DO NOT MISS CHRIST'S GRACE (5).

*WISDOM FOR TODAY.*

*DO NOT MISS CHRIST'S GRACE (5).*

*Scripture Treasure.*

Titus 2:11-12

*For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,*

*Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;*

*Insight and Highlight.*

Grace, through Jesus, revived the law.

It made the law efficient through the Spirit of Christ.

*Scripture Commentaries.*

Grace, through Jesus, revealed the weakness of the law and revived it.

The laws given by God and later known as the laws of Moses did not prevent or cure sin.

It was God's intention that the law would guide, correct, and produce the fear of God in the people, but the law did not produce fear, but most times, if not all, was only informational.

In Rom 7:7, Paul wrote *What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid! Nay, I would not have known sin, but through the law; for I would not have known lust, except that the law had said, “Thou shalt not covet.*

He did not know lust was sin until he knew the law against it that said *Thou shalt not covet.* (Exd 20:17).

It was the law that informed him, just like the Israelites, that lust was sin.

People could not see lust and other sins as sin because they are inherently sinful.

When people do not obey the law, it ceases to be correctional. When people's sinful desires control them, the law ceases to be correctional.

People could not see evil when they are tempted because there is an inherent desire in them to want to sin.

James says a person inherently sinful is *".....drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.*, Jam 1:14.

Paul teaches here that we are the ones who are inherently sinful, and the purpose of the law was to reveal sin so that we may correct our ways.

Paul taught us to know the law, and obeying it over our inherent sinful desires will teach us that God's law is not sinful. John says his commandments are not grevious, 1 John 5:3.

Paul further teaches that when people do not know there is a law against sin they will sin, Rom 4:15, 7:7, but he also wrote that people can know the law yet sin, Rom 7:15-18.

Besides the inherent sinful nature of people, lust and other sins existed before the law was given. It was people's sinful hearts that brought God's law to clearly define and charge people with their sin, revealing its true nature and power.

The law was faulted because of people's sinful nature and their inability to obey the law.

Jer 31:33 predicted a time when God would put the law into people's hearts.

This was fulfilled through Jesus. He said the Spirit will be in the people rather than on the tablets of stone.

Through Jesus, laws are internalized, transforming believers' hearts and minds rather than being an external set of rules on the tablets of stone, Heb 8:10, 10:16.

In John 14:17, Jesus said *Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.*

Paul clearly revealed the weakness of the law and the eventual spiritual repairs done by the Spirit through the grace that came through Jesus.

Paul says in Rom 8:2 *For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.*

Paul tells us that the law of Moses did not cure sin nor did the punishment for not obeying it cure it.

In Rom 8:3, he writes *For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:*

He writes to teach us that the law could only be fulfilled if people walked in the Spirit.

In Rom 8:4-5, he says *That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.*

*For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.*

The grace through Jesus teaches us that though the law may condemn sinners in this world but sinner who repent, though have been condemned, will receive no condemnation, through the Spirit, if they repent, Rom.8:1.

*Remorse corner.*

The grace made the law relevant today and in the New Testament, though it was written in the Old Testament.

*Call to Word action.*

Jesus says in Matt 5;17-18

*Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.*

*For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.*

*The Christian clarion duty.*

The grace through Jesus brought a face to the law, and it made it humane. The weak is made strong, and the sinner is transformed if he repents.

*Prayer.*

Lord, let Your grace revive me as it revives the law in Jesus name.

Good morning all, and have a blessed day.

God bless you.

Shalom.