This message traces how the law functions in the believer’s life: it indicts sinners by revealing what sin is, it exposes the depth of human sin, and yet by grace it also shapes the Christian’s sanctification. Beginning from mankind’s fall and the heart’s natural bent toward wickedness, the sermon shows that the law brings wrath and reveals transgression, while those in Christ are no longer under the law’s condemnation but under grace.
The law is not the path of salvation but reveals sinners’ need for the gospel, and having been justified by faith, believers use the law as a guide for holy living rather than as a means of earning God’s favor.