We need to learn that the law was never intended to function as a standard that we can actually meet, but as Paul says in Romans 3:9-20, as a way to reveal our sin. The longest distance a human has ever swum is close to 140 miles, when a Croatian man swam across the Adriatic Sea from Grado to Riccione, both in Italy (“Longest Ocean Swim,” Guinness World Records, accessed January 3, 2018). If you asked two people to swim double that distance (280 miles), they wouldn’t make it. Their bodies wou...
The Law: An Impossible Standard
The impossible standard set by the law doesn’t give us the ability to compare or compete; it convicts every one of the same imperfection.
