God Broke No Law

In a sermon called, It Works Both Ways, Steven Furtick preached on the difference between law and gospel. He mentioned that the law is powerless to change our heart, which is true because we are all sinners by nature. Then he used the analogy of a parent that has a child injured and what a parent would do. He explains that analogy in 23:01 where he says a parent would break the speed limit to get that child to the hospital, which is true because I would do that. Then he said in 24:28 of the video that God broke the law for love.

So God broke His law because He loves us. Not true. The Bible tells us that if anyone breaks one of God's laws, they are guilty of breaking all of it (James 2:10). If God broke His own law, the world would be in a lot more trouble than it already is. He would be a lawbreaker. God would be evil. God has changed His Word. 1 John tells us that God is light and in Him is not darkness.

If God has darkness, then He has sin. If He has sin, then His Word is not true. If His Word is not true, then the Resurrection must not have happened. If the Resurrection did not take place then, my brother and sisters, our faith is in vain and we are still in our sins (1 Corinthians 15:14 & 17).

Did God brake His own law so that we can have fellowship with Christ? The answer is no. Jesus said:

Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished (Matthew 5:17-18).

God gave 613 commandments in the Old Testament and we were expected to obey everyone of them. If you kept 612 and broke one law, you are a lawbreaker. If you want to be perfect, obey all those laws. Jesus even said the whole law is summed up like this:

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind...You shall love your neighbor as yourself (Matthew 22:37, 39).

Could you fully and perfectly obey those two? I know I cannot. Adam and Eve could not even obey one law and look where the world is today. Jesus came and did what we could not do, fulfill the law of God in perfect obedience. The Apostle Paul wrote:

For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit (Romans 8:3-4).

God did not in anyway break His own law to make our righteous in His sight. If He did, He would cease to be God. We would have a Schizophrenic God. Jesus fulfilled the law in His active obedience by living a perfect life and in His passive obedience by taking our place on the cross for ours sin.

God would cease to be God if He broke one of His commandments. God does love us, but He would not violate His law for us.