"Plain and Simple"

 "Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?" (John 7:19 KJV)

  "And so, dear brothers and sisters who belong to God and are partners with those called to heaven, think carefully about this Jesus whom we declare to be God's messenger and High Priest. For he was faithful to God, who appointed him, just as Moses served faithfully when he was entrusted with God's entire house. But Jesus deserves far more glory than Moses, just as a person who builds a house deserves more praise than the house itself. For every house has a builder, but the one who built everything is God. Moses was certainly faithful in God's house as a servant. His work was an illustration of the truths God would reveal later. But Christ, as the Son, is in charge of God's entire house. And we are God's house, if we keep our courage and remain confident in our hope in Christ." (Hebrews 3:1-6 NLT)

 Because we know how all this turns out, it is easy to ignore some of the simple details that we should pay attention to along the way. These Jew's, who took pride in themselves for keeping the law, did not really realize that they had not been keeping the law, that they thought they had kept. Wow, that seems to hit home, in so many different ways! 

 Understand that we are all guilty of sin: if you somehow don't think that you are, then you are guilty, just for not believing that you have sinned and fallen short of holiness! The Bible clearly says, "None is righteous, no, not one." (Psalms 14:1-3, Psalms 53:1-3, Romans 3:10-12) So, if we really want to be free from sin, then there is only one way for that to happen: Believe in Jesus Christ, God's Son; that He paid the price for your sins, rose from death to life, ascended up into heaven; where He now sits, at the right hand of the Father, making intercession for those sins that you keep on doing! 

 But wait, you say, 'I don't keep sinning, because I am no longer under the law.' Thankfully, I really do believe that God will have mercy on those that might say and feel as though that is the case, because the law never really went away, but was fulfilled by Christ! Those Books that will be opened on Judgment Day, will be judging according to the law; only those that are written in the Lamb's Book of Life, will be found innocent before the throne of God: based entirely upon the blood of Christ having cleansed us from our sin! 

 Slippery slope, that is what some might call it, as it becomes such a thing, when we try to walk anywhere but in God's wonderful grace! We might not be under the law, but we are never above the law; we live by grace, based entirely upon what God has freely given to us; period...

"God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can't take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago." (Ephesians 2:8-10 NLT)