Yeah, But God Promised: How to Reconcile God’s Law and God’s Grace

"The law imprisons. The promise frees."

Where We Find Ourselves

We keep living in a two-party deal we cannot win. The law was never given to save us; it exposes sin and imprisons everything under it. So we hide from the God who comes to bless, or we go on pretending our sin does not matter while it chains the people we love.

What Christ Has Done

God made a one-party promise, sealed in blood, that no law can annul. Christ, the promised offspring, kept the law perfectly, entered the prison of sin and death from the outside, and in His resurrection broke open the doors and carried us into the inheritance: the Spirit of the living God in us.

Vision for the Christian Life

For the church to become a gate to Eden on the Treasure Coast: a people who are themselves land, people, and blessing because the living God dwells in them, and who answer shame, guilt, doubt, and tragedy with one unshakable word: yeah, but God promised.

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Pastor David Hancock is the Lead Pastor of The Grove Church in Port St. Lucie, FL, a church where believers and skeptics wrestle honestly with faith and doubt.

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