Only the Gospel, not the Law, Saves

"The book of Judges speaks to all who are, by God's grace, given 'an ear to hear' God's message for our own day and our present condition, individually and as a nation. The message is one of the need for personal faith in the living God. And this, in the light of the whole Scripture, means nothing less than hearing Paul's words to the Philippian jailor: 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.' The society in which we live gives abundant and appalling evidence of the kind of spiritual and moral decay which kindled the anger of God against his own people and the heathen nations around them. Three millennia have passed since then, but human nature is in the same need as ever it was. But the Lord has not changed either: Jesus has come and died upon the cross as the once for-all sacrifice for sin. He has risen triumphant over death and the grave and reigns in glory as the Lord of all. His arm is not shortened that it cannot save. His message is one of hope and of victory for a darkening world." - Gordon J. Keddie, Even in Darkness, Pg. 2