Understanding Law and Grace in Christ

The law helps us to understand the meaning of grace as to what grace is. We consider that the law in a sense defines grace by showing us our own position of utter helplessness and hopelessness, and it also helps us to see and to understand what it is that we need from grace. [00:15:32]

The law indicates that that is what we need, and grace answers that. All the promises of God in him are yea and in him are amen. There is that sense in which grace is an answer to these needs which are in men in his fallen state and condition as shown and proved and demonstrated by the law. [00:25:49]

Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. The problem for all of us is this: how to get hold of righteousness. We can’t stand in the presence of God unless we are righteous. God is righteous, God is holy. How can we stand in the presence of God? [00:11:05]

Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. In the law, God has told us the type of righteousness he demands. He says, you manage to produce that kind of righteousness, and I will receive you. Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law. [00:12:07]

We must always think of salvation in terms of the law. Does that surprise you? We must always think of salvation in terms of the law and our relationship to the law. Now, you see, that’s a contradiction of so much popular evangelistic preaching today, which has got nothing to the law. [00:20:38]

We must never think of salvation in terms of our having to keep the law in any form. Now, you see the difference. Always think of salvation in terms of the law, never think of salvation in terms of your having to keep the law. There’s no contradiction; it’s a logical sequence. [00:23:39]

Christ has delivered us from being under the law. Now let’s be clear about this. Again, it’s another way in which the Apostle puts it. There you had in Romans 10:4, Christ is the end of the law. In Romans 6:14, we read this: for sin shall not have dominion over you. [00:24:38]

Christ through the spirit enables us to fulfill the law. Now then, Christ is the end of the law, Christ delivers us from being under the law, thirdly, Christ through the spirit enables us to fulfill the law. And I imagine that at this point some people are uncomfortable. [00:35:34]

Grace in other words must never be thought of in lawless terms. You must never think of the grace of God as just a way of escape, just a way of forgiveness, just that which always sets us free. Now that is what we like, isn’t it? That’s what we want. [00:36:34]

The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us what does it teach us? Worldly teaches us this: that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world, looking for that blessed hope. [00:41:23]

Christ through the spirit enables us to fulfill now that’s Christianity. It doesn’t do what you like, sin as much as you like, my dress covers you. I say it’s the opposite of that. You are forgiven, therefore by the power of the spirit, live the law, keep it, please God. [00:42:23]

We are put into a position in which now by the power of grace we are enabled to live and to practice the law of God. We are able to be what man was intended to be in his original creation by the Almighty God. Very well, let’s never forget these three principles. [00:46:00]