Jesus teaches us that His Kingdom is a grace based kingdom! He extends grace to the most undeserving and ungrateful people. Grace is the giving of ourselves with no strings attached and no expectations of getting anything in return. The "give to gain" mentality is of this world and satan's kingdom and has no place in the church.
The Lord does not reward His people for extending grace. If He did it would not be grace! And if it is by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace. (Romans 11:6) We must distance ourselves from those who claim that God gives good things to us because we pray, attend church, tithe, help others or anything else. This diminished God's grace which is totally unmerited and undeserved. As His people, He calls for us to imitate Him by extending grace even to our enemies giving us full access to Himself including His unlimited grace and forgiveness.
(Luke 6:37-45)
- Sunday School, Joe Burnett, August 21, 2016
A child of God- beloved, holy, righteous, blameless, healed, forgiven, brand new, sheep, salt, light, a branch, temple of God, reconciled, a saint, God's workmanship, hidden with Christ in God, an expression of the life of Christ because He is my life, a partaker, a living stone- crucified with Christ, I no longer live but Christ lives IN ME!
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