What is the difference between law-keeping religion and the grace of God?
Law-keeping religion depends on rules, regulations, and law-keeping, while the grace of God offers salvation free for nothing, without lifting a finger, because the Lord has done it all. It flies in the face of human thinking; salvation comes by believing He died and rose again, then living a life of service.
Les explains there is a stark difference between Judaism with all its rules, regulations, and law-keeping, and Phariseeism on Paul’s part, and stepping into the grace of God, where one receives everything free for nothing without lifting a finger. That flies in the face of human thinking. Saul of Tarsus was saturated with Judaism, a Pharisee of the Pharisees, educated at the feet of the greatest rabbi, so it took the power of God to cleanse him of that. Salvation begins when a person says, Lord, there’s nothing I can do, but I believe You’ve done it all, and that He died and rose from the dead. Then God expects us to move out and live a life of service, not rest in saving grace and do nothing.