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The Law/Grace Thing

>Much ado: The whole grace/law
>thing. To them it's like an annoying little gnat. There is no issue
>here. These people are living in grace. Jesus is the Lord of their
>lives. He is on the throne. It seems like you are trying to remove
>that. It seems like you are trying to condemn them. Am I wrong?
>They refuse to argue because no one listens anyway. It just stirs up
>strife.

Sigh. I used to think that. No---what I thought was far worse. The whole Law/grace "thing" in my mind was far more serious than an annoying little gnat. It was some bizarre scheme of a bunch of antinomians to excuse the sin in their lives. It was...well, brazen. It was divisive. Certainly *I* knew all about grace and knew that what they were talking about was license, even when they claimed the opposite. I mean, really---why would someone claim that Christ had set us free from the Law unless they wanted to be completely lawless?

I was wrong.

The Law/grace thing is not an annoying little gnat. It is such a major issue that God inspired Paul to deal with this in the entire book of Galatians as well as elsewhere in Scripture. It's foundational to Christianity.

I am so thankful for those who didn't listen to me when I accused them of stirring up strife and worse. I am so thankful they proclaimed the message of grace in season and out of season. Finally God opened my ears and my heart. Finally I realized that what I thought was grace was only a tiny little fraction of what grace really is. I look forward to learning more and more about God's grace throughout all eternity. I am *so* thankful that I finally am beginning to comprehend my freedom in Christ---the freedom that He bought for me with His shed blood.

Finally, finally, finally, I've realized that I'm the child of the freewoman and not the bondslave. I've gone from Mt. Sinai to Mt. Zion---all by the grace of God!

An annoying little gnat? No way---it's glorious! It's the message of the gospel! It's the foundation of my Faith and my walk with Jesus! Let's *never* stop proclaiming the truth of the gospel! I hope that, to my dying day, I will continue to make "much ado" over what God has wrought in Jesus Christ.

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