What happens when men discard God’s Law, that law which Scripture calls the “embodiment of knowledge and truth?”  What happens when men discard God’s knowledge and truth?  They create their own law, their own body, or form, of knowledge and truth.  This is the problem today in the earth.  Every man does what is right in his own eyes, that is, every man except the ones who practice truth, practice righteousness.  This is why we have manifold opinions on every subject, even the most basic moral issues like abortion and immorality.  Even in the church, so called, we find little agreement on these issues anymore.  The reason is because the human race has virtually discarded God’s Law as His revelation of knowledge and truth, including those who still call themselves God’s people.

The purpose of God’s Law, again, is to define sin and to make people accountable to God.  If God abolished his Law, or if the Law simply did not exist, then sin would not exist and there could be no legitimate accountability for one’s actions.  This is the main point that Paul makes in his first three chapters of his letter to the Romans.  He says there that the purpose of the Law is that “the whole world may be held accountable to God.” (Romans 3:19)  For if the Law did not exist, “then how could God judge the world?” (Romans 3:6)  Or, do you deny that God will indeed judge the world?

Of course God will judge the world!  Peter proclaimed to some of the first Gentiles to hear of Jesus, “We are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree,  [40] but God raised him on the third day and made him to appear,  [41] not to all the people but to us who had been chosen by God as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.  [42] And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.“  Acts 10:39-42 (ESV) 

Paul charged Timothy concerning this saying, “I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:  [2] preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.  [3] For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,  [4] and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. “ 2 Tim. 4:1-4 (ESV) 

We live in that time when people do not endure the truth, the time when men en mass have forsaken God’s Law, have loved the lie, and have placed themselves upon the throne of God’s temple.  Men rule their own lives, not God.  Men decide their own truth, not God.  Thus Peter warns, “The time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.  [4] With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you;  [5] but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.”  1 Peter 4:3-5 (ESV)  

So, is the Law still relevant?  You bet it is.  By it God will judge the living and the dead, for in it he embodied knowledge and truth.