Bringing Grace Back!
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The Doctrine of Grace Has Been Perverted and Cheapened!
The Doctrine of Grace Has Been Perverted and Cheapened!
The problem is Grace is not a wordly term but a Christian doctrine.
Therefore we’ve taken something that was meant to empower and equip the Church and have redefined it in such a way that it has crippled the Church.
The definition of Grace has been twisted with part truths and complete lies so much that the true definition of Grace is lost to many and when it’s properly defined will often bring offense!
3 Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
4 For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
5 Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
6 And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—
7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
JUDE 1.3-
4 For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
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Pervert the Grace of our God into Sensuality and deny or ONLY Master and Lord, Jesus Christ!
Not everyone who teaches “hyper-grace” is demonically bent on leading the church astray and trying to justify sin. Some truly love Jesus but are preaching truth mixed with lies, often out of ignorance.
Others however are looking for a way to justify sin, live in sin and lead others into sin, all while saying “Grace, grace, grace”
THREE MYTHS OR FALSE TEACHINGS ABOUT GRACE
THREE MYTHS OR FALSE TEACHINGS ABOUT GRACE
The politically and socially correct definition of Grace today is:
God’s love is greater than my sin (TRUTH) therefore I can continue practicing sin. (LIE)
1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
2. Grace is a product and manifestation of the love of God (TRUTH), and love overlooks sin. (LIE)
11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people,
12 training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
13 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
15 Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you.
3. We are saved by the Grace of God, not by our own selves (TRUTH), therefore sin has been dealt with and there is no need to be concerned about sin in my life. I don’t have to confess sin, I cannot sin and the Holy Spirit no longer convicts me of my sin. (LIE)
Rom 6.12-
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.
13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
15 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
IT IS THROUGH THE DULLING OF OUR SPIRITUAL SENSES AND LACK OF COMMUNION WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT WE ARE ABLE TO PRACTICE SIN SO EASILY.
SIN GRIEVES THE SPIRIT OF GOD, TO WILLINGLY AND CONSISTENTLY PRACTICE IT, WITHOUT REPENTANCE IS TAKE THE GRACE OF GOD FOR GRANTED.
REPENTANCE AND REMORSE ARE NOT THE SAME THING.
YOU CAN FEEL REMORSE FOR SOMETHING BUT NOT REPENT OF IT
REPENTANCE AND THE SPIRIT OF GRACE IN OUR LIVES
WHAT IS THE SPIRIT OF GRACE?? - THE HOLY SPIRIT!
29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?
10 “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.
TRUE GRACE, because it is born of the Holy Spirit, will actually withdraw from SIN
128 Therefore I consider all your precepts to be right; I hate every false way.
5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;
6 therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
10 For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.
What then is GRACE?
What then is GRACE?
The Greek word for Grace is Charis
GRACE—(1.) Of form or person (Prov. 1:9; 3:22; Ps. 45:2). (2.) Favour, kindness, friendship (Gen. 6:8; 18:3; 19:19; 2 Tim. 1:9). (3.) God’s forgiving mercy (Rom. 11:6; Eph. 2:5). (4.) The gospel as distinguished from the law (John 1:17; Rom. 6:14; 1 Pet. 5:12). (5.) Gifts freely bestowed by God; as miracles, prophecy, tongues (Rom. 15:15; 1 Cor. 15:10; Eph. 3:8). (6.) Christian virtues (2 Cor. 8:7; 2 Pet. 3:18). (7.) The glory hereafter to be revealed (1 Pet. 1:13).
1. Grace is the goodness and forgiving mercy of God, we cannot earn it and we cannot do it ourselves!
6 But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
Rom
5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
2. It is the gospel as distinguished from the law
17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
18 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
19 Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
3. Gifts freely given by God, such as tongues, prophecy and miracles
15 But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by God
10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.
8 To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
Gifts - Charisma
Grace - Charis
1 cor 12.
4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;
5 and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord;
6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
7 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
8 For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
11 All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.
BIBLICAL GRACE EMPOWERS, NOT ENABLES!
BIBLICAL GRACE HIGHLIGHTS, NOT HIDES!
BIBLICAL GRACE LEADS TO REPENTANCE, NOT ACCEPTANCE
REPENTANCE - - METANOIA- TO CHANGE ONES MIND AND PURPOSE AND LIFE
1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
Ps 51.1
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.
ps 51.7
This is not the prayer of a man that believed that God winked at sin.
His sin stole the peace from his life.
He said, “TAKE NOT YOUR HOLY SPIRIT FROM ME!”
17 But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
18 They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
19 It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
21 keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.
22 And have mercy on those who doubt;
23 save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.
24 Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy,
jude 1.17-20