0050. Conclusions

Conclusions

"Nevertheless what saith the Scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.

"So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free" (Gal_4:30-31).

Some solemn questions:

Under which covenant would we prefer to stand?

Under the covenant dependent upon man, or under the covenant dependent upon God?

Under the Law or under Love?

Under works or under Grace?

Where can righteousness be found?

Where is salvation assured?

Israel found nothing but condemnation under the works of the Law. Until this day, Israel is kept secure in the hand of God, under the election of Grace.

Let us not go to Mount Sinai, with its thunderings and lightnings, with its condemnation and death; but let us go "to Mount Sion, 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 than that of Abel" (Heb_12:22-24).

The time is coming when God will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven; when God will remove all those things that are shaken.

Let us have no part in Law works for such works will be shaken; they will receive nothing but judgment. Let us hide ourselves in Him; shelter ourselves under His wings; hover under His Grace: there and there alone will we find that we are in the place where we cannot be shaken.

God pity those who are camping under Law works, and spurning saving Grace.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR