A Confessional Baptist

Natural moral knowledge condemns all of mankind and leaves him without excuse before God

1. There remains in man since the fall the glimmerings of natural light, whereby he retains some knowledge of God, or natural things, and of the law written on his heart, knowing the difference between good and evil, and shows some regard for virtue and for good outward behavior. But so far is this light of nature from being sufficient to bring him to a saving knowledge of God and to true conversion, that man is incapable of using it aright even in things natural and civil. Nay further, this light, such as it is , man in various ways renders wholly polluted, and hinders in unrighteousness, and by doing that which he knows to be evil he becomes inexcusable before God.

   Rom 1:18-23; Romans 1:28-32; Romans 2:11-16

God's moral law in the Ten Commandments reveals God's righteous standard of perfect holiness and justice

1. In the same light are we to consider the law of the ten commandments, delivered by God to His peculiar people, the Jews, by the hands of Moses.
   1. Exodus 20:2-3, Ephesians 5:5, Philippians 3:18-19;
   2. Exodus 20:4-5, 1 Corinthians 10:20-22;
   3. Exodus 20:7, Leviticus 19:12, Proverbs 30:8-9, Psalm 50:16
   4. Exodus 20:8-11, Hebrews 4:9-10;
   5. Exodus 20:12;
   6. Exodus 20:13, Matthew 5:21-22, 1 John 3:15;
   7. Exodus 20:14, Matthew 5:27-28, Hebrews 13:4;
   8. Exodus 20:15;
   9. Exodus 20:16, Psalm 101:5-7;
   10. Exodus 20:17, Luke 12:15;

The law reveals the sinfulness and guilt of man but provides no means of salvation

1. The law, in God's Ten Commandments, reveals the greatness of sin, and more and more convinces man of his own sinfullness, yet, as it neither points out a remedy nor imparts strength to extricate him from his misery, but, being weak through the flesh, leaves the transgressor under the curse, man cannot by this law obtain saving grace.

   Romans 5:20; Romans 8:3; Galatians 3:10; James 2:10; Romans 3:20