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. ישוע לקח את כל החטאים, עוונות, מחלות, and sicknesses of fallen humanity upon Him. Jesus died for everyone, כולל אותך. 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.
מהו חסד ה'?
כי אלוהים כל כך אהב את העולם, שהוא נתן את בנו יחידו, שכל המאמין בו לא יאבד, אבל יש חיי נצח (ג'ון 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, עָווֹן, ומוות. בדמו, 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. לא! He gave us His Holy Spirit. So that we could live on earth as בני אלוהים (גם זכרים וגם נקבות).
משמעות הדבר היא, 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 (הרומאים 5:9-10)
כי בחסד נושעתם בזכות האמונה; וזה לא מעצמך: זוהי מתנת אלוהים: לא של יצירות, פן יתגאה איש (אפסים 2:8-9)
We could never earn our salvation by works! Only by the grace of God, במשיח, we’re restored (נרפא), השלימה עם אלוהים. 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; שכונת רוח הקודש. 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 להאמין בישוע המשיח, לְהִתְחַרֵט, 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?
לא, the grace of God does not allow you to walk in sin. If you want to remain disobedient to God and keep sinning, ממה התחרטת? 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, טבע חוטא, and your filthy state.
When you are confronted with your sins and sinful nature, you have two options. The first option is, you mourn, לְהִתְחַרֵט, and accept Jesus as your Lord and Saviour. The second option is, you walk away, reject Jesus and His sacrifice, and keep living in sin.
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. מאותו רגע, שֶׁלְךָ 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; בן אלוהים (זה חל על זכרים ונקבות כאחד).
לכן אם יהיה אדם במשיח, הוא יצור חדש: דברים ישנים נפטרים; לְהַבִּיט, כל הדברים הפכו לחדשים
2 קורינתים 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. זה לא כל כך נפלא! 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. אבל זה שקר!
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 למות לעצמי 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
כשאתה נולד מחדש, אתה הופך לבן אלוהים; יצירה חדשה. כבן אלוהים, 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. עכשיו זה תלוי בך, if you want to stay in Him.
If you stay in Him; דבר אלוהים, 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, כי אני קדוש"
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? זה בלתי אפשרי!
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, תאוות, ורצונות הבשר.
Do you know that every time you sin, you serve and exalt the devil?
מהו חטא?
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).
פאולוס כתב ברומים 6:1-23 the following about sin;
מה נגיד אז? האם נמשיך בחטא, כדי שהחסד ירב? חלילה. איך נעשה, שמתים לחטא, לחיות בו עוד? יודע שאתה לא, that so many of us as were baptised into Jesus Christ were baptised into his death? לכן נקברים עמו בטבילה למוות: כי כמו המשיח קם מן המתים בכבוד האב, גם כך עלינו ללכת בחדשות החיים.
כי אם נשתלנו יחד בדמות מותו, we shall be also in the likenessof his resurrection: לדעת זאת, שהזקן שלנו נצלב עמו, כדי שגוף החטא יושמד, שמכאן ואילך לא נשרת את החטא. כי המת משוחרר מהחטא. עכשיו אם נהיה מתים עם המשיח, אנחנו מאמינים שגם אנחנו נחיה איתו: בידיעה שהמשיח שקם מן המתים אינו מת עוד; למוות אין יותר שליטה עליו. כי בזה הוא מת, הוא מת לחטא פעם אחת: אבל בזה הוא חי, הוא חי לאלוהים. כמו כן חשבו גם אתם בעצמכם שמתים לחטא, אלא חיים לאלוהים על ידי ישוע המשיח אדוננו.
הרומאים 6:1-23
“אל תחטא אפוא שלטון בגופך התמותה”
אל תחטא אפוא שלטון בגופך התמותה, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.אף אחד לא מניב את חבריכם כמכשירים של חוסר צדק לחטא: אבל תניו את עצמכם לאלוהים, כמו אלה שחיים מהמתים, וחבריכם ככלי צדק לאלוהים. כי החטא לא יהיה שליטה עליך: כי אינכם אינם תחת החוק, אבל תחת גרייס.
“האם נחטא, כי אנחנו לא על פי החוק, אבל תחת גרייס? חלילה”
מה אם כן? האם נחטא, כי אנחנו לא על פי החוק, אבל תחת גרייס? חלילה. יודע שאתה לא, אֲשֶׁר תִּתְנַעְתֶּם אֶת עַצְמֶיךָ לַעֲבָדִים לְמִצְעוֹת, עבדיו אתם אשר אתם מצייתים לו; אם של חטא עד מוות, או של ציות לצדקה? אבל תודה לאל, שהייתם עבדי החטא, אבל אתם מצייתם מהלב לאותה צורה של תורת שנמסרה לכם.
לאחר מכן משתחרר מהחטא, ye became the servants of righteousness. I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: כי כמו שהבאתם את חבריכם עבדים לטומאה ולעוון לעוון.; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. For when ye were the servants of sin, הייתם חופשיים מצדקת.
“שכר החטא הוא מוות”
איזה פרי היה לך אז בדברים שבהם אתה מתבייש עכשיו? For the end of those things is death.אבל עכשיו נעשה חופשי מחטא, ולהפוך למשרתים לאלוהים, יש לך את הפירות שלך לקדושה, and the end everlasting life.
כי שכר החטא הוא מוות; אבל מתנת האל היא חיי נצח באמצעות ישוע המשיח אדוננו.
Why the grace of God is not a license to sin?
חסד אלוהים אינו רישיון להמשיך לחטוא. 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.
חסד אלוהים, is the sanctification period. It is the time God gives you, ל לדחות את הזקן, ו לבש את הגבר החדש. 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, doing the works of righteousness. כעת, that is grace!
Therefore separate yourself and live like Jesus lived. Renew your mind with the words of God and be courageous. Don’t let anyone discourage you! Continue, even when people around you think you are a fool.
Keep your eyes on Jesus Christ, דבר אלוהים החי. He is the One you need to follow!
"להיות מלח הארץ"
