Sin [...] is not measured by a law, or a nation, or a society of any kind, but by a Person. The righteousness of God was not in a requirement, system, book, or Church, but in a Person, and sin is defined by relation to Him. He came to reveal not only God but sin. The essence of sin is exposed by the touchstone of His presence, by our attitude to Him. He makes explicit what the sinfulness of sin is; He even aggravates it. He rouses the worst as well as the best of human nature. There is nothing that human nature hates like holy God. All the world's sin receives its sharpest expression when in contact with Christ; when, in face of His moral beauty, goodness, power, and claim, He is first ignored, then discarded, denounced, called the agent of Beelzebub, and hustled out of the world in the name of God.
(pp. 56-57, PT Forsyth, Missions in State and Church: Sermons and Addresses, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1908, HT Per Crucem ad Lucem)
This is a similar thing to what Marcus Honeysett is saying in the clip Dave Bish links to. The Law is not just explicit commandments.
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