2013 A Year Of Grace

The Old Testament law was made over 2000 years ago. Yet the church still preach and believe that Christians have to measure up to some moral standard or have to show complete obedience towards God otherwise if you don't your a sinner. The entire New Covenant screams the overwhelming good news of a loving, gracious God that didn’t primarily send His Son to come and change what we do, but to have a relationship with him and sit at the right hand of the farther, through GRACE.

The veil was torn for believers to be able to enter into the holy of holies basically have a connection with God with confidence and without fear not based on our own merits, but based on the perfect obedience of the one man Jesus Chris and his death on the cross, on our behalf. But through the centuries the church has sewed this veil right back up, depicting God as a harsh unloving God. Jesus received the full punishment for our sins and we received the full reward for His perfect obedience, and He imputed to us His Godly righteousness For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” (Romans 1:17 NIV)

This does not say basically because Jesus set you free you can do what you want, because if we truly believe in God and love Him we would want to act Christ like to others and not just do what we want. Even though when we do mess up he still loves us and fills the gap. But the purpose is to preach the message of God’s unconditional love and acceptance in spite of our mistakes, a message that in the past has been preached in a confusing cocktail mixed up with old covenant law, the very thing Jesus died for to set us free from. Achievements and obedience have been preached at the cost of GRACE, causing many of us to be robbed of our confidence before God, always feeling somewhat unworthy. We are here to take the free gift of Grace given by his love.

 

 

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