The Grace Room

Faith is a perspective!

you have to see God, yourself, and Satan BIBLICALLY! You have to VIEW all three, TRUTHFULLY and CORRECTLY!!!

Illustration:

a rich man hires you to deliver a package. He gives you the package and the car. He has one rule: don’t get in a wreck.

You got in a wreck.

He’s gonna ask, “did you deliver the package?”

now: same scenario, he hires you to deliver a package and he has one rule: don’t get in a wreck. HOWEVER, he says he worked out a deal with another rich guy. This guy gave us his credit card! It will cover the costs of ANY WRECK you get in. You don’t have to pay for it, it’s already paid for if you get in a wreck.

See, the rich guy is just wanting the package delivered. He hired you, trusted you, and gave you everything you could need to get the job done! He doesn’t care about how often you DIDN’T get in a wreck!!!!

We’re focused on something that’s already covered and doesn’t mean anything!

Delivering that package is the works James talked about. He’s like, “Okay, you have all this faith? what are you doing with it? If you get all these gifts from God through faith, and do nothing with them, your faith is dead.”

God wants us continuing Christ’s work.

Romans 5:1–2 NKJV

1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Romans 5:9 NKJV

9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

Romans 5:16–18 NKJV

16 And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification. 17 For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.) 18 Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.

That phrase “into this grace” conjures up a picture of entering. If you can enter grace, that really makes it seem like a place. A location we can live in. We can enter it and we can exit it.

It’s like a bubble. Inside the bubble is grace, outside of it is the law. The bubble is covered by Jesus’s blood!

Living under grace gives you power, blessing, authority, confidence, supernatural protection, forgiveness, provision, & makes you a Son of God.

Why?

Because the law has been fulfilled and ALL payment that could EVER BE PAID for your sins, has been paid by Christ when you're under grace. THAT’S what grace is!

And guess what?!

Sin can only be paid for once.

To take this a step further, it really helped me to think of grace like a room. The grace room. The reason is because rooms have doors. The grace room has one, and only one, door. There’s only one way in and one way out.

If you’re in the grace room, everything that could ever e suffered or paid for your sin has already been suffered and paid!!!

Step outside of it, and you’re back to paying for it yourself. Either you pay for your sins or Christ paid for your sins. Which one is up to you.

Outside the grace room, the requirement of the law is still active and you’ve broken it! Outside the grace room is judgment, condemnation, & wrath. Why? Your sins have been paid for!

So what is the door? It’s the faith we talked about! We enter by faith! Since faith is a perspective, we need the right perspective of God, ourselves, and Satan, and we enter the grace room.

The door is NOT sin or not sinning.

The enemy wants you to think that. Though. Why?

That’s what’s OUTSIDE the grace room!

God gives us grace BECAUSE of our sin! How could the thing we NEED grace for cancel the grace out?! If we didn’t have any sin, we wouldn’t need any grace?!

why do we need grace if not for sin? How could the thing we NEED the grace for, knock us out of the grace?!

That’s like saying I’m giving away free money, unless you need it.

PROBLEM: If I say we need grace BECAUSE of our sin, we might say, “Shall i sin that grace may abound?”

Romans 6:1–2 NKJV

1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?

Romans 6:8–11 NKJV

8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:14 NKJV

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

Romans 6:15–16 NKJV

15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! 16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?

Dead to sin, alive to God, a slave of obedience.

Paul is saying, “Certainly not! If you start sinning to get more grace, your perspective of yourself is broken!”

“If you start sinning to get more grace, you don’t consider yourself dead to sin, alive to God, and a slave of obedience!”

Paul is saying, “If you don’t see yourself correctly, you’re exiting the room!”

How would someone who is dead to sin, alive to God, and a slave of obedience, respond when they sin?

Repentance.

Repentance isn’t penance. It’s not paying a price. It’s not making amends.

Amends have been made! The price has been paid! The suffering has been suffered!

See, the sin doesn’t kick you out of the grace room, but not repenting means your faith is broken.

How would you have to see God & yourself to not repent when you sin?

Finally: So why not sin?

If sin doesn’t kick us out of the grace room, why not sin?

Love.

if you even ask that question, that means the only reason you weren’t sinning is because of consequences? It’s because you were scared of getting caught? Really?

We don’t even treat our spouses like that! Why would we treat the God who paid all payment and all suffering we could ever experience, from our own sins, like that?