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Many of you (who care) have seen me post my definition of Grace.
A lot of people mistake "mercy" for Grace, but Grace is a definite force or power of the Lord that functions in our lives WHEN WE ALLOW it.
Grace: God's power and ability in you alone to do in you and through you what alone only He is able to do AND to do what is impossible for you to do.
The Lord spoke to me this morning as I am readying to teach this morning on the "Frustration of Grace" (on those things which attempt to frustrate the Grace of God in our lives).
I am not redefining my definition but coming to another aspect of it. I have always looked at Grace as the NOW force of God in you, when obviously we have to continue to look back (in Time) at what He ALREADY DID for us.
There are two aspects of His Grace that we must depend upon:
1) What He already accomplished for us and in us as our Substitute, and
2) What He is accomplishing NOW for us and in us, STILL, as our Substitute.
Grace is the exchanging of our life for His Life. It is the exchanging of our strength for His Strength.
Anyway, the reason that I noticed to combine the two aspects instead of always looking at them separately is because anytime that we depend upon our works, we frustrate the Gospel of Grace.
Jesus said, "I am the Door." (John 10)
Just because we get saved, that doesn't mean that the Door changes or moves.
We don't enter in INITIALLY by Christ and then keep entering in by another door (ie- our own works).
There is always only ONE DOOR - Jesus!
As Paul wrote, "As you have received Christ, so [likewise] (continue to) walk in Him." (Colossians 3)
We receive Him by faith and not by works, lest any man should boast.
But we sometimes come to the conclusion, whether we be taught it of man or whether we come to this conclusiion by default and not renewing our mind to this Truth, that we should begin to "do" our way into heaven or into the blessings of God.
As Asaph stated in another post, we start to "dotuhbe" (do to be). But we already are what He made us in Spirit. Our existence in the heavenlies must be by what He has done and NOT by what we have done.
Anyway, just wanted to share that this Sunday morning.
Christ has truly accomplished everything that needed to be accomplished for us, in us and through us. He fulfilled the Law and the Covenant... what can we add to that???
A lot of people mistake "mercy" for Grace, but Grace is a definite force or power of the Lord that functions in our lives WHEN WE ALLOW it.
Grace: God's power and ability in you alone to do in you and through you what alone only He is able to do AND to do what is impossible for you to do.
The Lord spoke to me this morning as I am readying to teach this morning on the "Frustration of Grace" (on those things which attempt to frustrate the Grace of God in our lives).
I am not redefining my definition but coming to another aspect of it. I have always looked at Grace as the NOW force of God in you, when obviously we have to continue to look back (in Time) at what He ALREADY DID for us.
There are two aspects of His Grace that we must depend upon:
1) What He already accomplished for us and in us as our Substitute, and
2) What He is accomplishing NOW for us and in us, STILL, as our Substitute.
Grace is the exchanging of our life for His Life. It is the exchanging of our strength for His Strength.
Anyway, the reason that I noticed to combine the two aspects instead of always looking at them separately is because anytime that we depend upon our works, we frustrate the Gospel of Grace.
Jesus said, "I am the Door." (John 10)
Just because we get saved, that doesn't mean that the Door changes or moves.
We don't enter in INITIALLY by Christ and then keep entering in by another door (ie- our own works).
There is always only ONE DOOR - Jesus!
As Paul wrote, "As you have received Christ, so [likewise] (continue to) walk in Him." (Colossians 3)
We receive Him by faith and not by works, lest any man should boast.
But we sometimes come to the conclusion, whether we be taught it of man or whether we come to this conclusiion by default and not renewing our mind to this Truth, that we should begin to "do" our way into heaven or into the blessings of God.
As Asaph stated in another post, we start to "dotuhbe" (do to be). But we already are what He made us in Spirit. Our existence in the heavenlies must be by what He has done and NOT by what we have done.
Anyway, just wanted to share that this Sunday morning.
Christ has truly accomplished everything that needed to be accomplished for us, in us and through us. He fulfilled the Law and the Covenant... what can we add to that???
I may see it... but I pray that the understanding will come.
