The Problem With Trying to Be Good

At Home with Phil Robertson · Aug 27, 2026 · 12m

The world often views the Ten Commandments as a set of moral guidelines that might produce a utopian society if strictly followed. However, treating the law as a practical blueprint for humanity misses its actual function. A system of works laws dispenses pure justice with no provision for a single mistake. Under the law, one violation demands total condemnation. God did not issue these commandments to validate human goodness, but to expose the impossibility of achieving righteousness through obedience. Christ perfectly fulfilled this standard because humanity could not, establishing a system…