God's desire before the world was made, it pleased God & pleases us too.
• The law makes someone who keeps all but one law as guilty as someone who keeps only one law.
  Jesus removes our guilt & never charges us with guilt.
• The law is based on human works.
  We know Jesus by trusting Him.
• The law was a shadow of good things yet to come, not the things themselves
  Jesus is the reality of good things right now.
• The law cannot free us.
  Jesus frees us from all things.