All through the Bible Gods Grace is shown. Gods Work.
God Sacrificed for Adam and Eve.
God Sacrificed for Abraham.
God brought Joseph to Egypt. God showed Joseph that he must store up for the coming famine.
God brought the Jews out of Egypt.
God showed the Jews how to be saved from the Angel of Death at the first Passover.
God parted the sea so the Jews could escape and He brought it back down to stop the Egyptian Army.
God gave the Jews manna from Heaven.
God gave the Jews water out of the Rock.
God gave the Jews meat from birds when they murmured about manna.
God gives. That is Grace. What did the Jews do? They had pride and confidence in their own selves. That was sin.
Deuteronomy 5:27 Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.
Were the Jews able to hear it, and do it? No. But there was One who came from the Jews who was able to hear it, and do it.
He is the Perfect one. He is the one we look to for our Salvation. Much like the Jews looked to the staff with the snakes on it to be healed from snake bites.
We don't look to our strength. We don't look to our works.
We look to Jesus for Him to do in us that which we can't do on our own. Its all about Jesus.
The Law just shows you what you can't do in your own power. The Law shows your need of a Saviour. The Law shows you your sin.
Magnify the Law the way Jesus did and you will know this is true. Jesus said being angry with a brother for no cause was breaking Gods Law. Jesus said that looking on a woman to lust after her was breaking Gods Law.
If you water down Gods Law to a point where it appears you can keep it in your own strength, Like Jesus did, then you lie. And it is the most wicked of lies because you lie to your own self.
What does John say about that? If a man says he has no sin the truth is not in him.
1 John 1:4-10
4And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.
5This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
6If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
I highlighted the parts about Jesus because I want to lead you into Righteousness and not Condemnation.
Look to Jesus, constantly, for He is our source for all things Good.