Gospel Of Grace Through Jesus Christ
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The Complete Sufficiency Of Christ’s Atonement for sin is more powerful than anything I know.
Who needs a license to sin?
We are fine without a license and sin regardless right? And ALL OUR RIGHTEOUSNESSES are as filthy rags (Isaiah 64:6), and ALL HAVE SINNED and fall short.
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” (Romans 3:23 KJV)
In regards to salvation and works to ‘remain saved‘, Paul called that idea boasting in pride and foolish.
” O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?” (Gal. 3 KJV)
Salvation is based on BELIEF, NOT BEHAVIOUR. Rewards and loss of eternal rewards is based on a believer’s works. Scripture is clear on that. But our salvation can never be lost by our failures in sin after the moment of our salvation.
So our works and how we live after the moment of salvation DO MATTER, for sure (Eph. 2:10).
Ultimately, it comes from within and moves outwardly from our new Spirit. God changes our minds and hearts and gives every believer desires.
Many quote Romans 6, but what about Romans 5 for context ? Look at the focus Paul gave on “FREE GIFT” and “MUCH MORE“. Grace abounds over our lives as born again believers.
What believer really thinks he can just go on sinning without real negative consequences? For that matter, what believer feels no remorse over failures in sin? The indwelling Holy Spirit guides. When we fail and sin, we feel the indwelling Holy Spirit pulling us toward confession do we not? God is not surprised when we fail in sin. He foreknew every sin we will commit in our lives from the foundation of the world, yet Christ still died for us in great love to save us.
What we do have is the security of knowing that when we do sin (and until our bodily resurrection, we will) we are not risking the loss of our salvation. All our sins are all paid in full by christ (1 John 2:2).
Jesus knew every sin of our life, and carried them ALL to the cross where He died for them in our place, 2000 years ago. At that very moment our forgiveness was assured in His foreknowledge (Colossians 2:13-15).
All we have to do is believe to accept THE FREE GIFT of eternal salvation through true belief on Christ . (Eph. 2:8-9, Romans 5)
Writing to believers, John wrote that if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive our sins and purify us from —ALL– unrighteousness (1 John 1:9).
Christ paid for all sins of the whole world as a FREE GIFT, not just believer’s sins.
“And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.” (1 John 2:2 KJV)
As a FREE GIFT, it can be accepted in belief on Christ or rejected (John 3:18), but never worked for nor earned (Eph. 2:8-10, Gal. 3, 5:4-5). Only Christ accomplished that for us.
Christ died for all sins, past and future. I ask you… DID IT WORK? YES, IT MOST CERTAINLY DID! AMEN.
“Nevertheless, whereto we have ALREADY ATTAINED, let us WALK BY the same rule, let us mind the same thing.” (Phil. 3:16 KJV)
Just saying a prayer or going to an alter call ; not sure if you are saved. The belief in Christ saves, not words, and the belief must be REAL BELIEF and trust on Christ.
We fail and sin as believers, but we need to know WHO GOD MADE US IN CHRIST, something many saved believers still have not learned. The Truth sets us free indeed.
In Jesus prayer for us He said,
“Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.” (John 17:17 KJV)
Oh yes. Not all born again saved believers are disciples (which is defined as a learner).
That said, we all should be!
As believers, our focus is getting THE TRUTH IN US from God’s Word. And we will find ourselves sinning less. We live outwardly as we believe in the mind.
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” (Romans 12 KJV)
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Sins committed by a believer of Christ for Salvation will not result in loss of Salvation. That stated, should we just sin all we want so that God’s grace abounds? No. We still have consequences for our sins and they are not good at all.
Damnation in hell is not a consequence of sin for a believer on Christ’s atonement but we should be transformed during our life as a believer. We renew our mind by the Word of God, guided by the Holy Spirit.
Confessing is agreeing with God that we sinned. All a person’s sins were forgiven on that cross because Jesus did not make a partial payment for just the sins of those who would believe; He paid for all sins of every person!
“2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and NOT FOR OURS ONLY, but also for the sins of THE WHOLE WORLD.” (1 John 2:2 KJV)
This ‘once for all’ payment of all sins (Hebrews 10:10) is given to us all as a GIFT of God’s grace and can be accepted or rejected because God gives us free will to decide. He asks us… ‘Here is a free unmerited GIFT. It is complete forgiveness of your life sins and makes you the righteousness of God, in Christ.’
….If the gift is rejected, the payment is not placed on the account of a person’s sin debt and they will one day pay for their sin debt themselves in a place called hell.
….If they accept the gift payment by belief on Christ and His once for all sacrifice for our sins on the cross (John 3:14-18, Hebrews 10:10) then they are freed of the debt ENTIRELY. All sins we commit are future from the cross, sins we comit after Salvation as well and all were paid for by Jesus’ ONCE FOR ALL payment , if we accept the GIFT of Salvation.
On that cross Jesus cried out.. IT IS FINISHED. In the Greek that was penned it is an accounting term meaning A DEBT PAID IN FULL.
Salvation is a gift to be received (Eph 2:8-9) by BELIEF ON CHRIST (John 3:14-18, 1 Cor. 15:1-4) not something we work to achieve nor keep. By believing on Christ….any sins comitted both before and after the moment of Salvation are already judged and paid in full.
From the moment of belief on Christ we are SEALED by the Holy Spirit:
” 13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also AFTER THAT YE BELIEVED, YE WERE SEALED with that holy Spirit of promise, 14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.” (Eph 1:13-14 KJV)
Notice it is past tense and a believer was sealed from the moment of belief. That does not mean we have no consequences for sinning!!! There could be severe consequences such as physical death even and loss of eternal rewards. But damnation in hell for sins Christ already paid for in our place? Not for the believer.
“4 According as HE HATH CHOSEN US IN HIM BEFORE the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and WITHOUT BLAME before him in love:” (Ephesians 1:4 KJV)
God knew every sin we would commit from the foundation of the world..yet He willing became flesh and paid for our sins anyway. Amazing love. Abounding grace!!
Both Matthew and Paul tell us that Christ will return to Earth physically as a ‘thief in the night’. Yet, many misunderstand to who this refers; believers or unbelievers? Context shows us.
In Matthew 24, it is all about the Second Coming of Christ and not about the Pre-Tribulation Rapture. In verse 29, we see that these prophesied future events will take place AFTER the Tribulation period.
Jesus says in verse 29,
“Immediately AFTER the tribulation of those days …”
“42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. 43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch THE THIEF would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. 44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.” (Matthew 24: 42-44 KJV)
The context here is addressing UNBELIEVERS who survived the Tribulation period. To them Jesus’ Second coming will be a shocker. It will be as a thief in the night as they are unprepared for the event.
We also see Apostle Paul telling believers about the Day of the Lord in verses 1-3 below, which is the time period between the start of the Tribulation and the end of the 1000 year reign of Christ on Earth in the future. This includes the Tribulation Period (which starts with ‘peace and safety as Antichrist takes power and half way through turns to the evil he really is all about.) and includes the Second Coming of Christ event that they understood from the Torah. The first 3 verses are describing UNBELIEVERS who will not be taken up by Christ at the Harpazo Rapture. And then Paul switches to BELIEVERS. This is the right context.
“1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.”
》》 4 BUT YE, BRETHREN, ARE NOT in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.” (1 Thessalonians 5: 1-6 KJV)
》 Believers know the Lord is coming!
And we are COMPLETE IN CHRIST (Colossians 2) and are children of the light. And for us BELIEVERS IN CHRIST, “…God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,” (1 Thessalonians 5: 9 KJV)
Paul continues in the same chapter offering words of COMFORT to the believers in contrast to Jesus warnings in Matthew 24.
》 Unbelievers are warned to obtain Salvation before it is too late.
For UNBELIEVERS Christ’s appearing will be a shock! As a thief in the night. Warnings are given in Matthew 24 to the unsaved,
“48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; 49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; 50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, 51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 24: 48-51 KJV)
This is describing a delay of time between the end of the Tribulation Period and the Return of Christ. Only those who endure in belief that Christ is coming will be saved. Some will waiver in their belief and be lost as we see in Matthew 25 and the Parable of the 10 Virgins. Some teach that as the Rapture event, but they are wrong by the context of Matthew 24:29.
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As a believer in eternal security from the very moment of belief on Christ’s finished work (Ephesians 1:13-14), there has been a drastic change in our Spirit, in our inner person which has been born again. Made a New Creature and MADE the very righteousness of God IN CHRIST. This NEW US which Apostle Paul calls THE SPIRIT is real.
Are we perfect in the Spirit? God says YES. How about our minds though? Our minds still need renewing by the Word of God. Our mind is where our beliefs are. The new us at our core being has been changed but we still have ‘wrong old thoughts and wrong old beliefs’ about many things. By reading the Word of God we start seeing who Christ has transformed us into. Now FREE FOREVER from our debt of sins we ‘change our mind’ (the very definition of the Bible English word REPENT) about many things as we read the Bible and see God’s truth as the Holy Spirit COMFORTS us.
These changes in beliefs work outwardly into our lives effortlessly as by believing right will result in how see things and determine decisions and how we respond to others in love. Our inner beliefs allow God to work through us and so we do the good works Christ has set before us to accomplish.
Salvation happens in a moment. Our core being made eternal by belief on Christ’s FINISHED WORK (John 3:14-18, 1 Cor. 15:1-4, Eph. 1:13-14) but our sanctification is an ongoing process in our life as we change our mind by the truth of the Word of God that the Holy Spirit guides to BELIEVE.
When we focus on not sinning it is the same as following The Law and the Bible is clear that the result is we will sin more, not less. It is the opposite of how the world thinks. The world view is all about our performance. Do good to be good. Keep in mind that it is Satan who is the ruler of this world.
“Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become EXCEEDING SINFUL. For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.” (Romans 7:12-14 KJV)
“Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall NO FLESH BE JUSTIFIED in his sight: for by the law is the KNOWLEDGE OF SIN.” (Romans 3:20 KJV)
“Moreover the law entered, that the offence MIGHT ABOUND. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:” (Romans 5:20)
“The sting of death is sin; and the STRENGTH OF SIN IS THE LAW.” (1 Corinthians 15:56 KJV)
As believers, we are not under the Old Covenant of Law following by self righteous efforts. We are under the New Covenant which has replaced the Old Covenant. We are under the GRACE OF GOD through Jesus Christ. So when you fall into sin, God wants us to be focusing on a Christ conscious, not a sin conscious. This means that when you struggle with sin (we all will), God wants you to be conscious that in Christ you have forgiveness of sins through His blood. ALL your sins were already paid IN FULL by Christ on the cross 2000 years ago. God foreknew every sin you will commit in your life, before you were born. And Jesus paid for them ALL.
God wants us to be conscious that “…the was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.” (Isaiah 53:5)
When we are Christ-conscious, we will have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:” (Romans 5:1 KJV)
We believe that we are the righteousness of God in Christ.
“For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” (2 Cor. 5:21 KJV)
So when you STRUGGLE with sin and feel a failure, don’t be overly conscious of your failure and feel bad or condemned. Instead, be conscious of who you are in Christ, pick yourself up, dust yourself off and continue your walk with God!
Confess your sins to God which means to AGREE that you sinned. Sorry you sinned, ask God to help you overcome the temptation in the future. Focus on His love for you and His grace and you will find yourself sinning less.
“Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.” (Hebrews 4:1 KJV)
Yes. Think about Peter. He believed Jesus was the Messiah and as such was saved. Yet he denied Christ not once but three times swearing before men. Jesus always foretold Peter he would deny Him three times but that He prayed for Peter to come back in faith after feeling such shame for doing it. And Peter was restored to strengthen the other disciples. He did not lose Salvation. He was eternally saved by his BELIEF on Christ as Jesus told Nicodemus in John 3, repetitively, regarding how a person is born again and justified in Salvation.
“But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.” (Matthew 10:33 KJV)
As believers, knowing what Christ went through to save us on that cross, shedding His blood for us, we hope that we would have enough courage to withstand persecution, even unto death. However, if a person is tortured for their belief in Christ and denies Christ verbally, yet in their heart still fully believes, are they still saved? Jesus paid such a high price in the greatest love there is for us. Would He deny a saved believer for verbally denying Christ under such duress?
The TYPE of denial matters in understanding this subject. Jesus was talking to the disciples right? Keep in mind Judas Iscariot. He did not deny Christ out of fear or distress. His act of betrayal for silver was a complete denial. Although Judas was with Christ, traveled with the disciples and Jesus, he never believed Jesus was the Messiah. He was not a saved believer. And even though he felt remorse and guilt for being responsible for Jesus horrible death, he still did not believe He was the Messiah and committed suicide unsaved.
Do you see the contrast between Peter’s denial and Judas’ denial of Christ. Yes! It is about BELIEF and not outside appearances. Don’t get me wrong, we should all stand up for our belief in Christ. The Gospel is the power to be saved eternally! Yet. I am saying God looks at a person’s heart. Not everyone is strong enough to withstand torture and persecution. They may act one way outwardly to protect themselves but inwardly they are a true believer.
For this reason I believe they are saved.
Apostle Paul wrote:
“Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized INTO HIS DEATH? Therefore we are BURIED WITH HIM by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man IS CRUCIFIED WITH HIM, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not SERVE sin. For he that is DEAD IS FREED from sin. Now if we BE DEAD WITH CHRIST, we believe that we shall also LIVE WITH HIM: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, HE DIED UNTO SIN ONCE: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be DEAD INDEED TO SIN, but alive unto God THROUGH Jesus Christ our Lord.”
(Romans 6: 3-11 KJV)
Wow. The more I read this, the more grateful and hope filled I become. Yet, is this the message we are hearing from church religion pulpits today? What I hear mostly are sayings like, “we need to die to self.” and “we need to die daily.” Did you know these phrases are not even found in the Bible? It is the truth! They are found no where in the Bible. Search it out for yourself; it simply does not exist in the Bible. In fact, the passage above in Romans 6 is likely the closest thing to the phrase and yet it does not teach us that at all. In fact, it is telling us something very opposite.
The majority of people who say they are Christian do not even realize that we need to separate our physical existence and our Spiritual existence when coming to understanding about our Salvation and what happened (past tense!) at the very moment of belief on Christ’s finished work of atoning for our sins on the cross. So powerful and sufficient was Christ’s once for all sacrifice (Hebrews 10:10) for the sins of the whole world (1 John 2:2), yet do we grasp the depth of what Christ did for us? When you study passages like Romans 6 and Colossians 2 and 3 and Galatians we see Apostle Paul making this clearer and clearer.
‘When Jesus died on the cross, He nailed our sins to the cross.’ Now there is a phrase we hear all the time right? And, yes, that is certainly true but it goes well beyond that!
First, what is the wages of our sin? What is the penalty of our sin? Is the penalty that we need to be a better person? Do we need to be more penitent? Do we need to do more good than bad? In God’s economy regarding our sins, none of these are the wages of sin. The wages of our sin, IS DEATH! We cannot earn our way to paying off our sin debt against God because the only thing that can pay for our sins is death by the shedding of blood.
Now, look at verse 3 above in Romans 6. This is telling us that when Jesus died on the cross, He took our old self WITH HIM. It says we WERE baptized into His death. What does Baptized mean in this verse? Looking at the Greek in which this was penned for the translated into English word “baptized” here is the Greek word ‘baptizō‘ and the meaning is ‘to immerse’. Paul is not talking about water Baptism here though. He is talking about Spiritual baptism; the Baptism of the Spirit, being Born Again. As believers, our spirit nature was taken with Christ onto that cross and we DIED WITH CHRIST. Physically we are here on Earth. But spiritually, this is what took place. Notice that this is all written in the PAST TENSE! Our old spiritual self was DEAD with Christ, buried with Christ and rose again WITH CHRIST at the cross! In Colossians 2, Paul expands further and states that believers are “COMPLETE IN CHRIST” and “SEATED WITH CHRIST”, again all written in the present tense!
Just as Jesus said, IT IS FINISHED! God foreknew who will accept the GIFT of Salvation and who would reject such a great gift. And the will of the Father is that He will not lose any of His own.
“And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.” (John 6:39 KJV)
In foreknowledge, God placed a believer’s old self on that cross WITH CHRIST. This is something we do not see taught very often from pulpits. Instead, we get more surface understanding that ‘our sins were paid for on the cross’ without the deeper understanding of this truth. We hear catchy phrases like ‘we need to die to self’, although this is as close as Scripture gets to that phrase; WE DIED WITH CHRIST! This is what being BORN AGAIN is all about folks! Our old self, (what Paul refers to as the Old Man) and our sins were crucified on that cross. Died on the cross. Buried with Christ and have been resurrected (born again). Jesus cried out, on that cross just before physically dying, IT IS FINISHED which in the Greek it was penned is an accounting term meaning, DEBT PAID IN FULL. Our sin debt was paid. Our wages of sin (death penalty) was paid for, IN FULL, on Christ. And when Jesus rose again, so did we rise again in the Spirit; Eternal, Holy, Righteous and redeemed forever. That just makes me want to shout THANK YOU JESUS. How about you? Grateful is the word.
From the very moment of our belief on Christ’s finished work on the cross, we were SEALED by the Holy Spirit forever. (Ephesians 1:13-14) How close are we to Christ as believers? We hear in church sermons that we ‘need to die to self’ and that we ‘need to get closer to Christ’ by doing this, that and the other thing. More church building attendance. More good works. More Bible study. These may all be good things to do, yes! Yet, Apostle Paul tells us that our old self ALREADY DIED with Christ on that cross and we are now ALREADY a NEW self called The Spirit. We have become (past tense) BORN AGAIN in the Spirit and are a new creation in the Spirit which is the righteousness of God, in Christ (John 3:5-6, 14-18, 2 Corinthians 5:17-21).
Apostle Paul addresses this too of course. He tells us that because we DIED TO SIN with Christ on that cross (Romans 6, Colossians 2 and 3), and that we are now a NEW CREATION IN CHRIST (2 Corinthians 5:17), and that we are now SEATED with Christ in the heavenly realms (Ephesians 2:6-7), why should we continue in sin? He is not saying that sinning after Salvation will result in loss of Salvation. Remember ALL our life long list of sins (even future ones because all our sins are future from the cross) were paid in full on that cross 2000 years ago! He is just saying, look…this is the new you in union with Christ. Now when a temptation to sin comes around we should walk in the Spirit to avoid the lust of the flesh (Galatians 5:16). Walk in the truth and knowledge that as believers we are in union with Christ spiritually which is the new us and deny that sin knowing we are already DEAD to sin, in Christ.
Unbelievers just go ahead and sin and have no remorse about it really. But believers when they sin, well, we feel kinda icky! We become remorseful. We confess the sin and tell God we are sorry that we blew it after all He did for us. That is because we are born again. The Holy Spirit is right here dwelling within us. We are IN CHRIST! And sometimes if we are stubborn about a sin, God will chastise us just as a human parent chastises their children for their own good. It is all out of love for us and there is no greater love that God’s love for us.
I rather boast in God’s love for me , then my love for Him – that is for sure. I still blow it sometimes and fall into temptation as anyone at times. But do I ever feel bad about it later! Apostle Paul was telling us that he too had this ongoing struggle with our old mind not acknowledging or maybe knowing the truth about a sin. Even knowing something is a sin, we still step into it, even when our spirit really does not want to. Our new Spirit is Holy Righteous and redeemed but we need to renew our mind by the Word of God (Romans 12:2). We need to BELIEVE that what the Bible says we now are as believers is the truth and then accepting that in belief, our actions move outwardly into our lives. Let’s face it, how we believe, is how we will act!
Ever take notice that if someone tempts you to murder them, you just would never do that? You would walk away. But why then with other sins do you lose the battle with temptation? It is because right believing results in right living and right actions. If there is anything I pray for you and I as believers, it is that God grant us His WISDOM. His knowledge! The truth! And the more we study the Word of God the more knowledge we have for living in victory from our old self, wrongful thinking.
“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of HIS MIGHT.” (Ephesians 6:10 KJV)
The devil and his fallen angels are working to instill FEAR in believers. They will throw arrows at you such as, ‘you are not good enough..see you sinned again’, or ‘you have trampled on Jesus and your salvation is lost’ or ‘you better do more good and follow the Ten Commandments or you will lose salvation’. There are many arrows and schemes (called the wiles of the devil in Ephesians 6:11) they are using against believers because it is through us, others will come to the truth. And if they can distract us with lies and fear they believe they can stop people from being saved through Christ. And the truth is the only thing believers have to fear is not entering God’s REST.
“Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.” (Hebrews 4:1 KJV)
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
(John 8:32 KJV)
