Friday, January 29, 2016

God Is Good All the Time


Grace:


2 Timothy 2:11-13

"If we died with Him,
   We will also live with Him;
 If we endure,
    We will also reign with Him,
 If we disown Him,
    He will also disown us;
 If we are faithless,
    He remains faithful.."


We do not deserve God's grace, but because of His great love for us, we have received it. (1 John 4:19)

2 Corinthians 12:9
"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.."

His grace is enough!

Romans 5:1-11
"Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God! (meaning: It is as if we never sinned; we have peace with God through Jesus. Because of His grace we have through faith)
Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. (When we are suffering, we are growing stronger in character (as a Christian) because we are relying on God(We should be))
And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. (When we accept Christ as our Lord and Savior, we are given the Holy Spirit to guide us and discern our intentions of heart)
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungoldy. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, (No one is righteous, no not one. So that is why Jesus died for us; we are not righteous and He died out of love)
Though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (As in verse 7, Jesus died for the unrighteous out of love)
Since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through Him! For if, while we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life! Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now  received reconciliation." 

How rare it is for someone to die for His enemy. But Jesus did that on the cross for us! We were His enemies, but He still died for us! What a great example of 'Love your enemies'. This passage sums up God's grace, Jesus's love, and how even though we were enemies of Jesus, He still loved us and died for us. Now we are children of the King!





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