91 - My Home - Reasserting My Commitment

fA home is a place where the Bible is the truth and the truth is forever.

It is a place where the Lord adds His blessing to His Word. It is a place where God is everywhere present and nowhere absent. It is a place where only faith pleases God. Without faith this is impossible. It is a place where Satan is not welcome and God dwells in freedom.

My home is a dwelling, a place containing my family. It is a household we all belong to and respect.

The father told the prodigal ~ You are forgiven ~ You still belong here ~ Welcome back home.

1. In my home I teach that God is constant.
2. The Bible is His Word of Truth.
3. His Truth is everlasting and endures forever.
4. The grace of God is in abundance.
5. Repentance is the key to Grace.
6. Love is the rule.

In my home I teach that Grace comes by faith and without faith it is impossible to please God. It is impossible for Grace to exist without the works of Grace. Without the works of Grace ~ Faith is dead being alone. Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. Grace is the reward of Faith. Thus faith becomes the beginning work of Grace. In other words you must have faith to receive the Grace of God. It is impossible otherwise and you are still guilty.

God's Grace is ~ not holding us accountable. The Grace of God is that He lets us repent without holding us accountable for the crime. A good example is Paul on the road to Damascus. The Grace of God allowed Paul to repent. Paul knew his crime. The God that he loved was revealed to him as the Jesus that he hated. That was a shocker. The educated Paul was now feeling stupid. That is a long way down for an educated man. Paul later said God called him by His Grace i.e. ~ did not hold him accountable but gave him a space to repent.

Revelation 2:21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. A sinner has a space to repent then the door is closed. With each person it is different. God will do what He said He would do for that sinner. God took on Himself the sins of the world so He could forgive the sinner. He is just in doing this because He has already paid for our sins. God takes pleasure when a sinner repents. He did not die in vain.

The long suffering of God waits. He holds back His wrath which is sure to come. There is a space to repent. Go tell it on the mountain. God is waiting in the waiting room. The longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah. We enter His waiting room to surrender. The price is too great for us to pay. We cannot meet sins demand. Only God can do it. And He does.

In Luke 24:45-47 Jesus gave us a plan to follow. Peter preached it in Acts 2:38. Paul preached it everywhere in every church. 1 Corinthians 4:17.The Grace of God allows us to repent without being held accountable for our crime. That is awesome. The guilty is no longer guilty when he repents. That is unheard of in any court of the land. There is no judge that can rule by love. He must apply the law equally to all criminals. Carrying a gun is an automatic jail time when caught. It is the law. The judge has no choice. He can know the man and love the man but he has no choice. The law demands a penalty.

The Old Testament Law was locked in that way. The soul that sins it shall die. Then God came in the flesh and changed all of that. He died for every sin committed in the world from the beginning of sin. It is retroactive. God paid the price for sin and now has the freedom to forgive us of our sin. God is just in doing this because He set the price for sin (a sinless man had to die) then ~ He paid the price for sin. He did it by becoming God Manifest in the Flesh and died on the cross in our place. Now a man can approach God without fear ~ knowing how much God loves him. There is no fear in love. God ~ so loved the world ~ that He took the fear out of repentance and made it easy for all men everywhere to repent. Somewhere a church is waiting to celebrate a sinner repenting.

Stay Focused. God honors the Blood He Shed. He transforms it into our conscience. My conscience says ~ I am not guilty ~ The price is paid. WOW. No wonder we celebrate when a sinner repents.