HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD!

Grace Revolution!

As you can see by some of our more recent posts, we are involved in a “grace awakening” or maybe better put, a “grace revolution”. It is a very necessary foundation to the move of God that is gathering momentum globally. We believe we are going to see the lives of countless Christians revolutionized by the pure, unhindered grace of the gospel of Jesus Christ. And the grace revolution is not going to stop until those God intends to set free are out from under the mixture of law and grace that holds so many Christians captive.

People might ask, “Do we really have to call this a ‘revolution’ ? Isn’t that just hyperbole? “ Well maybe Galatians 5:4 can explain. Paul says, “Those of you who are trying to be justified by the law have been cut off from Christ. You have fallen away from grace“. This doesn’t mean falling into sin or losing our salvation. There is, however, an epidemic in the body of Christ of falling away from grace. An epidemic of living under a law/grace mixture where there are rules and regulations and principles and precepts arranged to keep us from sinning, to help us gain access to God, to provoke blessing from God, and to move Him to act on our behalf. In that we have fallen from grace – the grace that teaches us that sin shall not have dominion over us because we are not under law but under grace. The grace that teaches us that we already have His favor, His love, His blessing, and access to His presence based upon the performance of Another – Jesus Christ.

old covenant/law vs. NEW COVENANT/GRACE!

 

On the first Pentecost, 50 days after the first Passover, God gave the Ten Commandments (the Law-the Old Covenant) at Mt. Sinai and 3,000 died. (Ex.32:16-28) On the day of Pentecost after the resurrection of Jesus, God gave the Holy Spirit at Mt. Zion and 3,000 were saved and the New Covenant Church was born! (Acts 2:1-41) God is stirring great grace in the hearts of His sons and daughters in this hour that we might KNOW the grace that has been freely given to us in Christ. (I Cor. 2:12) Now is the time to awake and embrace the grace of God in Christ and be loosed from any chains of the law that are still working in our lives to dilute the magnitude of the finished work of Jesus Christ. Let this contrast of law and grace – of old covenant and new covenant – resound in your spirit to the glory of God and set you free to truly trust in His amazing grace! Let these truths from the Word of God act as a sword (Heb. 12:1-2) to separate you from any guilt and condem-nation or striving to achieve and attain so that we may all go forth in the power of His grace bringing many sons to glory!

The Law was given. Grace and Truth came in the Person of Jesus Christ.

The Law exposes sin. Grace covers, cleanses, and removes sin.

The Law calls your sin to remembrance. Grace calls your righteousness in Christ to remembrance.

The Law condemns the best of us. Grace saves the worst of us.

Focus on Christ!

Rejoice in His everlasting love for you today and always and walk in the power of His amazing and abundant grace!

The Outpouring

Let’s get prophetic:

All over the world there is a cry for freedom; freedom from religion, release from controlling leaders, freedom from condemnation and accusation. God is responding to that cry through a fresh outpouring; a fresh outpouring of revelation regarding the gospel of grace. Because of the guilt, shame, fear and uncertainty plaguing much of the church today, great grace is coming; Acts 4:33 says, “And with great strength, ability and power the apostles delivered their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace rested richly upon them all”. There is a rapidly developing distinction between law teaching and grace teaching. God Himself is bringing it. And those who oppose it will be dismayed at how fast it is going to spread. An increasing revelation of the righteousness of God is going to flood the earth until the end of the age revealing the infinite magnitude of God’s love, power and grace: “For in the gospel a righteousness from 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). This will not be a short term local “revival” that will have an emphasis and disappear, no, the gospel of grace is being released and will be going forth everywhere. We are going to see the establishing of a grace culture and a greater understanding of the New Covenant in the church at large. It’s time for freedom to break free.

In His Freedom We Will Live!

All over the world there is a cry for freedom and liberty from religion and condemnation and God is bringing it through a fresh outpouring of the gospel of grace. This song resonates with gratefulness to God for setting us free.

The Power Of His Grace

This a different kind of post, but it is a real life example of the effect God’s extravagant grace can have upon a serious problem experienced by many Christian men. It is an actual testimony of an individual set free by the grace of God. A pastor introduces the testimony by saying, “Let me just read this one e-mail. This testimony may be a shocker to you, but it proves that people who say the gospel of grace gives people license to sin are wrong. Just the opposite happens. They find out how wonderful Jesus is and that His unconditional grace is truly unconditional and that by His incredible love, we actually get free of what oppresses us.”

Here in italics is the testimony received by the pastor above. My comments are in parenthesis:
“For the last 10 years I have been addicted to internet pornography. I have been involved in 3 churches in this time and I have confided to pastors who were good men and they suggested many things – I also had many insights about ways I could get free but I could not stop my addiction”. (That would describe many Christian men worldwide. Many of these men are being told by leaders and other well-meaning Christians that they need to stop what they are doing and implement a seemingly endless list of “biblical and moral principles” to remedy the problem. They are told they need to “mortify the deeds of the flesh”. But that’s not the way it happens. The ministry of the law is death and condemnation. It‘s not about doing “something”; it’s about pursuing Someone ).

Oh the Glory!

 

Nick and Joy were married on Sunday, June 29th under a miraculous blue sky exactly the way God had promised it would be! No ominous weather forecast could prevent God’s hand from performing exactly what He had designed for this amazing day of His love and grace demonstrated in Nick and Joy as they exchanged their vows and rejoiced with their family and friends. Thank You, Jesus!