06/07/2016
GOD’S GRACE VERSUS LAW OF MOSES
Law = Conditional, If you will….then God shall….
Grace = Unconditional, it based on Jesus’s obedience, not ours
Law = Our ability on display
Grace = God’s ability to do for us what we could not do for
ourselves.
Law = Requirement “Law” that we cannot meet
Grace = Jesus Christ, the fulfiller of the requirement “Law”
Law = Moses; the law was given to Moses for the Israelite, trying
to get their righteousness by the law.
Grace = Christ Jesus is the grace
Galatians 5:1-4
Stand fast – Stay where you are, because of the benefit of being free from law and the flesh as a way of salvation and the fullness of blessing by grace.
Free – Deliverance from the curse that the law pronounces on the sinner who has been striving unsuccessfully to achieve his/her own righteousness; but who has now embraced Christ Jesus and the salvation granted to him/her by grace.
Entangled again – “Do not be burdened by.” “To be oppressed by.” Or “To be subject to.” Anyone who came with different doctrine other than the finished work of Christ on the cross 2000 years ago.
Christ profit you nothing.....
The atoning sacrifice of Christ cannot benefit anyone who trust in law for salvation.
A debtor to keep the whole law......
God’s standard is perfect righteousness, failure to keep only one part of the law, falls short of the standard.
“For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them. Galatians 3:10
Paul is saying, any attempt to be justified by the law is to reject salvation. Seek to be justified by the law are separated from Christ and lose all prospects of God’s gracious salvation.
FALLING FROM GRACE:
Falling from grace is not falling into sin, rather it is falling away from a complete trust and dependence on what Christ has done.
Falling in sin can be a sign of not walking in God’s grace.
“For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law but under grace”. Romans 6:14
John 8:36 “Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed”.
We are free from the bo***ge, captivity and slavery of the law
HOW CAN PEOPLE FALL FROM GOD’S GRACE
a. By believing in the power of the law
“For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes." Romans 10:4
“Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith." Galatians 3:24
b. By trusting in self-effort
“But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." 1 Corinthians 15:10
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God." 2 Corinthians 3:5
c. By mixing grace and law
“Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘This people honors Me with their lips. But their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me. Teaching as doctrines the commandment of men." Mark 7:6-7
James said...
“For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all." James 2:10
Paul also made it clear, saying that....
“I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain." Galatians 2:21
Then God’s gracious act of sending Christ Jesus to die on the cross to pay for our sin was un-necessary and useless. So, choose either you are going to live by the law of Moses or you are going to live under God’s Grace offered to you through Jesus Christ..
There is no mixing of the two; once you introduce law into Grace, it is no longer Grace.