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Topic:  No Fear   

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Date: Sun, March 9, 2008   
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Peace

The Bold Grace Team

As I have moved into this wonderful position of understanding the power of grace I often thnk about what the difference is between those of us who preach the gospel of Grace & Peace and those who are still involved in traditional Christianity.  Looking back over my early years in the church and observing others who are still involved in organized religion I have come to the conclusion that the main difference is between these two words "Grace & Forgiveness". 

Grace is not something we have any power whatsoever over.  Grace is God’s unmerited favor that has always been freely ours whether we believe in it or not. 

Forgiveness on the other hand is something we receive in our minds by accepting it and believing it.  My experience with most Christians is that here is where they struggle because of the message they are being taught.  Most churches, if not all have regular alter calls or invitations to repent in order to stay within God’s good Graces.  They are taught that unless they repent of their sins God is unable to deliver His grace and they could be in danger of spending eternity in torment.  They are taught that God has done His part but they MUST do their part in order to be in a right relationship with HIm.  The problem with that is their consciences are never made perfect because it always depends on their performance.  It was the same way under the old covenant.  Listen to the writer of Hebrews:

Heb 10:1-9 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.  For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.  But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.  For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.  Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

Those who do not understand the Grace of God to be completely unconditional can never have their consciences purged of sin.  Those who do understand that their performance or belief has NOTHING to do with receiving Grace enjoy a peace  because all their fears have been cast out.

1 John 4:17-19 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us.

Jesus is PERFECT and so are we because He has taken us all into his body on the cross.  I long for the day that all my fellow travelers will understand this GREAT TRUTH and I know that all will eventually bow down on their knees in utter adoration at the LOVE that has always been there for them.   Until that time arrives I will keep preaching to all that will hear "BEHOLD, THE LAMB OF GOD WHO TAKETH AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD."

Peace and Love to All,

PS.  By the way, I can say I have NO fear of punishment or death.  How many Christians can say the same thing?  I have not know many in my experience that can make that claim who are still involved in organized Christianity.

I spent a great many years with all of my attention on the written word of God.  I taught from it and preached from it and believed it was my greatest resource in knowing who God is.  I did learn a great deal and it has helped me in many ways to understand God better, but I have come to trust in something far, far greater then the written word.  The problem with the written word is what it does to people.  It almost always forces them into some type of religion.  That’s exactly what was wrong with the old covenant.  It was based on tables of stone (the written word) and turned man into such an ugly creature that it crucified the only man who ever lived up to the written word’s demands.  Is that really what God intended?  Maybe God was trying to show us how futile it really is for us to think we could ever DO anything that would change His love for us either to the good or the bad.

So, what did God intend for us concerning how we could live this life victoriously?  I believe that question is clearly answered in the following verses:

Heb 8:10-13    10 This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 11 No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. 12 For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."  13 By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.

Now I want those reading this to ask themselves the following questions:

• Who is responsible for making the new covenant with mankind?
• Who is responsible to make sure our minds and hearts are renewed with divine guidance?
• Who is responsible to make God our God and to make us his people?
• Who is responsible to teach anyone about God?
• Who is responsible to make sure everyone from the least to the greatest knows God?
• Who is responsible to make sure we are forgiven and that our sins are never remembered?
• Who is responsible to make sure the old covenant is obsolete?

The bottom line is that the old covenant was all about mankind being responsible in all these areas but the new covenant is all about GOD BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING!

Religion of all kinds is about man trying to get right with God, but God takes complete responsibility in the healing of mankind.  It is time we truly starting trusting our creator.  We all have this God within and we need to give ourselves permission to start listening to him, but that will never happen as long as you are in bondage to religion.

I still use the written word but I spend a great deal more of my time now listening to the still small voice that I believe everyone has within but often has it drowned out by the roar of religion.

1 Cor 2:12

12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

The spirit of the world that Paul is talking about is the spirit of religion.  He speaks in previous verses leading up to this about the world being made up of those who crucified Jesus and we know that was the world of the highly religious Pharisees and Sadducees.  Why are we continuing to allow the very religious to guide us in our spiritual walk when we all have the very HAND OF GOD reaching out to us?

Yes, I say GIVE UP RELIGION AND START TRUSTING GOD.  If you can attend church and do that then more power to you, but I personally think you are fooling yourself.  Churches are all about TEACHING (brain washing) and yet the new covenant says that you will not need for ANY MAN TO TEACH YOU. 

And the best thing about God is that he never charges a thing and never begs for money.  EVERYTHING IS FREE.  Know any churches like that?