Romans 6:14. For sin shall not have domination over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
The reigning, ruling principle now, is not "You must, you shall," for reward, or under fear of punishment, but God has loved you, and now you love him in return and what you do springs from no mercenary or self-serving motive. You are not under law, but under grace; yet in another sense you never were so much under law as you are now, for grace puts about you a blessedly sweet, delightful law, which has power over us as the word of command never had. "I will write my law in their hearts, in their inward parts will I write them." Aye, that is the glory of the new life, the delight of him who hath passed from death unto life.
Romans 6:14. For sin shall not have domination over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
The reigning, ruling principle now, is not "You must, you shall," for reward, or under fear of punishment, but God has loved you, and now you love him in return and what you do springs from no mercenary or self-serving motive. You are not under law, but under grace; yet in another sense you never were so much under law as you are now, for grace puts about you a blessedly sweet, delightful law, which has power over us as the word of command never had. "I will write my law in their hearts, in their inward parts will I write them." Aye, that is the glory of the new life, the delight of him who hath passed from death unto life.