LET YOUR HEART BE ESTABLISHED BY GRACE

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…it is good that the heart be established by grace… [/TD]
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[TD="colspan: 3, align: left"]God does not want your heart full of worries and fears, tossed and turned by every challenge that comes your way. He wants your heart at rest and established by His grace toward you.

But when you think that the breakthroughs to your challenges depend on your ability to obey God, then your heart will not be at rest. It will be full of worries and anxieties. Why? Because you can never obey God perfectly.

But when you depend on God’s grace, that is, His undeserved, unmerited favor, the opposite happens—your heart becomes established. When you know that the only thing that qualifies you to receive God’s blessings is faith in the finished work of Christ, your heart becomes established. Then, you will walk without the fear of your troubles swallowing you up. You will walk with full assurance that His blessings will be manifested in your life.

My friend, God wants your heart established, knowing that His righteousness, healing, protection and provision are yours—all paid for by Jesus’ finished work at the cross. God’s blessings are sure in your life because they are not dependent on your ability to keep His laws, but Jesus’ perfect obedience.

You see, under the old covenant, you receive God’s blessings only if you keep all His laws. (Deuteronomy 28:1–2) If you sin and fail to keep even one law, you will be disqualified from receiving His blessings. But today, under the new covenant, your sins no longer disqualify you because God Himself has said, “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” (Hebrews 8:12)

So let your heart be established by God’s grace. Because of His grace, you have full access to His blessings. You no longer have to worry about whether you are good enough. You can stand firm on the promises made in His Word and enjoy His blessings today because Jesus has paid the price. Your part is only to believe and receive!

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You see, under the old covenant, you receive God’s blessings only if you keep all His laws[/B]. (Deuteronomy 28:1–2) If you sin and fail to keep even one law, you will be disqualified from receiving His blessings. But today, under the new covenant, your sins no longer disqualify you because God Himself has said, “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” (Hebrews 8:12)
What an extraordinary twisting of scripture Prince does to claim that GOD blesses people in their sins. This clearly shows the lawless spirit of new.modern.hyper grace. Only a fool could think that GOD blesses people in their sins.

Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday and today and forever. Hebrews 13:8
 
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Also that verse is speaking of "after those days" when God removes ungodliness from Jacob= Israel after the fullness of the Gentiles comes in.

[SUP]10 [/SUP]For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
 
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I see its time to start a thread regarding grace haters :rolleyes:
 
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We could start one saying "God is love.."...and they would be on you for that...I just ignore them...it's the nature of the beast...:rolleyes:
 
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What an extraordinary twisting of scripture Prince does to claim that GOD blesses people in their sins. This clearly shows the lawless spirit of new.modern.hyper grace. Only a fool could think that GOD blesses people in their sins.
Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday and today and forever. Hebrews 13:8
so your perfect?

I only ask, Because unless your perfect. You are a sinner, And if you are blessed at all. God must bless you in that sin.
 
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Also that verse is speaking of "after those days" when God removes ungodliness from Jacob= Israel after the fullness of the Gentiles comes in.

[SUP]10 [/SUP]For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
what does the future return of Isreal after they repent have to do with the topic at hand?
 
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so your perfect?

I only ask, Because unless your perfect. You are a sinner, And if you are blessed at all. God must bless you in that sin.
I am a sinner saved by grace. That doesn't mean I practice sin, or indirectly give license to sin as new.modern.hyper grace teachers do by saying that GOD blesses those who do sin.
 
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God has blessed us mightly while we were in our sins...He sent Jesus to us and it's Jesus that is still saving us..

Romans 5:10 (NASB)
[SUP]10 [/SUP] For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

2 Corinthians 5:20-21 (KJV)
[SUP]20 [/SUP] Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
[SUP]21 [/SUP] For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.



so your perfect?

I only ask, Because unless your perfect. You are a sinner, And if you are blessed at all. God must bless you in that sin.
 
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I am a sinner saved by grace. That doesn't mean I practice sin, or indirectly give license to sin as new.modern.hyper grace teachers do by saying that GOD blesses those who do sin.
Dude, No one here is saying this, and it gets quite old telling you that over and over again, and you continue to come with the same lie over and over.

Is it so hard for you to admit you are wrong? No one is saying we can sin all we want, that's a straw man..

You made a statement that we claim one can be blessed in sin,, I confronted you on that statement, you just admitted God blessed you while you are still a sinner. Why can you not just admit I was right and you had erred? Is that really too hard?


Go ahead, Ask Grace777 if he believes God will bless a person who is struggling with sexual sin.. I venture to say Grace would admit, No God would not. He would be disciplining the person (if he was saved) not blessing him

Yet you see something and try to twist what others say to prove your right..


That gives me the right to do what I just did.. to prove to you you are not correct in what you say we believe or teach..

 
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Dude, No one here is saying this, and it gets quite old telling you that over and over again, and you continue to come with the same lie over and over.


You need to get back to work. You're too distracted to pay attention. It's in the OP. Prince says that our sins don't disqualify us from receiving GOD's blessings.

You see, under the old covenant, you receive God’s blessings only if you keep all His laws. (Deuteronomy 28:1–2) If you sin and fail to keep even one law, you will be disqualified from receiving His blessings. But today, under the new covenant, your sins no longer disqualify you [from receiving His blessings] because God Himself has said, “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” (Hebrews 8:12)
 
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You need to get back to work. You're too distracted to pay attention. It's in the OP. Prince says that our sins don't disqualify us from receiving GOD's blessings.


You need to get back to reality,

I just proved our sins do not disqualify us from Gods blessings, By asking you to admit your not perfect. which means you are blessed by God, (so you claim) oven though you still sin.


I proved you wrong man, do you have any humility at all??


The op did not say a person struggling with a sin will still be blessed by God. All he said is a persos sin will not keep him fro mthe blessing of salvation, because if this is true, non of us will ever be saved, because as you just admitted, we all still sin.

That was your assumption, and I just showed how you should not assume things not said..
 
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You cannot be "in Christ" justified in Gods righteousness and be "in sin"...at the same time ..
You can be a "justified" believer and walk in the flesh and be outside the life in the Spirit.
 
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I would say that God would be blessing the person in the discipline.....it might not seem like it at the time though...lol

If God never blessed us until we never sinned again...we would be in bad shape..lol

I believe God blesses us all the time but we "block" that blessing with our unbelief and sin ..sin is very deceitful and it will make us shrink away from God..just like it did to Adam when he hid from God..meanwhile God was coming to have fellowship with him as usual..I'm sure God knew Adam sinned..


Dude, No one here is saying this, and it gets quite old telling you that over and over again, and you continue to come with the same lie over and over.

Is it so hard for you to admit you are wrong? No one is saying we can sin all we want, that's a straw man..

You made a statement that we claim one can be blessed in sin,, I confronted you on that statement, you just admitted God blessed you while you are still a sinner. Why can you not just admit I was right and you had erred? Is that really too hard?


Go ahead, Ask Grace777 if he believes God will bless a person who is struggling with sexual sin.. I venture to say Grace would admit, No God would not. He would be disciplining the person (if he was saved) not blessing him

Yet you see something and try to twist what others say to prove your right..


That gives me the right to do what I just did.. to prove to you you are not correct in what you say we believe or teach..

 
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I would say that God would be blessing the person in the discipline.....it might not seem like it at the time though...lol

If God never blessed us until we never sinned again...we would be in bad shape..lol

I believe God blesses us all the time but we "block" that blessing with our unbelief and sin ..sin is very deceitful and it will make us shrink away from God..just like it did to Adam when he hid from God..meanwhile God was coming to have fellowship with him as usual..I'm sure God knew Adam sinned..
I guess it depends on how you look at it, Chastenign from God is a blessing, the one who is not a child does not get chastened, so it is a blessing to his child, And helps bring us back to him.

The fact God does not strike is dead is a bleasing, yet at the same time, If he did, I would be out of this world. and in the presence of God. so maybe it is a curse he dies not kill us where we stand?

It is all perspective.. A thought most legalists can not comprehend, because they are steeped in rules and regulations, and facts (the way they see them)
 
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We are already blessed...just gotta have our minds renewed to the truth of Christ and Him being in us....which means "awake to righterousness and sin not.."...and everything else that the grace of God "teaches " us..it's a blessing!

Romans 4:7-8 (KJV)
[SUP]7 [/SUP] Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
[SUP]8 [/SUP] Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

Ephesians 1:3 (NASB)
[SUP]3 [/SUP] Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,