Where Do You Stand...?

How well we can see is very much determined by the position that we are in. Therefore, the angle of our sight will affect the way we believe, the way we talk and the way we behave…

John 1:17 ~ For the law was given  by Moses, but grace and truth  came by Jesus Christ.

The law stands alongside with Moses, while grace and truth stands alongside with Jesus. Law is standing at the different mountain with grace and truth. Law is at Mount Sinai while grace and truth is at Mount Zion. Law is the word of God but Grace is the word of Christ (He is the Way, the Truth and the Life... no one comes to the Father except through Him!). Therefore, the way we interpreted the Bible also demonstrate to us the mountain that we are camping on…

If we see in the Bible that we need to obey the Law to be righteous and holy, we are standing alongside with Moses and we are dancing with the Pharisee and the Sadducee. This is the attitude of a servant. From this angle, we can never understand that our righteousness is from our Lord Jesus Christ. From this angle, we are actually using our mind to comprehend what the Bible says. We reap what we have sowed. We do good, we get good, we do bad, we get beat.  Though we are zealous for God, but our zeal is not based on knowledge. Since we did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish our own, we did not submit to God's righteousness. We cannot comprehend that Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes. Because of our ignorant, we have insulted God grace.... We have slapped Jesus on His face... We are saying  His death meant nothing to us!

My friend, concerning law, Jesus only used His finger to write on the stones… when come to Grace, He  gave up His whole body on the Cross.

Grace is unearned and unmerited favor from God. We cannot use our effort to earn God’s grace. We have to humble ourselves before Him to receive His grace. This is the kind of humility that is pleasing in God’s eye... and this kind of humility is definitely not the kind of humility that is advocated by any legalistic preacher. 

If you are a legalistic preacher and you are now facing the ever increasing pressure from this grace revolution that is happening all over the world, I think the most difficult thing for you to do now is to humble yourself and preach against all your past teachings. You may try to use the word “Grace” in your preaching, but your motive is to further implant an inception into your "sleep walking" congregation… 

I am going to share with you a little revelation and I hope this revelation can help you to wake up from your sleep walking as well...

If you can understand that Saul the Pharisee was definitely more legalistic than you, there is still hope for you. God loved him as much as He loved Paul. It was the grace of God that converted Saul the Pharisee into Paul the Apostle. The Apostle Paul was called the Apostle to the Gentile and he wrote two third of the New Covenant. He even personalized this gospel of grace as “his gospel”! He was called the Apostle of Grace for his revelation of God's grace... like the late Datuk Ramsay Jitam, he was called the Apostle of Loving Tears for when he preached, his tears would fall when he was overwhelmed by the Holy Spirit...

If we are saying we believe in Jesus, do stand alongside with Him… Be a believer that acknowledge and glorifies His finished work. Be a believing believer…