The Intersection of The Law and Grace

The Intersection of The Law and Grace

I’ve been spending the past few days looking at Grace and The Law. Some very interesting things have turned up as I’ve searched through the various passages that mention these topics by name. However, I’ve come across another topic of interest that is at the very crossroads of these two gifts from God.

I plan to spend more time on this later, but I have come to believe that the Mercy Seat is the very place where our salvation was provided. If you remember, the Mercy Seat that was atop The Ark of the Covenant in the Moses’ tabernacle is where God’s presence was found on earth. He met with the High Priest once a year when the priest brought the blood of the lamb to atone for the sins of the people.

If you read Hebrews you find out that the plans for the tabernacle given to Moses by God were taken from the dimensions of the real tabernacle in Heaven. This is where Jesus took His own blood, the blood of The Spotless Lamb, the Son of God, and placed it there as an eternal sacrifice to not just cover sin, but remove it from us forever.

It is at the Mercy Seat where God’s Justice that demanded death for violation of The Law came in contact with God’s Grace, His desire to redeem man and restore their relationship lost in the Garden; God the Father in agreement with God the Son, in the middle of God’s Presence, the Holy Spirit. The Triune God had completed His plan of redemption.

Once we are In Christ we live our life from that place, the Mercy Seat, immersed in the presence of God forever.