Question 15
Since no one can keep the law, what is its purpose?
Romans 3:20
No one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in God’s sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
Prayer
Lord, we pray that we would see you more and more in the face of your Son, Jesus Christ. We pray that we would understand more of your holy nature and that we would grieve more for the sinful nature of our hearts. And we pray that you would encourage us and persuade us of our need for a Savior and that Christ is that Savior. Amen.
Derived and adapted from Richard Sibbes’ prayer in “The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax” in The Works of the Reverend Richard Sibbes, Volume 1 (Aberdeen: Chalmers, 1809), 80.
How were you justified?
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