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My favorite pastor gave me some incredible notes I took. I'll just share them as I wrote them down.
People believe that we have to keep grace on a leash or we'll get the idea that we can sin all we want thus turning us into serial killers lol.
When in fact obedience of the heart cannot occur without God's grace.
Some see obedience as the end game when it is not.
Grace extends to everyone, even those Christian Chatters that annoy us to no end.....we tend to separate those chatters from ourselves, looking at them as "unclean" while we are in the "clean" camp. Our default setting as humans and Christ followers is to enjoy looking down on others in their ignorance and disobedience so that we feel informed and obedient before God. This brings us validation when in reality we have all the validation we will ever get through Jesus Christ.
There is no "us" and "them" in ChristianChat. It is us and Him (The Lord Jesus Christ).
We tend to keep accounts and book keeping, measuring others according to our standards when in fact we don't even measure up before the law.
God has permanently sent the spiritual accounting department off with pensions never to open that office again because of His grace through His Son regarding His children.
So for us to keep tallying accounts of those who don't measure up in our minds is a heavy burden that need not weigh us down. We've been set free from all such activity.
People believe that we have to keep grace on a leash or we'll get the idea that we can sin all we want thus turning us into serial killers lol.
When in fact obedience of the heart cannot occur without God's grace.
Some see obedience as the end game when it is not.
Grace extends to everyone, even those Christian Chatters that annoy us to no end.....we tend to separate those chatters from ourselves, looking at them as "unclean" while we are in the "clean" camp. Our default setting as humans and Christ followers is to enjoy looking down on others in their ignorance and disobedience so that we feel informed and obedient before God. This brings us validation when in reality we have all the validation we will ever get through Jesus Christ.
There is no "us" and "them" in ChristianChat. It is us and Him (The Lord Jesus Christ).
We tend to keep accounts and book keeping, measuring others according to our standards when in fact we don't even measure up before the law.
God has permanently sent the spiritual accounting department off with pensions never to open that office again because of His grace through His Son regarding His children.
So for us to keep tallying accounts of those who don't measure up in our minds is a heavy burden that need not weigh us down. We've been set free from all such activity.