Did God give us grace so that we can live without His laws?

Did God give us grace so that we can live without His laws?
Certainly Not. God gives us grace so that His laws will live in us. But many preachers today would argue against it. They would try to debate and argue against the words of God by saying, "No, it's either law or grace. As for me, it is only grace. It is pure grace for me. It has no more law and it is the gospel that Paul preached. If we have grace, we do not need to have any law. We have no more laws, no more do's and don'ts, no more restriction, no more rules, no more bondage to live under the laws of God to do good, to live righteous life, .. It's a total freedom from doing and teaching any God's laws and commandments .."
I will ask them, Do you check your Bible before arguing against God's words or commandments? Do you know what Paul would say?

Rom 6:1-3 KJV  What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?  (2)  God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?  (3)  Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

In another words, Paul said, CERTAINLY NOT!. How can we live lawlessly and sin without keeping the laws of God? So that grace may abound? No way, God forbid. The Bible defined sin as lawlessness or lawlessness as sin. Hence, if we live without keeping God's laws or depart from God's laws, we sin:

• 1Jn 3:4 LITV  Everyone practicing sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.

Hence, Adam sinned not because he killed or stolen from others; he sinned because he departed from God's command. Now, can we sin like him that grace may abound? Can we depart from all God's commands that grace may abound? God forbid. Hence, we cannot tell people to depart from God's laws and commandments so that grace may abound.

** When Paul said, God forbid - it means a clear commandment not to live in sins, a commandment not to sin with grace, and a commandment to still honour our parents with grace:

• Eph 6:2-3 KJV  Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)  (3)  That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
• Rom 13:9-14 KJV  For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. ..(13) Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.  (14)  But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

 It is still a commandment to obey the ten commandment too. 

Grace without the laws of God is not the grace of God 
Paul would preach against using the grace of God as license to sin. Paul stated it very strongly that he would not allow any believers to take advantage of the grace of God to live without the laws of God. Hence, Paul would never allow any people to misunderstand the gospel of grace as the gospel with no more keeping God's laws. He said it clearly and strongly that no one can live with grace and live in sin without keeping the laws of God. No one can live with grace and live in lawlessness. He said in Rom 6:1-3 How can we continue in sin and lawlessness, that grace may abound? CERTAINLY NOT! I don't think he would tell us to preach grace so radically that everyone misunderstood the grace of God as license to sin. On the contrary, he said clearly, strongly, and repeatedly,  

Rom 6:14-16 KJV  ..  (15)  What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

Hence, it is very clear to us that Paul was not preaching grace without any laws of God, or telling us to move to the covenant of grace with no more keeping of God's laws. He did not preach 'pure grace'. But he preached it clearly that the grace of God is given so that we have the laws of God to live in us:

• Heb 8:10 KJV  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
• Heb 10:16-17 KJV  This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;  (17)  And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. 

Hence, if anyone preaches the covenant of grace without any law, he is not preaching the gospel that Paul preached; he is preaching a different gospel which will corrupt the words of God in us:

• 2Co 11:2-4 KJV  For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.  (3)  But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.  (4)  For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

Hence, the gospel that Paul preached is still based on the gospel that Jesus preached; otherwise, Paul would be guilty of preaching another gospel too. The gospel that Jesus preached was everything that He had preached in the gospel. Hence, what Jesus preached was certainly more than what Paul preached. 
The gospel that Jesus preached started from the time when He started to preach; not when Paul started to preach or write to the churches: 

• Mar 1:1-2 KJV  The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;  (2)  As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
• Mat 4:23 KJV  And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
• Luk 4:17-19 KJV  And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,  (18)  The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,  (19)  To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
• Joh 21:25 KJV  And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.

Hence, how can we allow the radical grace preachers to tell us that the gospel that Paul preached is more relevant to us than the gospel that Jesus preached? How can we let them start deleting the teaching of the Lord, the Lord's prayer, or His sermon on the mount? No, don't let their lies remove all the Lord's parables, warnings, and commandments spoken to the disciples and all of us who would take up the cross to follow Him. 


Sin will abound if men will still depart from God's laws after receiving His grace
So, I will tell them, How can we tell people to abound in grace without the laws of God? CERTAINLY NOT! How can we tell people to live under grace that we may sin and disobey God's laws? CERTAINLY NOT! How can we tell people that we shall only have grace and reject all His laws from our life?

• Rom 6:14-16 KJV  ..  (15)  What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.  (16)  Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

Paul said, "To whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey;" It means that if we obey God or God's laws, we automatically become the servant to whom we obey. We become the servants of God; but if we obey lawlessness or sins, we become the servant of sins. Hence, how can we tell people to have the grace of God without yielding to Him or obedience to His laws and commandments? No, God forbid.
   
   
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