Can you explain and provide Scriptures with examples to support: "No grace under the law, but now under grace there is no law"?
QUESTION:
Christians who say they are in the new covenant teaching dispensationalism, can you explain and provide Scriptures with examples to support: No grace under the law, but now under grace there is no law? Are the teachings of Christ for all (Matt 28:20)?
ANSWER:
I can provide scriptures in Paul’s epistles that will verify that as believers in this dispensation of grace, we are not under the law. Furthermore, I can provide scriptures to confirm that only Israel was, and will again be, under the law. However, these scripture references will not satisfy your underlying need to have a better grounding in the administration of God’s redemption plan, divided into time past, but now, and ages to come.
Until you have a clear view of God’s purpose for Israel, and that it is different to God’s purpose for the Body of Christ (grace believers), there will always be confusion and contradiction.
I am happy to journey with you in discovering God’s administrations. Scriptures like that which you referred to in your question will become easy to understand when you understand the division between Israel (Circumcision) and the Body of Christ (Uncircumcision). Look at the division of time (bolded words) that Paul tells us in the passage below,
Eph 2:7-13 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. 11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; 12 That at that time [time past] ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: 13 But now [present] in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
If you are truly interested to learn this and get answers to your question, let me know. (Use the Questions form on this site to get in touch with me). I am open to providing you insights into proper Bible instruction.
God bless.
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