Faith in Jesus enables you to be a recipient of grace

What is the purpose of a teacher? How will students appreciate the worth of a teacher in years to come?

A teacher is one who instructs and gives directions to students in order to prepare them for a better life or a more successful future. 

Nearly all can look back and reflect on that teacher who helped them become the person they are today.

A responsible teacher will set out boundaries, present an environment so that learning will occur, and cause each student (at the end of the year) to leave that class and move to the next grade (the upgrade).

That is just the case and point of the Old Covenant of Law. It was the teacher who would help take the students to the next level –– the New Covenant of Grace. 

Galatians 3: 21: Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

Jesus was the promise given before Moses and the law.  

Galatians 3:16: Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

Father of faith

Christ was promised to Abraham, who was known as The Father of Faith and not The Father of Law. 

Law is not the parents or progenitor of the grace of God. No, faith in Jesus Christ enables you to be a recipient of grace. 

The law appeared after Abraham and was established because the people transgressed. That is, even with the law as a mark of authority, it only had the ability to recognize the wrong, condemn the wrong, and attempt to prevent the wrong in the future.

Jesus came to recognize the wrong and bring about conviction and repentance. 

It is by repentance (true repentance) that the previous convict would sin no longer.  

True repentance and commitment to Jesus means that you will never be a victim of the lower grade of the law because you now operate or live by the highest standard of God’s grace, through the love of Jesus Christ.

In today’s world, you can break the law of Jesus Christ and yet be found acceptable to man’s law –– the laws of the land “on the books”.

However, when you operate in the Law of Jesus Christ, which will always supersede the law of mankind, you will be found to be acceptable and pleasing to God, even when law keepers and lawgivers mock the standard of holiness.

Strive to be found acceptable in the sight of God. 

At the end of time, all shall stand before the ultimate court –– the judgment seat of God.  

That is when you will receive your just reward. 

That is when you will be judged to have either lived after man’s failing and faltering system of law or after the perfect law of grace through the love of the promised seed, Jesus Christ. Selah…RESPICE FINEM