Proverbs 1:8-9 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

I am looking at the chains about the neck. Do you look at the grace on your head as being instructions of the father? Do you look at the law of the mother as being the chains about the neck? It is easy to see that isn’t it?

The law can be a decorative chain or it can be a prisoner’s chain. Wear it like a Pharisees and it is ceremonial attire. Wear it like a condemned prisoner and it is a heavy burden. Which way do you see the law?

Did we so easily forget that the man and the woman, father and mother are one flesh and speak in unity? Instruction and law are not two separate issues. Neither is ornament of grace and the adornment upon you neck.

Law without grace is punishment.

Law with grace is corrective.

Law without grace creates resentment.

Law with grace restores relationship.

Matthew 23:13, 23 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

Being set free did you also discard your adornment of grace?