I am not sure where Roy found this, but it is brilliant.
Law is God prohibiting and requiring;
Grace is God beseeching and bestowing.
Law is a ministry of condemnation;
Grace is of forgiveness.
Law curses;
Grace redeems from that curse.
Law kills;
Grace makes alive.
Law shuts every mouth before God;
Grace opens every mouth to praise Him.
Law puts a great and guilty distance between man and God;
Grace makes guilty man nigh to God.
Law says "do and live";
Grace, "believe and live."
Law never had a missionary;
Grace is to be preached to every creature.
Law utterly condemns the best man;
Grace freely justifies the worst.
Law is a system of probation;
Grace, of favour.
Law stones an adulteress;
Grace says, "Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more."
Under law the sheep dies at the hand of the shepherd;
Under grace the Shepherd dies for the sheep.
Everywhere the Scriptures present law and grace in sharply contrasted spheres. The mingling of them in much of the current teaching of the day spoils both, for law is robbed of its terror, and grace of its freeness.
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Hey guys, this was written by C.I.Schofield born 1843 died .1921
Amen!!
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