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GUILTY OF ALL
MONDAY, OCTOBER 31
James 2:10-11

Deuteronomy 6:25

 

“And it shall be our righteousness,

if we observe to do all…”

 

GUILTY OF ALL
 
How can a man be guilty? If a man is found to have committed a crime, he is guilty. The Word of God tells us that if we disobey God’s law, even that which is least in our assessment, we become guilty of disobeying the whole law, even if we are obeying other parts of the law. God’s law is one, and a violation of a part of it violates the whole law. Thus, he is guilty of all!
 
Transgression in one: No part of the law is insignificant (Matt 5:18-19). Read what Paul says in Galatians 3:10.
 
Transgression of all: This means that the authority who gives one commandment is the authority that issues the rest. So he who breaks one resists the authority who gives all. The breach of any one commandment is a breach of the whole law. The believers in James’ time were openly negligent of the second half of the law. They thought that when they had obeyed one part of the law, it would cover up for their failures elsewhere. It is made clear that their disobedience to one part of the law brings them to judgment as guilty of all. Therefore, it is against the Bible to classify transgressions of the commandments as venial and mortal. Whether a man commits a so-called venial sin, which some consider relatively less serious than so-called mortal sin, the Bible teaches that such a one is guilty of all!
 
Dear reader, everyone has transgressed the commandments, thus, we are all guilty before God. Read what Isaiah 64:6 says. We cannot argue that we have only failed in some ways. We must cry with the Psalmist as he cried in Psalm 130:2-4.
 
THOUGHT: Am I guilty of transgressing all of God’s laws?
PRAYER: Father, Thou alone can forgive and cleanse me. I confess before Thy holy presence my sinfulness, I am guilty of all!

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