What is the difference between the law and grace in the Bible? And what is the relation between the law and grace? It’s important to know that the will of God existed before the coming of the law of Moses. Therefore sin already existed before the coming of the law. Sin is the will of the devil and is the exact opposite of the will of God. God was very clear about His will. God told Adam what to do and what not to do. And God never stopped doing that throughout generations. God didn’t make a secret of His will, but God revealed His will to the people, δίνοντας τις εντολές Του. Αλλά ήταν στο χέρι του λαού, what they decided to do with His commandments.
The people had been given a free will and were responsible for their lives
The people had been given a free will and were responsible for their own lives and their final destination, και όχι ο Θεός. Through rebellion and disobedience of fallen man to God, the people brought the wrath and judgment of God upon themselves. The end of the unity of humanity, by the fall of the tower of Babel, the destruction of the earth and every living thing by the flood in the time of Noah, and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah all happened before the law of Moses entered. Even the covenant between God and Abraham and His Seed (Ιησούς) and as a sign the circumcision in the flesh on την όγδοη μέρα, already existed before the coming of the law (Γένεση 17:14-17, Γαλάτες 3:16).
The law is a form of knowledge and the truth
The law of Moses with all God’s commandments, κανονισμοί, Θυσιαστικοί νόμοι, dietary laws, Τελετουργίες, and feasts came after several hundred years after the creation and was meant for fallen man, who belonged to Gods carnal covenant people Israel. They had the privilege to belong to God’s carnal covenant people, through their natural birth, which was actually also God’s grace. The carnal circumcision on την όγδοη μέρα was a sign, that they belonged to God’s covenant people and that they could walk in God’s covenant and that He was with them.
God revealed His will by giving His people the law of Moses and because His will was revealed, sin was revealed. Sin and death reigned in fallen man and because the law was meant for fallen man, the law was called, Ο νόμος της αμαρτίας και του θανάτου.
ο νόμος της αμαρτίας και του θανάτου entered and was meant as a schoolteacher to keep and protect God’s people until the promise; Jesus Christ would come.
Λόγω του γεγονότος, that God’s will was revealed through the law, and that through the law the spiritual was revealed to the carnal people, the law was a form of knowledge and the truth (Ρωμαίους 2:20).
God’s people had lived for years under the authority of Pharaoh and were used to the culture, συνήθειες, τελωνείο, θεούς, and rituals of Egypt. That’s why they had to renew their mind, which was formed after the knowledge and wisdom of Egypt, and that’s exactly what God did through His Word.
Through His words, which God had given to Moses, God not only made His will known to His people but by revealing His will and the truth, He exposed sin to His people.
Thou shalt not….…..
Since God’s people were carnal and therefore lead and ruled by their flesh, στην οποία βασιλεύει η αμαρτία και ο θάνατος, Ο Θεός δεν είπε: “Thou shalt…..”, but God said: “Thou shalt not….”. Because the sinful carnal nature of fallen man, always wants to do those things that go against God’s will. The sinful carnal nature rules in fallen man and that’s why sin reigned as king in their lives.
ο Γέρος σαρκικός άνθρωπος, who possesses the sinful nature and in whom sin reigns as king in his life, doesn’t want to love God and submit himself to His will. The old carnal man doesn’t want to submit to God, Ιησούς; η λέξη, Το Άγιο Πνεύμα, γονείς, δάσκαλος, εργοδότες, διαχειριστές, and all authority in general, but is rebellious. The old carnal man loves himself and doesn’t allow anyone to dictate him what to do, because he decides what to say and do.
The flesh of the carnal man is self-seeking, ζηλιάρης, ζηλιάρης, υπερήφανος, άπληστος, and lies, κλέβει, κουτσομπολεύω, διαπράττουμε απάτη, and adultery, and is not loyal but breaks covenants, and only does those things, when it suits him and benefits him.
Only by keeping the law and doing the works of the law, ο γέρος σαρκικός άνθρωπος, who belonged to the fallen generation, could be saved. The old carnal man had to work his own salvation by keeping the law (Εντολές, Τελετουργίες, θυσίες, εορτάζ, κλπ.).
God had given everyone a free will, and although they belonged to God’s covenant people through natural birth, God didn’t bind anyone and didn’t force anyone to keep the law, but God let them decide to keep Οι εντολές του and obey God and remain His people or not.
The law could only make atonement and deal with sin temporarily
Although the law represented the will of God and revealed sin, the law was not able to take care of the sinful nature of fallen man. The law could only reveal sin, deal with sin through (θάνατος)punishments and remove evil among the people, and temporarily make atonement for the sins of man through the blood of animals. But the law was not able to deal with the sinful nature of the flesh, which produced sins and iniquities and therefore the law was not able to redeem carnal man from his sinful nature, που οδηγεί στο θάνατο.
Οι θυσιαστικοί νόμοι could only temporarily make atonement for the sins and iniquities of the people, which derived from the sinful nature of fallen man. That’s why the sacrificing of animals to make atonement for the sins and iniquities of the people, had to be done on a regular and yearly basis.
Because after the atonement, the old carnal man was still trapped in his sinful nature. Nothing was changed to the position of fallen man, and therefore man would fall back into sin.
The law of Moses was not able to restore and complete man, επειδή, despite all the sacrifices of animals, the sinful nature was still present in the flesh (Εβραϊκά 10:1).
The law was given by Moses,
Αλλά η χάρη και η αλήθεια ήρθαν από τον Ιησού Χριστό
Ο John Bare τον μαρτυρεί, και φώναξε, ρητό, Αυτός ήταν αυτός από τον οποίο μίλησα, Αυτός που έρχεται μετά από μένα προτιμάται μπροστά μου: γιατί ήταν μπροστά μου. Και της πληρότητάς του έχουν όλα όσα λάβαμε, και χάρη για χάρη. Για το νόμο δόθηκε από τον Μωυσή, Αλλά η χάρη και η αλήθεια ήρθαν από τον Ιησού Χριστό. Κανένας άνθρωπος δεν έχει δει ποτέ τον Θεό; ο μονογενής Υιός, που βρίσκεται στους κόλπους του Πατέρα, Αυτός τον έχει δηλώσει (Γιάννης 1:15-18)
Jesus Christ came to the earth and preached the truth and brought the Kingdom of God to God’s people. Jesus represented the will and the heart of God, which is the same will of God, that is written in the law and already existed before the law. That’s why Jesus didn’t come to destroy the law but to fulfill the law (Ματθαίος 5:17). Το θέλημα του Θεού was also the θέλημα του Ιησού and is still the will of Jesus.
Παρά τους πολλούς πειρασμούς στη σάρκα, Jesus stayed obedient and loyal to God and walked in His commandments, and therefore Jesus walked after the Spirit.
Jesus gave His life for fallen man; ο αμαρτωλός. He became a sin offering and the atonement for fallen man.
Through His blood, which was shed in the κήπος της Γεθσημανή, στο μαστίγωμα, and at Ο Σταυρός, Jesus made atonement for fallen man.
Jesus descended into Hell and through His resurrection from the dead, Jesus conquered death and took τα κλειδιά, which represented the authority of death and Hell, and ascended into the heavens and took place at the right hand of God the Father to rule as King.
Μέσω του Ιησού’ perfect work of redemption, a new covenant came into being, that was sealed by His blood. By His perfect work of redemption for fallen man, έδειξε ο Ιησούς Η αγάπη του Θεού for the world and brought God’s grace to man.
Ολοι, που πιστεύει στον Ιησού Χριστό, ο Υιός του ζώντος Θεού, and His work of redemption for fallen man, has the ability to μετανοώ και μέσω αναγέννηση be redeemed from the sinful nature in the flesh of fallen man and be saved from death.
You can no longer be justified by your own works and by keeping all kinds of rules, κανονισμοί, and rituals like in the Old Covenant, που προοριζόταν για τον γέρο σαρκικό άνθρωπο, που έζησε κατά σάρκα. But you can only be made righteous through η χάρη of Jesus Christ and through faith in Him. Jesus has fulfilled the law and accomplished His work to redeem fallen man from sin and death. Jesus went into Hades and was raised from the dead so that the old carnal man (σάρκα) could die in Him and the new man (πνεύμα) could be raised from the dead in Him.
If you are born again and your spirit is raised from the dead, από τη δύναμη του Αγίου Πνεύματος, then you are under grace and not under the law. Because you didn’t have to do anything to be made righteous and holy
The sacrifice of Jesus Christ and His blood dealt with the sin nature of the flesh
What the sacrifices of animals, κανονισμοί, and rituals of the law, that were part of the Old Covenant couldn’t do, the sacrifice of Jesus, by Whom a New Covenant came into being, could. Γι' αυτό, His sacrifice was sufficient once and for all, and didn’t have to be repeated every year. Because the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and His blood has the power to deal for once and for all with the flesh, που περιέχει την αμαρτωλή φύση, which makes a person a αμαρτωλός and keeps a person in the bondage of sin ((Εβραϊκά 10:14).
When a person enters into the New Covenant by faith in Jesus Christ and as a sign is circumcised in Jesus Christ through regeneration and by the renewing of the heart, the person is made holy and righteous in Him.
Μέσω της αναγέννησης, the spirit of man is raised from the death
The spirit of man, which was death through sin and therefore separated from God, is raised from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit. Από την εγκατάσταση του Αγίου Πνεύματος, Το θέλημα του Θεού, which is the same will that is represented in the law, is written in the hearts of those, who have been made righteous in Jesus Christ
Ο πεσμένος άνθρωπος, ή με άλλα λόγια, ο γέρος σαρκικός άνθρωπος, who was a slave of the devil and was ruled by sin and death, έχει γίνει μια νέα δημιουργία; Ένας νέος άντρας. The new man is no longer a sinner; ένας γιος του διαβόλου, but has become a son of God; ένας άγιος (Εβραϊκά 10:15-18).
Since the old carnal man (σάρκα) has died in Jesus Christ, the person is no longer bound to the law of sin and death, που βασιλεύει στη σάρκα. But by the resurrection of the new man (πνεύμα), the person is bound by the spirit to the law of faith and life.
Αγαπήστε τον Θεό πάνω από όλα
Αλλά… the fact that through regeneration, you are no longer under the law but under grace, έχω, just as the coming of the law of Moses, no effect on the will of God. The commandments that God gave and represent the moral part of the law, which can be summarized in two commandments, δηλαδή: love God above all with all your heart, μυαλό, ψυχή, and strength and love your neighbor as yourself, are still valid (Σημείο 12:29-31).
If you really love God your Father above all and you want to live with Him, then you shall do what He has commanded you to and you shall live after His will; after His commandments. Because by listening to Him and His Word and by keeping and walking in His commandments, που είναι και οι εντολές του Ιησού, you show Him that you love Him.
Επειδή αυτά, που γεννιούνται από αυτόν, will love Him and therefore they will listen to Him and do His will.
A new heart of flesh in which God’s will is written
Βλέπω, έρχονται οι μέρες, λέει ο Κύριος., όταν θα κάνω νέα διαθήκη με τον οίκο του Ισραήλ και με τον οίκο του Ιούδα: Όχι σύμφωνα με τη διαθήκη που έκανα με τους πατέρες τους την ημέρα που τους έπιασα από το χέρι για να τους οδηγήσω έξω από τη γη της Αιγύπτου; γιατί δεν συνέχισαν στη διαθήκη Μου, και δεν τους θεώρησα, λέει ο Κύριος.. Διότι αυτή είναι η διαθήκη που θα κάνω με τον οίκο του Ισραήλ μετά από εκείνες τις ημέρες, λέει ο Κύριος.; Θα βάλω τους νόμους μου στο μυαλό τους, και γράψτε τους στις καρδιές τους: Και θα τους είμαι θεός, Και θα είναι για μένα ένας λαός: Και δεν θα διδάξουν ο καθένας τον πλησίον του, και ο καθένας τον αδελφό του, ρητό, Γνώρισε τον Κύριο: γιατί όλοι θα με γνωρίσουν, από το ελάχιστο προς το μεγαλύτερο. Γιατί θα είμαι ελεήμων για την αδικία τους, και τις αμαρτίες τους και τις ανομίες τους δεν θα θυμάμαι πια (Εβραϊκά 8:8-12)
God promised that He would write His law or in other words His commandments, which represents His will in the hearts of those, who have received a new heart of flesh through regeneration (Ιεζεκιήλ 11:19-20, 36:25-29, Ιερεμίας 31:33-34, 2 Κορινθίους 3:3). And that’s exactly what happened when the Holy Spirit came. Επειδή 50 ημέρες μετά το Πάσχα, the Lord made His will known to His people, by giving them the law via Moses, και 50 ημέρες μετά το Πάσχα the outpouring of the Holy Spirit took place.
Μέσω της εν Χριστώ αναγέννησης, the old stony heart of the carnal man is being replaced by a heart of flesh in which the Holy Spirit lives. Γι' αυτό, the law of Moses was written on tablets of stone, which represented the heart of stone of the old carnal man (διαβάστε επίσης; "Γιατί έγραψε ο Θεός το νόμο Του σε πέτρινα τραπέζια?”)
The will of God is the will of Jesus
The commandments of God are the same commandments as Jesus’ commandmentμικρό. Jesus even sharpened God’s commandments and added commandments (Διαβάστε επίσης: “The commandments of God vs. τις εντολές του Ιησού“). But the sacrificial laws, dietary laws, εορτάζ, Τελετουργίες, κλπ. that are written in the law of Moses and had to be kept by fallen man, who belonged to God’s carnal covenant people (Ισραήλ), in order to be made righteous, have become obsolete. Because it was carnal and was just a shadow of what had to come (Κολ 2:16-17). They have been replaced in Christ, by His perfect work of redemption and by His blood and have become obsolete.
No one can earn a righteous status by his works and by keeping the commandments, dietary laws, Θυσιαστικοί νόμοι, κανονισμοί, Τελετουργίες, and feasts of the law of Moses.
The law of sin and death doesn’t reign in the new man, because the new man has crucified his flesh in Christ and therefore no longer walks after the flesh, but after the spirit
As soon as you repent by faith in Jesus and become born again in the spiritual realm, Έχετε γίνει μια νέα δημιουργία.
The natural law of Moses, που προοριζόταν για τον γέρο σαρκικό άνθρωπο; Πεσμένος άνθρωπος, στην οποία βασιλεύει η αμαρτία και ο θάνατος, has no authority over the new man because the flesh of the new man is crucified in Jesus Christ.
Μέσω της αναγέννησης, you have become born again in the spirit and have become a son of God and received His Holy Spirit, Who represents His will. That’s why the natural law of sin and death, that reigns in your sinful flesh, doesn’t reign anymore, but the spiritual law of faith, χάρη, and life that reigns in the spirit.
Are you under the law or under grace?
You no longer live under the law, since you have laid down your sinful flesh, in which the law of sin and death was operative, but you live under grace because through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ you have been redeemed from death and have become a new creation; Ένας Υιός του Θεού.
Το πνεύμα σας, who was dead and separated from God, έχει αναστηθεί από τους νεκρούς με τη δύναμη του Αγίου Πνεύματος. Not by your works and not because you deserved it, but because of God’s great love and Η χάρη του και το έργο Του. You didn’t have to do anything about it.
Τώρα όμως, that by His grace and through the circumcision in Christ you have been made holy and righteous and belong to God’s people and have received God’s nature, you shall walk after God’s will in righteousness and not after the Θέληση του διαβόλου στην αμαρτία.
«Γίνε το αλάτι της γης’
