Sunday, June 26, 2005

Grace vs Condemnation

When you live under the law condemnation will fill your life. Now we have a choice because of Jesus, Grace or condemnation and believe me Grace is better. Jesus came to give us Grace not condemnation. John 3:13-18 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (NKJV).

Jesus became Grace, there is fullness in His grace. John 1:15-17 John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, "This was He of whom I said, 'He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.' " 16 And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. (NKJV). Here we can see that fullness is His Grace, it is out of Hiss fullness that we received grace. The fullness of the grace of Jesus can never be emptied. You cannot be bad enough to miss this grace, nor be good enough to make it, it is unmerited favour.

Let us look at the following example of grace: John 8:6-96 This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear. 7 So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first." 8 And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. 9 Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. (NKJV) After Jesus written in the dust for the second time there was nobody saying anything. They left one by one and Grace was left standing in front of the woman. John 8:10-12 When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, "Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?" 11 She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said to her, "Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more." NKJV
That is grace.

Get the law and condemnaion out of your system and let us walk into grace and truth. This is what Jesus gave us when He died on the cross. Receive it by faith.

2 comments:

Mike Morrell said...

Excellent blog! Please write more, and consider linking to my grace pages at http://zoecarnate.com/#grace

I'm going to link you to my site.

GraceHead said...

That is a good word brother!
Faith requires that we simply be receptive to the activity of God on our behalf. People of Grace are not so bold to construct their own condemnation through the pride of gutting it out on their own feeble efforts to be worthy. In fact, the best thing about us GraceHeads is that we are weak ... and it so happens that the Gospel is FOR the weak ... those weak enough to need a Savior.

Please come by and visit - www.GraceHead.com

Ripening for the harvest,
Trent