i know the question of law vs grace has been around since the day Jesus die and rose again, but i want God to speak to me personally about it. i want God to give me scriptures to back up what i believe. in 1 Thess 5:21 we are told to "test all things; hold fast what is good." i want to test law vs grace by the bible. my goal through all of this is to find in scripture what my Lord wills for me. i know that there is no way i will find all the answers (scriptures) in a day or even a week. that is why i have labeled this blog "Law vs Grace (Pt 1)" as i am sure that there will be more to follow after this one. so let me get started with looking at a few scriptures.
Romans 7:1-6 talks about the law for married people. when it is ok to remarry. at one time i thought that is all it talked about; that is until the other day. see the Lord will not hold those who remarry as an adulterer if their spouse dies. (or if there is sexual sin in the marriage Matt 5:32) this is because the law of marriage is no longer in affect due to death. the wife/husband has been set free from the law that bound them to each other. this is the same way the Christ has set us free from the law (of old). Jesus says in Matt 5:17 that He didnt come to destroy the law but to fulfill it. through His whole life (from birth to death) He walked perfectly in the law 100%. He said in John 19:30 "...it is finished..." then he gave up His spirit. it was right then that He set us free from the bondage of the law of old. He had fulfilled it in its entirety. once this death occurred we where able to follow (marry) a new law. (as Gentiles we were free to become children of God). we were able to do this without becoming adulterers, and without angering God. as He does say in Exodus 34:14 that His name is "Jealous God." now with this new found freedom did Jesus intend for us to run as children without a Father? most certainly NOT! we see at the very beginning of Jesus' ministry in Matt 4:19 He commands us to "follow Him." with this new found freedom we are to lay down the law and pick up Jesus. we are freed from the law of old (same as the marriage law), single and able to marry again (new law). we are to marry Jesus and become the "Bride of Christ." so what does this new law look like? Jesus laid that out for us in John 15:9-17. let me refer you to my blog on 14 July titled "God is Good!!! I love it when He Adds to His Remah Word," as i have already talked about the "law of Christ." but in short we are bear one another's burdens and fulfill the law of Christ. that is to love each other as Christ has already loved us.
what i have come to today is this: i am freed from the law as it will not save me from my sins. that i am free to choose, free to live without shame, and free to walk had in hand with my savior Jesus Christ. i have been freed from the had written requirements (Colo 2:13-14) praise the Lord.
here is the scriptures that i used:
Matthew 7:23
"23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’"
1 Thess 5:21
"21 Test all things; hold fast what is good."
Romans 7:1-6
"1 Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? 2 For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. 3 So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. 4 Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. 6 But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter."
Matthew 5:32
"32 But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery."
Matthew 5:17
"17 “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill."
John 19:30
"30 So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit. "
Exodus 34:14
"14 (for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God)"
Matt 4:19
"19 Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.”"
John 15:9-17
"“As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. 11 “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. 12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. 17 These things I command you, that you love one another. "
Colo 2:13-14
"13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross."
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