Is Grace really connected to Law ?

The Gospel, the joyful message, of Jesus
Christ is God´s love to each and every
human being.

Having said that, God´s love and God´s
salvation is not depending on how we feel,
or he feels, at the moment.

If you have missed that The Gospel is
solidly founded on Law (juridik) you have
missed a lot of the message.

When you find out that it is about law you
will shout for joy. Why so?

Law is law. If you are in prison you are so
due to law, and if you are free you are due
to law, it does not change day to day, based
on how you feel.

Just because God is Love and loves human
beings, he could not just jump over his
Rightiousness and by that the Law;

like close his eyes for that we have all com-
mited sin and have fallen away from him;

Book of Hebrews 9:22
"Indeed, under the law almost Everything
is purified with blood, and without the
shedding of blood there is no forgiveness
of sins."




There is a Law Drama behind God´s plan
of salvation. The Bible calls God the Judge.
The bible calls Jesus our Advocate. And the
bible calls the devil the Prosecutor of the
brethren (Jesus´).

The Prosecutor, the Devil, uses God´s law,
his Commandments, to day and night, year
in and out, prosecute every man and woman
before God, the Judge.

He knows that God is rightious and that
God cannot just look away and forget that
man has sinned.

God hates the devil, because the devil was
the one that wanted to take God´s place in
mans life; and so he tempted Adam and
Ewe to be disobedient to God.

Man being evil, selfish, going his own way,
means that the devil has man´s attention,
not God.

But the loving God, the Judge, had a great
salvation plan. At his perfect time he sent
his own Son to become a human being,
"born by woman". But the Father of Jesus
was God himself, "Mary had not yet known
a man", even so she was found being with
child.


Here comes next truths based on Law:
Jesus lived his whole life without commit-
ing one single sin. He was obedient even
unto death.

He did not have to die, death is not some-
thing absolutely normal, it is an effect of
sin according to the bible.

God let Jesus take our place on the cross,
to suffer all rightious punishment for all
sin of mankind.

On the third day God could raise Jesus
from the dead, because Jesus was without
personal sin.

When you and I accept that Jesus died in our
place - in forehand, while we were yet
sinners - an amazing exchange takes place
based on Law.

God then gives us Jesus´ Rightiousness
which he won through a whole life without
sin.

And we give him our trash; our sin, in that
we give acceptance to that he died for our
sin on the cross, when he was crucified as a
bandit / a robber.

By this plan God, the ultimate Judge and
Law expert, has declared that his rightious
nature is satisfied, at the same time he wins
back every human that wants to turn around
and come back to him.

The Devil knew Jesus was God´s Son, and
thought he won a victory when he had Jesus
crucified. But boy, how cheated he was by
our God.


Now the Devil cannot use the command-
ments any more against those that have
accepted Jesus Christ as their savior. Be-
cause Jesus has now become our Advocate!

The devil now only have lies left to try to
cheat us, trying to get our attention on him
instead of Jesus.

By lies, the devil will try to use our feelings,
so that we "feel bad and unforgiven by God".

But then remember - everything from God
is based on rock-firm law, and not on some-
thing uncertain as feelings.

By holding on to this truth, your feelings
will eventually become obedient servants to
you instead of bringing your mode down.

When you say yes to what Jesus did for you
on the cross, nothing anymore hinders you,
you have become a child of God, by simply
by faith accepting his salvation plan.

Heaven is then with you on earth, and your
way to heaven is secured while you follow
Jesus closely through the rest of the life.


By this God´s plan, God will now be free to
judge the evil powers of darkness on the day
when he choose.

Before, if he were to judge and "take away
the evil" like many asks why he does not,
(the Teodice problem) he had to judge man
at the same time; as man is part of the evil
before he accepts God´s salvation.

/Björn Hellman