BELIEVERS KEEP GOD’S LAW IN PERFECTION
Ezekiel 36: 27: And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
About five years ago, a man visited our congregation from one of the many reformed churches around us. For a few months, he repeatedly quoted this verse to me. He explained that this verse meant he had the ability to keep God’s law himself. But keeping God’s law is only done in perfection. Believers have an old man of sin which makes it impossible for us to keep God’s law in perfection.
The truth is that God makes his people keep his law in perfection by making us believe on Christ who established the law in perfection for his people; God makes us walk in his statutes by making us walk by faith in Christ.
When the self-righteous heard Paul declare this they accused him of making void the law. In Romans 3, after declaring the proper use of the law is to declare us guilty Paul declared that God set Christ forth to make his people righteous through faith in his blood. Then Paul concluded, “Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, [through faith in Christ] we establish the law.” (Rom 3: 31)