Topic: Law and grace

Question

Romans 7:14-18, “We know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I would do—not: for what I would, that I would not; but what I hate, that I do. If then I do that which I would not, I (c-a-n-…) un—unto the law, consent to the law, that it is good. Now then, it is no more I that doeth it, but sin that dwelleth in me.” This I cannot understand.

Answer

Well, they wrote out the Scripture; that’s Paul speaking to the Romans. Now he said…Let me just kind of polish it up so you can see. He said, “In me is two persons: right, one wants me to do; wrong, the other wants me to do. And every time I start to do right, then the wrong hinders me.” How many o...

Question

What does Paul mean by freedom and liberty in Christ? What way is freedom from law?

Answer

Well, you’re not bound by law. Say, for instance, here’s the same thing; I’ll explain in the natural way, quickly. For instance, out here it says, go down the street, thirty miles an hour is all the faster you can go. All right now. Now if I go down the street forty miles an hour, I’m condemned by t...

Question

Is keeping the Golden Rule or the Ten Commandments what covers a person before God?

Answer

And so is it today, friends, not the Golden Rule, which is all right, not the Ten Commandments, which is holy, but God killed Something to cover you up, His Son, Christ Jesus died on Calvary, the Innocent for the guilty to make a way that you and I might be innocent in Him before God. And that’s the...