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Is Grace A License To Sin? by yhuti(m): 12:00am On Oct 16, 2016 |
No man needs a license to do evil. The fallen state of man
affords him that. Any man who is still a custodian of the Adamic
Nature is a Licensed sinner from birth, sin is his nature. Grace
is Gods cure for sin. John the baptist, the last prophet of the
Old Testament puts it like this, “The next day John seeth
Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God,
which taketh away the sin of the world.” John 1:29 KJV
So no man can defeat sin except he beholds and receives this
lamb of God who is the embodiment of grace! “And of his
fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.” John 1:14 KJV
When a man receives Jesus who is grace, the coming of Christ
into him removes that sinful nature completely and the nature of
sonship takes over that man and that man is no longer a sinner
but a son of God! “But as many as received him, to them gave
he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe
on his name:” John 1:12 KJV
Contrary to the legalist claims, grace is the final cure for sin.
When you receive that grace, what Jesus the lamb of God did in
his death, burial and resurrection, you experience it, the adoption
of sons!
“For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under
the law, but under grace.” Romans 6:14 KJV
“Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But
where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:”
Romans 5:20 KJV.
GRACE CURES SIN. Grace therefore is not a license to sin.
Grace is an Empowerment to Reign Over all the things we
couldn't be Free from under the Administration of Death (The
Law)!!! The Increase of sin cannot make Grace of no effect. It
is the increase of the Revelation of Jesus (Grace) that nullifies
and makes Sin of no effect. “Wherefore gird up the loins of your
mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be
brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;" 1
Peter 1:13 KJV
What makes men free is the knowledge of the truth, not
struggling to behave right, but the knowledge of the PERSON of
JESUS Christ as revealed in the scriptures.
“Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the
knowledge of the truth.”
1 Timothy 2:4 KJV
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the
knowledge of the truth. Why is the truth so Important? "And ye
shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
John 8:32 KJV
So What is the Truth?
“For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth (which is
truth) came by Jesus Christ.” John 1:17 KJV
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no
man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:6 KJV
So Grace finds expression in the person of Jesus. The truth is a
person. His name is Jesus Christ.
He is Grace Personified!!! Grace is a person living his life
through you.
So Jesus is the Truth that makes men free!!! This Freedom is
evidenced by the workings of the law of the Spirit of Life in
Christ Jesus whose power creates within you the desire to do His
gracious will and also brings about the accomplishment of the
desire. “Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not
as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work
out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God
which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”
Philippians 2:12-13 KJV
We only stumble when we shift our gaze from Jesus (The Author
and Finisher of our Faith).
So a believer that continues in the actions of sin is living in
denial. He is suffering from Identity crisis and double
mindedness because he lacks a clear revelation of Jesus. Hence
he has mental agitation.
He has forgotten who he is & how he looks. "He is like unto a
man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth
himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what
manner of man he was." James 1:23 KJV
“...because as he is, so are we in this world.”
1 John 4:17(b)KJV
When a believer is struggling with falling he is in identity crisis.
He needs a constant revelation of Jesus (GRACE) because that
is what can unveil his true identity. “But we all, with open face
beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into
the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the
Lord.” 2 Corinthians 3:18 KJV culled from: Pst. Abel Damina |
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