-Exodus 20 - Aproaching God through right relationships

It’s all relative… It all depends on what the standard is! And you know, as we come to this second half of the Ten Commandments it strikes me that you might be able to look at these and say “hey, I’m not perfect, but I’m doing ok….” Do not murder, Check Do not commit adultery… check Honour your mother and father… yeah… sure… And though we don’t keep them perfectly, what do we do? We compare ourselves to the people around us, I’ve done better than this person or that person, and of course the nightly news is always helpful if you need a bit of a bailout.There is always someone to look down on. So we can feel pretty good about ourselves so long as we control the standard, but we can only really do that, because we have totally misunderstood the law of God, and like any tool what we don’t understand, we misuse. What is the purpose of the law? Now, it’s really easy, as a good student of the Bible. To think of Romans 3:20 right? "For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
" So the wrong use of the law is trying to use it to prove ourselves to God. To show how good we are BECAUSE the right use of the law is to show us our sin, YES… But that’s not ALL That’s a right IMPLICATION of the right understanding of the law but that’s not, in itself, the right use of the law. If it were how could David spend so much time saying “I LOVE the law of the LORD?” There must be something MORE to the law then condemnation. In fact, Paul himself gives it away, just three verses later, Romans 3:23 "for all have sinned and fall short of the… what? Law? Isn’t that what it should say? Through the law comes knowledge of sin all have sinned and fall short of the LAW! But what does he say? Fall short of what? --the glory of God--- You see, God’s law is not separate from who He is. He Himself IS the very definition of what is right and true. God as so as He reveals His law, He reveals Himself