NOT Series #6 Grace NOT Law

Series: “NOT”  Sermon #6:  “Grace NOT Law”

2 Corinthians 5:7  “For we walk by faith, not by sight.”

Romans 4:20 KJV  “He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;”  Stay in faith!    Don’t quit on your belief!

1 Corinthians 1:13 NLT  “Has Christ been divided into factions? Was I, Paul, crucified for you? Were any of you baptized in the name of Paul? Of course not.”

1 Corinthians 12:1 “Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant:”

1 Corinthians 15:10   “But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.”

Galatians 1:7 (TPT)  “That is a fake “gospel” that is simply not true. There is only one gospel—the good news of Christ! Yet you have allowed those who mingle law with grace to confuse you.”

Romans 6:14  “For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.” (NKJV)

“Remember this: sin will not conquer you, for God already has! You are not governed by law but governed by the reign of the grace of God.”  (TPT)

Romans 7:1-6 “I write to you, dear brothers and sisters, who are familiar with the law. Don’t you know that when a person dies, it ends his obligation to the law? For example, a married couple is bound by the law to remain together until separated by death. … 

Paul is speaking with those familiar to the law.

The Hebrew mindset know that they were married to the law at Mt. Sinai.

We can’t leave Mr. Law it would be adultery.

He is never wrong. He is always absolutely right. He is perfect and demands perfection from me.

Yet he does nothing to help.

He won’t die! He’ll alway be there. 

He is powerless to change me.

All I get is condemnation.

Hebrews 7:18-19  “The old order of priesthood has been set aside as weak and powerless. For the law has never made anyone perfect, but in its place is a far better hope which gives us confidence to experience intimacy with God!”

Romans 3:21-22  “But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,  even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference;”

But when one spouse dies, the other is released from the law of the marriage.  So then if a wife is joined to another man while still married, she commits adultery. But if her husband dies, she is obviously free from the marriage contract and may marry another man without being charged with adultery.

So, my dear brothers and sisters, the same principle applies to your relationship with God. For you died to your first husband, the law, by being co-crucified with the body of the Messiah. So you are now free to “marry” another—the one who was raised from the dead so that you may now bear spiritual fruit for God.

When we were merely living natural lives, the law, through defining sin, actually awakened sinful desires within us, which resulted in bearing the fruit of death. But now that we have been fully released from the power of the law, we are dead to what once controlled us.

And our lives are no longer motivated by the obsolete way of following the written code, so that now we may serve God by living in the freshness of a new life in the power of the Holy Spirit.”

Being married to Mr. Law never changed us. 

But being married to Mr. Grace has  transformed us deep within, and it shows.

Romans 2:12b “… And those who are under the law of Moses and fail to obey it are condemned by the law.”

The law demands perfection from us but it is not designed to help us, it is there to condemn us.

Old Covenant —You serve the law.

New Covenant — Jesus serves you!

Matthew 11:28-30 “Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.”

Galatians 4:21-30  “Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? For it is written that Abraham had two sons: … which things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants:… from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar…and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is,— but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all.” 

“…But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted (To pursue in a hostile manner) him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now. Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? ‘Cast out the bondwoman and her son…’

Where is that in Scripture? Genesis 21 “Weaning” 

Genesis 21:1-12 “So the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast … And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, scoffing. Therefore she said to Abraham, ‘Cast out this bondwoman and her son; …shall not be heir with my son,…’”

You can’t be raised by mixture.

You will never mature under mixture.

Sarah (GRACE) will be the only influence. 

Romans 6:14 “…not governed by law but governed by the reign of the grace of God.

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