What is the proper way to preach/teach grace/unmerited mercy?
Thread here;
http://christianchat.com/bible-discussion-forum/159712-what-proper-way-preach-grace.html
Here is my view;
Romans 2:4, “Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, and tolerance, and patience, not knowing that the kindness of YHWH leads you to repentance?”
If preaching grace is done in a way that says there is no need to obey, it is licentiousness.
Jude 1:4, “For there are certain men who have secretly crept in, who were before of old ordained for this condemnation, unholy men, who turn the undeserved pardon of our One Supreme Savior YHWH into licentiousness, and deny Yahshua our Messiah.”
Jeremiah 7:9-11, “Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, vow falsely, burn incense to Baal, follow hinder gods you know nothing of, And then come and stand before Me in this House upon which My Name is called, and say; We are saved! Saved to do all these abominations? Has this House, which is called with My Name, become a den of thieves in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen this! says YHWH.”
If preaching grace is done in a way that says we should now be obedient Yah, it is right.
Romans 3:28, "For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the Law.”
Romans 3:31, "Are we then doing away with the Law* through the faith? By no means! Rather, we establish the Law*!"
Romans, “6:1-2, "What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin* that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?"
*What is sin, that we may not continue in it?
1 John 3:4, "Whoever commits sin, transgresses also the Law; for sin is the transgression of the Law."
Romans 2:4, “Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, and tolerance, and patience, not knowing that the kindness of YHWH leads you to repentance?”]
This isn't a proper way to make a point Hiz. You have taken many scriptures out of the setting where they are found, to make a point, and no one can tell if they are the same thought unless one goes to the scripture and reads the whole of the chapter, or chapters.
Plus, why not concentrate on promises that we are to live and walk by? To build one up in faith rather than cause a condemning heart, and even accusation though it's not done obviously I'm sure. It's of your mindset. You haven't really seen what it is to walk by faith or you would post the promises you are living by.
Sorry to be blunt, but it's truth.
25 God put Yeshua forward as the kapparah for sin through his faithfulness in respect to his bloody sacrificial death. This vindicated God’s righteousness; because, in his forbearance, he had passed over [with neither punishment nor remission] the sins people had committed in the past;
26 and it vindicates his righteousness in the present age by showing that he is righteous himself and is also the one who makes people righteous on the ground of Yeshua’s faithfulness.
27 So what room is left for boasting? None at all! What kind of Torah excludes it? One that has to do with legalistic observance of rules? No, rather, a Torah that has to do with trusting.
28 Therefore, we hold the view that a person comes to be considered righteous by God on the ground of trusting, which has nothing to do with legalistic observance of Torah commands.
29 Or is God the God of the Jews only? Isn’t he also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, he is indeed the God of the Gentiles;
30 because, as you will admit, God is one.o Therefore, he will consider righteous the circumcised on the ground of trusting and the uncircumcised through that same trusting.
31 Does it follow that we abolish Torah by this trusting? Heaven forbid! On the contrary, we confirm Torah.
4 1 Then what should we say Avraham, our forefather, obtained by his own efforts? 2 For if Avraham came to be considered righteous by God because of legalistic observances, then he has something to boast about. But this is not how it is before God!
3 For what does the Tanakh say? “Avraham put his trust in God, and it was credited to his account as righteousness.” p 4 Now the account of someone who is working is credited not on the ground of grace but on the ground of what is owed him.
5 However, in the case of one who is not working but rather is trusting in him who makes ungodly people righteous, his trust is credited to him as righteousness.
6 In the same way, the blessing which David pronounces is on those whom God credits with righteousness apart from legalistic observances:
7 “Blessed are those whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered over; 8 Blessed is the man whose sin ADONAI will not reckon against his account.” q
9 Now is this blessing for the circumcised only? Or is it also for the uncircumcised? For we say that Avraham’s trust was credited to his account as righteousness;
10but what state was he in when it was so credited —circumcision or uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision!
11 In fact, he received circumcision as a sign, as a seal of the righteousness he had been credited with on the ground of the trust he had while he was still uncircumcised. This happened so that he could be the father of every uncircumcised person who trusts and thus has righteousness credited to him,
12 and at the same time be the father of every circumcised person who not only has had a b’rit-milah, but also follows in the footsteps of the trust which Avraham avinu had when he was still uncircumcised.
13 For the promise to Avraham and his seedr that he would inherit the world did not come through legalism but through the righteousness that trust produces.
14 For if the heirs are produced by legalism, then trust is pointless and the promise worthless. 15 For what law brings is punishment. But where there is no law, there is also no violation.
All who have been born from above have received the sign of circumcision which is our "flesh" cut, our human nature through Adam that brought death to all mankind. And eternal life through the grace, unmerited favor through our lord Jesus Christ, and empowerment of His Holy Spirit to live as He leads.
We obey, believe His Word, which brings great pleasure to Father, rather than working to be good. For no man can produce anything good by Spirit until flesh is cut off.
That is the purpose of circumcision. The 8th,day we are born of God, inducted into the name Israel, which means he rules as God. A new beginning. One physical, the other spiritual. This is grace. Was to Noah and others in the OT, and now to those who are in Christ, who finished the work of salvation, produced the children of Abraham of faith. Covenant done. Inheritance begun.
Scriptures are from the Hebrew to English version.