The entire Bible (and actually everything in life) is Law vs. GRACE.
When folks ask things like - 'where do we get this new teaching?'...or 'wow, I've never heard this before, is it new?'
Yes, it is New as in NEW Covenant.
Churchy folks have been going to a building listening to a pastor that mixes Old Covenant (your works) with NEW Covenant (GOD works). Or put in another way. Mans effort or SPIRITS effort.
This is exactly what JESUS warned about when HE said: "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees" Matthew 16:16
You can be having the worst day - cussing, fighting, crabby, un-loving and GOD will still answer your prayer, heal you or work miracles through you. Romans 5:20 encourages us "The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more," You can not out-sin GODS Grace.
If you ask folks "why was the law or commandments given?" When thinking about it, most folks will think its because it will decrease sin. But we just read that it was given to INCREASE sin/trespass...Paul argues in Romans 7 that he never knew about coveting but when the command came "Thou shalt not covet". Sin, using the commandment to gain power made Paul or rather showed Paul how covetous he was. The Law like a mirror shows us how broken we are or how messy we look but like a mirror can not ever make us look good or better us.
So being bankrupt with nothing, It starts to dawn on me, that HE (the GOD HEAD) is actually IN me, and very much likes me, in fact will never leave me, and is crazy-like for me and really really loves me. Nothing I did, Just as I am, faults, warts, wretched, poor and broken. see Revelation 3:17. With many trials and troubles and stuck in that miry clay (Psalm 40:2)
But the ONE who came to rescue me, lives inside me and empowers me to say and do, what I couldn't and make me think and live and soar.
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. 1 Corinthians 15:10
