8.12 The law was given through Moses but grace came through Jesus

Today, we continue into the BASIS of the Old and New Covenants. The basis of the Old Covenant was the law given to Israel through Moses on Mt. Sinai. For 1,500 years, their lives revolved around the law. Then, in the fullness of time, Jesus came to this earth. He came to cut a New Covenant, to be established on a very different BASIS called grace.

John talks about the fullness of grace that Christ would bring. The following verse contrasts between grace and law so beautifully.

(John 1:16-17)
And of His fullness we have all received, and GRACE for GRACE. For the LAW WAS GIVEN THROUGH MOSES, but GRACE and truth CAME THROUGH JESUS Christ.

The law was given through Moses, but grace came in the person of Jesus. Grace is a person – Jesus. The law was impersonal but Jesus came personally.

Israel revered Moses but Moses knew that he was only paving the way for Jesus who would establish a covenant on better promises, so even Moses was careful to point the people to Jesus.

(Deuteronomy 18:15).
“The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear…

The Bible even compares Jesus with Moses to put things in the right perspective. Hebrews says that Jesus was counted worthy of more glory than Moses. It says that Moses was a faithful servant but Jesus is the Son of God.

(Hebrews 3:3-6)
For this One has been counted worthy of MORE GLORY THAN MOSES, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God. And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house AS A SERVANT, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward, but Christ AS A SON over His own house, whose house we are…

Today, our lives no longer revolve around the law and Moses. Both the law and Moses pointed us to Christ. It pointed us to the grace that would come to us through the person of Jesus. Therefore Christianity is a journey of growing from grace to grace. Though grace is the basis of the New Covenant, the Church has so much more to understand about grace. There are also so many misunderstandings over the grace of God. In this series, we will carefully address some of these misconceptions including the issue of antinomianism.