Are miracles through keeping the Law or through faith?
Miracles are not through keeping the Law but through faith. The Spirit who works miracles among believers is received by the hearing of faith, not by works of the Law. Those under the Law could not perform miracles; the Spirit was activated by faith, and grace comes by faith plus nothing.
Les explains that the question is whether the one who ministers the Spirit and works miracles among them does so by the works of the Law or by the hearing of faith. He says they could not perform any miracles under the working of the Law; it was impossible. But when the Holy Spirit activated the hearts and minds of those pagan Galatians and others throughout the Roman Empire, it produced a miraculous transformation from paganism with its idolatry and immorality. Les calls that a miracle in itself, and he notes that in the early church there were no doubt other manifestations of the miraculous, though Paul does not explicitly delineate them. The test remains: if you have witnessed a miracle, was it through keeping the Law, or through the manifestation of the Spirit activated by faith? Les emphasizes that we are not under Law but under grace, and we come under grace and out from under the Law by faith, plus nothing. Galatians warns against being suckered into a works religion; it is grace through faith, plus nothing.
He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
More Questions
Do all genuine miracles come through faith and not through the law?
Every miracle, including any witnessed today, comes through the Spirit activated by faith, not through keeping the Law.
Do we receive the Holy Spirit and miracles by works of the Law or by faith?
The Holy Spirit is ministered to believers and miracles are worked among them by the hearing of faith, not by works of the Law.