Story of the Father and the Prodical Son
God's Grace welcomes the son back. His father ran and met him and hugged him. The grace of God flows out of the Fathers heart instead of putting a condemnation, guilt and fear in his son. He embraced him and kissed him instead. Grace will kiss and forgive you. God grace will not find fault with you even you are wrong and failed.
Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin. The word says, "Where sin abounded, grace abounded much more" I like to share grace! The Grace of the Lord Jesus! Grace is in a person not in a doctrine or in a teaching. Head knowledge does not saved us. Grace and truth is with Jesus Christ. Grace empowers us to live holy lives. We don't struggle to be holy. We are holy by faith trusting Jesus.
You say, how to be holy then? Holiness comes knowing where you are seated. The bible says, "you are raised up together and made to sit (you have no choice) together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus - that in the ages to come (which is now) He might show the exceeding riches of His grace towards us..." The riches of His grace pour out upon you when you know your spiritual position. And that is where your power comes from and your blessings too.
When you know where you are seated and its where the Holy Throne of Grace is, then His Grace will empower you to live holy lives. Just believe in His Holy Grace! The Grace of Holiness! That is why I agree with some ministers that we don't preach holiness, we don't preach obedience, we don't preach performance - we preach grace first and who you are in Christ because when you have a revelation of who you are, what you are then your obedience will flow from your spirit, holiness will flow from your spirit and power will flow from your spirit. It is just that easy! For durians (Malaysian fruit) will come from durian trees and mangoes can only be pluck from mango trees. So God says, "Be ye holy for I am Holy"
True holiness is not behavior that changes character; it is character that changes behavior, and character can only be changed by God from the inside out. (Rob Rufus)
The devil want us to be self-conscious (you and your sins) and sin conscious but God wants you to be grace and holy conscious! Grace consciousness will set you free today! The devil wants you to be so self-righteous but God wants you to be so righteous conscious in Christ.
Let grace kill sin consciousness! Someone says "O well, why I still can sin or fall?" The reason we tend to sin is because of an unrenewed mind not because of a sin nature. That old man is crucified at the cross already. So we need to recognize it as dead. Our old man is dead. Just as an old road that has not been used, it will slowly disappear and wipe off its tracks. Nobody will notice it is a road before. So don't use the old road - its too dark. You walk in the new road of the New Man - a Highway of Holiness. That's your direction and destiny! Amen!
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