Remarkable Grace Part 4

Continuing Michael’s message on God’s remarkable grace, he writes that in Romans 8, the Apostle Paul says, “Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? Is it Christ who justified, yea rather who rose from the dead? What shall separate us from the love of God? Shall persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.” Because of the love of God through his son Jesus Christ, we have been justified freely by his grace.

How shall we who have been saved from sin continue any longer therein? It’s not about us, it’s about the Lord. It’s easy to become prideful because of our own natural abilities. However, He’ll break up our physical and natural so-called gifts so that we can rely on His ability, not ours. Thank God for breaking our hearts. For tribulation works patience and patience experience and experience hope. And hope makes not ashamed because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which is given to us.

Jesus came to set the captives free. He led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men. The ultimate freedom is in captivity to our Master’s will. Make me a captive Lord and then I shall be free. When we confess Jesus is Lord, this means we are no longer our own. Salvation means that He’s Lord, not me. The ultimate freedom is doing the Master’s will. We’re set free when we make His delight, our delight …. Delight thyself also in the Lord and he shall give the desires of thine heart.

The Apostle Paul said, “in my flesh dwells no good thing.” The sin nature that we inherited from Adam is contrary to the righteousness of God. The antidote to our sin nature is the spirit nature that we received when we accepted God’s gracious gift. Romans 8:1 says there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own son in the flesh, condemned sin in the flesh that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit.

When a woman was caught in adultery, the Pharisees gathered around to convict her of her sins. They pronounced her guilty as charged and picked up rocks to stone her to death. Jesus said to the crowd, “he who is without sin may cast the first stone.” Her accusers slinked away. He said to the woman, where are your accusers? She said, they’ve all gone. Jesus said, then neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more.

1 John 5:13 says that we have His gift of eternal life. “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God. And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing according to Hs will, He hears us:”

Because of His amazing remarkable grace, we’ve been given His gift of eternal life and His Holy Spirit. We who were dead in trespasses and sins hath he made alive, for by grace are ye saved. When we know God, we are His and He is ours. For He who was without sin was made the perfect sacrifice for sin on our behalf that we may be made the righteousness of God in him.

That we may be to praise of the glory of His grace!
Your brother in Christ, Michael