The Difference Between Law and Grace

Moore's Corner Church

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The Bible says in John 1, 17, the law came through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ, which is better, which is better.

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So that's, that's the difference between law and grace. And I want to just use a very simple, practical illustration to demonstrate the difference between law and grace, something that we can all understand, except for maybe a handful of you, but you will, you will understand this.

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So if you get in your car and you drive 75 miles an hour in a 65 mile an hour zone, and you get pulled over and you get a citation and you have to pay that fine, you know what?

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That's just, you might not like it, but it's just because that's what? That's the law.

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That's the law. Grace is when the police officer gives you a warning or just ignores it and lets you blow right by it.

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That's grace. And yet if you drive 65 and someone just blows past you going 90, actually that happened this morning.

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We were going 65 and someone went by nine, but if you do that and a couple of miles up the road, you see that person pulled over.

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What do you think? Yeah, it serves them right. I hope they get a ticket passing me like that, but that's the way people are.

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We want grace for ourselves. We want law and justice for everybody else, but we need to be careful with that.

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But obviously grace is better. Grace is so much better. And there are many reasons why the new covenant is greater than the old.

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It had a better priesthood, it's based on better promises, and it has a better mediator.

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Here's the thing. Moses was a great man. Jesus is better. Moses was a man of God, but Jesus is the