Rev Tom Baker. Law and Gospel. Bible Study

Works matter if you live under the law instead of by God's grace. Do the actions of an infant determine whether or not they get adopted?
The law reveals that one who is spiritually dead cannot do spiritually alive works.

- Is God not unjust to give us a law when He knows we are unable to complete it?
- By demanding what we cannot repay, God moves us both to repent of our condition and trust in Jesus who repaid it for us.

The diagnosis is the law. It doesn't make us better. The gospel is the treatment. In Christianity, we don't need actions to justify ourselves. Jesus did that for us.

Satan gets you by saying you are not worthy to talk to God (Jesus) directly. Good works are not done to gain heaven. Ceilings are not heirs to heaven.  

Our good works are never pure and holy. Truly good works are God's actions through us.

We are saved because we believe Christ led a aimless life, then died and rose for me and you.

Christ is the end of the law as long as we believe.

Gospel relieves our conscience.