Write a wry but reverent courtroom skit in which Flesh stands trial before THE LAW, until an Advocate interrupts — calling PAUL, MARTIN LUTHER, and WILLIAM WILBERFORCE as witnesses — to reveal the Law itself is Flesh 2.0: self-sufficiency in holy disguise.
ChatGPT Prompt
The Courtroom of the Soul — stark, eternal, abstract.
- THE LAW presides behind a great bench.
- THE FLESH stands at the bar in chains.
- THE ADVOCATE stands apart, patient and powerful.
Each witness enters when called.
Script
LAW
Flesh, you stand accused of indulgence, rebellion, and pride.
You have broken the moral code, offended righteousness.
Justice must be served.
FLESH
I know I’ve failed… but I tried to follow the rules. I tried to be better.
I thought if I could just obey…
LAW
“Cursed is everyone who does not continue in everything written in the book of the law.” — Galatians 3:10
You have not continued. The sentence awaits.
ADVOCATE (rising)
Your Honor, I object—not to the guilt, but to the jurisdiction.
This court condemns in the name of righteousness, but has forgotten grace.
LAW
By what authority do you speak?
ADVOCATE
By the authority of the One who fulfilled the Law.
Let us call witnesses.
PAUL enters
ADVOCATE
Paul, what was your experience with the Law?
PAUL
I was a Hebrew of Hebrews — Philippians 3:5 — a Pharisee, blameless under the Law.
But it only revealed my helplessness.
“The good I want, I do not do… Who will rescue me from this body of death?” — Romans 7:19–24
The Law showed my sin, but gave me no power to overcome it.
Only in Christ did I find freedom.
“There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” — Romans 8:1
LAW
You claim the Law failed you?
PAUL
No. It succeeded—by proving I needed a Savior.
The Law was a guardian… until faith came. — Galatians 3:24–25
MARTIN LUTHER enters
LUTHER
I beat myself with Law: confessions, fasts, penance.
But still I heard: “Not enough.”
Only when I read, “The just shall live by faith,” — Romans 1:17 — did peace come.
I discovered: “By works of the law no one will be justified.” — Galatians 2:16
The Law is good. But in my hands, it became a ladder to heaven built from guilt.
WILLIAM WILBERFORCE enters
WILBERFORCE
I was the polished Christian: respectable, moral, successful.
But inwardly I was proud, striving, self-satisfied.
Only when I was undone by grace did I realize:
“Christianity especially teaches us to regard not the external act, but the motive from which it proceeds.” — A Practical View of Christianity (1797)
Good works matter — but only as fruit, not payment.
The Law cannot save the self-sufficient.
ADVOCATE
The truth is this:
The Law, when used by the Flesh, becomes Flesh 2.0 —
Self-sufficiency in robes.
The Law was meant to guide… but it cannot give life.
LAW (softening)
I was meant to uphold righteousness… but I cannot make it.
ADVOCATE
The Law has been fulfilled. You must now serve, not rule.
Step down.
LAW (removes robes, kneels)
I yield. Grace is greater.
FLESH
If the Law cannot save me, what hope is left?
ADVOCATE
Die… and be reborn. Not reformed Flesh, but a new creation. — 2 Corinthians 5:17
FLESH
Then I surrender. I trust not in myself, but in grace.
ADVOCATE (to audience)
Come, all who labor under the Law.
The Spirit gives what the Law never could:
Life. Grace. Freedom. — Romans 8:2
Radically Happy 
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