Abundance of Grace

There is much talk about Grace and law in Christendom in the last year or so. Thankfully we have been in a new season of fresh Revelation by the Spirit of the Lord concerning Grace.
One of the greatest enemies of Christianity has been the mixing of the Old Covenant and the New into some sort of genetically altered hydrid.
Under the Old Testament God gave the Law by Moses, this occurred on Mt Sinai.

John1:16 Amplified
For out of His fullness (abundance) we have all received [all had a share and we were all supplied with] one grace after another and spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing and even favor upon favor and gift [heaped] upon gift.

17 For while the Law was given through Moses, grace ([d]unearned, undeserved favor and spiritual blessing) and truth came through Jesus Christ.


The Old Testament law was written on tablets of stone by the laserlike fire of the finger of God on Sinai. Moses came down off the mountain with the tablets, only to find the children of Israel partying like rock stars. He was so disappointed he smashed the tablets in an anger of despair at what he saw. The law was given to show man his own inability to measure up to Gods perfection. If the law was all that we needed, there was no need for God to send the Messiah, his own son, Jesus Christ, to offer Forgiveness,Salvation and Redemption.
In the New Testament or Covenant we find that we are offered Grace and Mercy for our undone conditions, not based on our work or good deeds of righteousness but totally based on His finished work at Calvary, through His Death,Shed Blood, Burial,Resurrection and Ascension to the Father. This makes not just atonement but a full remission of our sins. Atonement is spoken of by theologians as a covering for our sins but remission is total erasure and newness.
It could be likened to:- not just sweeping the dirt under a carpet but removing the dirt completely from the picture.

Romans 7;4 NLT (St Paul to the Roman church)
So, my dear brothers and sisters, this is the point: You died to the power of the law when you died with Christ. And now you are united with the one who was raised from the dead. As a result, we can produce a harvest of good deeds for God. 5 When we were controlled by our old nature,[b] sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced a harvest of sinful deeds, resulting in death. 6 But now we have been released from the law, for we died to it and are no longer captive to its power. Now we can serve God, not in the old way of obeying the letter of the law, but in the new way of living in the Spirit.

The good News of Jesus Christ is that we dont have to establish our own rightness by doing good deeds by sheer grit and law keeping. In fact its like trying to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, it just wont work.
His Righteousness or Rightness is a free gift of His Grace to all who believe and trust in Him. The Amazing thing about all this is it invokes the Power of a whole new Law, called the Law of the spirit of Life in Christ.

Romans 8:2 NKJV
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

This Divinely intrinsic principle is also called the perfect law of liberty or law of faith. This means that the Resurrected death defeating Life Of Jesus Christ actually is now living inside of us flowing like a mighty River of Glorious Love and Power. This is the difference between pushing a car along the highway and sitting back in a high powered luxury Porsche and letting the high performance engine drive the wheels.

John 7:38-39
Amplified Bible (AMP)

38 He who believes in Me [who cleaves to and trusts in and relies on Me] as the Scripture has said, From his innermost being shall flow [continuously] springs and rivers of living water.

39 But He was speaking here of the Spirit, Whom those who believed (trusted, had faith) in Him were afterward to receive.

This life giving Power and Love is so joyous and awesome that often believers are accused of drinking earthly wine because of the fun and exuberance sometimes manifested. Of course it is the wine of the Holy Spirit that infuses these disciples, not an alcoholic beverage.


Acts 2:14-21 Message version

That’s when Peter stood up and, backed by the other eleven, spoke out with bold urgency: “Fellow Jews, all of you who are visiting Jerusalem, listen carefully and get this story straight. These people aren’t drunk as some of you suspect. They haven’t had time to get drunk—it’s only nine o’clock in the morning. This is what the prophet Joel announced would happen:

“In the Last Days,” God says,
“I will pour out my Spirit
on every kind of people:

Hebrews 12 shows how Mt Sinai speaks of the Old Testament Mosaic Law and compares it to Mt Zion which speaks of the New Testament and the Law of Love and truthful Grace of Jesus.

Hebrews 12:18 Amplified
For you have not come [as did the Israelites in the wilderness] to a [material] mountain that can be touched, [a mountain] that is ablaze with fire, and to gloom and darkness and a raging storm,

19 And to the blast of a trumpet and a voice whose words make the listeners beg that nothing more be said to them.
20 For they could not bear the command that was given: If even a wild animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned to death.
21 In fact, so awful and terrifying was the [phenomenal] sight that Moses said, I am terrified (aghast and trembling with fear).

NOW HERES THE GOOD NEWS

22 But rather, you have come to Mount Zion, even to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to countless multitudes of angels in festal gathering,

23 And to the church (assembly) of the Firstborn who are registered [as citizens] in heaven, and to the God Who is Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous (the redeemed in heaven) who have been made perfect,

24 And to Jesus, the Mediator (Go-between, Agent) of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood which speaks [of mercy],

Today many try to preach a half hearted Grace that ends up reverting to the Mosaic Law and paralyzing the Power of Love and Grace from working in peoples heart like Rivers of Living Water. Its either Sinai or Zion, self effort or Divine Impetus. Its an easy choice if you use common sense. Who wants to push the car up the hill when you can jump in and drive in airconditioned comfort?