Grace without repentance doesn’t exist. Hiện nay, bạn có thể nghĩ: “Tốt, vâng, 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 ăn năn hay không. Ăn năn có nghĩa, that you renounce your old nature, lối suy nghĩ cũ của bạn, and your old life in the flesh, with all its works; tội lỗi, và sự bất thường, 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; Một người phạm tội, về chính mình, on the whipping post and on the cross. He carried all your sins and dealt with your sin nature cái đó hiện diện trong xác thịt. 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 Tái tạo and renewing of the Holy Spirit. Điều này có nghĩa là, that you have received a new nature: bản chất của Thiên Chúa.
But… if you are redeemed from your sin nature, đó là bản chất của ma quỷ, that is present in the flesh and always wants to do those things, that go against the will of God and His Word, 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. Qua Giáo lý sai lạc của (hyper) ân, 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.
Sao thế? Because only a few Christians are born again and have đổi mới tâm trí của họ 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 ý chí của thần, 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 when the devil tried to tempt Jesus with the words of God.
The devil didn’t speak his own words, nhưng ông đã nói những lời của Chúa. Ma quỷ cố gắng cám dỗ Chúa Giêsu, 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
Tiếc, 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; chết với chính mình (ông già) Và 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; BẰNG ông già.
But this is not something new, because in the time of the apostles the same thing happened in the church.
Paul and Jude, trong số những người khác, also wrote about this phenomenon. Sự khác biệt duy nhất là, 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, cái đó the new age Jesus is love and therefore approves and accepts everything, vân vân.. Because of all these lies the gospel of Jesus Christ and the ý chí của thần are changed and adjusted to the will of man, which is the will of the world (Đọc thêm: ‘Chúa Giêsu giả tạo ra những Kitô hữu giả mạo‘)
But this is ridiculous! Bởi vì ý chí của Chúa Giêsu và ý muốn của Chúa, which is also the will of the Holy Spirit, sẽ không bao giờ thay đổi, 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. Nhưng người dân, who think that God will change His will in order to satisfy the carnal lusts and desires of people, don’t know the Word, Đức Chúa Cha, and His heart and don’t have His Holy Spirit.
They don’t know the will of God, because their mind is not được đổi mới bằng Lời Chúa. Instead of renewing their mind with the Word of God, they have fed their mind and keep feeding their mind with the wisdom, kiến thức, và những thứ của thế giới này. That’s why they have the mind of the world, instead of the mind of Christ.
Bởi vì thực tế, that they have the mind of the world, they also think and act like the world and believe and do the words of the world above the words of God, and walk in the will of the world.
Turning the grace of God into lasciviousness
Vì có một số người lẻn vào mà không hề hay biết, những người trước đây đã bị phong chức cho sự kết án này, đàn ông vô duyên, biến ân điển của Đức Chúa Trời chúng ta thành sự dâm đãng, và chối bỏ Chúa là Thiên Chúa duy nhất, và Chúa Giêsu Kitô của chúng ta (Jude 1:4)
The devil knows exactly, who he can use để xây dựng vương quốc của mình. Cụ thể là, những thứ kia, who are not willing to nằm xuống thịt của họ and keep living like the world. Because they who walk after the flesh hear his words and do what the flesh (Linh hồn và thể xác) đang bảo họ làm.
Their mind is carnal and they think and live like the world and share their carnal words, triết lý, and opinions with the church. They don’t lead a holy life after the Spirit and don’t submit themselves to the Word and the will of God, but they keep living after their own will. They want to be friends with the world and in order to accomplish that, they have changed and adjusted the standards of God’s Word to the will of their flesh. But through their words and actions, họ có denied Và vật bị loại bỏ Chúa Giêsu Kitô của chúng ta.
They have turned the grace of God into lasciviousness, so that they can keep living like the world and satisfy their carnal lusts and desires, mà không cảm thấy tội lỗi. Because when you keep repeating the same words over and over again, then eventually you will believe those words. And that’s exactly what happened with the hyper-grace message.
By preaching this message of grace, they think they have gained something, nhưng cuối cùng, they will lose it all. Because not only they, who preach and teach this false doctrine of hyper-grace, but also those, who believe this message of hyper-grace, will be lost in the sea of grace.
‘Hãy là muối của trái đất’
