Living Under Law or Grace

• Title: Are You Living Under the Law or Are You Living Under Grace?
• PREACHER: Jerome Wadsworth
• Text: Romans 6:14

Time is going fast and we need to grow in grace, purity, holiness, knowledge of God and the power of his Spirit. Some are growing lukewarm.

Satan is messing not with just eschatology and end-time prophecy, but with God’s salvation. He does not want any to be saved in the end.

2 Peter 1:9-10—9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. 10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

1Co 2:10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

Joe 2:28 ¶ And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: 29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.

I am interested in the deep things of God.

The devil would keep the church powerless. There is a spirit in the land today of the Laodicean church. None identify themselves, “I’m a member of the Laodicean chuch.”

Romans 6:14—For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

What is the litmus test for determining whether we are under the law or under grace? IF SIN DOES OR DOES NOT HAVE DOMIONION OVER A PERSON.

The Law is powerless to save.

Romans 7—Paul speaks of the struggle between the Spirit and the flesh. Paul as a Jew was trying to keep the law. Paul did find the answer!

Romans 7:24—O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

Romans 8:1-4—There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

FALSE DOCTRINE: “Sin has no ill effect, I am under grace.” This modern church wants us to settle for the philosophy that the OT law could lift men and woman (Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Mary) to a higher standard than Christ can under Grace.