09/04/2025
*WEDNESDAY REMNANT DEVOTION.*
*MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE LAW AND GRACE.*
1. THE LAW WILL HELP ME TO LEAVE A BETTER LIFE.
✓ POS deceived into believing this, foreseen taking occasion by the commandment received me and by it killed me (Romans 7:11).
✓ The law inside us to see, not holiness, "for when we were in the flesh,the senior pasions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death" (romans 7:5 ), "But sin,taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me or manner of evil desire. For apart from the Lord sin was dead (Romans 7:8)
✓ The law is weak because it's power-based is the flesh, "what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, god did by sending his son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: condemned sin in the flesh (Romans 8:3).
✓ Legalists have the will to do the right thing, but not the ability. "I know that in me ( that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for two wheel is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find' (Romans 7:18).
2. I BELIEVE IN GRACE BUT IT MUST BE BALANCED WITH LAW.
✓ what we call 'balance' God calls 'mixture'. "And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise Grace is no longer Grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer Grace; otherwise work is no longer work (Romans 11:6).
✓ for Grace to be effective it must remain radical. The Gospel of Grace as taught by Paul is"the power of god unto salvation.…." (Romans 1:16). If we return to the law as a means of living, Christ ceases to have any effect on us, (see Galatians 5:4).
3. GRACE IS JUST A LICENCE TO SIN.
✓ Grace never encourages people to see, "For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared all men,teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts,we should live soberly,righteously and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from every lawless did and purify for himself he is on special people, zealous for good works (Titus 2:11-4)
✓ Grace is the only thing that can get us out of sin, "for sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under Grace" (Romans 6:14)
4. I BELIEVE IN GRACE, BUT WE STIL HAVE TO DO OUR PART.
✓ Our part is to believe that he has done it all, "Jesus answered and said to them, 'this is the work of God, that you believe in him who sent me" ' (John 6:26).
✓ The just live by Faith, " I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by Faith in the son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me (Galasians 2: 20)
5. IF YOU WANT GOD'S BLESSING, THERE IS A PRICE TO PAY.
✓ We have already been blessed with all things, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ" (Ephesians 1:3)
When we receive the gift of righteousness we are qualified for every good thing, ".... Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you (Matthew 6:33).
✓ The price as already been paid in full. All things are given to us freely, because of Jesus, " He who did not spare his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall He not with him also freely give us all things? (Romans 8:32)
6. WITH GRACE THERE IS NO MOTIVE TO GIVE, SERVE AND OBEY.
✓ Grace exposes any mercenary motive in the Christian Life.
✓ But it doesn't make us lazy; in fact it empowers us to do much more than we could do in our own ability. " But by the grace of God I Am what I Am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I have labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me" ( 1 Corinthians 15:10).
Be blessed.
