When We Fail

John 2:3-4, 7-8

[3] And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

[4] He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

[7] Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.

[8] Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past and the true light now shineth.

We are told to keep His commandments but no man can keep the Commandments. If we are guilty of one we are guilty of all.

James 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point he is guilty of all.

CALVIN

If we keep his commandments but there is no one who in everything keeps them; there would thus be no knowledge of God in the world. To this I answer, that the Apostle is by no means inconsistent with himself; since he has before shewed that all are guilty before God, he does not understand that those who keep his commandments wholly satisfy the law (no such example can be found in the world;) but that they are such as strive, according to the capacity of human infirmity, to form their life in conformity to the will of God. For whenever Scripture speaks of the righteousness of the faithful, it does not exclude the remission of sins, but on the contrary, begins with it.

 Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

[20] That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

We are to keep His Word, we are to obey His Word and we should have a real desire to please our Heavenly Father. It shouldn’t be for show but we should want too because the Holy Spirit is prompting us or me to do so. "If any man be in Christ he is a new creation. Old things are passed away." No, we can't keep all the commands and yes when we fail we have a lawyer Jesus Christ who is our atonement for our sin and we confess to Him our wrong doing and He goes before our Heavenly Father on our behalf; sin paid for, Calvary.