The good-news teacher welcomes such lessons. After all, our sin is the starting point for the good news (remember those Fs on the God Report Card?). It just means that when we teach any command, we must also stress how, already in the Old Testament, God made provision for sin and pointed to Jesus—who alone kept that command. I like to point out specific and amazing ways Jesus obeyed the exact command I’m teaching about, and that he also died for the way we break it. We’re counted righteous when we’re joined to him—as if we had obeyed as well as Jesus.
