Sunday, March 22, 2015

"Camouflaged" -2

Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men." (Psalms 59:2) I get that this is about David's despair over his being hunted down by Saul, but today, and for the sake of needing to be delivered, this is about Jesus Christ and the blood that He shed for our sins! Can we step out from under God's grace? I have heard it said, and I might have even said it myself, that God's grace is like an umbrella, it keeps you dry when you are under it, but step out from it's protection, and you are going to get wet. Obviously, such a condition makes God's grace dependent upon our position, whether or not we are seated in Christ or not; but now that I think of it, can we voluntarily unseat ourselves from being seated in Christ? I am not sure that is possible, that is, if you are truly His to begin with! Judas Iscariot was really never one of Jesus', even though Jesus choose Him to be one of His disciples, his heart was never won to Christ, because he was still considered to be the property of the devil (John 17:12), and he was never one that belonged to Christ. As I was praying about what God is showing me here, I had to think about something that Paul said in regards to the "justification of life" in the King James version of Romans 5:18, yet the NLT says, "a right relationship with God and new life for everyone". Just a little point about "a right relationship", in that relationship actually requires that two parties have fellowship with one another, and that they share something in common. If we could remove ourselves from under the protection of God's grace, then how is it that we cannot work our way into His grace? It seems to me, that we cannot have one without the other; wouldn't you agree? Looking at Hebrews 6:6, which is always used in such matters, we see something of a paradox when it comes to the security of our salvation, since there is the word "impossible" used in verse 4, a word that pretty much makes things certain, or certainly not possible. In the sake of time, let's just get to the point, and say, we should not be wasting our time worrying about whether or not we can lose our salvation; our salvation is a gift from heaven, and you cannot return it, even if you tried; and you surely cannot have Jesus come back and die again for your sins; so the point is not about the salvation being real or not, it's about moving on from the basics and getting into the new life that you have been given in Christ. I don't think that we can step outside of God's grace, not if we have been covered by the blood of Christ; but what we can do, is to shame the work that He did, by not walking in the complete security of the price that He paid. Moving on, if you can accept that phrase, actually means that you have settled the whole salvation thing, "It's won and done!"; if you have received it, it cannot be given back... "So Christ has truly set us free. Now make sue that you stay free, and don't get tied up again in slavery to the law. Listen! I, Paul, tell you this: If you are counting on circumcision to make you right with God, then Christ will be no benefit to you. I'll say it again. If you are trying to find favor with God by being circumcised, you must obey every regulation in the whole law of Moses. For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God's grace. But we who live by the Spirit eagerly wait to receive by faith the righteousness God has promised to us. For when we place our faith in Christ Jesus, there is no benefit in being circumcised or being uncircumcised. What is important is faith expressing itself in love." (Galatians 5:1-6) NLT    

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