Topic: "liberty” to disregard the law of God

"This is the great argument of Romans 3:19-21: “Now we know that what things so ever the law says, it says to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets.”

Then the question comes in, “Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid; yea, we establish the law.” 

Notice, he had already said that although this righteousness of God is “without the law,” and by faith of Christ, yet it is “witnessed by the law and the prophets.” 

It is a righteousness that accords with the law;...it is indeed the very

righteousness of the law itself; for it is the righteousness of God, and the law is only the law of God. It is the righteousness of God, which in Christ is wrought out for us by His perfect obedience to the commandments of God, and of which we become partakers by faith in Him; 

This is shown again in Galatians 2:17: “But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.” 

To be found sinners, is to be found transgressors of the law; for “sin is the transgression of the law.” 

*Then since the Lord has set His everlasting “God forbid” against any suggestion that Christ is the minister of the transgression of the law, 

---it follows as certainly that Christ ministers the keeping of the law. The believer in Jesus finds in Christ the keeping of the commandments of God—the law of God. 

Whosoever therefore professes to be justified by faith in Christ, and yet claims the “liberty” to disregard the law of God in a single point, is deceived." 

A.T. Jones