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Ash_JFF,
I can not emphasize enough how important it is to have grace in our thinking and to have our hearts established in grace / Heb 13:9. If we are saved by grace and we are to grow in grace / 2Pt 3:18, then grace must be pretty important to God and to the believer. Grace has always been undeserved favor from God. The only one that God is unable to give grace to, is a person filled with pride / James 4:6, 1Pt 5:5, but if they humble themselves, God will give them grace. The person that believes they can lose their salvation is someone who has never been built up in the word and Spirit of grace / Acts 20:32, Col 3:16. The word that we preach and speak to one another must be grace, so that the hearer is edified and ministered to / Eph 4:29. There is nothing edifying when you speak and teach things that get people to lose hope in the salvation they received by grace through Christ. That is a form of slander against the finished work of Jesus Christ and the blood that was shed for the remission of sins.
There is a song that goes like this, 'There's nothing more that I can do for Jesus did it all, for we are complete in Him'. Jesus said while he was on the cross having taken all our sins upon His body, 'It is finished' / John 19:30. When we believed we were placed in Christ, hid with Christ in God and we are complete in Him / Col 2:10, 3:3, Eph 2:13. This is our position in Christ, which is (locative of sphere) meaning that we can not be removed from a set position that has been sealed / Eph 1:13,14, 4:30. In this position we have not been given a spirit of fear but a spirit of power, of love and a sound mind / 2Tim 1:7.
Fear is what dominates the mind and emotions of those that believe their salvation can be lost. Some project an attitude of holiness but do not understand the grace and mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ. Those that teach this continue to put others in bondage again to fear / Rom 8:15, Heb 2:15 and they cause division and strife because they live contrary to what the grace of God teaches us / Titus 2:11,12. The strength of sin is in the law / 1Cor 15:56, so the law has no power to teach us how to live / Gal 3:24, but the grace of God does. If we lived by the law and we failed the law, the law would condemn us as transgressors / James 2:9,10. But we are not under the law but under grace / Rom 6:14, so if sin abounds grace abounds much more toward us to keep us from continuing in sin / Rom 5:20,21, Rom 6:15.
We are in Christ (86 times in the book of Ephesians) and because of being placed their by God through grace there is no condemnation / Rom 8:1. In this verse the last part was added in the KJV because of verse 4 in Rom 8, but the original manuscripts do not include that. The last part of that verse has been used by many to put a condition upon 'no condemnation'. Unfortunately, the KJV translated it incorrectly in this case and should have left it off and could have translated Rom 8:1 in just two words, NO CONDEMNATION, because it is a continuation of chapter 7. However, if you understand your position in Christ you have no problem with the KJV even as it is written, because there is no conditional clause in that verse except being in Christ.
I can not emphasize enough how important it is to have grace in our thinking and to have our hearts established in grace / Heb 13:9. If we are saved by grace and we are to grow in grace / 2Pt 3:18, then grace must be pretty important to God and to the believer. Grace has always been undeserved favor from God. The only one that God is unable to give grace to, is a person filled with pride / James 4:6, 1Pt 5:5, but if they humble themselves, God will give them grace. The person that believes they can lose their salvation is someone who has never been built up in the word and Spirit of grace / Acts 20:32, Col 3:16. The word that we preach and speak to one another must be grace, so that the hearer is edified and ministered to / Eph 4:29. There is nothing edifying when you speak and teach things that get people to lose hope in the salvation they received by grace through Christ. That is a form of slander against the finished work of Jesus Christ and the blood that was shed for the remission of sins.
There is a song that goes like this, 'There's nothing more that I can do for Jesus did it all, for we are complete in Him'. Jesus said while he was on the cross having taken all our sins upon His body, 'It is finished' / John 19:30. When we believed we were placed in Christ, hid with Christ in God and we are complete in Him / Col 2:10, 3:3, Eph 2:13. This is our position in Christ, which is (locative of sphere) meaning that we can not be removed from a set position that has been sealed / Eph 1:13,14, 4:30. In this position we have not been given a spirit of fear but a spirit of power, of love and a sound mind / 2Tim 1:7.
Fear is what dominates the mind and emotions of those that believe their salvation can be lost. Some project an attitude of holiness but do not understand the grace and mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ. Those that teach this continue to put others in bondage again to fear / Rom 8:15, Heb 2:15 and they cause division and strife because they live contrary to what the grace of God teaches us / Titus 2:11,12. The strength of sin is in the law / 1Cor 15:56, so the law has no power to teach us how to live / Gal 3:24, but the grace of God does. If we lived by the law and we failed the law, the law would condemn us as transgressors / James 2:9,10. But we are not under the law but under grace / Rom 6:14, so if sin abounds grace abounds much more toward us to keep us from continuing in sin / Rom 5:20,21, Rom 6:15.
We are in Christ (86 times in the book of Ephesians) and because of being placed their by God through grace there is no condemnation / Rom 8:1. In this verse the last part was added in the KJV because of verse 4 in Rom 8, but the original manuscripts do not include that. The last part of that verse has been used by many to put a condition upon 'no condemnation'. Unfortunately, the KJV translated it incorrectly in this case and should have left it off and could have translated Rom 8:1 in just two words, NO CONDEMNATION, because it is a continuation of chapter 7. However, if you understand your position in Christ you have no problem with the KJV even as it is written, because there is no conditional clause in that verse except being in Christ.
Wow, thanks!
