-What does it mean
"fallen from grace" as it says in
Galatians
5:4?
"Falling from grace is not
when one breaks a law. Rather, falling from grace, occurs when one keeps
a law mistakenly believing that keeping it can in any way win favor with
God."....Mike
Williams.
Grace is a state of knowing
you are ok in God's eyes. How ok would that
be? David was a great example of this. Read through the Psalms he wrote.
The
story of the prostitute Rahab also shows a state of grace through belief.
Grace provides joy for each
of us. One thing to carry with you is an atmosphere
of grace.
If you think you still have
to attain to the status of Christ rather than to live from that status,
you'll lack the joy of the Lord:.Nehemiah
8:10 "...for the joy of the Lord is your strength.".Galatians
5:4.
Grace
is Creator's attention upon you in such as way as you are built up,
helped, encouraged and live in a state
of having been, as
they say, 'saved', which each of us were before we were physically
on the Earth:.2Timothy
1:9. What's 'saved' mean?
What is a loving individual's
part in all getting this grace of God to affect others?.Acts
20:32 "And now, brethren, I commend.(means
in the original 'to set before', 'to place before', meaning Paul, in his
heart {mind/brain; the heart is what you are, the distinct
person you are} saw them all as being children
of the Great Infinite One).you
to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build
you up and to give you an inheritance.(what
inheritance?).among
all
them which are sanctified."
Grace is God's favor toward
you, not because you may have done some laudable
actions.(Paul
sure didn't:.Ephesians
4:7), but because you may have
not, but maybe have wanted to. Grace should afford you joy as it puts you
into the spiritual
family of love, the family of God:.Nehemiah
8:10 "...the joy of the Lord is your strength.".Grace
is God's gift to those asking God for it, because they want it! Same as
wisdom, no askee, no getee:.James
1:5 "If any of you lack wisdom, let him
ask of God that gives liberally to all and upbraides not and it is given
to him or her."
If you think you still have
to attain to the status of Christ rather than to live from that status,
given
to you as a gift, you'll lack the joy of the Lord:.1Corinthians
7:7; 1Peter 4:10.
Grace is that which affords
joy, pleasure, delight, sweetness, charm and loveliness. So we notice grace
of speech, good will, lovingkindness, favor, faith, knowledge of good,
affection and such other things that are due to grace being active in our
lives.
Grace is a gift as is the
special gift God made available in Christ.(John
10:10,11).for
us to prosper in all our ways. By using this gift we learn how to have
abundance in all areas of life. It's a free gift for all, having tremendous
rewards for all learning to use it properly.
Grace is that God is pleased
with you and backs it up with actions to bless you from now on. And
this because grace covers
all the bad so you no longer continue to reap
the negatives you may have sown. Those on the wrong path of life miss
this until God's in their life.
How did Paul commend
others to God if not by seeing them as once being little children that
headed down the wrong path of life as they were growing up? They unfortunately
ended up on the path they figured would be the only one they could exist
on and that probably because of lack of any helpful guidance and encouragement
from parents not at all
inclined spiritually. So, Paul commended them to God, that is, desired
greatly for them to know God through God's grace affecting
them. Paul took time for meditation.
Here's what Paul taught from
his desire to greatly help others:.2Corinthians
5:15,17 "And that he died for all, that they which live should not
henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them and rose
again. Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new creature. Old things
are passed away, behold, all things are become new." 2Timothy
1:9 "Who saved us and called us with an holy calling, not according
to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given
us in Christ Emmanuel before the world began."
Paul's heart, prayers and
actions were all to bring others to God, so the grace of God, the goodness
that is God, would affect them by them having good
in their lives, instead of the rocky road of life they were used to:.2Thessalonians
2:16 "Now our Lord Emmanuel Christ himself and God, even our Father,
which has loved us and has given us everlasting consolation and good hope
through grace." 2Corinthians 9:8
"And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always
having all sufficiency in all things.(1Corinthians
3:21), may abound to every good
work." 1Timothy 1:14 "And the
grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in
Christ Emmanuel."
Grace comes
from trusting God.
The Creator gives the
gift of grace:.Ephesians
4:7. It is the gift of grace that brings salvation:.Acts
4:12; Titus 2:11; 1Corinthians
1:4;
Romans 5:15. It is not
attempts to keep the Old Testament Mosaic Law parts regarding the commandments,
nor any attempts to get oneself up higher spiritually, but rather
it is up to each of us to bring
forth things of Christ's.nature.of
love in us:.Romans
6:1,15; Titus 2:12-15. And this
for a reward for you.
If you are living out of
the gift of grace God has given you, you'll be happy:.Acts
4:12; Romans 12:3; Ephesians
4:13; 1Timothy 1:14; Zephaniah
3:17 "The Lord your God in the midst of you is mighty. He will save.
He will rejoice over you with joy. He will rest and in his love, he will
joy over you with singing."
Ephesians
4:7 "But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure
of the gift of Christ."
Paul is saying in 1Timothy
1:14, just above, that God's grace enabled his own life to be as they say,
born
again:.1Timothy
1:15,16. Luke
7:47 "...to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.".And
being the 'chief of sinners',
Paul had a lot forgiven.
The grace of God with you
is the joy of God in and through you, as the original word for grace connotes.
And toward this, Bruno plays a part. How?
Grace is a gift of God to you:.James
4:6 "But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God resists the proud,
but gives grace unto the humble." Luke
18:13 "And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much
as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful
to me a sinner."
Ephesians
4:29 "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that
which is good to the use of edifying,
that it may minister
grace unto the hearers."
Acts
20:32 "And now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of his
grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance
among all them which are sanctified. The."word
of his grace, which is able to build you up".means
to come to know the
Creators. The creation is all good once one will look
at it. So, how does one get more grace?.2Peter
1:2.
People go to church and learn
about being righteous. Better their focus instead was on the righteousness
they already have, thanks to Christ. Paul warned in Galatians about strange
religious teachings:.Galatians
1:6 "I marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you
into the grace of Christ unto another gospel.".The
other gospel was that of mixing
law and grace, a dangerous mix, designed to bind people back to that
which no longer had any relevance.
Designed to bind them to subservience
with an overview
to wealth extraction through fear. This certainly was a falling from grace.
Why
is there more than one creator? What the Creators are like shows either
toward the support and development of life for humans or toward the greed
side for their own purposes. The latter
is called the
dark side and it's influential
destructive
side for humans. But it's all in the plan
of God for character
development.
Everything there is, is an
expression
of the Creator and His creation. He is high consciousness, so understand
what
that is in order to come to know the Creator:.Exodus
33:13 "Now therefore, I pray to you. If I have found grace in your
sight, show me now your way, that I may know you.(be
in
a relationship with you:.(John
17:3), that
I may find grace in your sight.(in
a relationship with you, I'll be in your grace)..."
Being in a state of grace
is knowing and feeling loved and cared for, here talking of cared for by
universal intelligence, God.
Grace is the kindness and
givingness of God toward us who are on the Earth for a purpose of moving
from the consciousness we normally have and into the higher consciousness
of God. The consciousness we normally have may have been guided by good
parents and others sincerely
caring for us. As such we may already have a degree of higher
consciousness.
Contrariwise,
doing things that you feel you have to but may not really want to in order
to please the Creator, throws out grace. Such is a lot of religion;
not all. Unrighteous is not the enemy of spirituality, self-righteousness
is. Note that Emmanuel had to deal with the self-righteous Pharisees and
close-minded chief priests, both of a murderous heart:.John
12:9-11. Note Emmanuel healed all who came to Him, sinners, etc..Matthew
8:16.
Know that any and all negatives
that may occur to you do not negate
the grace of God and are not some judgment against you, because the grace
of God upon you was never dependent upon your performance. It depended
always and only upon Christ:.Deuteronomy
31:6 "Be strong and of a good courage. Fear not, nor be afraid of them,
for the Lord ypur God, he it is that does go with you. He will not fail
you, nor forsake you." Hebrews 13:5
"...for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you.".Don't
allow negatives of any kind to alienate
you; they can make you stronger spiritually:.Ephesians
4:18 "Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life
of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness
of their heart."
Colossians
1:19-23 "For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell.
And having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to
reconcile all things unto himself, by him I say, whether they be things
in Earth or things in heaven. And you, that were sometime alienated and
enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now has he reconciled in the
body of his flesh through death.(note
you are reconciled by Him, but you just may not have known that
until
awakened and you are awakened by God {John
17:6}, not by some religious repentence, for you could not change {repent
means change} until awakened to it until you received that desire as a
gift from God:.Acts
5:31), to present you holy and
unblameable and unreproveable in his sight, if you continue in the
faith grounded and settled and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel.(God
will never forsake you or hold anything you may have done, are now doing
or may do in the future against you, but the other side to that is, He
also would never override
you either), which you have heard
and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven."
Being in the grace of the
Creator is having this scripture.(3John
1:2).fulfilled
in your life.
Grace is being regarded
as being of favor
in the Creator's eyes; undeservedly because
it's got nothing to do with our
works of righteousness:.Ephesians
2:5 "Even when we were dead in sins, has quickened us together with
Christ. By grace you are saved."
Emmanuel never used the word
grace because he was unbounded
awareness. He was there already.
Grace is for all. It rains
on the just and unjust.(Matthew
5:45); no respecter of persons:.Acts
10:34. Grace is the fruit of your surrender, just living in the present,
devoid
of past negatives and worries over the future. Grace is knowing that 'I
am enough', knowing you
are unbounded awareness and as such all the
promises apply to you. Just 'be'. Be who you are right where you are
in life. Just 'be' keeps you in the present and away from negatives of
past living and worries over desires for the future.
The Creator is reproducing
Himself; making
more creators.
Grace is a for sure knowing
that when you ask it is given. Grace
is knowing that you are
the light of the world; just ask Creator for your needs so that you can
be a light:.Matthew
6:24-34.
Grace connects the physical
to the non physical, the local.(you).to
the non local.(universal
intelligence). There really never has
been any separation between you and the Creator.(this
universal intelligence). It is just
that you have focused on what society fed you to focus on, from the best
the ego world of society and the
mass mind, the mass consciousness behind it could provide. And it wasn't
really good at all because it missed the
happiness key.
With grace, you just know
when this attention is upon you, you just know when your
soul is alive. You feel hopeful. You have confidence. You have the
trust in 'something' that moves you from fears. You know that you are important
here on Earth. You know the ultimate future is ok. You have that inner
peace. You are hopeful toward others. It is more important for you to be
kind than right:.Philippians
4:7 "And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep
your hearts and minds through Christ Emmanuel." Romans
12:18 "If it be possible, as much as lies in you, live peaceably with
all men."
Grace allows every one to
correct their mistakes as they learn on this great
learning stage we call life.
Grace involves the central
themes which fired the apostles in Emmanuel's
time. The resurrection of Emmanuel the
Christ was the heart and core, the impetus
for their efforts back then. They were excited! The knew the secrets of
the universe. They were thrilled about
sharing these with others. It was the beginning of a
new era for humanity. It was the way to have a better life, a way where
all of one's life would be happy,
a way to get all they wanted. They were elated!.Acts
19:23 "And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.(John
14:6)."
Acts
17:6, "...These that have turned the world upside down are come hither
also."
And what did Emmanuel do
that was so spectacular that it so fired his followers to turn the world
upside down.(Acts
17:6)? This is it ...
...A.W. Pink,
author of many Christian books:."Grace
is a Divine provision for those who are so corrupt that they cannot better
their evil natures; so averse to God they will not turn unto Him; so blind
they perceive not His excellence; so deaf they hear Him not speaking unto
them; so dead spiritually that He must open their graves.(dead
lives).and
bring them forth on to resurrection ground if ever they are to be saved.
"Grace implies
that its object's condition is desperate to the last degree; that God might
justly leave him to perish.....grace is told out in the Gospel, which is
not
a message of good advice, but of good news. It is a proclamation of
mercy, sent not to the good, but to the bad. It offers a free, perfect
and
everlasting salvation.'without
money and without price' and that to the chief of sinners.(as
Paul
was). To the convicted conscience.salvation
by grace alone seems too good to be true. Grace is God acting irrespective
of the sinner's character, not as a Demander but as a Giver, to the
ill deserving.(Psalms
103:10).and
hell
deserving, who have done nothing to procure
His favour, but everything to provoke
His wrath."
Grace is being in the 'favor
of God'. The way to be in a spiritual state of grace, to abound in grace,
to be surrounded by grace, is to be humble:.James
4:6. Emmanuel was
a humble man.
The key to making grace
abundant in your experience here on Earth is to grow in the
faith and love of Christ:.1Timothy
1:14. And how does one do this? Believe in the resurrection:.Acts
4:33; 17:18.
With this tool of
belief we learn to utilize
the device created by the Creator, our own body, the body that is part
of the Creator's body:.Hebrews
10:5 "Wherefore when he comes into the world, he said, Sacrifice and
offering you would not, but a body have you prepared me."."It
is this 'device' that alters the body by starting to harmonize its function
with the pulse of the Universe."....Grigori
Grabovoi. It's the body of Christ
that contains individual devices.(1Corinthians
12:8-11), which all together carries
on the loving works of creating, healing, loving, helping, serving others,
praying for them, contemplating about them for their benefit, sharing with
each other what they are learning, so they all grow:.Ephesians
4:15,16; 1Peter 2:2; Romans
14:19 "Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace..."
Philippians
4:9 "Those things which you have both learned and received and heard
and seen in me, do and the God of peace is then with you."
Grace is that which affords
joy, pleasure, delight, sweetness, charm, loveliness. In essence
it is the Creator's nature. His kindness toward us, as evidenced by what
Emmanuel did for us:.Ephesians
2:7 "That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of
his grace in his
kindness toward us through Christ Emmanuel."
We grow in this grace by
learning about it. We learn about it by studying the
book God wrote for us. Think about things learned regarding grace and
couple that with a willing mind, a mindset allowing what you now know to
be true about grace to affect your heart. In other words, accept
it!
The phrase "fallen from grace"
in Galatians 5:4 has absolutely nothing
at all to do with losing salvation and nothing to do with Christians having
committed sins either. The rest of this verse explains who the ones are
who have fallen from grace. Churches today are in grave error if they teach
that one gains God's acceptance by performance or loses it by failures.
Those teaching such a corrupted gospel are the ones this verse is meant
for. Legalists such as the ancient Pharisees,
have fallen from grace.
Falling back into the
law and/or 'fighting' that which in Christ you
already have the victory over causes one to
fall from grace:.2Corinthians
6:1 "We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that you
receive not the grace of God in vain.".How?
Once fallen from grace, bitterness
can well up in a person:.Hebrews
12:15 "Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest
any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and thereby many be defiled.(or,
'affected', as the original implies).".It
is so sad when this happens.
It is a devilish trick to sap you, to extinguish your fire, to wipe out
your enthusiasm. You must be on guard for the tricks of your
ego as fueled by the dark side. More.
Creator's grace is not a
'license' for sinning, thereby making your life worse, but rather an assurance
to us that if we do head down the track that's not of love, we never have
to fear separation from God for even a second. God just does
not
see it at all!.Ephesians
3:17-19.
Grace means 'all the good
that the Creator wants you to have' and has as its root in the original,
'rejoicing'. When you rejoice in His grace, it all comes forth into your
experience, as grace
reigns through righteousness.
When you know you are righteous,
favored by and approved by the Creator, grace reigns in you!
If righteousness was doing
everything right, you would not need the Creator's grace. Receiving God's.amazing.grace
has nothing to do with you receiving it apart from acceptance of it:.Ephesians
2:8.
Hold fast to the grace of
God:.Hebrews
12:15;
2Timothy 1:13,14.
Grace
is sufficient
to bring the power of God to you as it did to Paul:.Romans
7:25.
It is the grace of this Infinite
One that brings the free gift of salvation:.Titus
2:11. It is in grace we should become strong:.2Timothy
2:1. Grace is abundant when you have faith and love:.1Timothy
1:14.
The reason Emmanuel, a man
like us.(Hebrews
4:15), was able to do what He did
re: miracles etc., was that He knew He was approved of His Father, in alignment
with the way
in the invisible that works:.Matthew
3:17.
Emmanuel was without sin.
So
are we when we to, possess
His nature of love.
Focus on the grace.(all
the good God wants you to have).of
God.(Romans
5:20,21).as
He did.
One stands by the true grace
of God:.1Peter
5:12;
John 1:17; Romans
6:14. Grace is something we can grow in:.2Peter
3:18. Grace grows in you as you grow in knowledge of Emmanuel the Christ
with
all
that means:.1Peter
1:13; 2Peter 1:2.
If one is into beliefs that
any
rules, regulations are necessary to keep you right with God, then he
is frustrating the grace of God, that is, taking him away from living from
the heart, a heart now affected by the goodness of God:.Galatians
1:6; 2:21.
The grace of God comes to
you by believing in Emmanuel the
Christ:.1Corinthians
1:4;
Romans 5:15.
Believing the resurrection
causes one to greatly grow in grace.(Acts
4:33).and.1Peter
5:5 "...for God resists the proud and gives
grace to the humble.".And
grace enables one to see greater things for others:.2Corinthians
8:9.
Some erroneously.believe
you get more grace by sinning
more. It's a satanic.philosophy
that has no commonsense
to it:.Romans
6:1. This particular
satanic philosophy.(there
are many
others).has
tricked those having chosen the dark side into greater evil.(like
what?).
So, those of this ilk
feel they are right in what
they often regard as their 'sinless' life:.Psalms
36:2; Proverbs 12:15; 14:12;
16:2,25;
21:2;
30:12;
Isaiah
5:21; Revelation 18:2,3.
