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GRACE AND LOVE IN THE GOSPEL BY NYRON MEDINA

Many concepts as to what constitutes the Gospel of Christ exist today that are false, but can only be seen to be so if one is able to discern what could be false about them. For example. Any “gospel” that has as a part of its teaching that the Law of God—the Ten Commandments—doesn’t need to be kept, cannot be true, even though they tell you that you are saved by Grace. Because Grace does not destroy obedience to the Law; rather, since Grace is meant to save us from sin, which is “transgression of the Law” 1 John 3:4, Grace must cause us to “establish the Law” Romans 3:30,31. 

David who knew the Gospel of Justification by Faith according to the Scriptures (Romans 4:5-8), said that we are to be granted the law in our lives graciously. He said “Remove from me the way of lying (which breaks the ninth clause of God’s law), and grant me thy law graciously.” Psalms 119:29. This is the same as saying that when Grace saves us from sinning (Ephesians 2:8), it saves us from breaking God’s Law, by giving to us obedience to the this same law. 
This is why we are told that the Law of God is written in the heart (Hebrews 8:10-12), and that circumcision and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. (1 Corinthians 7:19,20). This is the calling God called us for, to keep His commandments which are not grievous. (1 John 5:3). So, being saved by Grace must cause us, like Paul, to be “… not without law to God, but under the law to Christ” 1 Corinthians 9:21; we must be under the obedience to the law of God who is Christ, this truth must be part of the Gospel if it is to be the true Gospel. 
Another false teaching that claims to be in the make up of the Gospel, is that when 
a person is saved, instead of keeping the Law, he only needs to have Love, thus 
this concept presents love as replacing obedience to God’s Law. However this is 
absolutely incorrect, because, love is presented in the Bible in three ways. Love is presented as the Nature of God (1 John 4:8,16), and in the case of the actions of the converted person, it is love to God (I John 5:2), and love to our fellowmen (Romans 13:8-10). Both love to God and love to our fellowmen are presented in the Bible as “keeping the Commandments of God.” So having love does not replace obedience 
to God’s Law; it is obedience to God’s Law. In the very Ten Commandments on the tables of stone, we are told that to love God is to keep His commandments (Exodus 20:6). 
In Romans 13:8-10 we are told that loving our fellowmen is keeping the whole of 
God’s Ten Commandments. However, in 1 John 5:1-3, we are told that when the 
born again Christian is a believer, he loves God and his fellowmen, and this is the same as keeping the law of God. In conclusion, we need to note that if a Gospel is the real true message of salvation, a church that holds to it must never make Grace or Love replace obedience to God’s Ten Commandments, Grace and Love must bring genuine and non-hypocritical obedience to God’s Law. Amen.

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