Uses of the Law (28)
  1. The Law must attack because nothing outside of Christ can enter Heaven—nothing!
  2. What happens when our children are taught to read the Scriptures as evidence that God is a heavenly Santa Claus? When happens when they think God rewards or punishes them depending on whether they've been naughty or nice?
  3. The Law though it does many things—restrains, exhorts the Christian unto righteousness, punishes—always rightly accuses and condemns sinners of their sin before a righteous, holy, and just God.
  4. By Philip Melanchthon (from the 1535 Loci Communes), translated by Scott L. Keith, Ph.D.