Grace Means



Grace Means
Author: Mark V. Markov

Grace means
We have a chance
To become adopted
To become children of God
Grace means
Jesus Christ had paid for our sins

Grace means
If we break the Commandments
We don't get stoned
If we fall or make a mistake
We ask for forgiveness
Become forgiven
Get up and try again.

But grace is not an excuse
To continually deliberately
Break the Commandments of God
Grace is not an excuse
To continually deliberately
Break the Commandments of Jesus Christ

When you say
Jesus Christ please come into my heart
Jesus Christ please come into my life.
Every believer please remember

Once you believe
Please don't continually deliberately
Break the Commandments of God afterwards
Because it is offensive to Jesus Christ.

And if you continually deliberately
Break the Commandments of God
If you continually deliberately
Break the Commandments of Jesus Christ

Then when you die
The scripture says
You will lose your salvation
Since we know Him
If we keep His commandments.

Therefore if we don't keep His Commandments
Then we don't know Him.
That is why
He said to that group of believers
Away from me
I don't know you.

You who practiced lawlessness
You who practiced iniquity.
Those who corrupted
The  teaching of Jesus Christ
And continually deliberately
Broke His Commandments.

On top of that
They misled so many
Teaching all of them
Teaching them
To ask for Jesus Christ
To come into their heart
And then to continually deliberately
Break His Commandments.

Grace means
We have a chance
To become adopted
To become children of God.
Grace means,
Jesus Christ had paid for our sins.

Grace means
If we fall or make a mistake
We ask for forgiveness
Become forgiven
Get up and try again.

So once we become
Adopted children of God
We must be obedient children
We must honor, respect, and obey
The Commandments of God
The Commandments of Jesus Christ

The two by ten are defined.
With the emphases on helping the one in need
With the illustration of the Samaritan
The definition of loving the other in need as yourself.
Is helping in any way possible
Including financially

We must love God
With all our heart, soul, and mind
And therefore
We must love the other in need
As our self,
Obviously if we are able.

We have to follow those Two Commandments
And not make up our own commandment
To love money with all your heart, soul, and mind.
That is not Commandment of God.
It is the root of all evil.
The love of money is the root of all evil,
But money itself is a valuable resource.

Grace means
We have a chance
To become children of God
Grace means
Jesus Christ had paid for our sins

Grace means
If we fall or make a mistake
We ask for forgiveness
Become forgiven
Get up and try again.

But grace is not an excuse
To continually deliberately
Break the Commandments of God
Grace is not an excuse
To continually deliberately
Break the Commandments of Jesus Christ.


Hebrews 10:26-30 ESV

26 For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

27 but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.

28 Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses.

29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?

30 For we know him who said, Vengeance is mine; I will repay. And again, The Lord will judge his people.


Luke 11:1-4 ESV

1 Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.

2 And he said to them, When you pray, say:
Father, hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come.

3 Give us each day our daily bread,

4 and forgive us our sins,
    for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us.
And lead us not into temptation.


Luke 11:5-13 ESV

5 And he said to them, Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves,

6 for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him;

7 and he will answer from within, Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything?

8 I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs.

9 And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

11 What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent;

12 or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?

13 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!


1 John 1:9 ESV

9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Because of grace we can ask for forgiveness from God.
The verse 9 is not referring to sinning deliberately continually.

1 John 1:10 ESV
10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

People sin from time to time.
No one is perfect except for Jesus Christ alone.
But we cannot sin deliberately continually.
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Mark V. Markov

Mark V. Markov [ˈmɑːrˌkɔːf] A Poet, Teacher, Theologian, Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Photographer. more…

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