While coming across Texas, I was given a ride by a Seventh Day Adventist. I said, “My friend, do you know why God gave the law?’ He looked at me a little puzzled. “First I want to read Romans 3:19, “We know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.” I continued, “If you try to get to heaven by keeping the law, God says your mouth will be shut. But if you plead guilty, God will deal with you in mercy. For the Scripture says, ‘By the law came the knowledge of sin,’ not the knowledge of God. If there were not another verse in the Bible but this one, I could not be a Seventh Day Adventist: ‘if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain’ (Gal 2:21). Under the law, the sheep died for the shepherd; under grace, the Shepherd died for the sheep. The law condemns the best; grace can justify the worst. What a blessed difference!—George Watmough, Hitchhiking on Purpose