The Law is Light

This past weekend my wife and I met up with some friends to do some evangelizing. At one point Saturday evening a man who professed Christ, had walked by and upon hearing the preaching he turned to some of us standing there and said, "Is this loving? Is this really benefitting anybody?" He thought that we should be loving people instead of, as he put it, "telling people they're going to hell." What this man failed to understand is that what we were doing, was loving. His failure to comprehend the message of the cross, that we broke the law and Jesus paid the fine, hindered him from recognizing the absolute necessity to preach on sin, righteousness, and judgment. How loving would it be if I see someone who is about to get mugged and I don't warn him or her of the criminal lurking around the corner?!  Judgment awaits sinners, and we have the duty to reason with them about the impending judgment. God has given His law as a tool to do just that! The law is the standard by which Jesus will judge the world, and so it is the very thing we should use to persuade sinners to come to Christ. For without the law, there is no knowledge of sin. The law is light; exposing darkness and revealing depravity.