These boards have many threads about OSAS and I wanted to bring up just one thing about the topic of God's law and grace.
The thing with law and grace is really simple. We fall short of God's law and thus we need grace everyday in our life. If we think that we are not sinning the truth is we are because we are breaking God's commandments.
This is what Jesus states the greatest law to be:
Matthew 22:36-40 (ESV)
36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
Because it's not possible for us to love God in every moment of our life from all our heart and strength we fall short of God's law and need grace.
If we are good at not sinning the only thing what that is good for is towards other persons. We cannot hurt God with sinning, like it states in Job:
Job 35:6-8 (ESV)
6 If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him?
And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
7 If you are righteous, what do you give to him?
Or what does he receive from your hand?
8 Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself,
and your righteousness a son of man.
So if you ever wonder whether we need grace or being a better person the answer is we cannot fulfill God's love by our self but we need grace everyday in our lives. By working according to law we go further from God and grace.
Galatians 5:4 (ESV)
4 You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified[a] by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
Thank God for his free gift of salvation.
Ephesians 2:8-9 (ESV)
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
The thing with law and grace is really simple. We fall short of God's law and thus we need grace everyday in our life. If we think that we are not sinning the truth is we are because we are breaking God's commandments.
This is what Jesus states the greatest law to be:
Matthew 22:36-40 (ESV)
36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
Because it's not possible for us to love God in every moment of our life from all our heart and strength we fall short of God's law and need grace.
If we are good at not sinning the only thing what that is good for is towards other persons. We cannot hurt God with sinning, like it states in Job:
Job 35:6-8 (ESV)
6 If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him?
And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
7 If you are righteous, what do you give to him?
Or what does he receive from your hand?
8 Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself,
and your righteousness a son of man.
So if you ever wonder whether we need grace or being a better person the answer is we cannot fulfill God's love by our self but we need grace everyday in our lives. By working according to law we go further from God and grace.
Galatians 5:4 (ESV)
4 You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified[a] by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
Thank God for his free gift of salvation.
Ephesians 2:8-9 (ESV)
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
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