KEY SCRIPTURE: John 1:17 ” For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.”

Today is Christmas day, and I wish all patrons of simple truth devotional a very merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

The Bible reveals from our key scripture that the law was given or came through Moses, while grace and truth came by Jesus our Lord.

What is the law? The law is God’s righteous requirement that He demands from all men. It is holy. Romans 7:12 “Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good”. If the law was holy and just and good, why was the need for grace?

The Bible teaches that although the law was good, men were spiritually dead and therefore could not meet the righteous requirements of the law. Rom 8:3&4, tell us what the law could not do because man was spiritually dead, our Lord Jesus died for us to condemn sin in the flesh of men. This made the righteous requirements of the law to be automatically fulfilled in us who believe in what our Lord Jesus did. Those who believe in what Jesus did on the cross are described as those who ‘walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit’. Rom 8:4.

The grace of God is, therefore, the supernatural power of the Spirit working in us who have faith in what the Lord Jesus did for humanity on the cross.

Any man who claims to live by the law means he has no faith in the finished work of the Lord Jesus and therefore would not have this supernatural power working in him or her. He or she would meet the holy laws with his weak, sinful body.

This is the reason Rom 6:14 says, “For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace”. To be under the law means sin has dominion over you. To be under grace, therefore, means you are filled with a power that overcomes sin.

To be under grace therefore cannot be a license to sin. It is a misunderstanding of what the grace of God is all about.

The law demands effort or works, and grace demands faith in the finished work of our Lord Jesus. Galatians 3:12 ” And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.” It is a curse to claim to live under the law and not to believe in the Lord Jesus. A curse means to be empowered to fail, and a blessing also means to be empowered to succeed. Grace brings you blessing while living under the law brings you under a curse. Which one would you choose?

You have the greatest privilege on earth to place your faith in Jesus, so His mighty power would work in You today and forever.

CONFESSION

I thank God for allowing Jesus to give His life for all mankind. I have yielded my whole being to Him and, therefore, have overcome sin and the power of the enemy.

THOUGHT: ANY MAN STRUGGLING WITH SIN HAS NOT ACCEPTED GOD’S PROVISION OF GRACE, AND SO IS LIVING BY HIS WORKS.

FURTHER STUDIES

Galatians 3:10” For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is everyone that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.”

Romans 8:3-4  ” For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.