Session 4: Grace vs. Law, audio
“Grace vs. Law” is the fourth session of the Original 10-part Unveiling Jesus Bible Study. The Unveiling Jesus book is available at http://unveilingjesus.com/unveiling-jesus-book/. This teaching is a total of 49 minutes.
Session 4A: “The Abundance of Grace” (29 min, corresponding to Chapter 7 of the Unveiling Jesus book) For if by the one man's offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. (Romans 5:17) When we rest in the finished work of the cross, we'll find ourselves living victoriously. We reign in life by receiving the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness. When our eyes are opened to Jesus and His amazing grace, we will no longer be in held captive to performance-based religion, and the mentality of "do good, get good; do bad, get bad." We will live in the freedom of grace which says, "where sin increased, grace increased beyond measure." Grace isn't a license to sin. Grace is the answer to sin! At the cross, Jesus Christ identified with us. He became our identity so that we could be His. He stepped into our very lowest state so that we can receive His very highest. The highest realms of glory are ours. There is nothing that we are deprived of because there is nothing that He isn't worthy of. Why? Because there is no depth of darkness and depravity that He refused to absorb on our behalf. We have been co-crucified with Him and co-raised with Him.
Session 4B: “Dead to Sin” (20 min, corresponding to Chapter 8 of the Unveiling Jesus book) If we are believers in Jesus Christ, we have died to sin! However, we shouldn't feel condemned and frustrated with ourselves because we still sin. Instead, we need to reckon ourselves as dead to the charges against us, the condemnation from sin, the penalty of sin, and the power of sin. It's only when we believe that God is not counting our sins against us that we will have the power to overcome sinning. Sin does not have power over us because we are under grace and not under law! If we believe right, we will live from the inside out. When we set our minds on things above and the eternal truths of the Spirit, and we renew our minds to God's word, the power of sin in the flesh will be no match for us. As partakers of Christ's divine nature in our spirit, through our union with Him, and by the power of the Holy Spirit within, we have complete dominion over sin, over satan, and over the flesh.
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