HEBREWS 7:19
"For the law has never made anything perfect. But now we have confidence in a better hope, through which we draw near to God."
Has anyone been able to live without breaking God's laws? The reason this is important is that the old covenant of God could only be achieved if the person never broke God's law. We know that no human being, born of woman, achieved this goal. No one is good, no not one, applies to every living person. Let the first person who is without sin cast the first stone means that no one could inflict punishment on another because they had sinned themselves. So the conclusion to be drawn is that the Laws of God never made anyone or anything perfect. The acted as the standard that we should hope to achieve. They were the target that we aimed for. No one ever got a perfect score. No one is perfect!
If that is true then how do we now have confidence and a better hope through which we can draw near to God? The answer is Jesus Christ the Lord God. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and was born of a Virgin. He was human and a man as well as God. This is the new covenant that God made with man that would allow our salvation. We are still sinners and have come short of the glory of God. We have sinned and not one of us is good. We have failed to hit the target at times and we have broken God's laws without exception. Unless someone perfect who never sinned or failed or missed the target came along we were doomed. No one can achieve heaven using the old covenant.
The old requirements have been set aside. They were weak and useless to anyone. The law never made anyone perfect. Now Jesus is the one who guarantees the New Covenant with God and He is the one who can save us from our sin and give us eternal life and allow us to enter Heaven. You can come to God through Jesus Christ. Jesus intercedes on our behalf and through the mercy of God we can be found not guilty of our sins. Jesus is our priest and our Saviour.
The law is not perfect, but Jesus is, and though the law never saved anyone, Jesus Saves anyone who comes to Him and surrenders his life.
