10:3
But their motives were right! They wanted to know God! But they did not know the righteousness of God and so sought to establish their own righteousness. In so doing they did not submit to God’s righteousness. So again we see the supremacy of the Lord, and man’s failure to submit to God. We do not decide the way to know God, God decides the way to know Him. We are mere created beings. Yet when we do submit to God’s ways we find that being a being created by God is the most wonderful thing there is. When we persist in following our own way and refusing to submit to God’s ways we are living in denial, in denial of who we are and what we are.
10:4
“Christ is the end of the Law”. This can be taken in two ways. It can mean that Christ is the cessation of the Law, ie since He has died for us the Law is no longer relevant as a means of achieving righteousness. Or it can mean that He is the goal of the Law, Jesus is what the Law was always pointing towards, what it was leading up to. This latter sense seems better as it fits best with the whole teaching of the Bible, and of Paul in particular. Too often Jesus is seen as opposed to the Law, but that is simply not true. The Law showed the perfect way, it also showed that we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. And it pointed towards our need of a saviour, Jesus is that saviour.
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