UNDER LAW OR UNDER GRACE?
By Joel Finck
Scripture Reading: Romans
6:14
People are always looking
for an excuse to sin. If they can somehow justify their sin with
Scripture, so much the better- =or so they think. Paul knew that
God's super-abounding grace would probably be misused by some to
become lax about sin. Therefore, immediately after informing us that
we "are not under the law, but under grace," he quickly
added, "What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the
law, but under grace? God forbid" (Romans 6:14, 15).
We should thank God we
are not under the law! No longer are we required to bring animal
sacrifices as an offering for sin. No more do we live in the bondage
of the Mosaic code, which spelled out every detail oflife and
threatened death for those who slipped. What freedom we have in
Christ!
Yet Christian liberty was
never designed to give us freedom to sin, rather, it was meant to
give us freedom to serve. "For brethren, ye have been called
unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but
by love serve one another" (Galatians 5:13).
Indeed, when we exercise
genuine Christian love, we actually fulfill in a practical way that
which the Law could never produce; that is, experiential
righteousness. "Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: therefore
love is the fulfilling of the law" (Romans 13:10). While so
many today are trying to live by law, let us who know the grace of
God live by grace and thereby demonstrate to a dying world what the
power of God can do in the life of a yielded believer.
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