Is "The Law" Still In Tact? Or Has "The Law of Faith" Taken Its Place? Are We Made Right With God by Works or By Believing Unto Righteousness? Point to Ponder . . .

Saved by Grace, Saved by Trusting Christ Alone? Or saved by The Law?

A Devotional for July 21. 2025

From the pen of John Bunyan author of Pilgrim's Progress

The Law Made Void

“Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift by as his due”

Romans 4: 4.

Another reason why not one under heaven can be justified by the law, or by his own personal performances to it, is because since sin was in the world; God hath rejected the law and the works thereof for life (Romans 7: 10).

It is true, before man had sinned it was ordained to be unto life. But since, and because of sin, the God of love gave the word of grace. Take the law, then, as God hath established it; to wit, to condemn all flesh (Galatians 3: 21). And then there is room for the promise and the law, the one to kill, the other to heal; and so, the law is not against the promises. But make the law a justifier and faith is made void, and the promise is made of none effect (Romans 4: 14). And the everlasting gospel, by so doing, you endeavor to root out of the world. Methinks—since it hath pleased God to reject the law and the righteousness thereof for life—such dust and ashes as we should strive to consent to his holy will. [It is] especially [true] when in the room of this [covenant] of works there is established a better covenant and that upon better promises. The Lord hath rejected the law, for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof; for, finding fault with them of the law, “The days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel” (Hebrews 8: 8). Give God leave to find fault with us and to condemn our personal performances to death as to our justification before him thereby. And certainly, if ever he be pleased with us, it will be when he finds us in that righteousness that is of his own appointing.