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Amazing Facts

Grace or Disgrace

Joe Crews

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The earliest writing of which we have record was done on plates of stone.

Most of the prehistoric authors are unknown by name, but 1 writer has been definitely identified and his composition translated.

I'll be back in a moment to talk about wisdom from the ancient past.

Hello this is Joe Cruz from the Amazing Facts broadcast, facts which affect you.

Our topic today is the subject of law, grace or disgrace.

Now these are the questions I'd like to ask as we begin our broadcast today.

First of all, are you living under the law, friend?

Now let me ask you, are you absolutely positive of your answer?

Now secondly, are you living under grace?

And then my third question, could it be that you are living under disgrace?

Now I have discovered there are many, many people in the world today who profess to be Christians and who profess to be living under grace, but in reality they are living under disgrace.

Now we have already established in previous broadcasts that God wrote the 10 Commandment Law with His own finger.

Now today we come to another very important point.

The first Bible fact about the Law is this.

Now I know there are hundreds of definitions of sin, but God has His own definition, and He gives it to us in 1 John 3, 4.

Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law, For sin is the transgression of the law.

And I want you to note that He does not have any time for these weak definitions of sin that are floating around the world today.

And we hear so many people saying, well, it is just a mistake in judgment or it is a personality defect or just plain human weakness.

No, no, we just left up to modern enlightened 20th century men to make up that kind of evasive definition for sin, friends.

We find in the Word of God, sin is a transgression or breaking of God's law.

So even if you are a church member in good and regular standing, a Sunday school teacher, a deacon, an elder, a preacher, if you are breaking any 1 of those 10 Commandments, you are a sinner Because the Bible says sin is breaking the 10 Commandments.

Now, I am assuming you are doing it willfully and knowingly.

You could belong to 15 churches and experience 16 baptisms, but if you are not keeping the commandments of God, you are still a sinner on the authority of 1 John 3, 4.

Now the devil, I know, has invented a doctrine.

You are probably well acquainted with it.

And it goes something like this, that to be saved all you have to do is just love Jesus and just join a church and then you won't have to worry about the law of God, you'll be saved anyway.

I'd like to remind you that the devil himself invented that teaching.

It is not to be found in the Bible at all.

The Bible teaches something entirely different.

Now another Bible fact about the Law is this, no 1 has ever been saved by keeping the Law because salvation is through faith in Jesus alone.

Now let's read a text to elucidate that point in Romans 3, verse 20, Romans 3, verse 20, Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Now that is pretty clear and pretty frank, isn't it?

You put it down and remember it forever Because God has clarified this point.

By the deeds of the law, nobody will be justified.

Jesus said in Luke 19.10, For the Son of Man is come to seek and save that which was lost.

There is no other means of salvation except faith in Jesus as our dying Savior.

But now, friends, notice in James 1, 23-25, our lives are compared to a mirror, or rather I should say the law is compared to a mirror.

If I go into the kitchen or the bedroom and look into the mirror, and if I have been working out in the yard and have a dirty face, the mirror will show it to me, and I will see that spot on my face.

But that mirror does absolutely nothing about removing that dirt from my face.

It has no value whatsoever when it comes to getting the dirt off.

But the mirror is necessary because if I didn't look in there, I might think I was clean when I was really dirty.

And it's the same way with the law of God.

When we look under the law of God we see spots on the character, but the law of God does absolutely nothing about removing those spots.

It takes the blood of Jesus Christ to do that.

Let's take a framing square that a carpenter uses.

Now, he takes the square and places it on a board.

The square immediately shows that the board is crooked, if it is crooked.

The end is not straight and the square shows it, but the square does nothing about it.

Then you put the square back on the board and the square shows everything's all right after you've used the saw.

The square had nothing to do with making everything all right.

It took the saw to do that, but you still have to have the square to show that it needs repairing.

You take a fever thermometer and place it under the tongue.

In just a few moments, the nurse comes along and says, I'm sorry, you've got a fever.

Now does the fever thermometer do anything about the fever?

You can become upset, you can take the thermometer and break it up and throw it out the window and say, I've destroyed the thermometer so I no longer have the fever.

Destroying the thermometer wouldn't cure you.

So the doctor prescribes medicine and you take it.

After a while, the thermometer is put back under the tongue and shows that the fever is gone.

Now that is the way it is with the law of God.

That law is helpless except as a mirror to show me what I lack.

Then I must go to the Lord Jesus and the lack will be supplied there.

Then I can come back and look into the mirror and see that a change has taken place.

But let me warn you, unless you are willing to go to that mirror and take a good, long, careful, prayerful look at yourself, you are very apt to end up thinking you are something you are not and can be lost because of it.

That law of God, His mirror, shows us as to what we really are in His sight.

The law is given so that we can see ourselves as the great God of heaven sees us.

So it is very essential for me and for you to look into this mirror often if we expect to be saved.

People living under grace must keep God's law.

Now I know it is a common belief today that if I am under grace I can forget all about the law.

But let's see what the scripture says in Romans 6.15.

Shall we sin, because we are not under the law but under grace?

Now this is actually Romans 6.14, I guess.

All right, shall we sin is the question, because we're not under the law but under grace, and Paul says in the very strongest language he can muster, God forbid.

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