Are you living under the Law of Moses, under the Grace of Jesus Christ or following the Tradition of Men?

If you would like to take the quiz, answer the following questions:

1. Do you…
a. Pay tithes with 10% of your income to your local church every paycheck? Law
b. Give freely if you are able, to a ministry with purpose in mind with any amount of money God lays upon your heart? Grace
c. Tithe my 10% plus over and above my 10% expecting to be blessed a hundred fold? Tradition
d. Refuse to give any amount of money to my church but instead give it to poor people on the street who need it? Grace

2. Do you…
a. Try to obey the Ten Commandments? Law
b. Let love be your reason to be a good person? Grace
c. Obey Jesus’ commandments founded upon love? Grace
d. Try to be good because it’s the right thing to do? Tradition

3. What’s more important?
a. Wearing your Sunday best clothes to church? Law
b. Giving to charity and claiming it on your taxes? Tradition
c. Seeing some poor people and letting them you know that you will pray for them? Law
d. Giving food, clothes or shelter to people who are poor? Grace

4. The Law of Moses is…
a. Good for man to follow. Law
b. Is a burdensome yoke. Grace
c. Applicable to Christians today in some ways. Tradition

5. You are truly free indeed when you…
a. Love God with everything you have and love others. Grace
b. Obey the Ten Commandments. Law
c. Tithe 10% to your local church every payday. Law
d. Do what you want to do and whatever feels good. Tradition

6. You receive the Holy Spirit by…
a. Being a good person. Tradition
b. The grace of God. Grace
c. Obeying the laws in the Mosaic Law. Law

7. People are saved by…
a. Obeying the Ten Commandments. Law
b. Being a good person. Tradition
c. Receiving Christ as Lord and Savior. Grace

8. If you sin after becoming a Christian…
a. You must pray 10 hails Mary’s and give up pork for a month. Tradition
b. Repent and ask God to forgive you of that sin. Law
c. All of my sins, past and present, have been forgiven. Grace

9. If you are a Christian and something goes wrong in your life it must be…
a. Because you didn’t tithe this month. Law
b. Because you have unrepentant sins. Tradition
c. Because God takes a bad situation and makes it beneficial to you. grace

10. The Law of Moses was given…
a. To all men for the benefit of all other nations, tribes and people. Tradition
b. To everyone and is still in effect today in the modern Christian church. law
c. To the Israelites only and does not apply to any other nation, tribes or people. Grace

The Law is religion, grace is truth and tradition are lies.

The Law of Moses

The Law of Moses (Mosaic Law) was given to Moses and was meant to be obeyed by the Israelites (Lev. 26:46; Ps. 78:5). The Mosaic Law was not given to any other nation (Deut. 4:8; Ps. 147:20). The Law of Moses was a burdensome yoke upon men (Acts 15:10). The Law of Moses was given to the Israelites, not to make them right with God, but to reveal their sin and the righteousness of God (Gal 3:19). The Mosaic Law was intended to be our schoolmaster, to teach us, and lead us to faith in Christ (Gal. 3:24). The Law of Moses was supposed to be only temporary and was to be replaced by a new covenant founded by having faith in Jesus Christ (Jer. 3:16; Dan 9:27; Rom 10:4; Eph 2:15; Heb 10:1, 9; Gal 3:10-12; Gal 5:1).

The Grace of Jesus Christ

The grace of God came through one man, Jesus Christ (Rom. 5:15; Jn. 1:17; 1 Cor. 1:4). The Holy Spirit comes to the believer and fill him with the Spirit of Grace (Heb. 10:29). Grace is given to the humble by God (Js. 4:6). Grace completely justifies the believer in Jesus and is opposed to the works of the Law (Rom. 4:4, 5; 11:6; Gal. 5:4). Just as Jesus is full of grace, Christians are heirs of it (Jn. 1:14; 1 Pet. 3:7). Christians are covered completely under grace. Christians are what they are by grace (1 Cor. 15:10). Christians should abound in the gifts of grace, be established in grace, be strong in grace, grow in grace and speak gracefully (Rom. 6:14; Acts 4:33; Heb. 13:9; 2 Tim. 2:1; 2 Pet. 3:18; Eph. 4:29). Since Christians are in the grace of God, we are no longer under the Mosaic Law. We are not under any obligation to obey the Mosaic Law; that includes tithing, following the Ten Commandments or trying to be good in order to earn favor with God. By the way, Christians were never were under the Law of Moses to begin with, of course unless you are a Jew. Christians are justified because of Christ’ righteousness. It is by having faith in Christ that Christians are counted as righteous and they are blessed with the very same blessing Abraham was given by God.

The Traditions of Men

The traditions of men have absolutely no authority (Matt 15:3-20; 1 Tim. 1:4). Man’s traditions are simply what man commands, they are false and deceitful (Matt. 12:1-8; Col. 2:8; 1 Pet. 1:18). The traditions of the philosophy of men are not sufficient for an adequate knowledge of God (1 Cor. 1:21, 22). The traditions of men and ideas made my men are not enough for salvation through the atonement of Christ (1 Cor 2:6-10). Man’s wisdom, philosophies, philosophical inductions and deductions relating to God and His providence are incorrect (Job 5:8-20; Job 9; 10:2-21; 12:6-24; 33:12-30). Human reasoning and philosophy are not sufficient to guide men rightly (Deut. 12:8; Prov. 3:5; 14:12). Even the truth of the gospel cannot be explained through reasoning with man’s philosophy and traditions (1 Cor. 1:18-28; 2:1-14). Truth is only found in Christ Jesus and found only in His Word, the Holy Bible. You cannot reason your way through a Christian life. Just because your parents went to church, doesn’t mean that you are going to heaven. Even if you have going to church your whole life, that doesn’t mean you are going to heaven. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me (John 14:6).”