Why is Grace Higher than the Law?

Legalism is the way to stagnation and death, the death of your spiritual development and growth. You cannot trust in the Name of God, and allow His Grace to change your circumstances and your life if you are constantly trying to do the Lord's work by justifying yourself with religious practices and rules.

Under the New Covenant, which is the sacrifice for sin made by our Lord Jesus Christ and your confession of faith declaring Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, we have everything we need to change our hearts and minds; we are declared cleansed from sin forever and ever, as we are now covered with the Blood of the Lamb. When God looks at us, He doesn't see our imperfections and weaknesses, He sees His Son, and we are declared righteous because of our profession of faith.

The law tempts your flesh down toward sin, but faith in the word of God lifts you up towards our Lord, Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ you will save you, sanctify you, and make you righteous. The law only highlights your sins and imperfections, faith in Jesus Christ covers your sins and makes you holy and whole. The law is perfect and will not bend to imperfection, but faith in Jesus Christ redeems you from the curse of the law and transforms your hearts and minds so that you can follow the precepts of the law freely and organically, as an expression of love and righteousness, His righteousness found in the word of God and the perfect guidance of the Holy Spirit.

"We are covered by the blood of the lamb"

Hebrews 9:12-14 and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered he holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

we have a tendency to try to do things our own way; our instinct is to try to justify ourselves before God, but God already knows who we are and what is in our heart. You could be sincere in trying to fix your problems yourself, but the Lord knows that you cannot fix them yourself and in the deepest places of your heart, so do you. When we let got of the idea that we can solve all of our problems with useless rituals and practices, that somehow these things can make us holy and perfect, that is when spiritual maturity and growth begins.

Let the light of God bring revelation into your heart, stop rejecting His provision of Grace and allow Him to transform your heart and mind. You need to repent of stubbornness and pride, for there is no one on this earth that can declare within themselves that they are free of sin and that they don't need the Grace of God; anyone declaring that they are sinless and guilt free without the covering of the Blood of the Lamb are only deluding themselves.

Ask yourselves, Am I really relying on the Grace of God? When you have a problem, do you seek an answer from the word of God? Do you pray for guidance? Do you obey the promptings of the Holy Spirit? Do you feel His presence in your circumstances? Can you see His presence in your circumstances?

What you need to know right now, is that when you surrender your own will to His, He will provide a way out of no way, and give you the resources to come out of your situation victorious, but you have to trust Him and follow His lead.

When you decide to justify yourself with legalistic practices, you invalidate the sacrifice Jesus Christ made on the cross; if you could save yourself just by following the ten commandments and your own rules and regulations, then why did Jesus Christ die on the cross? Our fallen human nature blinds us to the truth of the corruption in our souls. Yes, I can be nice, you can be nice, we can all be nice to each other on occasion, but what about those tempting, sinful thoughts that keep invading our minds every single day, or our selfish tendencies that rise up when we want to do something we that know isn't right?

1 John 2:16

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

We cannot hope to escape the powerful evil influences in this world without the word of God or the Holy Spirit. We are sanctified by the workings of the Holy Spirit and by reading His word. We must rely on God's Grace and love to see the world as it really is, and to cope with our fallen nature.

So, give your life right now to Jesus Christ, repent of your sins, which means confess that God is right and you were wrong, choose to live by God's standards and not your own, and pray for deliverance from sinful thoughts and desires, let the love of Christ, and the power of the Holy Spirit flow through you and into your life.

If you have never confessed Jesus Christ as your savior, repeat this prayer:

Prayer of Salvation

Lord,

I repent for trying to be master of my own life. I change my mind about who I want to be in charge of my life. I turn from my useless and unproductive thoughts that I am the center of my universe and choose to believe in the living God who created everything, including me (Acts 14:15). I have lived without a purpose but now I will live to hear and obey You, God (Jn. 5:19, 20,30).

I confess with my lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in my heart that God raised Him from the dead. I believe that God so loved the world He sent His only Son Jesus to shed His blood to wash away the barrier of sin (Jn. 3:16)

I receive You, Jesus as MY Lord and Savior (Jn. 1:11,12).

I welcome You, Holy Spirit, into my life to rescue and empower me and to restore me to intimacy with my heavenly Father (Acts 2:38).

If you just confessed this prayer, you are saved! I welcome you into the family my (brother/sister) I pray for peace, joy, and happiness in your life as you allow the Lord to love you and bless you and give you assurance of everlasting life with Him forever and ever......PRAISE GOD!

May the Lord keep you and Bless you this day....Amen