Saturday, October 03, 2009

Bondage or Liberty?

I am reading a GREAT book right now! It's called "The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life. And this is an excerpt from it! Awesome!

The law says, This do and thou shalt live. - The gospel says, live, and then thou shalt do.

The law says, Pay me that thou owest. - The gospel says, I frankly forgive thee all.

The law says, Make you a new heart and a new spirit. - The gospel says, A new heart will I give you, and new spirit will I put within you.

The law says, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. - The gospel says, Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His son to be the propitiation for our sins.

The law says, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all things written in the book of the law to do them. - The gospel says, Blessed is the man whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

The law says, the wages of sin is death. - The gospel says, The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The law demands holiness. - The gospel gives holiness.

The law says, Do. - The gospel says, Done.

The law extorts the unwilling service of a bondman. - The gospel wins the loving service of a son and freeman.

The law makes blessings the result of obedience. - The gospel makes obedience the result of blessing.

The law places the day of rest at the end of the week's work. - The gospel places it at its beginning.

The law says, If. - The gospel says, Therefore.

The law was given for the restraint of the old man. - The gospel was given to bring liberty to the new man.

Under the law, salvation was wages. - Under the gospel, salvation is a gift.