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I. The METHOD of this guiding power is exercised —

1. By completely shutting us out from every other hope.

2. By showing us the character and qualifications which we must find in the Saviour on whom we can entirely rely.

(1)  He must be one competent to fulfil all the provisions of the holy law.

(2)  But no creaturely being has ever accomplished this.

(3)  The Saviour, therefore, must be Divine as well as human.

(4)  These conditions meet in Christ.

3. By revealing the way in which we must be partakers of the Saviour's mercy, and be interested in His redemption.

(1)  It must be all of grace;

(2)  by faith;

(3)  issuing in justification.

4. By proclaiming its entire satisfaction with the provided Saviour.

(1)  All its demands are honoured;

(2)  its penalties borne;

(3)  its acquital secured.

II. The OBJECT for which this guiding power is exercised.

1. Justification before God is the great want of the rebel under the condemnation of the law. He must gain this blessing or perish.

2. This cannot be obtained by the works of the law, which involve the discharge of its obligations and the endurance of its penalty.

3. It must, and therefore is, to be obtained by faith in Christ.

4. This faith working by love manifests itself in righteousness.

(S. H. Tyng, D. D.)

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KJV: Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

WEB: So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.