16 August 2020 - The Law Kills While Grace Gives Life - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon NotesPastor Joseph Prince taught us how God's heart is not in executing judgment, but in supplying Grace to man. The Law of Moses is the ministry of condemnation that kills, while Grace is the ministry of the Holy Spirit which gives life! Praise and worship songs performed: 1. Glorious and Beautiful - New Creation Worship 2. Here I Am to Worship - Time Hughes Romans 3:19-20 - The Law is called the ministry of condemnation. It produces death because man has no ability to keep the Law. God designed for the Law to bring man to despair so that no man can boast. Every mouth is stopped and every man is considered guilty before God. “Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God. Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.” (Romans 3:19-20 WEB) Romans 6:14 - In the Old Covenant, you have to do to become. In the New Covenant, you become first, and then you do. You start from being complete in Christ and then we are told to walk out that completeness. The Law demands from man. Grace supplies to man. Under Grace, sin has no dominion over us. Under the Law, God says “You shall not...” Man is expected to do. Under Grace, God says “I will...” He is the one doing. “For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.” (Romans 6:14 WEB) 2 Corinthians 3:6-7 - When the Law was given, three thousand people died. When the Holy Spirit was given, three thousand souls were saved. The letter (the Law) kills, whereas the Spirit (through Grace) gives life. The Ten Commandments is the only part of the Law that was engraved on stones. The rest of the commandments and statutes were written on parchments. “who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away,” (II Corinthians 3:6-7 NKJV) 1 Corinthians 15:56 - The more you try to keep the Law, the more you will stir up sin your life. God allowed this so that man would understand that sinful nature in them. The fruits of the Holy Spirit comes as a fruit of Grace. Grace is not behavior modification, but heart transformation. Those who try to keep the Law have a pseudo-morality but they don’t have it in their heart to keep the Law. When no one is looking, they revert to their sinful behavior. “The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.” (1 Corinthians 15:56 WEB) 2 Corinthians 3:7-9 - The ministry of condemnation (the Law) has glory, but the ministry of the Spirit (Grace) exceeds much more in glory. Some revivals in modern times were based on preaching of the Law. The Law has glory but it passes away. “But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.” (II Corinthians 3:7-9 NKJV)
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