It has nothing to do with how you understand His grace, nothing to do with how you explain your sin, your failures, your mess ups, your face plants. Have you ever sinned in the face of grace? Have you ever rejected His grace? Because His grace is poured out on His perfect, sinless, faithful Son Jesus Christ, and all who are in Him receive the same welcome, the same love, the same favor, and they will never be put to shame.
Not one of the sheep given to Jesus will ever perish; no one can snatch them out of His hand. He bore our sins in His body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness — by whose stripes you are healed 1 Pet. This means that God receives prostitutes who sleep with married men, helping them break their marriage vows, helping them betray their wives at home.
God receives those prostitutes. This means that God receives sex offenders, men who prey on little children, rapists, abusers, stalkers, molesters, and creeps of all of shapes and sizes. God receives filthy sex offenders. This means that God receives murderers, haters, backbiters, gossips, and liars. He receives those who have planned the execution of the innocent.
He forgives abortionists and the women who order the murder of their own babies. He forgives the military officers who order unjust attacks, and He forgives the soldiers who carry them out. God receives bloody murderers. This means that God receives homosexuals and transexuals and bisexuals and transgendered and porn addicts and adulterers and fornicators of every stripe. God cleanses. God forgives. God extends mercy.
God receives the sexually immoral and confused. Yes, good questions. Jeremy, I agree that grace is free and unmerited, and I agree that in modern-day Christianity grace too often gets mixed with conditions and legalism that God did not intend.
God shows grace and mercy- yes- but not at the expense of righteousness and justice. Only through substitutionary atonement can you have both justice AND grace simultaneously: justice because the sins of the world were atoned for by Christ that was the WHOLE symbolic point of the OT sacrifice system!! We have done nothing to deserve this atonement, nor can we do anything to earn our place in it. Only an infinitely-worthy substitute sacrifice Jesus could be enough to cover ALL sin.
God is not just the Creator, he is also the ultimate Judge. What kind of good judge allows crime to go unpunished? God would not be God if he did not demand justice. By rejecting the Atonement you have gone completely off the theological rails- so to speak. Stay tuned! Well, in a sense, that is true, but in another sense, that is false. I do not think that is accurate. In it, we find the following words:.
That sounds an awful lot like substitutionary atonement to me. No, what Clement wrote there is fully within Christus Victor and what the rest of the NT says about the blood of Jesus. He is saying that the blood of Jesus saves us and it does and it calls us to repentance it does. I have a book coming out at the end of this month which explains more. I love this post.. God loves us beyond our comprehension and he gave us his son to prove it to us.
No matter what, we are saved my Gods good grace and our acceptance of this. So sad. Why hold on to hate when everything about Jesus and His revelation of God is nothing but love? I love Jesus. The Jesus from the Gospels. I met Jesus on my own road to Damascus; I was hardly a Christian. But at the age of 27, I had a life-changing encounter with Jesus and He has had my heart ever since. Been involved, you know… not just a passive pew participant. It is a sad irony, and I believe that there are many, many people who would probably find they LOVE Jesus if they had the opportunity to discover that He is nothing like the belligerent, self-righteous hypocrites who so often claim to represent Him.
That was my own experience. When someone fails to understand grace, they will also most certainly fail to understand mercy, and this is reflected in the way they perceive and respond to other people… most especially those outside their particular camp.
I have been very disheartened lately by far too many. Quote: By grace, God loves all, forgives all, and accepts all, with no conditions, no strings attached, no fine print, no qualifications, no limits, and no ongoing requirements. Even Atheists are fully forgiven.
A person receives eternal life by believing in Jesus for it. Gods grace is indeed outrageously amazing but make no mistake without the shedding of Jesus blood their would be NO forgiveness. This is not biblical. One must believe in Jesus God in flesh in order to be saved. Jesus said unless you believe I am who I say I am you will die in your sins. Join Us! Learn the most essential truths for following Jesus! Pawn to D5 :. I appreciate your answer Brian.
Very thought provoking. Greear ». This article originally appeared on JDGreear. How to Be Effective in Urban Ministry. Soulfires: The Possibilities of Geeky Evangelism. Building Bridges to Our Muslim Neighbors. Josh Howerton: Answering the Call—Part 1. Terry W.
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