Deadly! Destructive! Damning! (the following is by Spurgeon) The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. 12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. Luke 18:11-12 Nothing is more deadly than self-righteousness! […]
Law manifests what is in men–sin!Grace manifests what is in God–love!Law demands righteousness from men!Grace brings righteousness to men!Law sentences men to death!Grace brings dead men to life!Law speaks of what I must do!Grace tells what Christ has done!Law gives a knowledge of sin!Grace puts away sin! “Oh, to grace how great a debtorDaily I’m […]
If anyone reading this is working in order to be saved be sure to understand, God will take account of all your works. That is right. In the great day of judgment, God will take account of all your works, whether good or evil, as sin. God will account all man’s works for salvation as […]
Law or Grace — You Cannot Have Both! Galatians 5:4 Most religious people attempt to mix man’s works of obedience to the law with God’s works of grace for sinners, making salvation a mixture of works and grace. Fallen men have been attempting to mix law and grace since the days of Cain and Abel. […]
FREE TO COMMIT MURDER We believe the word of God which declares that Christ established the law for his people so that every believer called to faith in Christ is not under law but under grace. Therefore, we are accused of being antinomians. One of the common arguments involves picking out one of the ten […]
LAW AND GRACE Henry Mahan Law manifests what is in men–sin! Grace manifests what is in God–love! Law demands righteousness from men! Grace brings righteousness to men! Law sentences men to death! Grace brings dead men to life! Law speaks of what I must do! Grace tells what Christ has done! Law gives a knowledge […]
“I defy anyone to find a solitary text of Scripture in the New Testament that uses the law to motivate, inspire, regulate, or even guide the believer. Believers are motivated by love, inspired by gratitude, regulated by grace, and guided by the Holy Spirit. The whole Word of God, the complete revelation of His will, […]
Love and the Law Acts 15: 5: But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses…7: Peter rose up, and said unto them,…10: Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke […]
“I Was Alive Without the Law Once.” — Romans 7:9 When Paul says that he was alive without the law, he does not mean that he did not know the law. He knew and understood the letter of it very well. When Paul says, “I was alive without the law once,” his meaning is this […]
Joseph Hart The Law and Grace. John 1. 17; Rom. 3. 31 1 Is, then, the law of God untrue, Which he by Moses gave? No! but to take it in this view, That it has power to save. 2 [Legal obedience were complete, Could we the law fulfil; But no man ever did so […]