Bible Question: explain the details about grace and law |
Bible Answer: 2nd part: AND YET: Rom 12:1-2 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. NASU What about the moral Law? What about the Ten Commandments? First we need to make a distinction between the moral law and the judicial law. For if a man murders he is to be put to death on earth – the second part is judicial the consequence for his actions, but the first part is moral for if the people of God do not carry out the second part, meaning if Israel does not follow the judicial act that God set in place, the murderer is not home free even if no one ever finds out he murdered someone. Read Deuteronomy 28 "And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them. Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh that sanctifies them. But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my Sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them," Ezekiel 20: 11-13. Provision was made in the law to cover sins, yet the sins were not taken away – each year the same type of sacrifice was given and yet it would never make those for whom it was sacrificed, perfect – otherwise they would no longer need to sacrifice for their continued sin because they would have stopped sinning, having been made perfect through the sacrifice. Heb 10:11-12 11 Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; 12 but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, NASU And in verse 14 Heb 10:14-18 14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified. 15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying, 16 "THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THEM AFTER THOSE DAYS, SAYS THE LORD: I WILL PUT MY LAWS UPON THEIR HEART, AND ON THEIR MIND I WILL WRITE THEM," He then says, 17 "AND THEIR SINS AND THEIR LAWLESS DEEDS I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE." 18 Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin. NASU While the commandment was on the outside men were unable to follow – but He has written His Law upon our hearts and has forgiven us. All of the law has been fulfilled in Christ – we no longer need to follow it. But we are not lawless, for we have the Law of God written on our hearts – so as to do it. |