The law did not end with the Ten Commandments. After the Ten Commandments, Moses still gave the people more laws. There was something called “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth”. Laws kept coming based on circumstances. But take a look at what the Bible said in Hebrews 10:16 “this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them”. On the tablet of stone, the law was not flexible. When the law was still on a tablet of stone, the people had to pay for every crime they committed. That is why God could destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. 2 Corinthians 5:18 says, “and all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation”. Reconciliation is an act of restoring. We have been called into the ministry of helping others reconcile with God. If we are reconciling them back to God, it means they were once with God but had a problem with God that caused a gap. In Ephesians 2:12, Paul said: “that at a time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenant of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ”. The word “alien” in this context means a people who were cast away, a people who were forsaken. God did not forsake us without reason but we were forsaken because of what we did. When you think like this, you will find it hard to hate another Christian because you will see them as your biological brother or sister. When you nurse a negative feeling towards a Spirit led Christian, you are doing it unto yourself and unto God and you are breaking the communion flow. Grace came by Jesus but there were some people who functioned in grace in the Old Testament. Abraham enjoyed grace; David also enjoyed grace. They partook of it but grace was not delivered unto them. They enjoyed grace based on their works. When they pleased/impressed God, He allowed them function in grace but now, we don’t have to do anything to merit grace because grace is our right based on what Jesus did. We are enjoying the benefit of the finished work of Christ. You can’t get people to do right by how much you force them to do right. All you need to do is position them rightly by the Spirit and feed them with the word of God. When you do this, they will begin to do right. Every individual has an ability to oppose when he feels like he is been oppressed/ deprived of his responsibility. John 1:12 says “but as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name”. We were made sons of God by power and not by association or by how much we were cajoled. If we became sons by power, then it is not by our works. Remember Ephesians 2:8-9 says “for by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. Not of works lest any man should boast”. We have all been made the righteousness of God in Christ and there is no one that is more righteous than the other.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 17:42:29 +0000
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