The Lemon Law

Imagine that you are buying a new car. You do not have enough to do a cash deal and so you negotiate terms with the sales manager through the salesman. After much back and forth, haggling over price, options, down-payment, etc. you finally come to an agreement and you begin to sign the papers.

Now, let me ask you this. What is perfection under this agreement? Perfection is making the payments on time. What is transgression under that agreement? Transgression is not making your payments. If you run a red light, does that void the agreement? No. If you cheat on your taxes, does that transgress it? No. Does Bank of America or Ford Motor Company or GMAC care that you might be trafficking drugs and guns in your living room? No! All they care about is that you make your payment on time.

If you get hold of this it will forever change your life. What many people are doing is still thinking that God expects them to measure up to the Law of Moses, but the truth is that God doesn’t care about the Law of Moses anymore. He knows – has always known – that the Law of Moses makes no one righteous. You might be thinking, “You’re making light of sin…” No, not in the least. I believe emphatically that sin will kill you. But the sin that will kill you is not adultery or lying but unbelief. The sin that will send you to hell is not that you don’t obey your parents. It’s lack of belief in God’s inherent goodness and His promises. Perfection under the New Covenant is believing God!