The Spirit of Law and the Spirit of Grace — Denny Kenaston

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I'd like us this morning to turn in our Bibles to John, chapter 1, to begin a reading there. I'd like to give a teaching this morning that's been on my heart for, oh, I'd say a few months and was brought upon my heart as a fresh burden during the revival that was going on around here.

The title of my message this morning is, The Spirit of Law and the Spirit of Grace. The Spirit of Law and the Spirit of Grace. Now, there are many areas where the Spirit of Law or the Spirit of Grace can affect, but I believe I'll be directing most of the message on how this affects relationships.

Relationships with one another. Relationships between husbands and wives. Relationships with children. The Spirit of Law and the Spirit of Grace. In John, chapter 1, where we had you turn, we want to read from verse 12 through verse 18.

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name, which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

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. John bare witness of him and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake.

He that cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me. And of his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

No man hath seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. This morning, as an introduction, I'd like us to consider the difference between the coming of the law and the coming of grace and truth.

The scripture here says that the law came by Moses. But if we could just for a moment lay a little groundwork for the message and go back and remember how the law came. Exodus chapter 20 is where we would drop in and read if we were going to read about when the law was given.

But if you remember, God told Moses to gather the people together. God told Moses to sanctify the people. He said, I'm going to appear unto you tomorrow. And then the people were to gather outside and around the mount.

And Moses was to go up in the mount. And there, God spoke to the people of God. They heard His word. They heard His law. And we know the scene that is laid there, Mount Sinai. It's a place of trembling.

There was a place of thundering. There was fire on that mountain. And the Bible says that the people exceedingly feared and quaked as they heard the word come forth from that mountain. Well, this is the way that the law came by Moses.

And it had its effects upon the people there when they heard it. And all down through the centuries after they heard it, that law had its effect upon people. And the Bible says that grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

What a different way that grace and truth came. We heard a little bit already about it this morning. Here He comes, just like everybody else. Humbles Himself, fulfills all manner of righteousness. Is baptized there of John in the river Jordan.

The Spirit of God descends upon Him. Out into the wilderness He goes. He comes back. Yes, we read it there in Luke. He's seated there, speaking to the people. And what is the ministry of grace and truth?

But to bind up the brokenhearted, to minister grace to people, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and to loose those that are bound. This is the way grace and truth came. And when John described it, he said, we beheld His glory.

Oh, it was beautiful. It was the glory as of the only begotten of the Father. And He was full of grace and He was full of truth. And that's the testimony that we have this morning of our Lord Jesus. He was full of grace and He was full of truth.

And what a beautiful combination those two make together, don't they? Grace, that is the divine influence and power of the grace of God working in the heart of an individual. And truth, that's the divine revelation of the mind and will of God.

And we read in the Scriptures that our Lord Jesus was full of both of them. He was full and running over of the grace of God, the divine power, the unction, the strength that was needed to live the way He needed to live.

And He was also full and running over of the truth of the Word of God. That was our Lord Jesus. The law came by Moses, but it came in a very different way than the coming of grace and truth. Words like this we read in the Scriptures as our Lord Jesus begins to manifest Himself and His ministry upon the earth.

The people marvel at the gracious words that come out of His mouth. Words like this are spoken to the people. Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly of heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

Very different than the law that came on Mount Sinai. Totally different influence and effect. And that's what I'd like to speak about some this morning. There is a difference in the effect of the law than there is in the effect that grace has upon our lives.

There is a difference in the attitudes that flow out of a life that is controlled by principles of law as compared to the life that flows out of one who is controlled by the principles of grace. And maybe that would be a good way to divide the two of them in our minds this morning.

There are those who live by principles of law, and there are those who live by principles of grace. And the principles of law and the principles of grace are very far away from each other. The spirit of law and the spirit of grace.

The influence of the principles of law compared to the influence of the principles of grace in somebody's life. Turn over with me to 2 Corinthians yet. For a reading there, 2 Corinthians chapter 3. Do we begin again to commend ourselves?

We're in verse 1. Or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you? Or letters of commendation from you? Here are epistles written in our hearts, known and read of all men. For as much as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ, ye are ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God.

Not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart. And notice the difference there again. The effect of the principles of law compared to the effect of the principles of grace. One is only written on a table of stone or a piece of paper or a book somewhere.

But the other is written on the fleshly table of the heart. Big difference. Big difference. And such trust have we through Christ to Godward, not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God, 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. There again we see the difference. The principles of law and the principles of the spirit or the principles of grace. One kills and the other gives life.

But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance, which glory was to be done away, how shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?

For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. Now let me just explain a little bit what that word ministration means. It's basically the same word as ministry.

That which flows out. That which flows out of a life. That which flows out of a family. That which flows out of a congregation. We have a ministry. The ministration of your life, or the ministration of your family, or the ministration of a church.

It is that which flows out. Ministry. It's the effect on others. That's what it's talking about. For if the ministration, or that which flowed out of condemnation be glory, how much more the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

You see, the law was given as a ministration of condemnation, so that its effect and its influence would be that which would bring condemnation. It would be that which would bring death. It would be that which brings somebody to a place where they realize that they cannot do it, and then only turn to Christ where they can find the grace of God to do it.

But the ministration of righteousness that produces and fosters righteous living. That's what that little verse there is saying. That ministration which produces and fosters righteous living, it exceeds in glory.

For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect. By reason of the glory that excelleth. The ministration of righteousness is so much more glorious than the ministration of condemnation.

It just clouds it out of the way. For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious. Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech. And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished.

But their minds were blinded. For until this day remaineth the same veil untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament, which veil is done away in Christ. But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart.

Nevertheless, when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. Verse 17. Now where the Lord is that spirit, and where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Liberty, power to do the will of God.

Let us remember that little phrase, that little verse there, as we go through many different points here this morning. Remember that where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, or power, or grace, or strength to do the will of God.

So, obviously, when we begin to ponder this whole matter of the effect of the principles of law compared to the effect of the principles of grace, surely we want to lean on the grace side, because where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

That is, power to do the will of God. But we all, with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the spirit of the Lord.

The principles of law and the principles of grace, these two have very different effects. If you are an individual who finds yourself living after the principles of law, rather than the principles of grace, and I know that there are some in this room, because it became very evident through the three weeks of revival that we had, that some were leaning on living after principles of law, and others were experiencing the grace of God in a beautiful way in their lives.

So, listen, there is a big difference between the two of these. It will affect the way you think about God. If you are living by principles of law, it will totally affect how you think about God. Number two, it will affect how you think about yourself.

And number three, it will greatly affect how you relate to others. Think with me. If in your mind, you are thinking and relating in your Christian life after principles of law, that means you have to do something in order to please God.

That's going to affect the way you look at God. Because every one of us know, if we stop and think about it, that if you have to please God by the things you do, then if you don't do everything that you are supposed to do, you are not pleasing God, and thus you live under God's displeasure most of your life.

That is not the will of God for a Christian. To live under that sense of God's displeasure, and by the way, it's a false sense of God's displeasure. It's a theology that we brought up in our own mind.

Number two, it will affect how you think about yourself. Because if you are living after the persuasion of the principles of law, then you've got to perform. And if you don't perform, you're a failure.

And if you're a failure, you'll begin to think like a failure. You'll feel like a failure. You'll make decisions like a failure, and you'll be a failure. That's the way it works. And number three, I'll save that one.

But these two are very much apart from each other. The one, if you carry it all the way to its end, you'll have a Pharisee. And the other, if you carry it all the way to its end, you'll have a beautiful example of Jesus Christ upon this earth.

Which one do we want? Do we want to be a Pharisee, or do we want to be a beautiful example of Jesus Christ? The Pharisees were afraid of God. The Pharisees were proud of their attainments. And they figured they were pleasing God by their attainments, and they were proud of their attainments.

And the Pharisees had very little influence on other people. On the other hand, our Lord Jesus Christ was not afraid of God. But He rested in the love of His Heavenly Father all through every day. He was filled with humility and meekness, rather than pride of attainment.

And last of all, He was the most influential man that ever walked on the earth. Which one do we want? The Spirit of Law and the Spirit of Grace. They're very different from each other. They will affect our influence on others considerably.

They will affect the way you raise your children. They will affect how you relate to your spouse. They will affect how you relate to your brothers and sisters in the Lord. And they will also affect how you relate to a lost and dying world.

We'll see these as we go down through several points of comparison between the Spirit of Law and the Spirit of Grace. We'll be able to see that there's a great difference in the effect or the influence that we have on other people.

There is a danger of our hearts being established by laws and not by grace. If you'll turn over with me to Hebrews, and I'll remind you of a verse that Brother Aaron preached to us here a few weeks ago in an opening.

I believe the name of his message was that established in grace was the title of his message. It was such a blessing, such a thrill to listen to him preach about having our hearts established in grace.

Well, the very fact that our brother needed to preach that message shows us that there's a danger that our hearts can be established in laws rather than grace. Read the verse with me in Hebrews 13, verse 8, 9 and 10.

Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and today and forever, be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines, for it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace, not with meats which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

We have an altar whereof they have no right to eat, which serve the tabernacle. Let your hearts be established in grace, not in meats or in laws, in legal codes and rules. Don't let your heart be established in legal codes and rules, but rather let it be established in grace because Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.

So let your heart be established in those things. So let us look at a few of these differences. I have 15 of them, believe it or not, but I don't plan to spend a long time on them because I'd like you to get the principle of operating under law and operating under grace.

I want you to see the difference of the two. First of all, the spirit of the law demands. The spirit of grace encourages. There's a big difference between the two of those. The spirit of the law demands.

It allows no excuse. It must be this way and no other way. But the spirit of grace encourages. And by that I mean it comes alongside and encourages you in the direction of holiness and righteousness. Big difference between the two of those.

One demands, the other encourages. Go this way. That's right. That's good. Keep on going. That's right. Keep your heart open. Just keep going. This way. This is the way to go. The other demands. You'll do this.

And you have no choice. And there's no excuse. This is the way it'll be. This is the way you'll do it. One is the spirit of law. The other is the spirit of grace. They have a tremendous effect on how we relate to people, don't they?

Second of all, the spirit of law condemns. The spirit of grace convicts. Big difference. Condemnation is judgment. Condemnation is heavy. Condemnation brings the heart down low. But conviction simply enlightens the heart.

One is condemnation. One is conviction. Conviction, that still small voice, that sweet prompting of the Spirit of God inside of the heart of God's people. Conviction. The spirit of grace is just a gentle spirit that comes alongside and enlightens our heart.

You know, you shouldn't have done that. Think of it. Think of how the grace of God works in your life. You make a mistake. You say something out of sort. And it might be five minutes. And all of a sudden you have that little quiet moment there by the kitchen sink or at your workbench.

And here it comes. You shouldn't have done that. You shouldn't have done that. But the spirit of law condemns. That was wrong. And all those kind of things go along with it. If we are moving in the spirit of law, that's going to have a very different effect than if we're moving in the spirit of grace.

And I believe when we work with people, God would have us work like the Holy Spirit, not like the law with other people. And just come alongside, give a gentle encouragement. You know, that wasn't a very good thing to do rather than to condemn, to judge, to give feelings of failure and judgment rather than that gentle wooing of the Spirit of God.

Number three. The spirit of law brings bondage. And the spirit of grace brings liberty. Now the word bondage means just what it says. Bound. The spirit of law brings bondage. It binds. It hinders. If you're moving under the principles of law, you're probably failing in your Christian life.

You probably try but fail and try but fail and try but fail. But the spirit of grace brings liberty. For where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. That is power to do God's will. Liberty. Emancipation.

Proclamation. You're free! You can do what you want to do now. You can do the will of God. You can serve the Lord. You can have victory over your sin in your life. The spirit of grace gives liberty or freedom or emancipation, a freedom to do the will of God.

The other brings bondage. Number four. The spirit of law is never good enough. It's never good enough. You ever feel that way? It's never good enough. Well, that's the spirit of the law. It's never good enough.

You always fail under the spirit of the law. The principle of law is always never good enough. You always fell short of it. You maybe got it here, but you lost it here. And you gained a little here, but you lost down here.

The principle of law is never good enough. But the spirit of grace is always excited by each step that is taken. The spirit of grace is acceptance, encouragement, praise. Often heard, you want to raise your children right, give them about nine doses of praise to every one dose of correction.

Then another nine doses of praise and then one dose of correction. Why? Because the spirit of grace is an encourager. It is always excited by each step that is gained and the grace of God, when you take even a baby step in your Christian life, the grace of God is right there to say, that's good!

That's right! You're going the right way. Keep on going. Don't quit now. Keep on going. But oh, the spirit of law, when you take a step, one step in the right direction, the spirit of law is right there to say, that's not good enough.

You could have done better than that. Why didn't you do it this way? What about your motives? And on and on they go. The spirit of law and the spirit of grace, very different one from another. Number five, the spirit of law curses and the spirit of grace blesses.

Curses. You have failed. Judgment is coming. There is a payment due. For that which you did wrong, you failed. But the spirit of grace blesses and shows a way to victory. Even in failure, the spirit of grace shows the way to victory.

Even in total failure, the spirit of grace comes along and says, there's a way out. Get up. God will help you. Keep on going. But the spirit of law comes alongside of one who fell and curses and brings judgment and tries to make the load heavier on top of them.

Big difference between the two. The spirit of law is critical and the spirit of grace gives the benefit of the doubt. Critical. Always finding something wrong. It's a little bit like never good enough, but I think it's worthy of a point in itself.

The spirit of law is critical. It finds something wrong. It's always finding something wrong. But the spirit of grace gives the benefit of the doubt. Benefit of the doubt. I thought of these verses over in 1 Corinthians 13 where it's giving a definition of love.

And it says of love, among other things, it says, love, hope with all things and believe with all things. Love gives the benefit of the doubt. Love believes in the other. Love hopes the best in the other.

Love gives the benefit of the doubt. The spirit of grace gives the benefit of the doubt rather than looking for something wrong and trying to find something to put a finger on and being critical as somebody else.

It just comes alongside and gives the benefit of the doubt. And the first response, if the grace of God is stirring in the heart of an individual, the first response will be, well, there must be some other explanation.

Surely, there must have been a reason for that. It gives the benefit of the doubt. Wouldn't you like to have the benefit of the doubt? So would your brother. So would your sister. Children. So would your wife and your husband.

Wouldn't you like to have the benefit of the doubt? But the spirit of law is critical. Always finding something wrong. Number seven. The spirit of law remembers sin. Again and again and again. Just like in the Old Testament, under the law, they'd come, they'd offer the sacrifice on the Day of Atonement, but a year later, they had to come back again and offer it again.

And a year later, they came back and offered it again. The spirit of law remembers sin. But the spirit of grace forgets it. What? What was that? I don't even remember. What was it you did? I don't even remember.

I don't even remember it. The spirit of grace forgets. The spirit of law remembers it. Reminds you. Reminds you again. Reminds you again. And again and again and again and again. But oh, the grace of God just forgets it.

Buried in the deepest sea. Separated as far as the east is from the west. So are my sins separated from me. Number eight. The spirit of law exposes sin and then leaves you there. That's all law can ever do.

Is expose sin and then leave you there. That's all the law can ever do. But oh, the spirit of grace comes alongside and forgives and covers where we're willing to deal with it. That's what the grace of God will do.

It will come alongside and encourage you to repent, to be forgiven, and to cover it so that it's gone. So that nobody else finds out about it. Number nine. The spirit of law is rejection and the spirit of grace is acceptance.

Law drives away. It will drive you away from God. It will drive you away from people. It will make people want to run away from you. They won't want to be around you. Spirit of law is rejection. But the spirit of grace is acceptance.

It says, Come. Come. Come to God. Come the way you are. Come and be forgiven. Come and be cleansed. Oh, listen. Probably the greatest motivation of the growth in our Christian life comes from the acceptance that we have of the Heavenly Father.

Is it not so? I don't know of anything that motivates me more to go on in my Christian life than to know that God accepts me right where I am. And I don't mean that God accepts sin. But God accepts me right where I am.

If I'm clear in my heart, God accepts me. And sure, maybe six months from now, He'll begin to show me something else that I need to deal with. And I'll see it. But all that six months, God was loving me.

He was accepting me. He was blessing me. He was encouraging me. And that very acceptance caused me to have my heart open so that God could minister to me about another need in my life. The spirit of grace accepts.

But the spirit of law rejects. It makes you want to run away from God. But the spirit of grace makes you want to run to God. Number 10. The spirit of the law tends toward exclusivism. And the spirit of grace is free to all.

Hallelujah! Free to all! Red, brown, yellow, black and white. They're all precious in His sight. But not so with law. The principles of law and those who live after the principles of law, they tend toward being a sect.

Or they tend toward being an individualist. This is how I see it. This is the way it's going to be. I don't care if I have to be by myself. This is the way we're going to do it. That's not the way with the spirit of grace.

Rather, it says, others, Lord, yes, others. Let this my motto be. Quite a difference between the two of those, isn't it? The spirit of law has no mercy. No mercy. When you have failed under the spirit of law, there's no mercy.

But under the spirit of grace, there's complete mercy. Release, forgiveness, encouragement, mercy through the blood of Jesus Christ. But total mercy compared to no mercy, no forgiveness. The spirit of the law and the spirit of grace, they are very different.

Number 12. Under the spirit of law, the highest goal is performance. Under the spirit of grace, the highest goal is a relationship. The one, the other relationship. Boy, there's a big difference between the two of those.

If we are living our lives to perform and we are basing our acceptance on performance, or if we base others' acceptance on performance, or how we accept others' on performance, then if they don't measure up, we don't accept.

And if we don't measure, we don't feel God's acceptance. Because the highest goal is how you perform. But not so with the spirit of grace. The spirit of grace, the highest goal is relationship. Oh Lord, help us to see that one.

As I pondered this message, and there are dozens and dozens of ways that we could go, but I had to think of many of the plain churches and how that there are so much on the performance side that if you come in among them and you don't look quite right, or you say kid instead of children, or a few things like that, there's this silent, mysterious wall that comes up there.

And it comes up there because of the theology of performance. And you didn't perform right, so things don't go right. But oh, the grace of God. Let the grace of God come over our hearts as individuals and as a church, that the highest goal is relationship.

Relationship with the God of Heaven. And relationship with God's people. And relationship with the lost and dying world out there. And there's a big difference between the spirit of law and the spirit of grace if you come and visit a church like that.

The one you'll go away wondering what happened. The one you'll go away not feeling accepted. But the other you'll go away saying, they loved me. They accepted me just the way I am. I want to go back again.

There's something magnetic about those people. And I tell you what it is. It's magnetic because it's like God. That's exactly the way God is with every one of us. I mean, God's relationship with us. That's number one.

And He'll walk with us. I mean, He'll walk with us when we have long hair, cigarettes, brethren. And He'll walk with ailing in this area. And He'll walk with us when maybe we're not as meek and quiet as we ought to be.

And He'll walk with us when we're not as modest as we ought to be because number one on God's list is a relationship. And we've got to be the same way because it's godliness to be like God. Amen? So, it's godly to accept somebody right where they are.

It's godly to come up and put your arm around some fella who has long hair, who's been born again for only two weeks. It's godly to come up and put your arm around him and encourage him and bless him and accept him and love him.

It's godlike to do that. In the law, the highest goal is performance. And we all come up with our own levels of performance. But you better measure up to my level of performance. And I had to think, you know, with our children, this one comes pretty close to home.

You begin to ponder our children. And I think we need to have some performance in our minds. I'm not against that. But let number one be relationship. Relationship. I don't know anything that motivates a child to do what Papa and Mama say more than a sweet relationship with Papa and Mama.

Nothing but, oh, the burden of a little child whose father and mother moves under the principles of law and sets up the rules of performance and withdraws their acceptance and their blessing and their encouragement when the performance isn't what it ought to be.

Poor child. Poor child. That child's view of God will be very mixed up. Number 13. The spirit of the law tends to details. The spirit of grace to flexibility. What do I mean by that? Well, I guess a good way to put it is the letter of the law and the spirit of the law.

You know, the letter of the law, we can follow the Pharisees and we can study Jewish history and it doesn't take us long to find out what the spirit of law does. If you leave it by itself, it will make up 5 ,000 Sabbath rules over the course of 200 or 300 years of things you should do and shouldn't do.

It will make a book this thick just to read so you can learn how to behave on the Sabbath. But the spirit of grace or the spirit of the law is the principle. And in the principle is flexibility. There's a big difference between the two of those.

Tends to details. You'll do it this way. Down to the detail. You'll wear these. You'll part your hair here. You'll wear your hair this way. You'll wear this kind of covering. You'll wear black shoes and only black shoes.

The principle of law tends to details. But the spirit of grace or the principles of grace, it tends toward a flexibility. Number 14, the spirit of law tends to be negative and the spirit of grace positive.

I didn't have time to do it, but if you're one who struggles with being negative, I would encourage you to take a study of the Gospels and study the Pharisees. Just do a study on the Pharisees in light of this whole matter of negative, doubtful, unbelief.

And you'll find an answer to your need. Because principle of law tends toward the negative. That's just the way it is. Because you never can measure up and there's no faith where there's law. They can't dwell together.

But where there's a spirit of grace, there's this positive, faith-filled, encouraged, uplifted look toward the God of heaven, trust in the circumstances of life, faith in God that completely comes out in a different way.

The spirit of law and the spirit of grace. And last of all, and we said this already, but I think it's worthy to make it a point. The spirit of law is like a Pharisee. And the spirit of grace is like Jesus.

Consider this. The law creates rebellion. The law stirs up the flesh. The law drains spiritual life. You know how many times I've talked to a brother or a sister who's been born again. I mean, one of those fresh new births.

They're about a month old in the faith and they go back to their old church and sit in the service and listen to the message. And when they get out, they feel like they need to go to church because all the life has been drained out of them.

That's what law does. That's what it does. Consider with me. Law creates rebellion. Law stirs up the flesh. Read it there in Romans 7. It's supposed to. That's what God gave it for. So that it creates rebellion.

So that it would stir up the flesh. So that sin would be revived. So that we could see our evil condition. But brothers and sisters, if we're in the grace of God, if we're washed in the blood of Jesus, if we are no longer walking after the flesh, but after the Spirit, we should have no part with any of that which the law does, but rather the Spirit of grace working in our hearts to produce a holy life.

And I know we'd all have to agree that the end result of grace is always higher than the end result of law. Always, always, always! It will always be higher. It will always reach higher than law. It will always do it.

Well, these issues came up over and over during the revival. In some cases, we had to conclude and give very clear counsel. You are living under the principles of law rather than the principles of grace.

Are you living after the principles of law rather than the principles of grace? The principles of grace. There's liberty. There's power. There's strength. There's overcoming ability there. But after the principles of law, it's just not there.

You don't have it. It won't be there. It can't be there. It's contrary to God's law for it to be there. Are you living after principles of law or principles of grace? Think with me for a moment here. And we're just about done.