Suppose you are driving down the highway. You go around a curve and there in the median is a State Policeman with his radar gun. What’s you first reaction? Step on the brake. Why? Because he is the law and you’re immediately aware that you may be breaking the law and you don’t want to get caught. The police car is an instant judge on your life. In the same way the law makes us conscious of and judges our sin. As Paul wrote (Rom. 7) “If it has not been for the law, I would not have known sin.”