I received a licence agreement from a company and I read through and did not understand a bulk of it. What I did was to contact some lawyers and the report of one of them showed me some ‘clause’ that I had read but did not know what it was.
Why do we even need to write and sign agreement in the church or court for marriage? Why it signing of agreement needed in businesses? Why are legal contracts necessary in every aspect of life? I can only think of one reason - men are imperfect. Without the law we cannot do what is right and even with the law, we still have not stopped doing wrong. Since we have agreed to ‘do’, we immediately find ourselves not committing to what we agreed to.
We willingly sign agreements that we never intended to keep in the first place. The law gives a man a basis for forcing another to do what he is told to do, and those who use it in Christendom are not right. How can you tie someone salvation to a gift or an offering? How has some churches misled many people today.
From the licence I received, I understood that the offer of the law is to the sole benefit of the law giver or custodian but the offer of grace is for the sole benefit of the recipient. Grace motivates you to do right; it does not force it on you. God is so reliable that we do not need a written contract to binds us to Him.
Grace is not conditioned on man, but only on the faithfulness of God Himself. When the law is preached it only implies that God is so untrustworthy that we need a written contract to work with him. Just like an official work, you sign an acceptance of offer and you become enslaved in it. You come late you have sinned; you close early, another sin. No law can be kept no matter how small.
The law only tries to regulate a man’s actions not his desire.
This will become evidence when he continues to do something that he is forced to not because he loves to. Grace regulates the desire of man and eases the carrying out of his action. The law cannot live alongside Grace (Galatians 5:4). Law must be dead in the life of a man for Grace to find full expression. Anywhere there is grace, there is life and there is no recognition or dominion of sin (Romans 6:14).
