Law Or Grace? Series

Romans 6:14 “For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.” (NIV)

Ceremonial Law

Civil Law

Moral Law

Question: What is the purpose of the Law?

The Seven Pictures of the Law:

1) Pictured as a Yoke. Galatians 5:1

Key: The law was never meant to make you a different person.

Matthew 11:28-29

Lesson: Law was meant to control us not change us.

2) Pictured as a Guardian. Galatians 4:1-7

Key: The Law was given for immature people.

Romans 7:6

Lesson: Jesus came to turn the regulation into a relationship.

3) Pictured as a Slave Girl. Galatians 4:21-31

Key: We are never supposed to have a relationship to the Law.

Lesson: Hagar = Law and Sarah = grace.

4) Pictured as a Debt. Colossians 2:13-15

Lesson: You are no longer in debt to the Law.

5) Pictured as a Shadow. Colossians 2:16-17

Question: What causes a Shadow?

Hebrews 10:1

6) Pictured as a Mirror. James 1:22-25

Lesson: Law reveals my condition but doesn’t cure it.

2 Corinthians 3:18

7) Pictured as a Husband. Romans 7:1-4

Lesson: Grace sets us Free!

Question: How are we “FREE” from the Law?

There are two Extremes:

Legalism

License

Galatians 3:23-25

Question: Where has the Law led you?