The Law beats us down and leaves us for dead. The Law brings condemnation and guilt for our sin. This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? (Galatians 3:2–3) We don’t gain God’s favor by our own works, and we can’t keep God’s favor by our own works. We are sinners who have broken God’s Law. Judged by God’s Law they are as filthy rags (Isaiah 64:6). Our efforts can never satisfy God’s righteousness. No matter how successful we have been, or how much progress we seem to make, our works can never save us. Faithful’s struggle with Moses affirms that we can never achieve or maintain a right standing before God on the basis of our own efforts of obedience. Moses represents the work of the Law “for the law was given through Moses” (John 1:17a). It was he that came to me when I dwelt securely at home, and that told me he would burn my house over my head if I stayed there.Ĭhristian: But did you not see the house that stood there on the top of the hill, on the side of which Moses met you?įaithful: Yes, and the lions too, before I came at it: but for the lions, I think they were asleep, for it was about noon and because I had so much of the day before me, I passed by the porter, and came down the hill.Ĭhristian: He told me, indeed, that he saw you go by, but I wish you had called at the house, for they would have showed you so many rarities, that you would scarce have forgot them to the day of your death.
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He spares none, neither does he know how to show mercy to those that transgress his law.įaithful: I know it very well it was not the first time that he has met with me. So I went up the hill.Ĭhristian: That man that overtook you was Moses. He had doubtless made an end of me, but that one came by, and bid him forbear.Ĭhristian: Who was that that bid him forbear?įaithful: I did not know him at first, but as he went by, I perceived the holes in his hands and in his side then I concluded that he was our Lord. So, when I came to myself again, I cried him mercy but he said, I know not how to show mercy and with that he knocked me down again. He said, because of my secret inclining to Adam the First and with that he struck me another deadly blow on the breast, and beat me down backward so I lay at his foot as dead as before. But when I was a little come to myself again, I asked him wherefore he served me so. So soon as the man overtook me, he was but a word and a blow, for down he knocked me, and laid me for dead. Now when I had got about half-way up, I looked behind, and saw one coming after me, swift as the wind so he overtook me just about the place where the settle stands.Ĭhristian: Just there, said Christian, did I sit down to rest me but being overcome with sleep, I there lost this roll out of my bosom.įaithful: But, good brother, hear me out. In the PILGRIM PROGRESS there is a Narration on Moses & I quote Notes and Commentary on Moses who gave us THE LAW cannot show any mercy This fountain filled with blood is “free” to all Only through his Blood we have complete clensing & fellowship with God And Jesus keeps us near the cross daily.Įveryday we come to Jesus for clensing in His precious Blood.
The Cross is the most important and precious theme of the Bible. Fanny Crosby, though blind, wrote more than 8,000 hymns in her lifetimeĪmong her very best is JESUS KEEP ME NEAR THE CROSS