Are you in the Sphere of Grace or the Sphere of the Law? Here is the Sign: Where is your Faith? Christians have three parts in our lives: Prayer Life, Study Life, & Church Attendance. If you miss one of these points do you feel like you have commended a sin, or that you have to double up on that point the next time? You are in the Sphere of Law. These three points of our lives are very important but they merit nothing in the Eyes of God. We are justified by our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit imputes righteousness by the shed Blood of Christ on Calvary’s Cross. At the base of the Cross the Lord Jesus brings His Righteousness and we bring our sins. The Spirit of God puts our sins in the Grave and puts Jesus’ Righteousness on us. As long as we stay with our Faith ‘in Christ‘, we are in the Sphere of Grace and this is the only place where the Holy Spirit has latitude to move in us to make us like Christ. If the Law could have made us like Christ, then why did Jesus have to die on the Cross?
If you know me then you know one simple fact about me. Ambe don’t eat scrambled eggs. It’s not for any real reason other than scrambled eggs look funny, taste strange, and I don’t think they there are cooked thoroughly. This fact was discovered by my father when I was about five or six.
He fixed breakfast; scrambled eggs, grits, and bacon. He served it to me and went to get my little brother ready for the day. He was about a year old. When he came to check on me and see if I was finished he discovered that I had ate everything but the eggs.
“Ambe eat your eggs so we can leave.”
“I don’t like scrambled eggs, they look funny.”
“Ambe, I’m not playing with you, we don’t have all day for this. Eat them eggs or I’m gonna whip you.’
This was the first power struggle, and I won. Read More
Bible Study
Romans 3: 31, “Do we nullify the Law through faith? God forbid! On the contrary, we establish the Law.” (NASB)
Jesus is the subject of the Law and meets the demands of the Law. The law was the tutor that showed us that we needed a Saviour, Galatians 3: 24- 25. The Brazen Altar of the Tabernacle, the Table of Shewbread, the Lamp Stand, and the Ark of the Covenant all pointed directly to the Lord Jesus. Matthew 5: 17- 20, Jesus told the Pharisees that He came to fulfill the Law not abolish it.
No, though we do say that the Law will not justify us, yet we do not therefore say that it was given in vain, or is of no use; no, we establish the right use of the Law, and secure its standing, by fixing it on the right basis. The Law is still of use to convince us of what is past, and to direct us for the future; though we cannot be saved by it as a covenant, yet we own it, and submit to it, as a rule in the Hand of the Mediator, subordinate to the Law of Grace; and so are so far from overthrowing that we establish the Law. (Henry)
The Law was given to show us that we need a Saviour, seeing that we are under-develop, unequipped and horribly unable to save ourselves. This is why the Jesus’ death on Calvary in called the Finished Work of the Cross, He did it all. All we have to do is exhibit child like faith.
The Lord Jesus completed the Law by living up to the strictness and bondage of it, Galatians 4: 4, 6. This is how we established the Law by exhibiting faith in Christ and Him Crucified. This is the only way a Just and Righteous God can justify sinful mankind and still be Just and Right. He laid down a plan, and we follow that plan. In the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ as our Sin Offering, our Passover Lamb, as our Sin Substitution He stood in front of the Wrath of God and took the full brute of God‘s Holy and Righteous Judgment. This is why it is called Grace; God’s Riches At Christ Expense.
