WHAT DO YOU MEAN? I AM NOT UNDER LAW, I AM UNDER GRACE!

Chapter 1 - Law and Grace

Moses
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The Law was given
By or through Moses
The mediator of the Old Convenant
The Law was given to a person

Jesus
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Grace and truth came
By or through Jesus Christ
The mediator of the New Convenant
Grace and truth was personified

The words inspired by the Holy Spirit are full of significance. Law is contrasted with grace. But grace does not come alone. It was grace AND truth which came personified in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ. It was not grace alone. It was not truth alone. It was grace and truth in perfect balance in the person of Jesus.

If there is grace only, there is the danger it could lead one into license or licentiousness. If there is truth only, there is the danger of letterism or legalism, which is the other extreme. And this is what Jude was burdened to write about in his Epistle :-

"Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain have crept in unnoticed (unawares), who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn (twist) the grace of God into lewdness (lasiviousness) and deny the only ord God and our Lord Jesus Christ (Jude 3,4)