Grace Examined

 

There are many psuedo-churches, including The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox that teach you can lose the grace of God. That you must stay in state of grace by your own merit and observance of God’s commands. If you lapse, commit a mortal sin or many venial sins you can lose grace and your soul be in peril. This is not true, it is a lie ungrounded in Scripture. 

The truth is we are sealed by The Holy Spirit,

“ In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory,” (Ephesians 1:13-14), and “ And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.” (Ephensians 4:30). 

The false churches would try to convince you grace can be lost,  but we are In state of Grace always:

“But he said to me, “And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work,” (2 Corinthians 9:8), 

“And from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.” (John 1:16)

“But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.” (1 Corinthians 15:10)

“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” (2 Corinthians 12:9)

“But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.” (Romans 5:15)

“For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people.” (Titus 2:11). 

We don’t have to keep going to get grace over and over, we got it when we first believed in Jesus. For grace means unmerited favor and is a free gift (Romans 5:15) deposited to us forever. The Apostle Peter said, “But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will.” (Acts 15:12)

Now to settle it we are in Grace and Christ tells us He will never let us go. 

The Words of Jesus Christ:

“My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of my hand, for my Father has given them to me, and he is more powerful than anyone else. No one can snatch them from the Father’s hand. The Father and I are One.” (John 10:26-30)

Hold on to these words of Scripture. That you remain in a state of Grace the first hour your believed. Those false apostles and their wolve churches seek to steal people’s security and make them dependent on their man made traditions, “ You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men. And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!” (Mark 7:8-9). In the same way the bishops of Rome and the East set aside Scripture to follow their traditions and doctrines of demons. 

Hold fast to the truth that you are saved by the grace of God through Faith in Christ Alone. Don’t let those who-spy your freedom, “This matter arose because some false believers had infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus and to make us slaves,” (Galatians 2:4) try to take it from you and enslave you to a false church with its false gospel,  “But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.”(Galatians 1:8-9) and “ But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it too easily!.” (2 Corinthians 11:3-4). Amen.