Introduction

          If I say to you "Don't think of a white horse. Don't think 

of a white house. Don't you dare think of a white horse." 

What will you honestly be thinking about? A white horse, 

right? That is exactly what the law does. The law instead 

makes you to sin more(1Cor 15:56). When the law says "thou 

shall not steal", trust me, you will instead be thinking of 

stealing. So tell me. Should we follow God's law, God's Grace 

or both? After carefully reading this entire book, you should 

be able to come out with a clear understanding of what God 

wants us to do. 

        Permit me to provide to you the definitions of 'Law' and 

'Grace'. The 'law' refers to all the do's and don'ts given to 

Moses by God at mount Sinai. These commandments are not 

just 10 as most of us think. They are over 613 in number i.e 

the 10 commandments plus 603 more. These 

commandments can be found in the book of Exodus(Ex 20 - 

Ex 40).The law can also be referred to as the mosaic law or 

sinai law or old covenant. Grace on the other hand refers to 

the mercy of God which came by Jesus. Grace is the 

exceptional unmerited favor of God. The power of the Holy 

Spirit is Grace. Grace = Jesus. For Grace to work effectively, 

nothing else can be added to it. Therefore, Grace + 0 = 

Everything  or  Grace + nothing = Everything. 

       What we need to understand here is that the law is like a 

'controlling perfectionist husband'. No matter how hard 

his wife tries, the moment she does just one thing wrong, the 

perfectionist husband would condemn her for that little wrong 

thing she just did. That is exactly what the law does. When 

you do your best to do many good things, the moment you do 

one bad thing by accident, the law would condemn you i.e the 

law would make you feel guilty. 

       What very important statement I often tell people is: 

'grace only, goodness flows'. This means that the person who 

is strictly under the grace of God ends up doing most of the 

good things required by the law even more than the person 

who is under the law. That is because grace has power and is 

accompanied with love meanwhile the law is so empty, painful 

and full of condemnation. 

      The law(old covenant) is all about "do this and then God 

will do that". But Grace(New covenant) is all about "believe 

what Christ has already done and thank him". In other words, 

under the law, we want to make God to do things for us; and 

we think that if we do things in a particular way, God will 

repay us with more blessings. But under Grace, we just 

believe and thank God for what he has already done and just 

let his spirit(Holy Spirit) to tell us what to do. 

       * Under the law, we strive for deserved favor but under Grace, 

                                                                                              we receive undeserved favor *