Have you ever given much thought to Jesus when he walked the earth was under the law. Why would God "make him to be under the law." Law was what Israel was under when Jesus walked the earth. There was no grace as a message for humanity yet it was all law.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. - John 1:14.
The scriptures says he was he was full of grace and truth but that was not his message because he was under law. When they came to him to snare him with their questions about sin what did he say to them "what does Moses law say." He was full of grace and truth we see that in how he handled the people but the law was still at work and had not been fulfilled yet. He healed on the Sabbath, what was he doing? Giving a glimpse into his grace because he could not preach grace being under law. He couldn't preach grace as a message, a New Testament if you will. That was not in place yet, the law was still active for obedience and relationship with God.
To mix the two is a complete distortion of the word. It is what we call "commingling" or mixing law with grace. The scriptures do not do it and for believers to do it is a total lack of understanding. I use a term I call "trying to get a message out of 66 books." You cannot get grace out of mixing it with law, it's oil and water, day and night, law and grace. Two completely different ways of handling the people spiritually, you cannot not do it because they do not fit each other. It may look good and even sound good on certain levels but like oil and water they will not mix and are there own separate entity. Nothing wrong with law, it is of God, he put it in place and used it for living but it nolonger exsists for obedience and relationship, it has been fulfilled.
What is grace? Grace is Christ in you, grace is a person. Think about grace as a message or covenant or New Testament. They all have to do with Christ in you, you have none of these things without Christ in you. They come about by Christ in you. It is like "the gospel" Paul called it, it is a person. The word of God, the Holy written scriptures always personifies Christ, the Christ in you. When you read Paul and he mentions Christ, it will never be a Christ outside of you it will always be the Christ that is in you. Follow Paul long enough as he suggests and you see his message of Christ in you has to do with living the life of another Christ in you. Since you have no other life but Christ it is a very good idea to pay close attention to Paul and "my gospel," he called it. He preachs nothing but Christ as life, and that life is the only life of the believer. Believers trying to extract a life from scriptures will miserably fail if they do not see Christ as that life.
Reread the first chapter of John and look at the life in John's first chapter as well as the rest of the book. What separates John from most other writers is he wrote some years after Paul and knew what Paul was talking about. The book of John is more than just history as the other synoptic Gospel's, John's book should have been one of the Epistles. John had a revelation of Jesus Christ as did Paul. When you talk about John's revelation it is not his revelation given to him that he penned in the book of "the revelation." That is history and future events having nothing to do with "revelation of Christ in you."
For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. - Galatians 1:12.
To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: - Colossians 1:27.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. - John 1:14.
The scriptures says he was he was full of grace and truth but that was not his message because he was under law. When they came to him to snare him with their questions about sin what did he say to them "what does Moses law say." He was full of grace and truth we see that in how he handled the people but the law was still at work and had not been fulfilled yet. He healed on the Sabbath, what was he doing? Giving a glimpse into his grace because he could not preach grace being under law. He couldn't preach grace as a message, a New Testament if you will. That was not in place yet, the law was still active for obedience and relationship with God.
To mix the two is a complete distortion of the word. It is what we call "commingling" or mixing law with grace. The scriptures do not do it and for believers to do it is a total lack of understanding. I use a term I call "trying to get a message out of 66 books." You cannot get grace out of mixing it with law, it's oil and water, day and night, law and grace. Two completely different ways of handling the people spiritually, you cannot not do it because they do not fit each other. It may look good and even sound good on certain levels but like oil and water they will not mix and are there own separate entity. Nothing wrong with law, it is of God, he put it in place and used it for living but it nolonger exsists for obedience and relationship, it has been fulfilled.
What is grace? Grace is Christ in you, grace is a person. Think about grace as a message or covenant or New Testament. They all have to do with Christ in you, you have none of these things without Christ in you. They come about by Christ in you. It is like "the gospel" Paul called it, it is a person. The word of God, the Holy written scriptures always personifies Christ, the Christ in you. When you read Paul and he mentions Christ, it will never be a Christ outside of you it will always be the Christ that is in you. Follow Paul long enough as he suggests and you see his message of Christ in you has to do with living the life of another Christ in you. Since you have no other life but Christ it is a very good idea to pay close attention to Paul and "my gospel," he called it. He preachs nothing but Christ as life, and that life is the only life of the believer. Believers trying to extract a life from scriptures will miserably fail if they do not see Christ as that life.
Reread the first chapter of John and look at the life in John's first chapter as well as the rest of the book. What separates John from most other writers is he wrote some years after Paul and knew what Paul was talking about. The book of John is more than just history as the other synoptic Gospel's, John's book should have been one of the Epistles. John had a revelation of Jesus Christ as did Paul. When you talk about John's revelation it is not his revelation given to him that he penned in the book of "the revelation." That is history and future events having nothing to do with "revelation of Christ in you."
For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. - Galatians 1:12.
To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: - Colossians 1:27.
