Scandal Called Grace

Hebrews:8:10:12 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:And they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

Now to understand the times we are in this is the scripture that we really need to understand. Now one day I picked up the bible and I was introduced to the scandal called grace. When you study the bible from genesis you will find grace all over Abraham sinned by doubting GOD so he helped GOD. Slept with his maid he laughed, he disobeyed GOD by taking Lot when he was told to leave all family behind. Yet when you come to New Testament you hear only about the faith of Abraham. If you read Ro:4:19: 20 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; Now if you double check with genesis, Abraham made some mistakes but GOD did not mention in new testament. This proves that GOD only remembers the good bits he has no time for collecting a list of your sins.

Well GOD's grace is amazing he said in Heb 8:12: For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. There is a change friends GOD remembers our sins no more even iniquities. The iniquities are sins we know are wrong but do it anyway. Say for example you are married man or woman somehow you make a mistake and cheat on your spouse not out of habit. That sin GOD counts it no more. Of course you will feel remorse if you are a true follower of Christ. But to GOD you are still righteous. I will give you an example, One day me and my wife were worshiping and The HOLY SPRIT told us to tell a certain man of GOD that he had forgive him all and that he will raise him up with such great power. By then we did not even have a clue what this man of GOD was up to. Now two days later stories started coming out shameful. He had slept with most married or single women in his church even forcing himself on some of them, impregnated some, being caught red handed and being blackmailed on and on. When the story came out there was an exodus at his church. Remember GOD said tell him I have forgiven him all. By the time we were telling him he was still doing those things. Surprised? do not be. If God justifies who I’m I to condemn. After all it is the goodness of GOD that brings repentance(Rom 2:4b) Another scripture says For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance (Ro:11:29)GOD does not make mistakes period.

GODS grace is a scandal indeed. Should we say GOD is promoting this behavior? Not at all. But when peter asked JESUS how many times should I forgive my friend what did he say M't:18:22: Jesus said unto him, I say not to forgive only seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.Basically JESUS was saying forgive always. So wouldn’t it be double standards If GOD says forgive always and he fails to forgive us. My friends JESUS paid in full our penalty for sin he dealt with sin once and for all. We are dead to sin in other ways sin has no grip over us. It is written I will never leave you nor forsake you. Have you made a mistake yeah big deal move on repent, meaning turn from your sins.

The Jews were punished severely for any disobedience and it was swift and instant yet now JESUS has suspended judgment until the last day. Do not judge, before time, you also make mistakes just like your friends. When one make a mistake let us love them and embrace them and encourage them. Pray for them that the LORD should restore them.
In John :8: 1-11 When that woman who was caught in the act of adultery was brought before JESUS he said let him without sin cast the first stone and all left without throwing a single stone. Now here is the amazing part JESUS said neither do I condemn you GO and sin no more. Wait a minute God himself did not condemn the woman but just said go and sin no more. Do you think she went back to sin? No way. She had just experienced the goodness of GOD. GOD's grace is GOD giving us what we don’t deserve. She deserved death but was given life instead.

I have these friends who accused a fellow Christian to our pastor of drinking alcohol saying all sorts of things about them. Yet it turns out they also drink alcohol. I saw them with my own eyes, yet they were busy accusing their friends. That is pure hypocrisy at its best.Judge not so that you are not judged.

If anything get this, judgment has been suspended until the day of the LORD. We are now under grace, amazing grace and this is the covenant we have that was sealed with the blood of JESUS. Our sins are remembered no more.

GOD is our father and he has adopted us as it is written as many as are led by the spirit he gave them the right to be call the sons of GOD. Now father son/daughter relationships is one where your kid does wrong or should we say was naughty you tell him off and move on, If you truly love your kid. You do not count his/her wrongs that they have done. You know growing up is a process and so is Christianity. As a Christian you have to grow, some grow fast, some need a push. GOD's love for us is so much better than our love for our kids.

Now in our walk with JESUS let us be like JOHN who is best known as the man that JESUS loved. If you notice it is only in his gospel that it is recorded as a man that JESUS loved. Should we say JESUS loved him more than his other apostle friends? Not at all. But he was emphasizing the fact that he was aware of JESUS love for him and he embraced it. SO let us imitate JOHN and boast about JESUS love for us. When the devil whispers to us what we did wrong let us remind him that JESUS loves us no matter what. So much so that he gave himself for our sins paid them in full past, present and future.

Oh what manner of love is this that he ravished on us? This is the true GOSPEL (good news) yeah the scandal called grace. GOD is so good his goodness is almost wasteful. You got to love GOD. I am crazy about this GOD.