Bro. Tan, the words are there and the meaning cannot be mistaken. The word “all” might just as well be spelled John Smith or Mary Jones or Bro. Tan! The shocking fact is that you are under the sentence of death! You have been found guilty before the law, and there is no court of appeal in the world that can reverse the sentence and find you not guilty. The fact is that you are guilty, just as guilty as sin.
According to
1 John 3:4.......
“sin is the transgression of the law,” and you must plead guilty to breaking the law.
Whose law did you break? Paul answers quickly,
Romans 7:7......
“I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet”.
There it is! The great Ten-Commandment law is the one that was broken, and it demands death for the transgressor.
In desperation the sinner searches for a way to be justified in the sight of that broken law. How can the sentence of death be turned aside? Can man atone for his sins by obeying the commandments of God for the rest of his life? Back comes the answer in language that no one can misinterpret:
Romans 3:20.......
“Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight”.
How much clearer does God have it say it Bro. Tan for you to grasp His plan?????
Listen; there is a reason why works will not justify a soul. If a man is found guilty of stealing and is sentenced to ten years in jail, he may indeed justify himself by works. By serving the time of his sentence, the man may satisfy the claims of the law. He is considered perfectly justified and innocent because he has worked out his deliverance by fulfilling the sentence. In the same manner, a murderer may be justified by works if he serves the fifty years of his sentence. But suppose the sentence is death instead of fifty years? Can the prisoner then justify himself by works? Never! Even if he should work for one hundred years at hard labor, the law would still demand death.
Hebrews 9:22-28 says.....
The truth is that “without shedding of blood is no remission. … So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many”.
This is why works can never save the sinner. The penalty for sin is not ten years in prison or fifty years at hard labor.
The sentence is death, and the law cannot be satisfied except by the shedding of blood. That unchangeable law with its unrelenting death sentence could no more be removed than the throne of God could be toppled. The guilt of the past cannot be erased by resolutions of good behavior in the future. The sinner finally is forced to confess that he owes something that he cannot pay. The law demands death and he cannot satisfy it without forfeiting his own life for eternity.
We cannot earn forgiveness by working hard to obey. No sinner can gain favor and acceptance with God because he keeps the law. The law was not made for the purpose of saving or justifying. It was made to show us our need of cleansing and to point us to the great source of cleansing, Jesus Christ, our Lord.