Podcast Audio and Video:
Sermon on the Mount, Part 3 – YouTube
Show Notes:
We are warned in Scripture that a Last Day’s false teacher will creep in unawares and pervert grace to lasciviousness. This perversion of grace has permeated our society and churches today. Grace has been turned into the justification for all manner of sin and evil one can think of.
It is believed by a multitude that salvation is a futuristic thing, where one can live like the world all their life and in the end go to heaven anyway. There are so many deceived minds who think they are on their way to heaven but live contrary to the teachings of Jesus. This empty confession of faith is a damnable heresy spued out of the mouth of Satan and has become the religious norm of our day.
Grace is not meant to be a word used for subpar performance. It is meant to be the power of God acting inside of us and enabling us to live the way God has said to. Grace is the divine influence on the heart reflected out in the life where we see the believer supernaturally live like God commands us to live. It is the manifestation of the cross doing its work inside of us and making us live above the law of sin and death to the higher law of the spirit of life in Jesus Christ.
Jesus didn’t lower the standard in the New Testament. Instead, He pushed the standard so far up it is humanly impossible to reach without grace and the divine power of God. Grace allows us to perform what God said we could and takes us to places we cannot go in our own human capacity.
The Almighty, powerful God has sent His Son, Jesus Christ, that through His blood a righteousness could be attained that would lift us up above the law of sin and death. As Christians, we should not live like regular folk. We should have a righteousness which exceeds the religious norm that permeates our society. It’s time we believe God for something greater than the substandard thing that’s being portrayed in the church of America today.
We must think as a person who has already been resurrected to life inside and is waiting for the physical resurrection from the dead. And while we wait, we shoot for the mark of the prize of the high calling, doing what Jesus does.