True Grace
There has been a lot of tension surrounding the church on the message of grace lately.
And Paul knew something of the Father’s grace quite well. So much so that he was once a murderer of Christians until he encountered the grace of God.
In his letter to the Galatians, Paul said that they had fallen away from the revelation of grace, which means they turned away from living a life filled walking in union with God in rest to living life based off their own merit.
Paul said something so interesting that I had never noticed until recently:
“Deep in my heart I have confidence that the Lord, who lives in you, will bring you back around to the truth.” Gal. 5:10 TPT
Did you catch that? Paul brings expresses two earth-shattering truths here. The first is that they already had Christ living within them. The other thing he mentioned was what brought it home. That the Lord would bring them back around to the truth.
No matter how deluded we’ve become to the true gospel of Jesus Christ or how far we feel like we’ve wandered away into the far country, Abba Himself will bring you back around to the truth of your union with Him.
And in this union is where sonship rests.
Regardless of our personal choices or decisions we make, our identity in Christ never changes. We are in Him and He in us. Our union is permanent.
There is a false message of Yahweh’s grace is running berserk in our society claiming people can live how they want and His grace will cover it.
No. This is highly false and heretical. Yahweh’s grace empowers us to live like Him. Not how we desire to live for ourselves.
Paul reassured the Galatians that any lie they believed and then acted upon, Yahweh would represent the truth to them because He’s not far, He’s Christ in us the hope of glory.
True grace is this:
“God’s marvelous grace has manifested in person, bringing salvation for everyone. This same grace teaches us how to live each day as we turn our backs on ungodliness and indulgent lifestyles, and it equips us to live self-controlled, upright, godly lives in this present age.” Titus 2:11-12 TPT
Grace is too good and greasy to live how we want.
Grace is a person. His name is Jesus. If we want to know what grace looks like, we just look at him. We must see grace as the empowering love of Abba that teaches to have nothing to do with sin and everything to do with sonship.
Abba’s grace has empowered me to live as one who has been deemed holy, righteous, whole, and loved beyond measure. And because of that, I say no to anything that would grieve the Holy Spirit.
False grace attempts to feed us the lie that we can live how we want and still Abba will love us. This is a half truth.
Yes, Abba loves us no matter what, but He will not stand for anything less than what we were designed for. And that is life lived in freedom, righteousness, identity, and wholeness.
Being saved by faith through grace means that we have now have a redeemed identity. It’s not that our identity hasn’t changed. It’s that we have woken up to our true sonship in Christ.
We can’t be in Christ and live how we want. I mean we can, but it isn’t the Father’s best for us. His best for us is living in union fully assured of our sonship.
Because of grace we have no predisposition to sin. It enables us to live as sons of Abba, living in the fullness of freedom that we were intended for.
The same grace that saved humanity is the same grace that enables us to walk in beloved identity and in wholeness.
Living as we wish and claiming God’s grace covers it only dilutes the gospel!
