Borrowed from my friend Sebastian Mathews. One of the best explanations of grace and law and how they apply to believers and unbelievers and what they manifest in their lives.
Law and Grace
For unbelievers, following the law makes them sin less (which is why we have a constitution and rules and regulations and speed limits in this great country, it's a blessing so that the 80% of Americans who are not saved won't kill themselves and also so they leave the 20% of Christians, 1 in 5, in peace).
For unbelievers, following grace makes them sin more because it's a license to sin. For when we were unbelievers, unrighteousness was our natural state and it was tough not to sin. We were always eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
But for Christians, its the exact opposite. Heb 8:7, Rom 10:3. We are not under the dispensation of law but under the dispensation of grace. We have changed trees, back to the tree of life.
For us, following the law makes us sin more and following grace makes us sin less.
When we become Christians, righteousness is our super natural state and its tough to sin (unless we fall for satan who keeps try to tell us that we are still miserable sinners, which is a lie)
For believers, we sin more when we still believe we are sinful. We sin less when we believe we have been made righteousness.
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