There is a topic that has been on my heart this week that I think all of us need a reminder of from time to time. If you look at my small testimony to the left there is a theme that will resonate throughout not just my story, but many of your stories as well. That theme is Grace. God is so graceful and merciful that He would allow someone like me, and someone like you, to work in His Kingdom. See the bible says something very important about sin and how it affects us.
“23 For the wages of sin is death…” ROMANS 6:23A
This is something that we tend to look right past. Let’s look at it a little closer. Wages are something that we work for. For example, if I work 25 hours this week at my job, I earn a net wage or payment for my work. Now when we apply it to this scripture, we see that when we sin or payment is death. “Whooa, hold up Bryan! You mean to tell me that when I sin my payment is death?” That’s right, that’s the bible verse right there. Now I only quoted this verse from the first half of it to make this point, we don’t deserve anything we have when it comes to Jesus. Christ doesn’t owe you anything! We’re not doing God a favor by living a certain way and calling ourselves Christian.
“Bryan, I know this. Why are you telling me this elementary teaching about Jesus?” I’m telling you because God wants the focus on him. I went to a worship service last Friday and when I was there God gave me a vision of the first time I met Jesus. The mess that I was. The Grace he shared with me. I can promise you this, I worshiped harder than I ever have in my life! I went all out! It’s all because of Grace that we are able to do anything. It’s God’s Grace that shows us his Love. I sympathize with Paul when he said:
“10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.” 1 CORINTHIANS 15:10
It’s by grace that we are where we are. It’s His Grace that moves us. See we deserve death, but
Let me finish the earlier verse:
“23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23
All he wants is for us to continually have faith, believe on him, walk by grace, and share his love. This is an EVERYDAY THING! It’s time we remember the Grace we walk in!
I love you Beloved.
“23 For the wages of sin is death…” ROMANS 6:23A
This is something that we tend to look right past. Let’s look at it a little closer. Wages are something that we work for. For example, if I work 25 hours this week at my job, I earn a net wage or payment for my work. Now when we apply it to this scripture, we see that when we sin or payment is death. “Whooa, hold up Bryan! You mean to tell me that when I sin my payment is death?” That’s right, that’s the bible verse right there. Now I only quoted this verse from the first half of it to make this point, we don’t deserve anything we have when it comes to Jesus. Christ doesn’t owe you anything! We’re not doing God a favor by living a certain way and calling ourselves Christian.
WE DESERVE DEATH!
Back to my theme here, by looking at my story and maybe even looking at yours, we know that there are so many times where we haven’t died because of our sin. That’s because of God’s Grace. That’s because God loved us so much that he sent His Son to die for you. To die for me. “Bryan, I know this. Why are you telling me this elementary teaching about Jesus?” I’m telling you because God wants the focus on him. I went to a worship service last Friday and when I was there God gave me a vision of the first time I met Jesus. The mess that I was. The Grace he shared with me. I can promise you this, I worshiped harder than I ever have in my life! I went all out! It’s all because of Grace that we are able to do anything. It’s God’s Grace that shows us his Love. I sympathize with Paul when he said:
“10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.” 1 CORINTHIANS 15:10
It’s by grace that we are where we are. It’s His Grace that moves us. See we deserve death, but
He gives grace!
Let me finish the earlier verse:
“23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23
All he wants is for us to continually have faith, believe on him, walk by grace, and share his love. This is an EVERYDAY THING! It’s time we remember the Grace we walk in!
I love you Beloved.
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