Tuesday, July 14, 2009

"Grace Did Much More Abound"

Romans 5:20 says, "Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound," Grace is the gift that God has given us and it is by this grace that we are positionally perfected forever. Romans 3:24 states that we have been justified freely by God's grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. The law of God was given to expose sin but Paul said this concerning sin: "For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me(Rom.7:11). So here sin is personified and takes on it's on agenda and personality when the law or any commandment is given. Therefore everytime the "good and just thing" is place before us to do it, sin "takes occasion by the commandment" and kills us with that very commandment which was for my benefit. So God knowing that sin would decieve us by using the commandment to kill us "...set forth [Jesus] to be a propitiation..(Rom.3:25)" or an atonement for our sin. Now, Jesus is 'grace given form.' John says in John 1:14 that Jesus is "full of grace and truth" and in John 1:17 he says, "For the law was given by Moses, [but] grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. "

So let's look at this, Jesus is FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH; He literally has IT flowing through His very being. Rom.5:1-2 has just been turned up louder because of Jn.1:14: Romans 5:1-2 says, "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. " We are now as I speak "standing in grace" and we got to that point through faith. We are positioned in God's grace through Jesus Christ who is "FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH"...(I hope yall shouting..lol). So in conclusion when we sin the grace that we stand in is not disturbed because to be in grace is to be in Christ through faith in His gospel because He is as I have said before, FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH and He is impervious to sin. So this system is set up by God to cause "grace to abound toward us in all things(2Cor.9:8)" because of the unrighteousness of sin. The more sin that we commit the more "grace abounds toward us," notice that grace abounds toward us and not from us we are not full of it, Jesus is.So picture it like this: We are standing in a vat of grace that is continually being filled and everytime we sin the flow of grace toward us is increased by Christ so that anywhere sin abounds in our lives grace will abound over it!!! So sin can and will never outdo grace. This is how God can never see our sin, it is through this system of abounding grace toward us from Chris Jesus.Abounding Grace's job is to overcompensate for the times when we come short so that forgiveness can be overabundantly given because of the overflow grace that is Christ "wherein we stand(Rom.5:2)." So this is for our understanding because the enemy throws all these thoughts of God's rejection everytime we mess up......God can't see what grace has abounded over because grace is Jesus and God won't look pass His answer for sin. Sin is not hid by Jesus its washed away FOREVER. GOD DOESN'T SEE YOUR SIN HE ONLY SEES HIS GRACE AND WE ARE STANDING RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT WITH CHRIST(SHOUT!!!!!!!.)

BE BLESSED

2 comments:

  1. Excellent explanation, Josh! This is the perfect counter attack against the mindset among born again believers who have exiled themselves from the fellowship of believers because of sins they've committed. It also admonishes us all to see what GOD sees when he looks at our brothers and sisters in Christ - His grace.

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  2. Great post Josh. Since we were created in God's image we must come to understand his view about us.

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