"For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all." (James 2:10)

The law of God, centered in the Ten Commandments, is holy, and just, and good and expresses perfectly the will of God for holy living.

The problem is that no man can possibly do them all. A man may keep most of the commandments most of the time, but he will inevitably fail in some of them some of the time. Since the law is a divine unit, breaking any commandment--as our text reminds us--breaks the whole law, bringing the guilty one under God's curse of death. Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law. "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in the presence of the Lord.  Simply because all men, having sinned against God, and therefore lost and in urgent need of salvation. This is where God's wonderful grace comes in. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. He kept the law for us, and bore its curse for us: Thus we are saved through Christ Jesus, if we believe in and confess our sins to him and admit that we are in need of him as our savior for we sinners and can not save ourselves. He is just and quick to forgive us and accept us into the family and make us righteous by his blood not by our deeds.