People say that we who preach grace are "watering down the law" or "cherry-picking" which laws are to be kept. Actually, it's exactly the opposite of that. When it comes to the law, we're pointing out just how high and lofty the law really is... we're not watering it down. And we're saying that if you're going to be under the law, you have to keep the whole thing perfectly, not just try your best at parts of it.
The ones who are watering down the law and cherry-picking which laws are to be kept are actually those who are preaching the law! If you are preaching that God's law is somehow "doable," you are by default watering it down. You have found a "workaround" to be able to keep something that is meant to be impossible... meaning you yourself have made God's law out to be something less than what it really is.
God didn't put His law there to be doable, but rather to show people that justification by works is impossible, and that having a relationship with Him based on our works is impossible. We can never have a relationship with God based upon our works. Read what the law actually says, not just a memorized nutshell version of it. There are 613 laws (far more than the well-known Big Ten). Look at what each of the laws actually say, and tell me you're not cherry-picking or watering it down when you preach it.
And even more than all of this... please understand that most people who have ever lived are Gentiles (non-Jews). We were never under the law in the first place! We came to God by grace, through faith, having nothing to do with God's law.
Joel Brueseke
