Gal 5:1 Freedom is what we have---Christ has set us free! Stand, then, as free people, and do not allow yourselves to become slaves again. 2 Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you allow yourselves to be circumcised, it means that Christ is of no use to you at all. 3 Once more I warn any man who allows himself to be circumcised that he is obliged to obey the whole Law. 4 Those of you who try to be put right with God by obeying the Law have cut yourselves off from Christ. You are outside God's grace. 5 As for us, our hope is that God will put us right with him; and this is what we wait for by the power of God's Spirit working through our faith.
Freedom is what we have---Christ has set us free!
My question is this: When will the knowledge and the acceptance of this statement settle in the hearts of the believers?
Grace has set us free, not because of our works or our failed attempts at working out our own salvation. Christ has set us free.
Yet, so many of us wake up every morning, with feelings of guilt and condemnation, wondering what we need to do today, so that God may continue His favour and Grace over us.
Rom 9:15 For he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on anyone I wish; I will take pity on anyone I wish." 16 So then, everything depends, not on what we humans want or do, but only on God's mercy.
God bestowed mercy on us. Jesus was the Sacrificial Lamb whom God gave for the remission of our sins.
Jesus did it all: He declared: “Joh 19:30 Jesus drank the wine and said, "It is finished!" Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.”
The Word God sent, did not return void. It accomplished exactly the task that was His.
The works of the evil one was destroyed and reconciliation for man with God was accomplished.
Why then, do we ever want to return to the bondage of law?
Tit 3:3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and wrong. We were slaves to passions and pleasures of all kinds. We spent our lives in malice and envy; others hated us and we hated them. 4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior was revealed, 5 he saved us. It was not because of any good deeds that we ourselves had done, but because of his own mercy that he saved us, through the Holy Spirit, who gives us new birth and new life by washing us. 6 God poured out the Holy Spirit abundantly on us through Jesus Christ our Savior,
What a great gift we received. We did not work for it, we did not die for it, we could not buy it, ever.
Yet through His mercy and Grace, we were given this gift.
We don’t return our favorite birthday gifts to the store or to the person who gave us these gifts. No. We cherish it, we use it, we love it and we protect it.
Why would we then squander so great a gift by wanting to `return` it?
Those, whom Jesus has set free, are free indeed.
Don’t return to a previous state of being, walk and rest in the Grace and the Mercy of Father.
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