The Law is Good
but Man is Not

LYRICS & COMMENTARY

LYRICS

The Law is good but man is not because of Adam’s Fall,
His sin caused death and hopeless misery.
But You sent Grace and Mercy in the form of Your own Son,
Restoring mankind’s hope for victory.

When Jesus Christ came down to earth to conquer sin and death
He brought an end to Law for Righteousness.
For Law arouses sin, produces wrath and causes death
If you rely on it for Righteousness.

Becoming sin and dying and then rising from the grave,
He proved that He was God who came to earth.
The Law had done its job in showing mankind’s need for Him.
So He nailed it to the cross and gave rebirth.

When asked by Nicodemus what He meant by a “rebirth,”
This Savior of the human race replied:
“By water and the Holy Spirit is a man reborn,”
It’s the only way he can be justified.

So Jesus, You fulfilled the Law to be my righteousness,
Your precious Blood has paid for all my sin.
So death no longer has the sting of endless misery
For now Your very Spirit lives within!

God sent You, Holy Spirit, so that You could live through me
And keep my eyes on Jesus – my New Way.
His living words renew my mind so I can think like Him.
You help me hear what Jesus has to say.

His words of Life replace the Law that I could never keep.
I live by faith in all that He has done.
Like Abraham who trusted God to give him Righteousness
I’m Righteous in You, Father, through Your Son.

I thank You for the Gift of Faith and Love and Liberty,
The “Higher Law” that Moses could not give.
This time, You sent a Savior King to rescue me from death,
Because of Him, this prodigal now lives!

The Law is good but man is not because of Adam’s Fall,
His sin caused death and hopeless misery.
But You sent Grace and Mercy in the form of Your own Son,
Restoring mankind’s hope for victory. 

© 2020 ~ Leonard J. Ransil ~ CCLI # 7089235

COMMENTARY

Much of the church has yet to discover its deeper implications and blessings because of the common practice of mixing the terms of the Mosaic Law Covenant of works-based righteousness with Jesus’ New Covenant of Grace-based righteousness – His FREE gift. Jesus revealed to Paul that doing so is the heresy of Galatianism – which is “no Gospel at all.” Why? Because relationship with God can’t be earned, sold, bought, manufactured or stolen.

It is not what you DO but Who you personally KNOW – by being born of God Himself. How? By His gift of Grace alone, through faith alone in Christ Jesus alone. That is really GOOD NEWS! Romans 10:9-13.

See further commentary in my main Post here.