Romans 8:3 “For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:”
The Law of God was very powerful in the life of Israel. It still has a strong impact on people today to reveal what God wants of us and to point out sin.
There is no law that can deliver anyone. If you break a law, it can only condemn. When you appear before a judge, the sentence will come. If you do the crime, you will do the time (or some other kind of penalty). It only takes one incident of breaking the law to be guilty and it does not matter how many other times you have been good.
James also says this, too. He said, in James 2:10: “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.” It is why it is useless to try and keep the Law to get to Heaven. We are told, in Romans 3:10: “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one.”
This is the problem with God’s Law. People mistakenly think that they can keep the law to earn their way to Heaven – but this is impossible. Because of breaking God’s Law, the sinner can only expect condemnation when judged.
God never intended that His Law should save anyone. Instead, it was given to humble and condemn us so that we might seek the way of salvation that God made. That way of salvation was that He wanted to offer it as a free gift through the death of His Son.
Christ’s death on the Cross and resurrection also made Him the only possible way of salvation. No one else could die for someone else’s sin and still escape their own judgment and damnation for sin. Only Christ was sinless and only He is the door to Heaven – not the Ten Commandments.
Calling on Christ for forgiveness and salvation is the only way to Heaven. In John 14:6, He said: Have you believed on Him for salvation? “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”