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Janeyinspires:
Thanks,jiggaz.

If I begin to narrate the freedom I've experienced eh! It's just too good to be true.
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Law preachers always preach on what we need to DO.They never told us what Jesus has already DONE for us.
They make us think salvation is our duty.They never told us,salvation is God's idea from start to finish.That it's God that WORKS in us to will and to walk according to His good plans and purpose.
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They make us conclude Christianity is hard;when Jesus said,"my yoke is easy;my burden light."
They make us work our butt up to fulfill the law that cannot be fulfilled by the flesh.They never told us Jesus has fulfilled the law.That The law was given to Moses but grace and truth came through Christ.
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I only pray Christians should experience Grace.That they should ask God to reveal grace to them.
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I'm now in an unlearning and relearning mode.
I'm done with the law.
Jesus is all I see,now.
Finally on Grace ground.Resting in the finished work of Jesus on the cross.

Am so happy for u dear.

Janeyinspires:
*Sighing*
I could remember those days-last year,when the message coming from the pulpit made me sooo miserable.
"Be holy,for God is holy"
I desired within me to be holy.I got tired of feeling miserable,cos I couldn't 'be holy', just like God.I tried to be holy,but it wasn't working out and each time,the message made me worse.
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I went to God in prayer.Told Him to help me to be holy,just like him.Told him I want to be done with sin.I earnestly desired it.
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Then,something happened.God showed me 2 corinthians 12:9: "My grace is sufficient for you,for my power is made perfect in weakness."
At first,I didn't understood what God meant.I kept seeing this verse often.
One day,I landed into a post here and grace was revealed to me.Boom! That's it.God has been leading me to grace,till I saw grace.Grace is a person.His name is Jesus.
Jesus was all I need,as He is sufficient in my weakness.There,I came to know,Holiness is not performance based.It's not about whether I am good or not.
Holiness is simply a FREE GIFT.Not something I can earn but something I was given freely.
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I came to know that I was already holy,in Christ.My believe/acceptance of Jesus made me holy.1 cor5:21 confirmed it.
The flesh will always fail.
The more I am conscious of my righteousness in Christ,the more I walk in righteousness.For as a man thinks,so is he.
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Truth,the law kills,but the spirit gives life.
Grace is greater than the law.
Grace found me.
Phew!

Yes oo!! That's a great write up dear!! Very true!! Welcome back.

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Many Sinners Want To Stop Sinning But The Ten Commandments Cannot Save. Christ Saves.

A Bible Study By Olamide Obire



Many of us think that most believers and even non-believers who are sinning want to continue to wallow in sin. We think they don't want out. I submit to you that many of these "great sinners" feel bad after each act of sin and are trying hard to find a way out of their sins and addictions but cannot! You see, "good people" are not the only ones who want to live a righteous life. Many "bad people" who are locked down by acts of sin also desire to live right but they cannot. The reason for their inability to do so is evident in Romans 6:14:

"For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace."

Sin has dominion over the one who is trying to obey the law in order to be righteous. But somehow many preachers have this verse backwards, preaching that the way to reign over sin is by obeying the letter that kills. Because of this false doctrine, the "bad people" try harder to be obedient but the result is more sin.

Just imagine a pastor preaching a whole sermon on the Ten Commandments and asking: "Which one are you guilty of? You have to stop sinning or else there will be consequences!" He is killing his congregation softly! The letter kills.

For believers who are struggling with particular sins, your situation isn't unique. Paul of the New Testament faced the same dilemma. In Romans 7:18-19, Paul says:

"18 And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t. 19 I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway."

This is a born-again and Spirit-filled Paul speaking here. We who are in Christ have the same solution to this problem as Paul did in verse 25: "Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!"

Christ delivers us from this inability to do the good we want to do and makes sure that we live right! How, you may ask? The very next chapter (Romans 8:1-2) shows us how:

"Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death."

Believers, as the righteousness of God in Christ, when you sin, there is no condemnation for you. Our Heavenly Father still sees you as righteous; not because of what you do or don't do but because of what Christ has done.

2 Corinthians 5:21 says "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."

With this gift of righteousness comes no condemnation. It is our Saviour's "Neither do I condemn you " that makes us "go and sin no more." Understand that a person who does not sin does not need the gift of no condemnation. The woman caught in adultery received this gift because she was under condemnation. This gift is for those who have no righteousness of their own - the sole qualification for being in Christ. It is not for those who can keep the law and are righteous by themselves in some areas of life.

With Christ as your righteousness, you will not continue to live in sin, not because of your own human effort at being good but because the Holy Spirit transforms us to "the image of the glory of the Lord, from glory to glory" as we look to Christ for our righteousness (2 Corinthians 3:18.) Nothing to do with our efforts at suppressing those sinful desires. The arm of flesh will fail. All to do with Christ's saving power. He saves from sins. See Matthew 1:21 - "She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”

The kingdom of God isn't human logic Sin has dominion over those who are insisting on keeping the Ten Commandments and doing good deeds in order to be righteous before God. But Christ saves from sins. See Matthew 1:21 - "She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”

Romans 3:20 says "For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are." Galatians 5:4 says: "For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God’s grace."

Those who are trying to make themselves right with God by keeping the law reject the blood of Jesus that was shed to make us righteous for their own righteousnesses that proceeds from works of the law. When such break just one law, asking for forgiveness in Jesus' name becomes an effort in futility. Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins. Law and grace don't mix. You can't depend on Jesus and the Ten Commandments for righteousness at the same time. This is the "neither hot nor cold" that Christ spoke of in Revelation 3.

Believers, there is only one Good News and it is based on righteousness by faith, not obedience to the law of sin and death. In fact, Paul places the only curse in the new testament (doubly!) on anyone preaching a different gospel in Galatians 1:8-9:

"Let God’s curse fall on anyone, including us or even an angel from heaven, who preaches a different kind of Good News than the one we preached to you. 9 I say again what we have said before: If anyone preaches any other Good News than the one you welcomed, let that person be cursed."

God's grace is not a licence to sin. It is the power of God to salvation, including salvation from sin. Would you really give your own child a gift that has a slight chance of killing him or give him the liberty to be sinful and rebellious? How much more our Abba Father who gave us His Son in whom "we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace 8 which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence," Ephesians 1:7-8 here tells us God's grace is showered on us with wisdom and prudence, not just anyhow that we could misuse it.

Those who enjoy wallowing in sin and say that their sinning is okay because they are under Grace are under something else, definitely not Grace. Yes there are some who try to replace the grace of our Lord with sheer license to sin. These people are not under grace but under the control of the devil. Paul spoke of these people in Jude 1 and described them as "spots in our love feasts," greedy and rebellious. These people are not of Christ and their behaviour should not make pastors and leaders want to try to “help God” by introducing the law to keep New Covenant believers in check.

See Paul's analogy of law and grace in Galatians 4:21-31. Sarah (GRACE) did not need Hagar (LAW) to raise Isaac (The Church; you and I in Christ). Grace is enough. Cast out the bondwoman and her son!

Pastors and leaders, there's no need to help the Holy Spirit to do His work of transforming believers to the image of the glory of the Lord by putting them under the law again. This is death. Plus it only gives sin dominion over the sinner. 2 Corinthians 3:18 says the Spirit of the Lord transforms us to the image of His glory, not the Law, or you. No human is that good a transformer.

Point the people to God's Grace (unveil the love of Christ) and not the letter that kills. According to Titus 2, Grace (our Saviour Jesus Christ Himself) is the one that teaches us to shun ungodliness and worldly lusts, gave His life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make us His very own people, totally committed to doing good deeds. Grace is our Teacher, not you or I.

Preach Grace- undeserved, unearned, unmerited favour; Grace will do everything else.

Believe Right and you will Live Right.

http://rightbelieving101..com.ng/2017/12/many-sinners-want-to-stop-sinning-but.html?m=1

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Julivas:
I support this totally .

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bloodofthelamb:
This is nice.
1John5:11- And this is the record that, GOD hath given to us(me) eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

The GOD kind of life!
The indestructible life of GOD!

Amen!!

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Job 22:28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

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Philippians 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Bible Study by Jack Kelley

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Cor 15:56-57

I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. Where, O death, are your plagues? Where, O grave, is your destruction? (Hosea 13:14)

A friend died last week. [note: Jack wrote this in 2003] Old by earthly standards (75) and having battled cancer for 11 years, today he’s young and in perfect health, very much alive and filled with awe at the extent of God’s love as he starts the adventure of an eternity.

Beginning to know as he’s been known, (1 Cor. 13:12) he finally has a glimmer of understanding of Paul’s promise that “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him.” (1 Cor 2:9)

Are You Happy Now?

It’s said that the average child is happier than the average adult, and one reason is that children spend most of their time gaining new knowledge and learning new skills, while adults spend most of their time repeating what they’ve already learned. Another is that children haven’t experienced many failures and therefore have little or no fear of it.

If that’s true, imagine how happy my friend Bud is now. He’ll spend all of eternity gaining new knowledge (like interviewing the authors of the 66 books he’s spent so much time studying and receiving the insights of the One who guided their thoughts as they wrote). He’ll learn new skills (like how to travel back and forth through time at the speed of thought and how to access the third of his brain for which science has found no earthly use.) Bud was never very fearful, but what little fear he had is now gone, and the concept of failure is foreign to his new existence.

He has now escaped the bonds of space and time, has been divested of the sin that contaminates us all, and received the reward of that single decision that fulfilled the purpose of his life. He is, at last, becoming that which he was created to be—God’s work of art (Ephe 2:10).

Wait a Minute, Something’s Missing

There’s only one thing Bud’s still longing for even more than while he was here on Earth: The Rapture. You see Bud’s spirit, that part of him that’s really him and is eternal, is with the Lord. Paul taught, “as long as we’re at home in the body we’re away from the Lord. We live by faith not by sight. We are confident, I say, and would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord” (2 Cor 5:6-. But his body has returned to the dust of the earth from which it came (Gen. 3:19).

But at the Rapture, all that changes. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God and the dead in Christ will rise first (1 Thes. 4:16). At that moment Bud will be reunited with two things he really loves and misses: his body, made new and perfect, and his loved ones here on Earth. For after that we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so shall we be with the Lord forever (1 Thes. 4:17).

Now I’m Happy

Then Bud’s joy (and ours) will be complete. We were created to be physical beings and need a physical body to fully experience all that eternity has in store for us. The dead will be resurrected into perfect, immortal versions of their previous bodies, while ours will be instantaneously changed from mortal to immortal. Job declared, “I know that my Redeemer lives and that in the end, He will stand upon the Earth. And after my skin has been destroyed yet in my flesh I will see God. I myself will see Him with my own eyes – I and not another. How my heart yearns within me!” (Job 19:27-29). Paul agrees. “For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality” (1 Cor 15:53). Even the Creation, cursed by the sin of our first parents, cannot be liberated from its bondage until we are raptured and receive our perfect bodies. For the Creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed (Rom 8:18).

Though many of Bud’s most admired earthly accomplishments have been exposed in the fire of judgment as wood hay and stubble (1 Cor 3:12-14), of no significance in his standing before God and forgotten even in his mind, he hasn’t forgotten the loved ones he left behind and having had a glimpse of what awaits us all, longs even more than we do for our reunion.

We love you Bud and miss you too. But you haven’t seen the last of us. Any day now we’ll be together again, this time forever.

https://gracethrufaith.com/topical-studies/thy-kingdom-come/where-o-death-is-your-victory/

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