Elana Polinger: What makes man fall from Grace and from Christ?

What makes man fall from Grace and from Christ?

God has dealt with sin on the cross once and for all by becoming our sin sacrifice. The sin/debt account with charges against us were canceled, taken out of the way and nailed to the cross. The sin of our entire life was cast to the depth of the sea.

Do you think God is going to dive into the depth of the sea to show you what's wrong with you?

Isn't God love?

Love is kind and gentle and it keeps NO ACCOUNT of what's wrong with you.

Did He mean it when He said "as far as the east is from the west He cast all our sins?

Did He mean it when He said He will remember our sins no more?

If God still remembers sin, who can stand?

God, if you keep an account of sins who can stand?

Psa 130:3 NASB If You, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

Psa 130:3 אם־עונות תשׁמר־יה אדני מי יעמד׃

Sin can no longer separate us from God because it was taken away, not just covered as in the old covenant.

Jesus died to blot out all our sins, to cancel the certificate of debt with charges against us, so we will be free from judgment and accusations against us.

So all the sins of our entire life have been paid for in full, blotted out, and erased.

Col 2:13-14 NASB When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, (14) having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

The total removal of our sin as a result of God's Divine forgiveness is expressed in His Word:

It's not sin that makes people be separated from Christ or fall from grace. Look what the bible says about it:

Gal 5:4 "You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified (righteous) by law; you have fallen from grace."

The only reason we were justified (made righteous) is the works of Christ and His righteousness - not of our own. Man's righteousness is as a filthy rag and has nothing to justify himself before God.

If we can boast before God for our performance and think by the works of the law we are righteous - there is no more grace; but works.

It's through one act of righteousness Jesus worked we were justified. Nothing we have done or can ever do to be right with God by our own effort.

Rom 5:18-19 NASB "So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men. (19) For as through the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous."

It's through Jesus obedience, not your own, that you are right with God.

Adam produced man with an identity of "Sinners"

Jesus produced sons with the new identity of "Righteous".

You cannot be in first Adam anymore because his sons are Sinners.

You are in the new Adam and a new creation in Him and His sons are as He is - Righteous.

As He is, so you are in this world.

Come out from first Adam, come out of religion and the old covenant that declares people sinners.

The teachings and preachings of the law will always speak a voice "you're not good enough"; "you're not meeting the standard of the law"

Let me share with you that our righteousness which was given to us as a gift and not by our works means in the Greek. Righteous n Greek means: "meeting the demands of God; meeting the demands of the law".

G1342 δίκαιος dikaios

Thayer Definition:

1) righteous, observing divine laws

1a) in a wide sense, upright, righteous, virtuous, keeping the commands of God

1a2) innocent, faultless, guiltless

1a3) used of him whose way of thinking, feeling, and acting is wholly conformed to the will of God, and who therefore needs no rectification in the heart or life

1a4) approved of, acceptable of God

Don't read this definiton of your new identity with God as "Righteous" and think…

"Mmmmm but I don't have my thoughts right, feelings right, and I don't act according to the will of god……… so I'm not righteous"

No, no!

You ARE righteous because Jesus is righteous. In and of yourself there is nothing in your old nature that is right. The good news is - your are righteous APART from anything you have done right. You are righteous by faith – by believing in Jesus. It's no longer YOU who lives but Christ the Righteous one living in you. Therefore, as He is so you are in this world – Righteous, holy, blameless, beautiful, not guilty, accepted, desired, beloved. And it's all because of Jesus works – not yours.

It's by grace not by your performance.

Since Jesus fulfilled the entire law, took away ALL your sins of your entire life and made you right with God – you ARE righteous apart from your good deeds, works, behavior, obedience, faithfulness, love to the Lord. If your relationship with God is based on your works – how faithful you are towards Him, how much you love Him with all your heart, obedient to the law, behaving right – you are on a shaky ground.

Righteousness was imputed to you as a gift - a gift is received; not based on conditions, paying for it, or working for it.

Because of your righteousness Jesus resurrected. Meaning the resurrection is the evidence that you ARE right with God. It's an everlasting righteousness, not temporary on how well you behave.

Rom 4:25 NASB He who was delivered over because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification.

(righteousness)

Dan 9:24 NASB "Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.

Come out from under the law trying to fulfill it and by your performance be right with God - when Jesus fulfilled it for you with all the demands and requirements of the law. The law is not of faith:

Gal 3:12 NASB However, the Law is not of faith; on the contrary, "HE WHO PRACTICES THEM SHALL LIVE BY THEM."

God never meant for His people to live by the standard of the law. He knew no man can fulfill it or live by it. This is why He sent the Messiah to save us from the decree of death over us since we've all broke the law. The law wan meant to get us to the end of ourselves realizing we cannot fulfill it – so we can turn to Christ and put our trust in Him who fulfilled it for us and made us right with God because of His obedience and one act of righteousness.

Eze 20:25 NASB "I also gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live;

We are ministers of the New Covenant, not the old which was found to be with faults.

Heb 8:6-8 NASB But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises. (7) For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second. (8) For finding fault with them, He says, "BEHOLD, DAYS ARE COMING, SAYS THE LORD, WHEN I WILL EFFECT A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH;

Live under the new covenant because the glory of the ministry of condemnation and death is fading away.

2Co 3:5-6 NASB Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, (6) who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Much love

Elana

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What makes man fall from Grace and from Christ?

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