The Amazing Case for Grace

JOSEPH KING THE AMAZING CASE FOR

GRACE

 

 

Bible version, is the KJV King James Version of 1611, with only some  minor word changes in the case of clearly archaic words. 

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DEDICATION   

The  grace  of  GOD  belongs  to  all  men.  This  book  is  dedicated to all men because Precious and I believe that  the  door  is  wide  open  for  everyone  to  gain  from  the  finished work of CHRIST.  We believe in you because we found out that GOD does  and  proved  it  to  all  and  sundry  at  the  cross.  That  work  means  that  you  are  not  condemned  and  are  most  welcome to FATHER GOD.       

 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 

  To  CHRIST  JESUS,  the  amazing  grace  of  GOD  belong all praise and honor.    

 

CONTENTS 

DEDICATION ....................................................................... 3  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ...................................................... 4  SIN, THE LAW, CHRIST AND YOU! ................................. 6  THE AMAZING CASE FOR GRACE ................................ 14  GRACE IS THE LOVE OF GOD REVEALED .................. 25  THE ETERNAL REIGN OF GRACE ................................. 32  GRACE DEFENDS YOU WHERE THE LAW CONDEMNED YOU ........................................................... 39  GRACE CELEBRATES YOU ............................................ 44  THE GRACE OF GIVING AND YOUR PROSPERITY ...................................................................... 51  WE FELLOWSHIP TO CELEBRATE GRACE NOT TO CONDEMN MEN ................................................ 63  THE GRACE OF OUR LORD BE WITH YOU ................. 67   

 

SIN, THE LAW, CHRIST AND YOU! 

But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Romans 3:21-26

We need to understand this thing as deeply as it is: Sin is not as big a problem as what it does. Sin is essentially rebellion against GOD; what that does is it works to separate you from GOD. GOD's warning against sin is not merely a face value

concern; HE is more concerned about you being separate from HIM. Now when Adam sinned, the day he did he died (was separate from GOD). Even though GOD came to him in the garden, sin had already begun its work of separating him so much that he hid when he heard GOD.

The problem was not just sin; it was what sin did to him. When sin reigned from Adam to Moses, that means man submitted to the regime of being separate from GOD. Yes, man sinned but the problem was bigger than that; the fundamental problem was that man was now legally submitted under the regime of being made separate from GOD. Now the law was given to Moses to make us conscious of this.

Before the law, we were by no means conscious of the work of sin. People did bad things, yes; but they were not aware what the bad/evil things they were doing was actually doing to them insofar as being separated from GOD is concerned. So the law made us aware of what sin was doing in us in separating us from GOD.

That then brings me to CHRIST. Notice that the law in making us aware of our separation from GOD had no legal right to reconcile us with GOD nor did it have the power to do so. So, although the children of Israel were given the law, they continued in sin; the difference between them and the Gentiles is that they were aware of what sin

was doing (in being separate from GOD) while the Gentile wasn't.

Well, in so doing, the law then prepared Israel to receive the Messiah because they were the only people aware of the work of sin in separating us from GOD; so they were the only ones that could properly appreciate HIS ministry in seeking to reconcile man with GOD.

At the cross, JESUS CHRIST ended the legal regime of sin in working to separate us from GOD, reconciling us with the FATHER. Mark this: HE did not end sin; HE ended the power that sin has over us in legally separating us from GOD. What

that means is that in HIM, sin has no more power over us.

Do we sin? Even in HIM, we do occasionally sin but when we do, the power of sin to separate us from GOD was nullified. Sin no longer can do that to us because CHRIST closed its legal work in separating us from GOD. Now, we are reconciled to GOD not because we stopped sinning but because CHRIST ended the power of separation that sin had. What about the law? We don't need it because we no longer need to be aware of any separation from GOD because CHRIST has reconciled us with GOD.

The purpose of the law in making us aware of our separation from GOD is made useless in CHRIST’s work which reconciles us with GOD. What this means is that having been reconciled with GOD we are now free from the sense of guilt and condemnation separation from GOD elicits.

Think about it; we no longer need to hide from GOD like Adam and Eve because of sin or tremble with fear like Israel did at the mountain because of the law. That is awesome! We are free from all that fear; perfect love casts out all fear and sense of condemnation. Truly, who the SON sets free is free indeed!

We are free; not to sin as some who still pay allegiance to the law tend to think when they hear the gospel (this is the gospel- not our righteous work but CHRIST’s righteous work; the gospel is not that Christians are good people but that CHRIST has made them good, as good as HE is). We are free to be righteous, free to be considered righteous, free to work works of righteousness. Based on what? Based on the finished work of CHRIST at the cross when HE reconciled us with GOD. Now we can be all that GOD is, reconciled with HIM, one with HIM; in HIM and HIM in us. That is what Christianity is really all about.

Beloveds, this is not a religion; not even just a relationship

with

GOD;

CHRISTIANITY

IS

RECONCILATION WITH GOD. It is being who GOD is among men. Christianity is a revelation of CHRIST. Beloved, it begins here; you cannot 'DO' a Christian until you really know what it is to 'BE' a Christian.  

 

THE AMAZING CASE FOR GRACE 

Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. Acts 13:38, 39 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Romans 8:3-5

GRACE is the effectual working power of the SPIRIT that translated the LORD from HIS glory in heaven and made HIM a mere man; even enabling HIM to obedient to the FATHER even unto death.

That working of the SPIRIT continues in us and is present to convict the world of sin, judgment, and righteousness. That power is present in every believer to conform every one of them into the image and likeness of CHRIST that HE may be the first born of many brethren.

WATCH THIS: GRACE is not only superior to the law but GRACE is more to the believer in CHRIST than the law was to the Jew. GRACE is the light of which the law was a shadow. Christianity is nothing without GRACE.

There is a dangerous trend that was set in the faith by messengers of darkness that has been growing and has indeed matured to the point that it is quite

popular among believers and that is the legalizing of our faith. This unscrupulous paradigm begun in the days of the early church when some converted believers from the Jewish community thought it necessary to mix the law with GRACE (Galatians 2:11-13). To be sure, all that effort is ingenuine and an unscrupulous and a blatant insult of the doctrine of CHRIST (Galatians 5:7, 8); it is opposed to the cross. Notwithstanding, it was resisted; and part of the legacy of that contention are the inspiring and most profound letters of the apostle Paul and that of John. And yet, that dark effort has never ceased to fight

on over the years. Today, it has experienced a revival of sorts with many ministers and believers teaching the law and practicing several old covenant requirements with rigid attention, some of which would have made Pharisees blush with embarrassment. What should be our response? Should we revive the law or embrace GRACE, even at the expense of the law? Beloveds, we have no business with the law as JESUS fulfilled the whole of it and nailed it on the cross.

The SPIRIT of GOD speaks for so many

believers that have been duped by ministers of condemnation that refuse to acknowledge the riches

CHRIST

rendered

men

through

HIS

sacrificial death at the cross. These pseudo-

ministers refuse to acknowledge the work of redemption and therefore the riches of GRACE. In that folly, they make mockery of the cross of CHRIST and the inexhaustible GRACE that HE offers to all who will believe in HIM and desire the righteousness HE lavishly and most generously offers. Beloveds, it is high time that we seized the full weight of the new covenant and realize that it makes the old one obsolete: For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no placehave been sought for the second. For finding fault with them, hesaith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the daywhen I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and

I regarded them not,saith the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into theirmind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people … In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. Hebrews 8:7-10, 13

And more than that, it is far richer, with a more excellent glory: For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, Much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious. 2 Corinthians 3:9-11

Where sin abound, the law was powerless to make man righteous. But GRACE has much more

abounded so that by one man many are made righteous before GOD. Thanks be to GOD for the praise of HIS glory. It should be duly noted that the law was unable to make even one person righteous. In spite its regime yet all men sinned and fell short of the glory of GOD. But the testimony of GRACE outclasses that of the law so that by GRACE is salvation come to men (Ephesians 2:5). More than that; we should indeed rejoice the marvelous GRACE of CHRIST that has rendered all that believe the very glory of the highest so that we have in CHRIST, the riches of glory (Ephesians 1:18); indeed, the very glory HE

had with the FATHER from the very beginning (John 17:5, 22). This glory is rendered those who believe by virtue of their faith and the favor of CHRIST; and not by any work that they may perform in their strength. Now, you can be sure that anyone refusing you the knowledge of GRACE while trumpeting the knowledge of the law is pretending to be a minister of righteousness but in reality their preference belies

their

fruit

as

devious

workers

of

unrighteousness and marked blasphemers of the glorious cross of CHRIST. In pouring new wine in old wineskin, they risk you losing the favor of GOD and the righteousness HE gives.

What you need in this season of salvation is to hold onto the GRACE that has been given to us in CHRIST and discard the law that HE annulled (did away with) through HIS redemptive act on the cross, wherein HE settled all your debt: And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us,and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; Colossians 2:13-15

Beloved, when GRACE stands with you at the altar, it says, ''I DO!'' Abide forever in the GRACE of our marvelous LORD JESUS CHRIST: indeed, where the law condemned you and emphasized your estrangement from GOD, GRACE favors you and amplifies your communion with GOD.

In this respect, GOD has indeed shown such generous love.

What else can I say, what else should we say other than express with the deepest gratitude our heartfelt and highest appreciation:

OH LORD, thank YOU for GRACE; I thank YOU for this inexpressible love, this immeasurable kindness, this glorious of all virtues. Yes, I DO, I DO, I really, whole heartedly, with every fiber of my being and every iota of my person, I SO AND WITHOUT ANY RESERVATION AND GREAT ENTHUSAISM, DO! And LORD, my commitment is total, irrevocable, immutable, unflinching, never regretted, with no end and no parting, forever beloved, world without end, I am yours forever, yours for keeps, yours without a

doubt. Yes, I am yours; yours to hold, yours to cherish, to serve you and receive all your service for me. I love YOU LORD and let all know it. Yes, I am forever thankful for YOUR amazing grace, YOUR tender mercies, YOUR wondrous love, YOUR lovingkindness. Your amazing GRACE is mine and forever has joined me with YOUR esteemed deity. I am now a new creation, an exalted specie, a first fruit of all creation, one of a kind, a miracle working wonder, yes I DO! AMEN!!!

Make that your prayer this day; share it with others too and make them sure of their everlasting communion with GOD Almighty in the power of HIS GRACE.

GRACE IS THE LOVE OF GOD REVEALED 

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 1 John 4:9, 10

This

love,

this

affection,

this

divine,

pure,

unbridled, and immeasurable compassion called GRACE must be seized, rejoiced, fondly and resolutely received, and forever treasured. The glorious communion that it offers, a reconciliation of your human frailty with GOD’s omnipotent deity is the greatest privilege ever. The grace of CHRIST is the grandest gesture GOD ever made.

Beloved, it is the grace of GOD shown to us in CHRIST JESUS that makes us ONE with GOD and indeed the avowed Bride of the LAMB of glory (Revelations 19:7). To be sure, the law could never afford such a gesture; nor could it ever suggest such an enormous affection. To consider man in this sense was so way out of its league that when CHRIST appeared in Israel claiming to be the SON of GOD, the teachers of the law couldn’t stand it, they accused HIM of blaspheme, and eventually killed HIM (Mark 14:64). They did so thinking they pleased GOD according to the law; all the while unaware about how little they knew regarding HIS infinite love for men.

But thanks be to GOD for HIS grace in CHRIST where our communion with HIM is clearly made manifest in our marriage to the LAMB. It is with great joy that I assume the role of usher to your royal wedding with CHRIST (although I am a joyous and avowed bride of the LAMB myself): Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God. Revelation 19:7-9

This is grace, this is affection beyond the legal regime of the law; an awesome GOD has found

common ground with you and betrothed you to HIMSELF.

What that means is that GRACE is your ticket for the GOD-life. Pay no other price for it. CHRIST paid it all, now take the ticket and be all that GOD is. Being HIS Bride, betrothed to HIM, you are HIS kind and type so that HIS life is indeed your life.

Many people do not realize that CHRISTIANITY is not a religion; many do not appreciate the richness of mercies and the abundance of GRACE CHRIST rendered all who believe in HIM, many miss out on grace unaware that they forsake the love of CHRIST.

Beloved, faith in CHRIST offers the greatest love ever. It is a glorious opportunity to be all that GOD is, able to do all that HE does, fully endowed with all that HE has. GRACE has made you a king and priest in the order of Melchizedek; an eternal monarch. From that privileged honor, GRACE positions you to be reconciled with GOD, to be ONE with the FATHER, nothing less than a son of the HIGHEST, seated with HIM in glory and marvel ( 2 Corinthians 5:18, 19; John 1:12, 13; Ephesians 2:6 ). Now this is far exceeding in measure to what some other people suggest CHRISTIANITY to be when they purport it to be a relationship with GOD. Look, the angels in heaven all have a relationship with GOD and yet they aren't CHRISTIANS in a strict sense. So did the prophets and patriarchs of

the old covenant yet one of them was a CHRISTIAN in any sense, none of them was redeemed, sons of GOD in a proper sense. GRACE, specifically, the GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, is an enormous gesture from GOD to all who believe. It distinguishes you above all creation to be the first fruit of all creation (James 1:18); meaning, by grace you are the best of all GOD has made. GRACE therefore, is a privileged entrance to partaking of the divine nature wherein you are assumed to be, because you have become, a sovereign spirit being, akin with the FATHER (2 Peter 1:4). That omnipotent worth was afforded by the death of CHRIST on the cross when HE took your place

so that you likewise may share in HIS everlasting glory. Now, concerning that measure, you have no more price to pay, no more debt to pay, except the debt of love and gratitude (Romans 13:8). We are duty bound to love GOD because HE first loved us and love all others because GOD is love and if we are as HE is we must love all regardless:

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. 1 John 4:9-1

THE ETERNAL REIGN OF GRACE

For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification. For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) Romans 5:12-17

The regime of the law ended at Calvary; the government of GRACE increases with no end. Let GRACE reign over you and you can be assured to reign in life.

There are many people wrongly informed about GOD’s ways. They presume that the regime of the law abides to this day and when they look at themselves or at others they rely on the lenses of the law. And so their opinions are always condescending towards others, even towards themselves. Unfortunately this constitutes the largest group of believers in our LORD CHRIST JESUS.

Back to the subject of the end of the law or better still its regime and the eternal legacy of GRACE: Many believers have been thoroughly misguided by

messengers

of

darkness

to

think

that

Christianity is founded on the law. They presume that their faith in CHRIST is based on the Ten

Commandments and more recently, several of the other Levitical requirements and observances have been included. There is in fact a very dubious revival of the law going on today; sponsored as it were, by a very dubious penchant for Israel and everything Jewish. Most of this tendency bears a self-righteous attempt at righteousness in contempt of the marvelous grace of GOD that CHRIST offers. The consequence is an entrenchment of what otherwise should be a defunct regime. The law in its entirety, in all its requirements and all its observances, are no longer referral objects for believers since CHRIST died and fulfilled all for all men:

For what the law could not do, in that it was

weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Romans 8:3, 4

Indeed, GRACE being a greater and exceedingly richer measure of divine righteousness has come and made the law absolutely obsolete. None lesser than a former radical teacher of the law figured as much:

For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God. And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest: (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and

will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:) By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. Hebrews 7:18-22

Beloved, there is a new priesthood and indeed a new testament. We abide in a new covenant that totally obliterated the old one. GRACE is the new wine that the LORD counseled should not be kept in old wineskins (Mark 2:22). Seeking to mix the two is to lose it all; the wine will burst

the

old

wineskin

and

pour

out.

Indeed, this explains the weakness of most of Christianity and that of most of her converts. We have, for the most part, a faith that is mixed up, comingling GRACE with the law and ending up with an impotent hybrid that is unknown by GOD.

If this trend must change (and change it will because the MASTER returns for a church without spot or blemish), then we must begin to see a dying, a final burying of legalized Christianity in all

its

pretentious

multifaceted

formats.

We must witness to the dying of Sabbath day observance Christianity; a dying of tithing and other legal offering Christianity; a dying of Passover, atonement and other festivity celebrating Christianity; a dying of judgmental, condemning, Ten

Commandments

based

Christianity.

That seems like a tall order but it is the expected order of the kingdom of heaven. When CHRIST said 'IT IS FINISHED!' (John 17:4; 19:30), HE meant what HE said and said what HE meant; and let me clarify that HE particularly referred to the law. Infact, after HE said it, the temple grounds shook

and the curtain in the temple that separated the Holy of Holies from the inner court tore from up to bottom in an amazing demonstration of the ending, the finality, the certain conclusion of the old covenant (Matthew 27:51).

If the MASTER ended it, then anyone continuing it is out of HIS will, an enemy of the cross, and indeed against HIS ministry.

 

 

GRACE DEFENDS YOU WHERE THE LAW CONDEMNED YOU 

And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. Hebrews 12:24

LISTEN UP; GRACE has decided to speak the truth where others speak a lie about you. GRACE has decided to validate your image, it has chosen to be your advocate in the complex court of opinion. You want to find out about you? Listen up to the voice of GRACE; it is speaking good things about you.

The voice of GRACE knows you more than any other may claim to know you; it believes in you over and above all the accusations and rumors that others are peddling about. STOP listening to them, cease from attending to their bad mouthing and listen up.

Yes, they are talking you down but you must shift your ears from their pathetic level to the heights of glory. Now hear what GRACE is saying; GRACE says, "You will not fail; you will not be dropped; you will not be a victim; you just CANNOT be." According to that lofty testimony that GRACE bears about you, you are going up, you are sanctified and justified by GOD and are sure to end up better than those bad-mouthers are suggesting.

Yes, the scorner shall be silenced, the mocker humbled; your testimony will SURRISE them as GOD prepares you a table in the presence of your enemies. Beloved of CHRIST, I am so glad to be your emissary, I am so glad to be your message boy, I am so glad to serve you the testimony of GRACE and what it actually says about you. Listen up and be all that GOD is saying about you.

In a world riddled with lies and accusations, you are well advised to listen up to the esteemed voice of GRACE. That is where critical truth lies. When Ananias referred GOD to the renowned ill-repute of Saul of Tarsus, mentioning how he violently persecuted the church, GOD consulted the voice of

GRACE urging him to consider how much this persecutor of the brethren would do for the kingdom of heaven:

Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem: And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name. But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake. Acts 9:13-16

Beloved, I am not so sure what the doubters, mockers and scorners are saying about you; I am not sure what the rumor mills are churning out about you; I am not even sure about your own mistakes, failures and faults. But this I know; none

of that condemning record is louder and surer about you than what GRACE has to say. GRACE is full of truth; according to its testimony, all your faults are hanged and nailed on the cross some 2,000 years ago. Refuse to see yourself in bad light and believe you are who GRACE says you are.

 

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GRACE CELEBRATES YOU 

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. James 1:17, 18

GRACE has ordered me and I cannot relent; HE has ordered me to assure you that you are the best, the greatest, the most worthy, the finest, the most deserving, the brightest; now, just believe HIS testimony and shine to the uttermost. This is not by your ability but GOD’s own volition; it is HIS will that you are HIS first fruit, HIS ultimate best.

Now, I am duty bound to believe and declare this glory to you all. The devil has deceived and tormented you longer than necessary. Many of you have been so victimized that you hardly believe in yourself. And yet GOD believes in you and demonstrated it to all and sundry at Calvary. Yes, through that immeasurable gesture of GRACE, HE proved your worth. Beloved, you have had it mentioned that HE paid a difficult price; now I am ordered to reveal to you the value of that price; the revelation of that bargain. You, beloved, were worth it all; you were fearfully and wonderfully made, designed in the omnipotent format of the MOST HIGH, to be the best, the greatest, the most glorious being (Genesis 1:26, 27). You are GOD’s trophy, ransomed by HIS

blood. Has it occurred to you that the arch-angel Lucifer rebelled with a third of the angels and yet GRACE wasn't given to them; they were resolutely and thoroughly resisted and to this day await the fate that their rebellion deserves:

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. Isaiah 14:12-15

None less than the LORD revealed to us the resolute determination of heavens resistance when HE declared HIS impeccable witness of Satan’s damnation:

And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Luke 10:18

Heaven did not waste a split second to disappoint Lucifer’s desire to be as the MOST HIGH and yet, there you are, GOD’s ultimate best, redeemable, savable, worthy of GRACE because you were made out of CHRIST, GOD’s brilliant masterpiece, HIS workmanship, to be exactly like HE is:

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk

in them. Ephesians 2:10

Forget those who lie about us not being worthy and suggesting that CHRIST overpaid for us. Believe me, HE is gracious but also just and when HE died HE sought HIS own (John 10:11).

Beloved, make no mistakes about it; not every rebellious being gained from GRACE. GRACE covers men and not fallen angels because men are made in HIS likeness and image while angels aren't. The LORD gave up HIS life for HIS sheep, for HIS kind. In this respect, man is redeemable but angels aren't; forgiveness comes to man because GOD cannot afford to lose man but HE can afford to lose fallen angels.

Are you a believer? You think you are ordinary? That

you are just another luckless being like many you know? You just don't know that’s what. Find out from the witness of GRACE, find out from the witness of CHRIST and you will come to terms with your infinite worth.

Yes, GRACE, seizing GRACE, taking advantage of GRACE, will propel you to reign in life:

For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) Romans 5:17

GRACE is your excuse to be the best dad, the best mom, the best husband, the best wife, the best minister, pastor, prophet, apostle, the best evangelist, the best teacher, the best example,

model, coach, the best neighbor, business personality, the best landlord, tenant, the best janitor, student, the best citizen, leader, the best you that there ever could be.

Get GRACE, seize it, abide by it, and just be the best.

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THE GRACE OF GIVING AND YOUR PROSPERITY 

Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also. I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love. For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. 2 Corinthians 8:7-9

Why seek to prosper by the LAWS OF GIVING when you can prosper far more by the GRACE OF GIVING? GRACE offers a greater prosperity than the law could afford. May you excel in this GRACE also.

I believe in prosperity, I believe in your prosperity, and have quite a lot to say on the GRACE OF GIVING and how this ties in on your enormous prosperity in CHRIST JESUS.

Beloved, watch this chapter, read it with marked interest, again and again; because I will be saying a lot on a subject that has been so distorted in the church so much that many believers are indeed alienated from the infinite prosperity they have in CHRIST. This one chapter will radicalize your finances. In it I will dissect, provoke, and set your mind on things above from whence you can control things beneath. You will discover how much GRACE has indeed deposited on your account and how you can actually withdraw from those loaded coffers to live a life of splendor and wonder.

For now, believe this: there is nothing like a poor believer in CHRIST. That contemplation is a blunt lie informed by undue attention given to the material realm. Ministers who suggest they are making saints rich are messengers of darkness seeking to hoodwink the saints from perceiving the GRACE OF CHRIST which is the seal of their abundant wealth and immeasurable prosperity (Ephesians 1:18).

Are you a believer? You have faith in CHRIST? You do not need to fulfill any law to prosper; that measure belonged to a lesser pedigree than the new creation. In material weakness, you better know that you are spiritually strong because GOD is with you always. That perception is the key to translating your material circumstances to suit your glorious spiritual realities.

Now, concerning prosperity, particularly the prosperity of the saints, there is a lot to be said, a lot more than is generally being said.

Firstly, permit me to clarify that I am not against the laws of GOD. I doubt if anyone has the SPIRIT of GOD that he/she could be sincerely opposed to the law of GOD, including those pertaining to prosperity. However, I am a minister of reconciliation, a messenger of GRACE and not the law which condemns. As a minister of the new covenant, I am fully aware that the glory of GRACE is indeed superior to the glory of the law (2 Corinthians 3:9). The law was unable to make anyone righteous before GOD, including the Jews but GRACE has made many righteous before GOD including the Gentiles (Galatians 3:11; Romans 5:19).

It must be properly understood that even in regards to material prosperity, the world was not promised to those who abide by the law as much as those who abide by the grace of GOD:

For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. Romans 4:13

Make no mistakes about it; the wealth of this world is piled up for the just (Proverbs 13:22; Ecclesiastes 2:26). That just generation is this one that we are living in that is just not according to the law but according to the grace of CHRIST. Mark you, no one is justified before GOD according to the law (Galatians 3:11). In that

measure, all have sinned and fall short of the glory of GOD (Romans 3:23).

What that tells me is that, unless you abide in the grace of GOD wrought in CHRIST JESUS, you cannot gain the end time prosperity that the scriptures say shall occasion in the camp of the just. Grace then is the key means to material prosperity in this day.

Furthermore, one needs to compare the prosperity of the two, the measures that were guaranteed in obedience to the law and that in submission to the grace of GOD: According to the prosperity of the law, you are guaranteed to prosper in the city and in the countryside, in your coming in and your going out (Deuteronomy 28:6). However,

according to the prosperity of GRACE, you are the prosperity in the city and in the countryside, you are the prosperity in your coming in and your going out.

Beloved, the blessing of the nations is not those who prosper according to the law but according to the grace of GOD through faith in CHRIST JESUS (Galatians 3:7-9). How is it so? Well, those who walk under grace have been blessed with all spiritual blessings pertaining to life and godliness (Ephesians 1:3); it is they that have gained the blessing of Abraham and through whom the nations shall be blessed.

It is essential that you realize that it is by GRACE

and not the law that you are joined together with CHRIST, reconciled you with GOD, and are indeed joint heirs with CHRIST over all that GOD has in heaven, on earth, and the fullness thereof:

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. Romans 3:16, 17

Yes, now that you have received the grace through faith in CHRIST JESUS, GOD has no more promise of prosperity for you except a fulfillment. Look, in that glorious measure, you have it all. That is why the apostle Paul understanding this assures us that all the promises of GOD are yea and amen in CHRIST JESUS (2 Corinthians 1:20).

Beloved, in the GRACE of CHRIST, you are not poor, CANNOT be poor, and should cease to consider yourself in that light. Far from it, you are the riches of GOD’s glory. You are infinitely endowed and all of heaven knows. Now, the FATHER has sent me to let you know it as well. Can you believe and receive this GRACE?

Beloved, GRACE is quintessential to the faith of the believer, it is central to our faith; my dearest friend, we are not saved through our obedience of the law but by GRACE:

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. Ephesians 2:8, 9

Similarly, neither do we walk in prosperity by the measure of the law but the infinite bounty that GRACE affords us.

The devil has taken advantage of the ignorance of many believers and indeed ministers to promote a prosperity message that is essentially legalistic and utterly irrelevant to the new covenant believer. The believer in CHRIST is above the law; he/she transcends its requirements as he/she is indeed the righteousness of GOD in CHRIST.

That privilege positions you to reign with CHRIST. GRACE ensures this and has established your glory in CHRIST so that as HE is so are you in this world (1 John 4:17).

Wait a minute; do you realize what this means? It means that according to GRACE, you are not poor but extremely rich. You are as rich as CHRIST is, in whom all the fullness of GOD dwells (Colossians 1:19). That means that you are as rich as GOD is. That is awesome, that is GRACE.

Beloved, in CHRIST, you do not give to be rich but indeed give because you are rich. There is no such thing like prospering believers in a strict sense because the believer is afforded all the GRACE of GOD

which

is

sufficient

for

all.

Those who teach about prosperity in light of laws live in the flesh and use vain material impressions to assume whether you are rich or not.

If they knew what the word says, they wouldn't seek to make believers rich but would instead teach believers to abide in the GRACE wherein they are already rich.

Beloved, as a believer you need to take advantage of GRACE and not take advantage of the law. Taking advantage of GRACE would propel the believer to enjoy the full benefit of all that CHRIST has. It will cause you to awaken to your infinite prosperity as joint heir with CHRIST. That realm is accessed by faith in CHRIST and NOT BY WORKING ACCORDING TO THE DICTATES OF THE LAW.

WE FELLOWSHIP TO CELEBRATE GRACE NOT TO CONDEMN MEN 

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; Ephesians 1:3-7

You go to church? Make sure you are attending a service where GRACE is celebrated and not where sin is mourned. GRACE reports are what we need every Sunday and not sin reports. For

where sin abounds, GRACE shall much more abound.

GRACE is what the saints ought to celebrate, it is what church is all about; we congregate to rejoice, partake and fellowship in the GRACE of CHRIST. Now, sadly though, many ministers insult the privilege they have in guiding the celebration of GRACE

in

ministering

condemnation

and

judgment. It is tragic that rather than rejoice the GRACE

OF

CHRIST,

many

ministers

of

condemnation have changed service into a litany of sin.

They

preach

sin

and

condemnation,

pronouncing judgment and ridiculing the excellent GRACE of CHRIST.

Beloved, if you are attending such a church, run out of it. It is anti-CHRIST and ignorant of what GRACE has rendered the church and indeed all men. Beloved, GRACE is not weak, it should not be ignored or ridiculed but it should be promoted. GRACE has been given, it should be rejoiced, and is indeed the answer that the world needs. GRACE is the effectual working power of the SPIRIT; and it is superior to the law, superior to sin, to every failure and challenge of humanity. When the church gathers it must fellowship in the GRACE. When a minister teaches, he/she must communicate the GRACE of GOD. And when the saints leave church, they should leave full of GRACE to dispense it to a world riddled in trouble

and fear. Believers should gather to be loaded with more GRACE to minister to others who are not able to come to church.

Nothing personal against your church or pastor but beloved, if GRACE isn't being served that is not a church nor are you under a minister of CHRIST. GRACE is what Christianity is all about, it is our message, and it is our life.

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THE GRACE OF OUR LORD BE WITH YOU 

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. Revelation 22:21

A heavenly lot can be dived from this prayer that signed off the apostle’s letters that form what we call the New Testament. In that GRACE is a host of wonders untold, a rich banquet of glory divine, a mountain of blessing so high that it defies mortal ponder.

At a personal level, as I interface with all of you that believe CHRIST and have read this work, the words of this GRACE richly remind me of our communion, our distinct fellowship, our glorious heritage in CHRIST. I am overjoyed to meet you all, so blessed by your friendship in ways that no other association compares or even begins to compare.

Yes, only church and other inter-ministerial congregations avail the same privilege. Whenever I write to you or receive from you, it is like I am writing to GOD or reading directly from HIM. You are emissaries of HIS GRACE, exalted persons that I sit together with at the right hand of GOD and I will forever treasure our bond. You are my

co-brides, fellow royal-priests, my corporate jointheirs with CHRIST, blessed brethren to whom I am forever equally yoked in CHRIST. I will esteem you forever, bless you forever, rejoice you forever. MAY THIS GRACE BE WITH YOU ALWAYS. AMEN!!