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The meaning of "not under the law, but under
grace" has plagued thousands!
Most people are confused by the ministers who
claim to expound the words of God. You hear one group
quote one set of scriptures telling of the law, and
another group quoting verses mentioning grace. The
common assumption is that one set of scriptures contra–
dicts another. What folly! All Scripture is given by
inspiration of God.
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Does grace do away with the law? If you keep
the law,
~ve
you "fallen' ' from grace?
Let's understand what "grace " means. Webster
defines it as "mercy, favor, unmerited kindness, an
exemption
.2!:
pardon as from
!:.
penalty.
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It is by grace, the undeserved rarden of God,
that you are delivered from the penalty o sin (Rom.
6:
23) •
Christ paid the penalty in your
a
tead. If you
accept the grace of God, who permitted His Son to
d~e
in your stead to free you from
Bin,
then you
ar~
under -
grace. You are under unmerited pardon, not "under the
law."
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"What then? shall we
Bin
(that is,
trans~ress
the law
I John
3:4),
because we are not under
t
e law,
tilit
under grace?" {Rom.
6:15).
That's wnat
PaUl
aske'd"r
Shall we ei.n --shall we break the law? Remember, ain ·is
the transgression o'f the law (I John
3:4).
What is Paul's answer? "God forbid. How shall
we, that are dead to sin (transgressing God's law), live
any longer therein?" (Rom. 6:1,2.)
If we are under grace, the pardon of God, we
are not to live in sin,
we~ are
not to break God's law.
If we break God's law by sinning, then we come tinder the
law. It is over us , It has a claim on our lives.
I~
ra-only
thos~o
keep the law that are NOT under the-law;
IT
has no claimover their live-s-.----
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