Under grace

At our church we are studying Romans 5-8 all summer! I love it! We are currently in chapter 6. It's full of so much goodness, so much truth that we need to hear! I just felt like posting something that stuck out to me.

For far too long, Christians have been told...."if you could just get over that sin" or "if you could work harder on this" then you'd be a "successful Christian." On our own, we are not going to defeat sin. Pastor Alan said, "God is not looking for people who will try harder, He's looking for people who will yield to Him." What a beautiful thought, it's freeing, isn't it? If you are a follower of Jesus then you are no longer under the law....you are under grace! Because of what Jesus did for us, WE ARE JUSTIFIED. God looks at us "just as if we'd never sinned." Now of course sin exists....we know that. But if we started to see ourselves like He sees us then we wouldn't be overcome by sin.

Romans 6:14 says "For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace."
Colossians 2:13 says "He forgave us all our sins having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross. And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross."

Pastor Alan described Satan as a mugger who has a gun with no bullets in it. He tries to accuse us, but there is nothing to accuse us of! We have to stop putting bullets back in the enemy's gun.

So, let's live where we should be...under grace...and free.