The Law Of Grace

Christian, you have been saved by grace, through faith.

Steve, that guy down the street, the one you hang out with at the pub, is not going to be saved by the law, neither by that which you hold over his head, not that of his government, the magistrate placed over him by God himself. Steve will be saved by God’s sure grace by believing that Jesus died for his sin.

Abe, the librarian from across town, will be saved by hearing the Gospel of forgiveness preached to him, not by your enforcement of God’s holy law.

Your brother, Adam was not saved by believing God’s law.

Ruth, your cousin, is saved by trusting that God will save her.

None of these people, nor anyone else in history or yet to be born, are saved by faith in the law. They are saved by faith in the promise of God – the gospel of Jesus Christ.

By grace

Not works

Not faithfulness

Not anything you do

Not keeping the law

Not knowing the law

Only in the person and work of Christ

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our wrongdoings, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the boundless riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Ephesians 2:4-9, NASB