Balance

I believe strongly in the Grace of God.

I believe it is the Gospel.

I believe the whole Bible is true, and because I believe that I believe the Old Testament, in as far as it's laws and regulations written upon stone relate to our lives, is passed away.

I believe Jesus is the mediator of a better covenant - the New Covenant written upon our hearts by the Spirit of God.

I believe nothing can separate me from His love.

I believe it so strongly that I have even seen others upset by this stance on what appears to me to be basic Christianity when properly understood.

Jesus saves. He saves completely.

Whoever comes to Him will not be cast out.

I have been told, “You speak so much of grace and love, yet the Bible contains two covenants. Is there not a balance in God?”, as though the covenants were equal and the condemnation of the first could equal the mercy of the second.

The answer is yes, there is balance in God for a “..just weight is his delight” (Proverbs 11:1) , but the balance to grace is not law!

The balance of God is given to us in the scriptures. “For the law came by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ” (John 1: 17).

The Grace and Truth that Jesus brought is the balance of, and in, God!

A just balance requires an equal weight. On a balancing scale only 7 pounds is equal to 7 pounds; 6 just won’t do! So neither is the letter (the law) that kills equal to the Spirit (grace) that gives Life!

The bible tells us that God is One and that He is Word (John 1:1) and Spirit (John 4:24) , and herein lies the just weight; for only GOD equals GOD and only the Word (GOD) that is truth is equal to the Spirit (GOD) of Grace!

The prophet Zechariah prophesied of the truth of Gods grace to come in the New Covenant by the word of the Lord; “And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn”. (Zechariah 12:10) , and Jesus prayed in the garden the night before His crucifixion, “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.” (John 17:17)

When was the Spirit of this Grace, spoken and brought by the Word of Truth, poured? Was it not purchased at Calvary and shed upon the church at Pentecost?

Demonstrating that the partakers of the New Covenant are the “inhabitants of Jerusalem” who are the recipients of this grace, as well as displaying that Earthly is not equal to Heavenly (nor Old to New), the writer of Hebrews says, “For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,” (the Old Covenant – the law) “And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) But ye are come unto mount Sion,” (the New Covenant – Grace and Truth!) “and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things” (mercy) “than that of Abel” (vengeance). (Hebrews 12: 18-24)

Of this same Spirit of Grace the writer of Hebrews says, “Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?” (Hebrews 10:29) , warning that to trust in anything but the sacrifice and shed blood of Jesus, to seek to balance God with anything but God, is to count the grace by which we are purchased an unholy thing!

Can the sacrifice of bulls and goats equal the sacrifice of the Son of God? NO!

Is seeking to be justified by the works of the law equal to being justified freely by His grace (Romans 3:24), No!

Is Hagar (the bondwoman) equal to Sarah (the freewoman) (Galatians 4:21-31) NO!

Is the servant equal to the son? NO!

Are not they who are led by the Spirit the sons of God? (Romans 8:14) YES!

As only GOD Equals GOD, so only does Word balance Spirit, and is Grace balanced only by Truth. Let us trust only in the just weight of the living God that is found only in the love of Christ Jesus. For God is Love. (1John 4:8)

His love washes us completely from all sin. His mercy leads our lives. He dwells in us, and wherever He abides is Holy.