"For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth." Romans 10:4
If Christ is the end of the law for righteousness, it implies that all efforts at keeping the law for righteousness is futile. The consequence is more than futile when we consider what the apostle Paul had to say about trying to add the law to Christ in Romans chapter seven. To drive home the gravity of doing this, he used the analogy of a woman who marries another husband while her husband is still alive. Such a woman, according to him, will be called an adulteress.
If Christ is the end of the law for righteousness, it implies that all efforts at keeping the law for righteousness is futile. The consequence is more than futile when we consider what the apostle Paul had to say about trying to add the law to Christ in Romans chapter seven. To drive home the gravity of doing this, he used the analogy of a woman who marries another husband while her husband is still alive. Such a woman, according to him, will be called an adulteress.
In the same way, a believer will be called a spiritual adulterer when he, being married to Christ, gets yoked together with the law, it doesn't matter what kind of law it may be. Sadly, this is what those who, having been saved by faith in Christ, try to make perfect their salvation by the keeping of the law. In the thinking of Apostle Paul, this is spiritual adultery. What such people fail to understand is that the law was not given to save the sinner, it was actually given to show sin for what it is, evil, and the sinner, as totally sinful, and to point him to his need for a Saviour.
Jesus alone is enough for salvation, and on the cross, He fully paid for every infraction against the law of God. Now, those who believe in what He did on the cross, are delivered from the futility of trying to earn salvation by the keeping of the law, which is a practical impossibility. To persist in this futility is to persist in what can best be described as Spiritual Adultery.
Toni
