Is law and grace, or the word and grace, a 'mixture'?

Is law and grace, or the word and grace, a 'mixture'?
Many radical grace preachers say, "Teaching of grace with law is the teaching of pure grace which can save. Law and grace cannot mix; otherwise it is a mixture which brings death to the people. It becomes the ministration of death. But many traditional churches are still trying to balance the grace of God with law. What they balanced, God called 'mixture'. Hence, we should teach only pure grace with no more law. We should preach the gospel, as radical grace, until everyone misunderstood us and accuse us for preaching 'license to sin'; or else we have not preached the gospel that Paul preached".
I will tell them, That is quite 'scriptural' with your definition of 'mixture'. Yes, you can quote all the Bible verses about the law or the covenant which has become obsolete. But, please do not just quote from Romans and Galatians only. The gospel that Paul preached is not based on the letters to the Romans believers and Galatians believers only. The gospel that Paul preached is based on the gospel that Jesus preached to all the sinners and it is based on the four Gospels written by His disciples. The four Gospels are based on the words and doctrine of Jesus Christ. The doctrine of Jesus Christ is based on the words and commandments of God to the whole mankind; not only to the Jews. If we know the truth, we would not call what God said as 'mixture'.

• Joh 7:16-20 KJV  Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.  (17)  If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.  (18)  He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.  (19)  Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?  (20)  The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?
• Mat 28:18-20 KJV  And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.  (19)  Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:  (20)  Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

AntiChrist would deny the Lord, but before they deny Him, they will start to deny His words and doctrine in the Gospel (recorded by Matthew, Luke, Mark, and John) 
So, what does it mean when 'someone' came to you and said that whatsoever Jesus said or preached before He was crucified have all become obsolete or that all His commandments are no longer applicable to us ? That 'someone', who said so, is not from God. He has not only denied the words of Jesus Christ; he has also denied all the four Gospels which recorded all the doctrine and teaching of Jesus Christ. If he has rejected all the doctrine and teaching of Jesus Christ, he could be a very crafty anti-Christ who knows how to twist and make the teaching of Jesus Christ of none effect without being detected:

• 1Jn 2:18-26 KJV  Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.  (19)  They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.  (20)  But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.  (21)  I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.  (22)  Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.  (23)  Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.  (24)  Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.  (25)  And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.  (26)  These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. 

AntiChrist would make the teaching of Jesus Christ of none effect by quoting certain words out of context
Please look around and you will agree that many believers have already been confused by certain words, doctrine, law, or teaching which was quoted out of context:

• 2Co 3:6-7 KJV  Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.  (7)  But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:

Hence, because of wrong understanding, many radical grace preachers took this Bible verse out of its context and interpret that the letter is the law of God or the word of God which will always kill. But did they read the whole chapter of Paul's letter to understand the difference between the letter and the spirit? Please do not jump to the conclusion by ignoring what Paul said in the rest of the chapter. Paul was not saying that the law will kill and full stop. Paul was saying the law will kill; but it depends on what and how the law was received, taken, understood, recorded, and kept. If it is kept like the Old Testament, it is like the ministry of death, and therefore, it kills. However, if it is kept as the spirit, understood as the spirit, and followed in the spirit, it is life. So, the Ten Commandments written on the stones is useless. We won't find a replica of the commandments in the churches. But it does not mean that we have no more Ten Commandments. The 'Ten Commandments' are now written in the hearts and minds of the believers through the Spirit of God.


The word and the law of God must be received in the Spirit; otherwise it is death
Similarly, if the words of God are received, taken, and obeyed like the letters or codes of the Old Testament, it is like the ministry of death too. It is absurd to reason that law and grace can be mixture; whilst the word and grace can never be mixture, because of the following Bible verses:

• Joh 1:1 KJV  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
• Joh 1:14 KJV  And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Of course, we don't say the Word and grace are a 'mixture' when we preach them together. If the Word and grace are together. Why can't the words, the doctrine, and the law of God be together too? And I don't think anyone can say that they are a 'mixture'. If I must use some kind of weird descriptions to describe the relationship between the words, doctrine, law of God, and grace, I would say that it is a 'cocktail' which mellows with age; not a 'mixture' which kills with the curse of the law.
Obviously, when Paul said 'law' and grace cannot mix and the mixture would kill (I wonder if he had ever said it), he did not refer 'law' as the words of God or the laws of God; he referred to 'the law' or the old covenant which was received, taken, understood, recorded, and kept by the Israelites through the law of Moses. Paul had made it clear that 'the law' (or the old covenant) cannot be mixed with the new covenant. However, he also emphasized that there must be God's laws or the Spirit of the law in both the old and new covenants:

• Rom 7:6-7 KJV  But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.  (7)  What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
• Rom 7:25 KJV  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.
• Rom 8:6-7 KJV  For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.  (7)  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. (8) So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.  (Hence, the mind that has the law of God will please God. It is of the Spirit and of God.)
• 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:

Why do we mention about preachers who argue against the law of God?
Many radical grace preachers will argue, "Please don't judge. Why do you mention that the radical grace preaches said this .. or that.. when we did not say it. Why can't you just preach your law without mentioning us. Why must you judge us or mention us? Why don't you judge the prosperity preachers or other religious preachers ?"
I will tell them, There are many reasons why we have to mention those who preach radical grace.  I can give some of the reasons:
When the radical grace preachers preached against the law or laws of God, didn't they mention about the law preachers too? Didn't they accuse the Pharisees as hypocrites too? Some of them would even point out that the old traditional churches, who told them to leave because of improper or 'lawless' conducts, as the hypocritical or law-based people too. So, I would think that it is inevitable to mention generally the people who argue against the laws when we have to explain and expose the misconception or lies preached by them. I think that it is a fair and balanced way to show them that they can mention others as hypocrites, so can we. When we call 'balance', no one can call 'mixture' !
The other reason for mentioning generally those who argue against the law of God is to prevent wild guesses or wrong accusations. If we think that the Pharisees were hypocrites, we would say that they are the hypocrites. We won't try to protect or hide their identity, and give people the wrong impression that all the Jews are hypocrites. Similarly, if radical grace preachers were the ones who preached radically against the law of God, we don't try to protect or hide their identity and give people the wrong impression that the whole Church of Jesus  is against the law of God too. Jesus had told us not to judge, but if we do judge or say something in defence of someone or something, we must judge righteously. We will make sure it is fair and balanced. If we do this, who can say that it is a 'mixture'?     

• Joh 7:16-24 KJV  Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.  (17)  If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.  (18)  He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.  .. (24)  Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

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