• It Shows You What You Don't Know

  Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jun 15, 2010 (message contributor)

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  Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

IT SHOWS YOU WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW

Robert Phillips (Biblical Preaching Journal/Winter 1994, wrote of his first college course in chemistry. His first exam came after one week. Of the twelve in the class 6 got "D's" and six failed. The professor told them, "I did not give you this test so that you could tell me what you know about chemistry. I gave you this test so that I could show you what you don't know about chemistry."

Similarly God's law show us not how good we are but how sinful we are -- how far short we are of being righteous like God. THE LAW MAKES US CONSCIOUS OF OUR SIN.