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Old Testament laws and its relation with the salvation by grace, is explained with tremendous effort by Paul the apostle, in his letter for Christians at Rome. Obviously the issue is important, otherwise he won't spend many pages for it. And reading it, show us the main principle of saved by faith in the comparison with saved through the law.

Let us see how Paul perceive the laws written in the Old Testament, (Rome 7:12-17), "Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me."

The law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. The law is spiritual. And for what purpose the law is given by God? Sin, that it might appear sin. The law is given in order to make sin visible for us. It is under the light of the law we are able to see that we are carnal, that we should be able to see the nature of sin that reside within us. The law make us able to see that sin isn't part of us, because when we read the law, we like the law. We agree that the law is good and we want to live by the law, yet it is not what we would that we do, but what we hate that we do. And we realize it is not me, but sin that dwelleth in me (in our flesh). And as Paul said, it is by the law that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before God.

The law shine upon our sinful nature and we can't argue anymore to justified our sinful life. This is the law's function.

But God doesn't stop at that point, God is not God who love us, if the only thing He do is give us a law that show our mistake, degradation and flaws, in which we're deserved to be punished. He is just and holy, and His law show these. But He is also God who loves us. Therefore the law is not complete. It is in Jesus that the law is completed. By living according to the law and yet willing to take the punishment for our transgression, He fulfil the law's judgment in Him. Because the punishment for the sin in the flesh has received the condemnation it deserved, in whose flesh? In Jesus Christ's

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