Revival's Golden Key by Ray Comfort Page A

all by the denunciations of the Law.”
    I received the following newsletter from someone in New York. This illustrates how the gospel makes little sense without the Law:
    We went to visit [our 96-year-old grandmother] every week and even though she has not received the gospel so freely these past few years, we kept sharing the truth of Jesus with her each time. Mike would play songs about Him. Wendy would talk to her. We would pray for her physical strength and add into the prayer how we wanted God to reveal His Son to Nana.
    Then last week, Wendy got the flu, and while she was in bed feeling miserable, she read Ray Comfort’s book...which challenges us to share the whole gospel and not sugar-coat it. It talks about using the Law when talking to a sinner to make them see how they have personally broken God’s Law and are doomed without a Savior who paid the price for them. It says in Psalm 19:7 that the “Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul.” God spoke to Wendy’s heart that she needed to share the Law with Nana before Nana could ever see the grace and mercy of God in the cross.
    So after committing the day and every detail to God, we went over to visit Nana. She was more alert and less distracted than usual. While Mike was praying, Wendy read her God’s Commandments from Exodus 20:1-17 and then asked Nana point-blank, “Nana, have you ever lied? Or stolen anything, even a little thing?” She replied, “I guess so.” Wendy shared about God’s very real judgments, hell, and heaven, that one day Nana would be standing face to face before God and would have to give an account of her life. Then she read from Isaiah 53:5 ,6 and told Nana about Jesus and the horror of His cross. Nana looked shocked that someone would have those awful things happen to Him. Wendy shared some of her testimony and then asked Nana if she wanted to ask God to forgive her of her sins. She said yes! And she asked God to forgive her and wash her clean in the Blood of Jesus.
    The 96-year-old didn’t know that she was sinning against God until the Law in the hand of the Spirit did its work. Look at Martin Luther’s comments on Romans 7:9 (“I was alive once without the Law, but when the commandment came, sin revived”):
    So it is with the work-righteous and the proud unbelievers. Because they do not know the Law of God, which is directed against them, it is impossible for them to know their sin. Therefore also they are not amenable to instruction. If they would know the Law, they would also know their sin; and sin to which they are now dead would become alive in them.
    Jonathan Edwards stated, “The only way we can know whether we are sinning is by knowing His Moral Law.” George Whitefield said to his hearers, “First, then, before you can speak peace to your hearts, you must be made to see, made to feel, made to weep over, made to bewail, your actual transgressions against the Law of God.” When we preach the whole counsel of God, we merely work with the Holy Spirit to convince men of sin. In Today’s Gospel: Authentic or Synthetic ?, Walter Chantry wrote:
    The absence of God’s holy Law from modern preaching is perhaps as responsible as any other factor for the evangelistic impotence of our churches and missions. Only by the light of the Law can the vermin of sin in the heart be exposed. Satan has effectively used a very clever device to silence the Law, which is needed as an instrument to bring perishing men to Christ.
    It is imperative that preachers of today learn how to declare the spiritual Law of God; for, until we learn how to wound consciences, we shall have no wounds to bind with gospel bandages.
    Listen to John MacArthur saying the same thing: “God’s grace cannot be faithfully preached to unbelievers until the Law is preached and man’s corrupt nature is exposed. It is impossible for a person to fully realize his need for God’s grace until he sees how terribly he has failed the standards of God’s