It is amazing for a soul to discover that God gave a law to be observed, but that its observance is not even taken into account as a means of salvation. Then why was the law given? What good are moral standards? They were not given because God had the illusion that we could conform our lives to them. God knows that we are a degenerate race and that there is nothing good in our carnal nature.
"The law serves another purpose: to show us our sins. Man is confronted with a moral law that is just and good. His mind, while acknowledging that here is the truth, confesses at the same time that he does not live according to this law. And no matter how hard he tries, he realizes he does not reach the ideal. This is how he discovers he is a lost sinner.
"This is the great purpose of the law. It teaches us what sin is and it shows us how wrong we are, just as a mirror reveals to us how filthy we are and what needs cleansing. But just as a mirror does not and cannot wash us but only reveals our condition, so the law cannot correct us but only shows what great sinners we are.
"The purpose of the law is to make you know your sin so that you will begin to pray with the psalmist, 'Do not enter into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight no one living is righteous' (Psalm 143:2)."
~ Richard Wurmbrand
(The Evidence Bible by Ray Comfort, page 806)
Galatians 2:16 reads ~ knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
So there is nothing else that shows you that you have sinned against God and that you need to repent and be justified. Scripture refers to the law bringing sinners to Christ (Galatians 3:24).
