WE ARE LIVING UNDER GRACE 2
1 ¶ What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 God forbid. How shall WE , THAT ARE DEAD TO SIN, live any longer therein?
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4 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
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6 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.
7 For he that is dead is freed from sin. {freed: Gr. justified}
8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: 9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
14 FOR SIN SHALL NOT HAVE DOMINION OVER YOU FOR YE ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE
Grace is not the freedom to sin.It is the freedom to serve God in spirit and in truth.It gives us the ability to serve God without pretense.The Law gave birth to a life of pretense.The Law gave birth to sin which makes man to pretend before God .The Law condemned man totally as enemies of God. No man could be qualified to stand before God.All men were guilty before God because of the law.But the man under grace maintains the relationship with our Father above all things.Our mistakes cannot take us away from our father but rather should take us closer because that is where the solution to the mistakes are.The solution to all our faults are in Christ who is the author and finisher of our faith.
Christ came to end the law era.He came to initiate the grace era.Where men become the friends of God not enemies.That is why we should stop running away from Him.He made the provisions for our friendship with Him not based on our qualification but His qualification.He qualifed us for the relationship before He called us into fellowship.(Gal 5: 18) But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.(Roman 8 :14) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
The relationship we enjoy today is Father-Son relationship which God initiated all by Himself.It is no more the God-Man relationship that came by the law.The New relationship starts from our salvation out the bondage of the law to being led by HOLY SPIRIT in us.This happens as soon as we accept Jesus into our lives.We need to accept Jesus Christ into our lives NOW or we remain under the control of our flesh.In that state we can never please God.When you are born again, our actions are no more determined by the law but by the Holy Spirit that dwells in us.He leads us through our spirit that controls our minds through the word of God.The man under the law cannot be lead by the Holy Spirit because he takes direction from the law through the senses(the flesh) therefore he cannot please God but can only keep the commandment with make him more enemy of God.The law influence us outside in but grace influences us inside out.
Prayer
Thank you my father for your grace in Jesus name.
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