God created a perfect world and man in His image. We, in our need for independence, messed it all up. He knew from the beginning that we would sin. We'd fall away from him and in doing so, we would need a Savior, so He had His plan in place to become our Savior.
But part of our salvation includes the Law. God’s law is a reflection of who He is and He is perfect. So that tells us that in order to be in God’s presence we must be perfect. Remember though, "no one is righteous, no not one" (Romans 3:10).
The law points out our sin and places the responsibility for it squarely on our shoulders. Everyone must fulfill the law perfectly to be with God. Is that possible? No, of course not. That’s why He came here to do it Himself. He needed to be one of us, in order to save us! Someone needed to fulfill the Law perfectly.
On judgment day, without Jesus standing between you and God, God sees you. In other words, if I haven't turned my life over to Jesus and received His forgiveness, then when God looks at me He will see Jena and everything I’ve ever done. And because He is perfect, My sin will separate me from Him eternally. And eternal separation from God and Heaven is Hell (both figuratively and literally).
But because Jesus is my Savior—He will stand in front of me so when God looks at Jena, He’ll see Jesus—Perfection. Sinless. Fulfill-er of the Law.
In Romans 5 Paul says,
15 But there is a great difference between Adam’s sin and God’s gracious gift. For the sin of this one man, Adam, brought death to many. But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and his gift of forgiveness to many through this other man, Jesus Christ.
19 Because one person disobeyed God, many became sinners. But because one other person obeyed God, many will be made righteous.
Why do we need the Law? Because when we raise up the Law...we are immediately reminded that we are in need of a Savior and it pushes us to Jesus!
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