Folks, there is nothing new about “grace”. Do you know that long before there was a nation called Israel, God’s grace was extended to Noah (Genesis 6:8) or that God chose Moses by His grace to serve Him (Exodus 33:12-13)? Did you know that long before there was a nation called Israel, God’s law existed? Notice that when God initially made the promise of blessings to Abraham, God said to him: “And I (God) will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my law” (Genesis 26:4-5).



In Hebrews 8:8-11 God says: “For finding fault with them (not with the covenant, but with them- the people) he (God) saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days (after Christ’s return and the reign of God’s Kingdom), saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their minds, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest”.

You will find precisely the same thing written in Jeremiah 31:31-34 and again in Hebrews 10:15-16.

In 2 Corinthians 3:3, 6 we read: “Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle (writing /God’s written commandments) of Christ ministered by us (the apostles) written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart. Who (God) also hath made us (the apostles) able ministers of the new testament (new covenant); not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life”.

The new covenant is not about abolishing God’s law, but rather writing God’s law in our hearts through His Holy Spirit; thus giving us the power by His Spirit to keep His law. In the first covenant, God wrote His law on tables of stones. God knew then that it was not possible to keep His laws without the Holy Spirit of God (Exodus 16:4). In Romans 8:7 we read: “Because the carnal mind (the mind which is void of the Spirit of God) is enmity against God: for it (the carnal mind) is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be”.