1. Lesson 6

2. Aim: What are the three good purposes of God’s law?

3. What is one good purpose that God’s law serves for all people?
1 Timothy 1:9-10
We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine
curb
reminds us to

4. What is one good purpose that God’s law serves for all people?
Deuteronomy 4:23-24
Be careful not to forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the LORD your God has forbidden. For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
curb
reminds us to
fear God’s punishment

5. What is one good purpose that God’s law serves for all people?
Psalm 119:120
My flesh trembles in fear of you; I stand in awe of your laws.
curb
reminds us to
fear God’s punishment
I’d better not do that!

6. Key Point #1
The first good purpose of the law is to keep us from sinning by making us fear God’s punishment.

7. What is a second good purpose that God’s law serves for all people?
Romans 7:7
What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
shows us

8. What is a second good purpose that God’s law serves for all people?
Romans 3:19-20
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.
mirror
shows us
our sins

9. What is a second good purpose that God’s law serves for all people?
Luke 18:13
“But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’
mirror
shows us
our sins
I need a Savior.

10. Key Point #2
The second good purpose of God’s law is to serve as a mirror, showing us how sinful we are and how much we need a Savior.

11. Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.
What is a third good purpose that God’s law serves, but only for Christians?
Psalm 119:105
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.
guide
shows us how
God wants us to live

12. What is a third good purpose that God’s law serves, but only for Christians?
2 Corinthians 5:15
And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
guide
shows us how
God wants us to live
I want to thank Jesus!

13. Key Point #3
The third good purpose of the law is that it serves as a guide to show Christians how to thank God for all he has done for us.

14. Evaluate…
Now that I’m a Christian, I no longer need God’s law to serve as a curb or as a mirror.

15. Agree or Disagree…
When a person becomes a Christian, he or she can use the law as a guide to live in a way that pleases God and makes him or her fit for heaven.

16. Lesson 6
The three good purposes of God’s law are that it serves as a curb, a mirror, and a guide.