Grace Thrasher’s Hyper-tension.
It boggles my mind that the claimers who claim that living up to some standard of the law is is evidence of true faith and not realizing they are diluting the greatest news that the community of humanity can ever hear. We are to share the Best News of all good news...God provided free grace while we were yet sinners because of Christ...yet the religious pharisees do every thing in their power to hide grace behind the wall of rules, regulations and laws.
“This sloppy grace message is a license to sin!” is the accusation of grace haters, as though people need a license to sin. If that is so, why do law keepers sin! Are they naive enough to think they don’t sin!
We are all sinners, even the grace thrashers, God-fearing, church-going “Christians”. Sin is a natural part of living life in this earth suit in a fallen world. It is only by God’s pure and unfettered grace, as demonstrated once for all through Jesus Christ, that we are made something else...righteous... we are not righteous because we do not sin, but because the Grace of God provides the power to overcome sin.
Religious performers disguises their sanctimonious trap with “we are saved by grace” then drops the people caught in their deceptive trap in to a pot of hot hogwash of maintaining their salvation by works.
The grace haters promises grace, then delivers condemnation. The rule keepers say they preach the good news of grace, then preaches the bad news of hellfire.
Consider how the good news gospel is snowed under by the relentless garbage of denominational "segregation" “man-made doctrines",” and behavioral “ethics.” Denomination against denomination, segregating over bible interpretation, terminology, dress codes, religious standards, seating arrangements, music styles…and all the other senseless man-made ideologies.
The damning message of religious behaviorism, “Behave right (according to our religious standards), or you will burn in hell,” layers the gospel under layer after layer of the religious hog-wash of measuring up to the religious rules and regulations.
Paul called this “another gospel that isn’t the gospel at all.” It’s religion. It holds out salvation like some carrot-and-stick maintained by unquantifiable good deeds. It is a damnable lie against the the Grace Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Jesus did not bring some make religion acceptable by adding by salvation by grace to religion. He brought us freedom "from religion" through His gospel of Grace, which is good news for sinner and saint alike.
The nonsense about how that would mean we could “just go out and sin all we want since we’re already forgiven needs to be thrown out for the hogwash it is.” Nobody who trusts God wants to sin. When you trust God to love you and forgive you, you want to be like Jesus; you don’t want to be a sinning devil. But when we do sin, in spite of the fact that we don’t want to, we have an advocate with the Father, 1 John 2:1-2 tells us (and he tells us that so we won’t sin, not so that we will sin.
Paul told Titus: “For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say ‘No’ to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope, the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good” (Titus 2:11-14).
It’s grace that teaches us to say no to ungodliness. It’s grace that makes us eager to do what is good. Knowing we’re already forgiven and accepted does not lead us into the devil’s sinning spree, but into deeper fellowship with our Lord and Savior.
The Grace Gospel is GOOD NEWS.
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