What is the purpose of the law? Groups such as the Hebrew Roots Movement, Seven-Day Adventists,
and other Sabbath keepers will assert that you have to keep the law in order to be saved,
which ironically is the same thing that the Pharisees taught. But if that were the case,
then the death of Jesus would be completely meaningless, because Galatians 2 21 states
that I do not frustrate the grace of God, for if righteousness come by the law,
then Christ is dead in vain. You see the purpose of the law was to demonstrate God's
perfect standard, and in light of that, expose our sinful condition.
Romans 3 20 states therefore by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified in the sight,
for by the law is the knowledge of sin. The recognition of our sinful condition
and our inability to keep God's perfect standard should provoke us to seek the one who can.
Galatians 3 24 states that the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ,
that we might be justified by faith. So if anyone says that we have to keep the law to be
saved, they're essentially saying that we don't need Jesus, because Galatians 5 4 states
that Christ has become no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law,
you are fallen from grace.