Beware of Using Jesus So You Can Live Like Hell

One of my favorite things about following Jesus is grace. He blesses me with so many good things that I don’t deserve. I can often feel his love for me and sense his presence! But I also experience God’s grace whenever I mess up, and instead of getting divine punishment for my failure or being cut off from my relationship with God, I find that I am forgiven, loved, and have hope of growing and learning and continuing in the blessings and favor of God. I experience God’s grace whenever I get help in my weakness rather than facing the consequences of the letter of the law. He comes in to heal and change me from the inside out so that I can live the way he wants me to live — and the way I want to live — rather than trapped in a pattern of doing things that I don’t even want to do.

man-69287_640God’s grace is huge! I know in my past (and this was while I was trying my best to follow Jesus) I have been trapped in a pattern of sin I hated. And I know I sinned more than seventy times seven when I was trapped — and yet God did not give up on me. He heard my cries, and came and rescued me and set me on a good path.

Yet there is something circulating in our world today that I would call “false grace”. We see such a grace described in Jude 4, which says, “Certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are godless men, who change the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord” (NIV).

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