Grace and law do not mix. These hold no active substances, but they produce a state of being by their activity. The law always curses those who are under it. Grace always blesses those who possess it. What does the law reasonably achieve in a believer? It induces a state blessing by subduing and properly containing the personal opposition to Christ. But grace prevails on the genuine believer to willingly embrace Christ. The law of faith subdues the principled opposition. Because we live vicariously by grace the law comes to be our faithful friend in pronouncing death to our personal opposition. Grace steers us to Christ through the positive effects of the promise. The law contains sin and personal corruption while mighty grace empowers us to overcome all opposition.

 The law is for lawbreakers. Lawbreakers are those who are wicked. But the saint is precisely identified in sacred scripture as definitively sanctified in Christ. We have been set apart to God by the sanctified work of the divine law. The law properly contains a foreign sin nature. The law unambiguously defines our renewal by the proportional weight of the priceless gift of Christ's obedience. It is the standard of Christ's mercy and grace as that by which we are preserved like pain medication through cursing our opposition. We are no longer under the curse of the law. There is no necessary time where the law continues to be dormant. The law is always active in exonerating us or procuring death to our opposition.  

This is why it is so momentous to contain comforting assurance. It's the assurance of grace that prevents the law from turning on us. As grace is active so the quality of our faith in God is determined by our understanding of grace. Grace produces assurance because the law pronounces blessed innocence and curses our opposition. God has adequately provided a substitute to reasonably satisfy the curse of the law. Those who are justly condemned by the law are under the eternal wrath of God. The wrath of God is always as active as God pronouncing curses on the wicked. God never relates to us by grading our faithful obedience. God's covenant is proof He consistently responds to our success or our failure by pronouncing the blessing. God is absolutely simple. He acts both in embracing us and angry toward our likely opposition in our lives. On one hand, God renews the elect and on the other hand, He wantonly destroys the reprobate. God is infallibly just because He is completely justifying us.