Mark 8:34-36
“When Jesus had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, "Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?.”
“When Jesus had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, "Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?.”
Paul said he was not ashamed of the Gospel. Why? “For it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” The Gospel is the power of God, and that’s talking about grace. Acts 20:24 and Galatians 1:6 both use the terms “gospel” and “grace” interchangeably. It’s saying that when you understand the Gospel, or the grace of God, it’ll release the power of God into your life.
The next verse in Romans 1 says,
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Notice that righteousness is not revealed from Law to Law, from good deed to good deed—it’s revealed from faith to faith.
Sin won’t stop the power of God for salvation in your life but trusting in your own good works will.
That’s what “the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith” means. You receive the righteousness of God by grace through faith (Eph. 2:8) God won’t withdraw His power because of sin in your life. That’s why it’s nearly-too-good-to-be-true news.
When you talk like this, people with a religious mindset immediately say, “Well, what about sin? This sounds like you’re just giving people a license to sin.”
Last I checked, people were sinning without a license!
Here is a link to the video below: https://youtu.be/EXA2fhG4yng
The next verse in Romans 1 says,
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Notice that righteousness is not revealed from Law to Law, from good deed to good deed—it’s revealed from faith to faith.
Sin won’t stop the power of God for salvation in your life but trusting in your own good works will.
That’s what “the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith” means. You receive the righteousness of God by grace through faith (Eph. 2:8) God won’t withdraw His power because of sin in your life. That’s why it’s nearly-too-good-to-be-true news.
When you talk like this, people with a religious mindset immediately say, “Well, what about sin? This sounds like you’re just giving people a license to sin.”
Last I checked, people were sinning without a license!
Here is a link to the video below: https://youtu.be/EXA2fhG4yng
ACTION STEP: We can't earn what has already been given--yet we try. Many of us spend our life trying to do just that--earn what we have already been given. When we don't know we have what we are looking for, we will keep looking for it. Seriously, have you ever been looking for your glasses and they were in your head? Ever looked for your phone and you were on it? This is what many Christians do, they look for God all around them, rather than develop their relationship with Jesus Christ...who lives and moves throughout the earth through them.
God wants to use you.
I believe in you and you need to believe in yourself.
God wants to use you.
I believe in you and you need to believe in yourself.
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