If you
really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,”
you are doing right. But if you show favoritism,
you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. For whoever
keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking
all of it. For he who said, “You shall not commit adultery,”
also said, “You shall not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do commit
murder, you have become a lawbreaker.
James 2:8-10
The
goal of God’s law is to show us that we are sinners. The law reveals that we are not perfect as
God is perfect. How many laws has God
broken? Not one. How many laws have we broken? Every one of them at least once, if not
thousands of times.
Adam
and Eve committed one sin and became sinners, subject to death and cursed
throughout their lives. The same applies
to us.
We
want to grade on a scale, rating ourselves on how many sins we’ve committed
compared to others. However, our model
is not others, but Jesus, and with him as the model, we all fall short.
One
and we’re done.