The grace of God is shown throughout the Bible and is so great!. God loves people so much and doesn’t want any one to perish but that all people be saved. He only wants the best for people and have a relationship with them. God wanted this so much, that He sent His only begotten Son Jesus Christ to this earth, to become a sacrifice for humanity. Kinuha ni Hesus ang lahat ng kasalanan, mga kasamaan, mga sakit, and sicknesses of fallen humanity upon Him. Jesus died for everyone, kasama na kayo. So that you’ll be delivered from sin and the power of darkness and be reconciled with God. Let’s look at what the Bible says about the grace of God.
Ano ang biyaya ng Diyos?
Sapagkat gayon na lamang ang pag ibig ng Diyos sa mundo, na ibinigay Niya ang Kanyang bugtong na Anak, upang ang sinumang sumampalataya sa Kanya ay hindi mapahamak, kundi magkaroon ng buhay na walang hanggan (John 3:16)
Jesus took the sins of the world and carried our punishment: death and eternal torture in hell. Jesus carried it all, so that we would be freed from sin, katampalasanan, at kamatayan. Sa pamamagitan ng Kanyang dugo, we’re reconciled with God and can have a relationship with Him and live in freedom on earth.
What a love and grace of God!
And salvation is not all, that He has done. Hindi! He gave us His Holy Spirit. So that we could live on earth as mga anak ng Diyos (parehong lalaki at babae).
Ibig sabihin nito, that we can live a life that Jesus lived, because what Jesus had, we have.
The life as a son or daughter of God is for now and not after we die and go to heaven.
The grace of God is that we’re not justified by our works, but by the work of Jesus Christ and His blood. We’re saved by faith in Christ.
Being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life (Mga Taga Roma 5:9-10)
Sapagkat sa pamamagitan ng biyaya kayo ay naliligtas sa pamamagitan ng pananampalataya; at na hindi sa inyong sarili: ito ay kaloob ng Diyos: Hindi ng mga gawa, baka may magyabang (Mga Taga Efeso 2:8-9)
We could never earn our salvation by works! Only by the grace of God, kay Cristo, we’re restored (gumaling na), nakipagkasundo sa Diyos. We have become partakers of the inheritance that God gave us through His Son Jesus Christ.
What is the inheritance of the sons of God?
The inheritance of the sons of God is the gift of the Holy Spirit; the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. We are born of God and have His nature and may walk in the spiritual gifts and distribute life to others.
It’s the grace of God that you may have a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. What a blessing it is, to be and walk in His presence and communicate with Him. There is nothing you can do to earn this. No work will get you to that place. The only thing you have to do is maniwala kay Hesukristo, magsisi ka na, and be born again in Him.
You have received it freely. How great is God’s love!
But now comes the essential point, Are you allowed to walk in sin after you become born again? Can you walk like you used to walk before your conversion?
Does the grace of God allow you to walk in sin?
Hindi, the grace of God does not allow you to walk in sin. If you want to remain disobedient to God and keep sinning, Ano ang sinisi mo? If you don’t turn your back to sin, but keep walking in sin, you are not delivered from your sinful nature.
When you have an encounter with Jesus Christ, His presence and holiness will confront you with your sins, makasalanang kalikasan, and your filthy state.
When you are confronted with your sins and sinful nature, you have two options. The first option is, you mourn, magsisi ka na, and accept Jesus as your Lord and Saviour. The second option is, you walk away, reject Jesus and His sacrifice, at patuloy na mabuhay sa kasalanan.
If you choose the first option, you repent from your sins and accept Jesus, as your Saviour and Lord and be cleansed by His blood, which was shed on the cross on Calvary. Mula sa sandaling iyon, ang iyong old life is gone and washed away by the blood of Jesus.
You’ll be baptized in water and baptized with the Holy Spirit and become a new creation; isang anak ng Diyos (Ito ay nalalapat sa parehong mga lalaki at babae).
Kaya nga kung ang sinoman ay kay Cristo, siya ay isang bagong nilalang: ang mga lumang bagay ay lumipas na; masdan, lahat ng bagay ay naging bago
2 Mga Taga Corinto 5:17
What is the power of the blood of Jesus Christ?
The power of the blood of Jesus Christ that it cleanses you from all your sins and iniquities and sanctifies you. All things are passed away and that all things become new. Hindi ba iyon kahanga-hanga! That is the power of the cross and the blood of Jesus Christ.
But when you return to your old sinful life, you will deny the power of His blood and therefore deny Jesus Christ.
When you are taught in the Bible and study the Word of God and keep walking in sin, still doing the things that you did before your repentance, and use ‘the grace of God’ as a license to sin (because you love your old life as a sinner and don’t want to give it up), you deceive yourself.
The devil is a liar and twists the meaning of grace.
He uses a partial truth of God and make you believe that by the blood of Jesus Christ and the grace of God you are allowed to sin, because you will always be a sinner. Pero kasinungalingan yan!
If you keep walking in sin and use the grace of God to make it all right, it only means one thing:: you don’t want to mamatay sa sarili and are not really born again. You’re not convicted yet of the evil of sin and your depraved sin nature.
You may think you are, but your actions prove that you are not born again. You still listen to your old father the devil, by walking in sins.
You’re holy and righteous, therefore act holy and righteous
Kapag ikaw ay naging ipinanganak muli, Ikaw ay naging isang Anak ng Diyos; Isang Bagong Paglikha. Bilang anak ng Diyos, you have His nature dwelling on the inside of you. You have become holy and righteous.
You are seated in Jesus Christ. Your life is hidden in Him, you have become one with Him. Nasa iyo na ngayon, if you want to stay in Him.
If you stay in Him; ang Salita ng Diyos, you obey His words and walk in His commandments. You will do His will instead of your will. When you obey Him and walk in His will, you walk holy and righteousness.
“Be holy, sapagkat ako ay banal”
How can you become one with Him and become a partaker of His nature, when you keep obeying and serving the devil, by walking in sins? Imposible na yan!
You can either do the will of the Father and walk in His commandments or do the will of the devil and keep walking in sins and iniquities, fulfilling the will, mga pagnanasa, at mga hangarin ng laman.
Do you know that every time you sin, you serve and exalt the devil?
Ano ang kasalanan?
Sin is rebellion and disobedience to God. Sin is everything, that oppose the words and will of God and therefore trespasses His commandments of the Law of the Spirit of life (The Law of His Kingdom).
Sumulat si Paul sa Roma 6:1-23 the following about sin;
Ano ang sasabihin natin noon? Magpapatuloy ba tayo sa kasalanan, Ang biyaya na iyon ay maaaring dumami? Ipinagbabawal ng Diyos. Paano tayo, Na patay na sa kasalanan, Mabuhay ka pa roon? Hindi ba ninyo alam, that so many of us as were baptised into Jesus Christ were baptised into his death? Kaya't tayo'y inilibing na kasama niya sa pamamagitan ng bautismo sa kamatayan: na tulad ni Cristo na binuhay mula sa mga patay sa pamamagitan ng kaluwalhatian ng Ama, kahit ganoon dapat din tayong lumakad sa pagiging bago ng buhay.
Sapagka't kung tayo ay itinanim na magkakasama sa wangis ng kanyang kamatayan, we shall be also in the likenessof his resurrection: Alam na alam ito, na ang ating matanda ay napako sa krus kasama niya, upang ang katawan ng kasalanan ay mapahamak, upang mula ngayon ay hindi na tayo maglingkod sa kasalanan. Sapagkat ang patay ay napalaya sa kasalanan. Ngayon kung tayo ay patay kasama si Cristo, naniniwala kami na mabubuhay din kaming kasama niya: Alam na si Cristo ay pinalaki mula sa patay na dieth hindi na; ang kamatayan ay wala nang kapangyarihan sa kanya. Dahil doon siya namatay, namatay siya sa kasalanan minsan: ngunit sa kanyang buhay, Siya ay nabubuhay sa Diyos. Gayon din naman kayo ay nagbibilang na kayo ay patay nga sa kasalanan, kundi buhay sa Diyos sa pamamagitan ni Jesucristo na ating Panginoon.
Mga Taga Roma 6:1-23
“Huwag hayaan ang kasalanan samakatuwid ay maghari sa iyong mortal na katawan”
Huwag hayaan ang kasalanan samakatuwid ay maghari sa iyong mortal na katawan, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.Ni magbubunga kayo ng iyong mga miyembro bilang mga instrumento ng kawalang -katarungan sa kasalanan: Ngunit ibigay ang iyong sarili sa Diyos, tulad ng mga buhay mula sa mga patay, at ang iyong mga miyembro bilang mga instrumento ng katuwiran sa Diyos. Sapagkat ang kasalanan ay hindi magkakaroon ng pamamahala sa iyo: Sapagka't hindi ka sa ilalim ng batas, ngunit sa ilalim ng biyaya.
“Magkakasala ba tayo, Dahil hindi tayo nasa ilalim ng batas, ngunit sa ilalim ng biyaya? Ipinagbabawal ng Diyos”
Ano na? Magkakasala ba tayo, Dahil hindi tayo nasa ilalim ng batas, ngunit sa ilalim ng biyaya? Ipinagbabawal ng Diyos. Hindi ba ninyo alam, na kung kanino ninyo isinusuko ang inyong sarili na mga alipin upang sumunod, kanyang mga lingkod kayo na inyong sinusunod; kung ng kasalanan hanggang kamatayan, o ng pagsunod sa katuwiran? Ngunit ang Diyos ay pasalamatan, na kayo'y mga alipin ng kasalanan, kundi sinunod ninyo mula sa puso ang anyo ng doktrinang iyon na iniligtas sa inyo.
Ang pagiging pagkatapos ay ginawang malaya mula sa kasalanan, ye became the servants of righteousness. I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: sapagkat kung paanong inyong isinuko ang inyong mga sangkap na mga alipin sa karumihan at sa kasamaan tungo sa kasamaan; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. For when ye were the servants of sin, malaya kayo sa kabutihan.
“Ang kabayaran ng kasalanan ay kamatayan”
Ano nga ang bunga ninyo sa mga bagay na iyon na ikinahihiya ninyo ngayon? For the end of those things is death.Ngunit ngayon ay napapalaya sa kasalanan, at maging lingkod ng Diyos, nasa inyo ang inyong bunga tungo sa kabanalan, and the end everlasting life.
Sapagkat ang kabayaran ng kasalanan ay kamatayan; ngunit ang kaloob ng Diyos ay buhay na walang hanggan sa pamamagitan ni Jesucristo na ating Panginoon.
Why the grace of God is not a license to sin?
Ang biyaya ng Diyos ay hindi isang lisensya upang patuloy na magkasala. When you’re born of God and get to know the Word, you turn your back to sin, and do what pleases God.
The grace of God is the unending love of the Father, that through His Son Jesus Christ, you may become a partaker of the inheritance for His people. His grace is the ability and the privilege to become sons and daughters of the most High God, by faith in Jesus Christ and by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
Ang biyaya ng Diyos, is the sanctification period. It is the time God gives you, sa ipagpaliban mo na ang matanda, at ilagay sa bagong tao. So that you’ll walk as a son of God in the Light and the dominion that Jesus walked in.
Walk as the new creation
You will walk as Jesus walked and reveal and destroy the works of the devil. You’ll preach the gospel, set the captives free, and heal those who are sick in the Name of Jesus.
You will no longer walk after the flesh in sin (in rebellion and disobedience to God and His Word), but after the Spirit in obedience to the Word in the wisdom and knowledge of God, paggawa ng mga gawa ng katuwiran. Ngayon na, iyon ay biyaya!
Kaya't ihiwalay ang iyong sarili at mamuhay tulad ng pamumuhay ni Hesus. Baguhin ang iyong isipan sa mga salita ng Diyos at maging matapang. Huwag hayaang pigilan ka ng sinuman! Magpatuloy, kahit ang tingin ng mga tao sa paligid mo ay tanga.
Ituon ang iyong mga mata kay Hesukristo, ang buhay na salita ng Diyos. Siya ang kailangan mong sundin!
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