DAY 11: GOD’S MERCY AND THE LAW

THE RHEMA WORD FOR TODAY

(A DAILY DEVOTIONAL WITH PREACHER SAM)

 

TOPIC: GOD’S MERCY AND THE LAW

DATE: 11 SEPTEMBER, 2021

BIBLE READING: ROMANS 7: 7-25

VERSE FOR MEDITATION: JOHN 1:17 TPT

Moses gave us the Law, but Jesus, the Anointed One, unveils truth wrapped in tender mercy.

 

Many people who have read the Bible without the author, the Holy Spirit, have seen a polytheistic God; the God in the Old Testament is different from the God in the New Testament. That is not true, God does not change (Mal. 3:6), He is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Heb. 13:8). God has forever been abounding in His rich and great mercy.

In our Bible reading, we understand that the law was given to reveal our sin and the need for a saviour. The reason we see the mis-happenings in the Old Testament was because of the law. “… The strength of sin is the law.” (1 Cor. 15:56), and this law results to death (Rom. 7:5). According to the law; “cursed is the one who does not confirm all the words of this law by observing them…” (Deut. 27:26). And it is impossible to keep the whole law (Jam. 2:10).

Without the law, there won’t be any need for man to see reason to be saved by God’s grace alone through faith. So God gave the law by His own act of mercy so that salvation can be wrought through Jesus Christ.

The God in the Old Testament was the same God in the New Testament. The difference is that the people under the old covenant operated by the law, but the people under the new covenant operated by grace. But His mercy endures forever (Ps. 107:1), it is from everlasting to everlasting (Ps. 103:17).

 

PRAYER: I thank You oh God for Your rich and everlasting mercy that You have shown and showered unto me through Your Son Jesus Christ. Amen!

 

DECLARATION: THE LORD IS GOOD! FOR HIS MERCY ENDURES FOREVER.

 

JOURNEY THROUGH THE PAULINE’S EPISTLE: 1 CORINTHIANS 15-16