Embracing Grace: The Power of Justification in Christ

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Grace is what was brought through the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what it says in John chapter 1 verse 17, grace was introduced through the Lord Jesus Christ. So when we want to differentiate between what we are and what a faithful man like Daniel was, the difference that what we have that Daniel never had was grace because grace came through Jesus Christ. [00:02:54]

The love of God came over people in the old covenant, but it could never penetrate into people, into our hearts. Jesus talks about rivers of living water flowing from our innermost beings. Romans 5 says the hope doesn't disappoint because the love of God has been shared poured into our hearts. [00:03:38]

There's a word in between love and grace, and that word is righteous, justified. That word is what makes love into grace, and that's what the old covenant saints never had. The old covenant saints were never justified so they could never have grace. They could never get grace because they were never justified. [00:05:00]

If I were to live the next 50 years of my life not sinning even once, I'd still go to hell if it wasn't for righteous justification, that what Christ did. Let me repeat what I said, dear brothers and sisters, young man, young woman, if you were to have victory over sin and never sin for the next 80 years, you would still go to hell if it wasn't for God's justification which says you can be called righteous. [00:07:18]

We never receive grace after we sin because we never have an encounter with God where we are justified. We believe in the truth, we can explain it to other people, but after we fall into sin, we're flattened, we're on our face and because of our sin, what needs to happen before we can get grace which is the power to overcome sin, you need something else. [00:08:04]

True humility involves recognizing our justification and being exalted back onto the Father's lap. It's a humility that goes beyond what God wanted us to have, a humility about all of our humility was supposed to get us back to being exalted back onto the Father's lap. [00:11:10]

I didn't take the time to recognize God saying before you can receive grace recognize that I call you righteous, not I call you forgiven, not I call you son, I call you a son who's totally obed, hard to imagine, heart to grasp, only possible if God looks at Christ instead of me. [00:12:23]

Looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. I recently left, switched my jobs, I'm working for a different company now and you know in my last couple of weeks that being at my old company I was looking forward to my next company. [00:16:39]

The grace of God is more than just overcoming sin; it is about living with a focus on the eternal, eagerly awaiting the return of our Savior. This grace empowers us to live righteously and with hope, transforming our lives. [00:19:04]

Grace is power, grace means we're the richest people on the earth. We get that grace because it's a response to being humbled by God saying you're righteous. We have to dwell in that, we have to meditate on what it means for God to say you're righteous, just like God called Jesus righteous. [00:21:18]

You want to overcome sin, you need grace. You want to be entered into the life of grace, you need to grab ahold of justification by faith, the grace, not just the love of God, the grace, pursue it, pursue it, and it's not the grace of Yahweh old covenant God, it's the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. [00:23:38]

May the Lord anoint what I've said, ignore the human parts, erase it from your memory, but highlight and anoint what was of Him so that it may bear fruit in our lives. It's beyond all the emotions, please, passion or whatever it is they may have my voice that's meaningless. [00:25:33]

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