Law of God and Grace

INTRODUCTION

Here are two simple but profound studies on the Law of God and Grace. They show us that Grace does not do away with the Commandments of God, in fact, Grace gives to us the Law of God, and the Law of God is only kept graciously. It is grossly erroneous to set Grace and Law against each other,

this is a strange concept in the kingdom of God, but it was invented by the first form of Christian Gnosticism called the Nicolaitians.

Those who advocate a nullifying of the Law by applied Grace, contextually will teach that we are saved in sin and not away from sin; they would make us think that Christ paid the actual penalty for humanity’s sins which are transgression of God’s Law, and yet tell us that we do not have to keep the Law because of Grace. This evidently extremely

blasphemous false doctrine has become the major fundamental doctrine of much of the apostate religious establishments, and leads them to reject YHWH’s seventh day Sabbath, while attempting to build a religious case for keeping and exalting the first day of the week.

This booklet answers the majority claims against the Law of God and its Sabbath, and shows the need for Grace to make one keeps God’s Law. Amen

GRACE AND LAW

1. Some falsely educated gospel preachers that are antinomian (anti law) claim that the Law of God does not go together with Grace, that Grace opposes the Law, and that the Law of God is not to be kept. They teach that there are seven dispensations (which to them means “ages” or “periods”), and that we have left the dispensation of Law and are currently within the dispensation of Grace; this means that we are not to keep the Law of God (but it is the Sabbath that is really targeted).
2. But the real facts are that there is nothing called seven dispensations as different ages. The Greek word in the Bible that is translated “dispensation”,
is oikonomia, which means “administration” and not ages. Thus “the “dispensation of God” means the administration of divine grace.” Spiros Zodhiates, The Complete Word Study Dictionary New Testament, pp. 1031-1032. The word means the administering of something, like grace, but it is always given to the apostles. 1 Corinthians 9:17;
Ephesians 1:10; Ephesians 3:2; Colossians 1:25.

3. When sin abounded, grace did much more
abound. Once there was sin from Adam in the
Old Testament, there was grace. We have been in the administration of Grace from the moment man sinned, from Adam to this present day. Romans 5:20, 21.
4. Grace existed in the Old Testament times; Noah, Moses and others all found Grace in God. Genesis 6:8; Deuteronomy 33:12, 13.
5. The Lord did not become gracious after the cross, He was always gracious in Old Testament timesand continued to be gracious in New Testament times. Psalms 103:8; Psalms 112:4; Acts 11:23; 1 Peter 2:3.
6. Grace is God’s Nature, that is why He was
always gracious, and did not become so in the
New Testament. Psalms 86:15; Isaiah 33:2.
7. The Bible indeed tells us that we are saved by grace (God’s mercy and favor) through the
instrument of Faith, and not by the works of the Law. Ephesians 2:8,9.
8. We are saved by Faith, because of Grace. Since we are saved by Faith it has to be by Grace. If it is by Grace then it has to be by Faith. Romans 4:16.
9. People in Old Testament times were all saved by Faith, thus it was by Grace. Romans 4:1-3, 6-9; Hebrews 4:2.
10. Yet people in the Old Testament kept the Law of God. Psalms 119:1-3, 32, 44.
11. Old Testament people were saved by the Gospel of Grace just as we are saved today after the death of Christ; there is only one way of salvation, not two ways, not an Old Testament way and a New
Testament way, there is only one way for all times. Habakkuk 2:3, 4; Hebrews 11:4,13, 32-35. 12. Grace and Law actually go together, we are given 13. Since we are saved by Gracethrough Faith, the Faith makes us keep the Law or establish it in our lives. Romans 3:28, 30, 31.
14. God says that we are to keep the Law by Faith, because Faith without works is destroyed. James 2:14, 17-20.
15. The problem of Law-keeping in the New
Testament that is addressed, is not the fact of
keeping the Law, but of how the Law was always meant by God to be kept. One was not to keep the Law by simply doing the Law through his own
ability, this would make the person his own Savior thus his god, this is sin. The Law was always to be done by Faith. (Romans 9:31, 32; Romans 10:1-3).
16. The New Testament definitely states that we must keep the Law — the Ten Commandments.
Matthew 19:16-19; Romans 2:13, 26; 1 Corinthians 7:19, 20; 1 John 5:2, 3.
17. Keeping the Law of God is the same as loving Godand loving man, there is no difference. Romans 13:8-10; James 2:8-12; 1 John 5:2, 3.
18. Loving God and loving one’s neighbor is not an exclusive New Testament grace doctrine, it is also an Old Testament teaching in which the Law of God is kept. Exodus 20:6; Deuteronomy 10:12, 13; Deuteronomy 11:22; Leviticus 19:18.
19. Fulfilling the Law of God is not having it done so that it should not be done again, it is doing and teaching the Law as Jesus explains. Matthew 5:17-19.
20. The Ten Commandments are different to the other
laws in the Old Testament, because only ten
clauses were written by God and He added no
more to them. Deuteronomy 5:22.
21. Even the Seventh Day Sabbath is to be kept as part of the Law according to the New Testament. The word rest in Hebrews 4:9 is the Greek word and noun “Sabbatismos” which literally means
“Sabbath-keeping”. “… to keep the Sabbath …
A keeping of a Sabbath, a rest as on the Sabbath … This passage links the idea of divine rest indissolubly with the Sabbath.” Spiros Zodhiates, The Complete Word Study Dictionary New
Testament, p. 1268. Hebrews 4:9-11.
22. Finally, we will be judged by the Law of God not by grace. The Old and New Testaments teach a final judgment, not by grace, but by the Law of God, so the Law of God must be kept. Ecclesiastes 12:13,
14; James 2:8-12.
FIN.