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The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ PDF Print
Written by Pastor Olabisi Kufeji   

Titus 3 verses 5 to 7

Verses 5 "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;"

Verse 6 "Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior;"

Verse 7 "That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life".

By grace, God spared Noah and renewed His covenant of life with him to give us His Ark of salvation.

By grace God brought Abraham out of Ur, renewed His covenant with Him to remove us from covenant of curses and establish us in His covenant of eternal life blessings.

By grace, God renewed His covenant with Isaac to give us His eternal life well that is ever flowing with Living Water.

By grace, God renewed His covenant with Jacob to give us His ladder to heaven.

By grace, God elected David to be king to show us that we are His first fruits and as first fruits entitled to ascend to His kingship dominion of glory to reign with Him forever.

By grace, He gave us Christ as the subject of the whole Testament to remove every barrier that is in the way of our eternal life inheritance.

Grace is all about God making way for us to have something out of His own free will that we are incapable of asking Him to give us simply because we are in no position to comprehend it in our asking minds or thoughts. From God's application and demonstration of His grace, I know now that God gave us His grace to enable us make a divine choice which is choosing goodness between good and evil out of our freewill for goodness sake of life. God's kingdom is a perfect kingdom of love and no one is capable of loving in the spiritual sense except God dwells in their hearts.

A loving heart is the key to our spiritual victory and victory in spiritual sense is all to do with ending up with goodness rewards for eternity and this goodness is God Himself. No man can have goodness unless they submit to God's will of righteousness. The righteousness of God is His own perfect will of love and ruling order of life and following the fall of man into sin, man was no longer capable of passing the test of godly submissions because in the fall of sin the will of man became very sinful. In the fall of sin man became pro sin and anti obedience to God's rule of law and order and as a result always in his will in the opposite direction of God's own perfect will of life. God's righteousness is all about His divine love and only in God's heart of love is a man able to love. Following the fall into sin, man was unable to love or comprehend God's righteous love because all man was after in the fall of sin is pursuing self-righteousness to deny God's own righteousness. Today many people parades themselves on the face of the earth as agent of goodness, however the truth is that the very people that presents themselves as advocates of good works are the orchestrators of evil.

The grace of God is our key for entering His eternal kingdom and those that are enemies of grace will continue to walk in their self-righteousness to a dead end. To be self-righteousness is to be filled with wicked intentions. Those that are self-righteous can never seek after the things of God for to be outside of God's righteousness is to be pro evil and anti-goodness. Those that are self-righteous will pursue their human rights to a dead end but those that operate in God's will of righteousness will successfully complete the race of life and enter into eternal life peaceful abiding with God. The righteousness of God is all about choosing good between good and evil and what constitute good and evil is not what man says it is good or evil but what God declares it to be. God as the maker of all is the authority on all things and as the ultimate authority on all things; He is the only one that can rightly difference between right and wrong. Many pursed rights today by man are indeed a spiritual wrong and those that pursue spiritual wrongs can never be friends of God. The objectives of the self-righteous are to encourage sinfulness. The wages of sin is death and to abide in sin is to be carnal. The carnally minded shall always carry the wages of their own sins on their head. To be carnal is to consider things from carnal perspective and those that are carnal will always arrive at a dead end result.

We can only find the reality of life in the spirit and those that are alive in their spirit will always make the right spiritual choices. Entire right choice in spiritual sense is all about choosing Jesus. Jesus is God's grace revealed and Jesus as the grace of God is our righteousness. By His grace God accounted His righteousness to me and made me a labourer of love in His vineyard of eternal life profits. By grace, He washed me with His righteous blood and wrote my name in His will book of life as one of His labourers to be heir to His eternal kingdom of love, peace, joy and rest. Even though I struggle daily to cope with what appears to be never ending disappointing results from my efforts, by His grace He made me to see that His grace is sufficient for me because by His righteous grace, I already have on His own account full record of good works and perfect end results in all realms and dominion. Therefore, all my disappointment is simply to help me keep all my appointments with Him in perfect heart of free will and goodwill now and forevermore. God foreknew before my coming to this world that by myself, I can never do enough works to acquire goodwill in my freewill and without free will of goodwill it is impossible to willingly obey God's law. No one can enter heaven unless they fulfil the whole law and no one can fulfil the whole love outside of God's righteousness and this righteousness is our Lord Jesus Christ. God's law is all about loving God with all our heart, mind, body and spirit and loving our neighbour according to ourselves.

The fulfiller of this law is Christ Jesus and unless a man is in Christ, they will continue to live under the condemnation from the law instead of the justifications that we have from the law of the spirit through His graceful sacrificial works of atonement. Although Christ knew no sin, He died as sin for us to atone our sins in obedience to the Father. Therefore, whosoever rejects Christ has rejected the love of God and whosoever rejects God's love will continue to dwell in His wrath. To dwell in God's wrath is to be full of wrath and those that are full of wrath can never abide in His will of life. A person that is full of wrath will be void of the knowledge of God's love and except they submit their will to Christ they can never receive the benefit of God's love which is all from His righteousness.

The bible says in John 3:16 that "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. We have everlasting life by grace of God and this grace is the Lord Jesus revealed. Jesus is the fulfiller of the whole law, therefore to be in Christ is to no longer be a slave to the law of the flesh which is all to do with judgement wrath. The law of the spirit is all about God's love and we acquire the benefit of this love when we freely submit our will to God's perfect own will in our freewill. The law is the word of God and the word of God is the same as God. God as the word is the only one that can fulfil His own righteous law. In sin man became interested only in making use of the law for self-righteousness purposes and this in itself is evidence of sin in the soul. The law is for the promotion of God's own righteousness and not for self-righteousness promotions. Christ Jesus fulfilled the whole law which is all about the divine love of God through His sacrificial love and by this sacrificial love, He paved the way for our reconciliations with the Holy Spirit of the Almighty God.

Our mission in life is to do with abiding in God's own righteousness and not living by our own self-righteousness. It is only by God's righteousness that we overcome the world of sin. The world is antichrist and as antichrist, enemy of God's righteousness which is Christ revealed. The world is into promoting sins and not God's righteousness and because the primary aim of the world is to promote self-righteousness, the primary aim of the world is to make use of the law for evil and wickedness purposes. For the world is all about self-righteousness, the aim of the world is to try those that rest and abide in God's righteousness so that they do not fulfil their missionary aims in the world which is to promote God's own righteousness. However, we give all glory unto God because by His special grace and mercies we have already overcome the world through Christ Jesus. Therefore even when the self-righteous world try so hard to prevent us from fulfilling our missions in this life, because we are already in the real life in the body of righteousness which is Christ Jesus Himself, we overcome in all our trials and tribulations to the glory of our God and maker.

Christ as God's body of righteousness is the only one that came and left with His entire body parts. None of His body parts remained in the tomb of death for death is incapable of destroying God's righteousness order of life. This body of righteousness that death was unable to destroy came down from heaven as the Holy Spirit of life to dwell in our mortal body to lead our hearts and minds to operate in His immortal glory so that when we depart from our mortal body we will continue to live in His eternal immortal presence. As the righteousness of God, Christ did not come to the earth to establish a carnal religion. Instead, He came to reconcile us to the Spirit of the living God so that by His Holy Spirit we are able to choose the right which is God Himself and avoid the wrong which is Satan. The first Adam chose the wrong which is Satan. By so doing, he became a slave unto death but thanks be to God our maker and creator, for giving us the last Adam Christ Jesus who came as the living grace of the Father to set us free from the claws of death. Christ came to fulfil all righteousness for you and me to guarantee you and me eternal life inheritance which is all to do with perfect abiding with God in His eternal kingdom of life and love everlastingly.

Christ came to fulfil the law to guarantee my successful completion of my life purpose which is to proclaim God's righteousness which is Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever. God's righteousness is unchangeable for it is established in the spirit according to His divine will of life. In Christ we have the rewards of eternal life because by His grace, He has already finished every work of remission sacrifice for us by His atonement work of love. I am all that I am because of all that Christ had done for me and my soul will forever be grateful unto Him for His amazing graceful love. In His perfect freewill of life, He finished the work of atonement for me and after He had perfectly finished the work, by His special grace, He then called me to enter His graceful presence to partake in His eternal life rest everlastingly. Therefore, even though I labour, I am already in His rest. What then do I need when I have His grace? Nothing, because by His grace He has already made way for me to have everything in this life and in eternal life forever therefore His grace is indeed sufficient for me.

Whatsoever you are going through today, I pray that the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ the love of God revealed, the sweetness of life that gave us all the benefit of becoming good fellows of heaven will continue to rest and abide with you now and forevermore. (Amen)