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LAW VS GRACE #101 | WHERE THE LAW DEMANDS, GRACE PROVIDES


Grace Provides, The Law DemandsMany consider what separates the old covenant of law and the new covenant of grace is the blank page between the book of Malachi and Mathew. It sounds very funny, but you must understand, it is one of the unknown mysteries in Christianity  hidden from the body of Christ, due to our emotional attachment to religious dogmas, wrong teachings, Church traditions that limits us from enjoying God’s best for our lives.

 The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out. – D.L. Moody

GOD DEMANDING RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM MEN
In the Old Covenant of law, God did required or demanded righteousness from men. Righteousness is to have a right standing with God without a sense of guilt or shame. The best that were among the Israelites, (Moses, Joshua, David, Saul etc.) could not even meet the righteous standard of God based on their performance and neither were the blood of goats, bulls, sheep, doves and all the religious rituals were able to permanently cleared their guilt of condemnation before God. The law did not have the strength to make anyone holy or pure before a holy God. The blood sacrifices of animals covered the sins of the children of Israel for only one year, and the process had to be repeated every year (Hebrews 10:3)

Walking under such temporal remedy of animal sacrifices, which was a shadow of good things to come under the dispensation of law, the best still cried about how filthy as rag their righteous were before God.
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness’s are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. (Isaiah 64:6 K (KJV)

Under the new covenant of grace, the born again believer does not walk under condemnation because of his or her inadequacies and flaws. Our righteousness is not base on our works but the gift of Jesus righteousness which empower the worst among us to excel in good works, because of the no sense of shame, condemnation and limitation hanging on our conscience. We are accepted just as Jesus is accepted before the Father…we can therefore declare of our righteousness in Christ and not how filthy we are. After all, the righteousness of Jesus is not filthy or like filthy rags.

RIGHTEOUSNESS IMPUTED
Under the New Covenant of grace; through our spiritual union with Christ Jesus by His finish work, (suffering, death, burial, resurrection, and ascension) we shared in His very life. God has imparted righteousness upon the believer and encoded a quality life of the DNA of God in our born again spirit on the basis of grace. Paul writes; “2 Corinthians 5:21 (KJV) For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
We’ve been redeemed from the curse of performance base righteousness to an imputation of a new life which flows from the inside out and not the other way round. Look at the beauty of the righteousness imputed upon the believer freely and we are declared as the righteous of God not filthy rags as recorded in the book of Romans 4:5-7… “5But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. 6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, 7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

Relying on our outward performance, religious rituals, Church traditions, and culture to the neglect of the gift of righteous through faith on the finished work of Christ to access God is a slap in the face of Christ finished work which changed our position. We can imitate the Apostle Paul by counting every legalistic ordinance and rituals which have become the bedrock of our salvation as non essential and pursue the Excellency of Christ righteousness. The Apostle of grace writing to the Church at Philippi, he says;

“ 8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the Excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, 9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: ( Philippians 3:8-9  (KJV)

Grace say, freely given; freely take and walk in it as a true child of God. Law says, I will try to acquire righteousness on my own and try to please God base on self works. The former leads to frustration and hypocrisy; because the law was not mean to empower you to live righteousness on your own.

Is your right standing with God based on self works, behavior modifications, adherent to church traditions, culture or an end goal you are pursuing? We can only be declared right and walk with our heads up as children of the most high when and only we place trust in Christ for the righteousness which is of God?

“Listen, O heavy laden, condemned sinner, while in my Master’s name, I publish super abounding grace. Grace excels sin in its measure and efficacy. Though your sins are many, mercy hath many pardons. Though they excel the stars, the sands, the drops of dew in their number, one act of remission can cancel all. Your iniquity, though a mountain, shall be cast into the midst of the sea. Your blackness shall be washed out by the cleansing flood of your Redeemer’s gore” – C.H Spurgeon

McDaniels Gyamfi

I AM A SIGN AND A WONDER


Jeremiah 33:6 ESV Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.

The above scripture is the desire of your Heavenly Father. He has brought health and healing through Christ Jesus to all who will place their faith in Him (1 Pet 2:24, Eph 1:3). You have not been called into a covenant in which God test you with sicknesses and pain to prove your faithfulness. I don’t think any good parents will want to test the comportment of their loving kids by giving them poisonous drink instead of a cool aide to quench their test. Abundance prosperity in all areas of life and total life security is the assurance of your redemption. Boldly confess and declare who you are with your eyes on Jesus;

  • “I am a sign and a wonder to my generation.

  • I boldly confess that I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and His mark of distinction over my life.

  • I am uncommon and set apart to walk in victory over diseases and have become a conduit of health and prosperity to my generation.

  • By the laying of my hands over my head, I cast out satanic influence of weakness, defeat, discouragement and sicknesses in any part of my being and

  • unleash abundant of prosperity and security from the wells of my salvation to permeate every endeavor of my life on this side of life in Jesus glorious name”. Amen!

 

“Mark 16:17-18 ESV And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

When Jesus said signs will follow the disciples, He did not meant to say; “this is just for a moment or temporarily”. He was saying to the Church, all those who will place their trust in me by faith through grace and learn to walk with me on the basis of grace will experience an uncommon demonstration of power in their lives continuously and consistently. Semeion the Greek word for signs pronounce say-mi’-on denotes that by which a person or a thing is distinguished from others and is known  Or  Of miracles and wonders by which God authenticates the men sent by him, or by which men prove that the cause they are pleading is God’s.

How do you distinguish Nike sneakers from Adidas? You probably wouldn’t have to do too much but to check their branding or logo designs on the item at hand to justify the difference. The child of God has the trade mark of God to distinguish us from others. Healing and perfect health is the trade mark of God in our born again spirit and manifest in our bodies. Halluiah!

Friend, you can surely believe in the words of Christ for your personal miracle of empowerment to walk over scorpions, serpents and not to be buffeted with all forms of diseases and weakness in your body. You are completely marked and sealed in the Holy Spirit (See Eph 1:13-14) to protect you from demonic entrance and for Christ to manifest Himself through you to impact others. “Divine healing for your body and that of others is a sure sign of our eternal redemption! Don’t ignore your honorability and authenticity in Christ and embrace the negativity of erroneous doctrines which approves weakness and wimping”

Many don’t see themselves as distinguished; they are wimpy, weak and sickly and complain all day like a falling branch without life and hope for tomorrow. They have been taught that there are only a handful of super believers who have been empowered to walk in power and authority over the demon of sickness and ill health. You are loaded with the life of Christ to be alive on this side of eternity not because of what you can do but on the basis of your position as a child of the son of the Most High God. Check your Christian resume: ”You are more than a conqueror through Him who loves you” (Rom 8:37)

When you stop whining, you start shinning. Arise and shine my good friend in the power of the Lord in all that you do and say. Say yes to an uncommon health, favor, strength, and recovery and power manifestation!