Grace without repentance doesn’t exist. Agora, você pode pensar: “bem, sim, that’s obvious, everybody knows that.” But apparently, this is not as obvious as it seems, because if Christians would know and understood what this means, then the lives of many Christians would be completely different and they wouldn’t be lost in the sea of grace. Repentance starts with a confrontation between the holiness of God and the sinful nature of man. In the holiness of God, man is confronted with his sinful nature. On the basis of this confrontation and revelation by God, a person makes a decision to arrepender-se ou não. Arrependimento significa, that you renounce your old nature, Sua antiga maneira de pensar, and your old life in the flesh, with all its works; pecados, e iniqüidades, and that you turn to Christ, give your life to Him and make Him Lord over your life.
What have you repented from?
Jesus has taken all your sins and iniquities, that you walked in when you were the old man; um pecador, sobre si mesmo, on the whipping post and on the cross. He carried all your sins and dealt with your sin nature que está presente na carne. Jesus reconciled you to God with His blood and redeemed you from your sin nature. You have been redeemed and saved through the washing of regeneração and renewing of the Holy Spirit. Isso significa, that you have received a new nature: A natureza de Deus.
But… if you are redeemed from your sin nature, qual é a natureza do diabo, that is present in the flesh and always wants to do those things, que vão contra a vontade de Deus e Sua Palavra, but keep walking after the flesh in sin, and therefore keep doing those things, that go against God’s will and His Word, then what are you redeemed from and what have you repented from?
The misused word grace
The word grace is a popular word that is frequently used in the church. Grace is not only a popular word, that is frequently used in church, but it is also a misused word and often misunderstood word. Através falsas doutrinas de (hyper) graça, the grace of God has been twisted and changed into a false grace of man, that approves and tolerates everything. In this message of grace, nothing is mandatory and everything is allowed. The word grace is bandied about a lot by Christians. As soon as the net is closing in on them, the word grace appears and they use the word grace to condone their carnal walk in sin and to defeat and silence the other person. And they often succeed.
Por quê? Because only a few Christians are born again and have renovaram sua mente with God’s Word and have such a spiritual knowledge of the Word, that they have developed a spiritual awareness and discernment of good and evil and knowledge of the vontade de Deus, so that they are able to discern pious lies and refute the lies with the truth of God’s Word.
Just like Jesus did in the wilderness quando o diabo tentou Jesus com as palavras de Deus.
The devil didn’t speak his own words, mas ele falou as palavras de Deus. O diabo tentou tentar Jesus, by using the words of God to satisfy the lusts and desires of His flesh. But Jesus knew the devil and his works and instead of believing and doing the words of the devil, and using the words of God to satisfy His carnal lusts and desires, Jesus refuted the lies of the devil and overcame the devil with the truth.
Grace is used to exculpate Christians from their responsibilities
Infelizmente, many Christians do believe the lies of the devil and use among others the word grace to stay carnal and keep living after the lusts and desires of their flesh and their will. They use the grace of God to exculpate them from their responsibilities, which God has given them through Jesus Christ.
They use the word grace as an excuse so that they won’t have to change and enter the process of sanctification; morrendo para si mesmo (o velho homem) e putting on Christ, which is often not easy and can be painful and some might even experience rejection and persecution. They use the word grace so that they can keep living as the world; como o velho homem.
Mas isso não é algo novo, because in the time of the apostles the same thing happened in the church.
Paul and Jude, entre outros, also wrote about this phenomenon. A única diferença é, that today’s generation uses different words, saying that you shouldn’t be old fashion and that you have to evolve with the time we live in, que the new age Jesus is love and therefore approves and accepts everything, etc.. Because of all these lies the gospel of Jesus Christ and the vontade de Deus are changed and adjusted to the will of man, which is the will of the world (Leia também: ‘Um Jesus falso produz cristãos falsos')
But this is ridiculous! Porque o vontade de Jesus e a vontade de Deus, which is also the will of the Holy Spirit, nunca vai mudar, but will always remain the same. That’s why God is reliable and trustworthy and His Word and His Spirit are reliable and trustworthy.
The will of God shall never change, although some people think otherwise. Mas as pessoas, who think that God will change His will in order to satisfy the carnal lusts and desires of people, don’t know the Word, o pai, and His heart and don’t have His Holy Spirit.
Eles não conhecem a vontade de Deus, porque a mente deles não é renovado com a Palavra de Deus. Em vez de renovar a mente com a Palavra de Deus, eles alimentaram suas mentes e continuam alimentando suas mentes com a sabedoria, conhecimento, e coisas deste mundo. É por isso que eles têm a mente do mundo, em vez da mente de Cristo.
Por causa do fato, que eles têm a mente do mundo, eles também pensam e agem como o mundo e acreditam e fazem as palavras do mundo acima das palavras de Deus, e andar na vontade do mundo.
Transformando a graça de Deus em lascívia
Pois há certos homens que entraram de surpresa, que foram antes ordenados para esta condenação, homens ímpios, transformando a graça do nosso Deus em lascívia, e negando o único Senhor Deus, e nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo (Jude 1:4)
O diabo sabe exatamente, quem ele pode usar para construir seu reino. Nomeadamente, aqueles, que não estão dispostos a deitar sua carne e continuar vivendo como o mundo. Porque aqueles que andam segundo a carne ouvem as suas palavras e fazem o que a carne (alma e corpo) está dizendo a eles para fazerem.
A mente deles é carnal e eles pensam e vivem como o mundo e compartilham suas palavras carnais, filosofias, e opiniões com a igreja. Eles não levam uma vida santa segundo o Espírito e não se submetem à Palavra e à vontade de Deus, mas eles continuam vivendo segundo sua própria vontade. Eles querem ser amigos do mundo e para conseguir isso, eles mudaram e ajustaram os padrões da Palavra de Deus à vontade da sua carne. Mas através de suas palavras e ações, eles têm negado e rejeitado nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo.
Eles transformaram a graça de Deus em lascívia, para que possam continuar vivendo como o mundo e satisfazer suas concupiscências e desejos carnais, sem se sentir culpado. Porque quando você repete as mesmas palavras indefinidamente, então eventualmente você acreditará nessas palavras. E foi exatamente isso que aconteceu com a mensagem da hipergraça.
Ao pregar esta mensagem de graça, eles acham que ganharam algo, mas eventualmente, eles vão perder tudo. Porque não só eles, que pregam e ensinam esta falsa doutrina da hiper-graça, mas também aqueles, que acreditam nesta mensagem de hiper-graça, estará perdido no mar da graça.
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