The End of Grace?
One of the big questions that comes up is, “Look at all the people who have died; what happens if I die?”
We have a concept in our minds, taught to us by our forefathers, that when you die that is the end of grace for you.
No more grace.
Death is the end of grace.
As long as you have breath in your lungs, as long as you have the ability to cry out and receive God, you have grace; but when you die, look out! Grace is gone. You have had your opportunity in this life, and there is no more grace.
I have to tell you that is ABSOLUTELY not true!
The only reason that we die physically before God has fulfilled His plan and purpose in our life is because of the darkness and the blindness that are put over our eyes, and because of the wrong choices that we make while we are here.
But that does not stop God’s plan.
It doesn’t stop God.
God is God!
You are God’s idea. God brought you into existence in physical form.
You are His idea, but like the Prodigal, many of us have gotten lost and are in great darkness, and have been caught up in the lusts of the flesh and the pride of life.
God is still God!
And God has a love that we have never understood.
He will perfect His will in you.
Jesus is “The author and the finisher of our faith” (Romans 8:7-8). Can you believe “It is God that works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure?”
When you came to this earth, you were lost to who you were.
As we grew we became filled with the nature and the character of sin.
Did you ask to be born that way?
way? Did you say, “God, when I am born, please fill me full of the lusts of the flesh”?
I don’t think so “As in Adam all die,” Paul says.
As a carnal man we have a consciousness that is both good and evil. Have you understood that yet?
Some of us are very good, some of us are not so good, some of us are evil. But it is the same nature inherited from Adam through the Fall.
God loves His creation.
That is why the scripture says that the Lamb of God was slain from before the foundation of the world!
God knew everything, or He wouldn’t be all knowing, all powerful, and omnipresent.
Jesus was chosen before the foundation of the world to be the Lamb that would restore the creation back to the Father.
So I come into this life, I am born, and I am in darkness. And I am born with this nature that is anti-Christ; I am born with this nature that matures in some of us to be full of lust, full of envy, full of greed, and I might live seventy years in this darkness and blindness.
We may live seventy years totally alienated and separated in our mind from God, living a life of sin, and then we die and religion tells us that because we lived seventy years in a life of sin and unbelief and greed, we are going to burn eternally in hell in endless torment.
THIS CONCEPT IS TOTALLY WRONG!
Now this might seemingly appear to be anti-Word, but oh, if you only knew the deep Love and the heart of your Father God.
As we go on in these writings you will understand that we have been terribly deceived by religious tradition.
Awakening to the Gospel that Paul Preached
“Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.”
Until you have a mind that is renewed, a mind that dwells in the conscious awareness of the presence of God filling you, you are walking, at least in a degree, in the flesh.
You are still part carnal, and that is the part we have to deal with; that is where all the unbelief is.
Ephesians 5:14 says, “Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.”
Did you ever realize, that you are sleeping?
Do you know the scripture refers to that word “awake,” even in the Old Testament, over, and over?
Awake!
Awake! Awake!
Do you remember Daniel’s vision where the angel says to Daniel, “In that day many who sleep in the dust of the earth shall arise.”
Do you realize that you were made from the very dust of the ground?
And the Word tells us over and over again to wake up, to rise, to shake yourself, O Zion, and arise.
Wake up! WAKE UP!
“For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order” (I Cor. 15:21-23).
Now let me ask you a question again: Did you choose to be in Adam?
Was it your choice?
Could the “all” in Adam be any greater than the “all” that is in Christ?
Does it really mean “all” who died in Adam shall be made alive in Christ?
Once again: Is the “all” that is in Adam any greater than the “all” that is in Christ?
Well if you believe what we have been taught, it does mean that!
But listen to what it says: “As in Adam ALL die, even so in Christ shall ALL be made alive, but every man in his own order.”
How many men?
ALL!
But we read it this way: For as in Adam ALL die, even so THOSE WHO HAVE RECEIVED CHRIST shall be made alive.
Don’t we read it that way?
I believe we do so because of WHAT WE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT and because of what the scripture SEEMINGLY teaches.
I have said this before, and you really need to examine this: The Apostle Paul was so much more advanced spiritually than any other man in the New Testament times, and he had a much deeper understanding and revelation of God than any other writer or believer in those times.
And he even said that this is MY Gospel.
Nobody else preached the Gospel that Paul preaches.
That is why some of the things in the scriptures seem to be contradictory.
Two believers at different levels of faith can see the same verse and interpret it differently.
It does not mean necessarily that one is right and one is wrong, they just see it differently.
Oh the world needs the Gospel!
WE need the Gospel!
Stay Tuned…