“Hosts of Christians have a dreadful fear of God’s Law, as if it were the useless relic of a past age, the use of which in our day would keep sinners from the grace of God. Our Saviour used the law as a primary tool of evangelism. He knew that preaching the Ten Commandments was the only way to teach a sinner his guilt and thereby stir within him a desire for God’s grace.

The woman at the well must have the seventh commandment applied to her conscience or she would never be converted (John 4:16-18). This nobleman (Mark 10:17-30) must have the law personally preached or he would dwell in constant confusion. Every true saint would have to agree with Paul, who attributed his own conversion to the agency of the law: ‘I had not known sin, but by the law’ (Romans 7:7). It is God’s law that convicts of sin. Until its condemnation of particular evils is forcefully pressed upon a sinner, he will not flee to Christ for mercy. At best he can only ask, ‘What is it that I need for eternal life?’ (Mark 10:17) The man who understands the law clearly knows that only God’s grace can help him. What the sinner must do is beg for mercy.”

Walt J. Chantry, Today’s Gospel, Pg 39