Aggressive Forgiveness-Grace
The challenge; believing the gospel of grace (aggressive forgiveness)
for yourself and others, daily!
"Your salvation is not a reward for good behavior! It was a
grace thing from start to finish; you had no hand in it. Even the gift to
believe simply reflects His faith! (Ephesians 2:8-Mirror)
"For it is by grace you have been saved,
through faith..."
You did not invent faith; it was God's faith to begin with! It is
from faith to faith, (Rom. 1:17) He is both the source and conclusion of
faith." (Heb. 12:2)
This
"aggressive" forgiveness--grace journey progresses in/by a 'mind
shift' away from re-penance (faith in the law) to (faith in grace). "The
word 'repentance' is a fabricated word from the Latin, penance, and
to even give it more 'religious' milage, the English rendering became
re-penance!" Francois du Toit
That is not what the
Greek word means at all! The true word that sets the journey of grace, by faith
in motion is 'Metanoia'. This comes from (meta)-meaning together with, and
(nous) meaning mind, together with God's mind; continuously perpetuated by a 'radical
mind-shift.'
Romans 3:27 "A mind shift from trying to impress
God with/by your behavior to faith righteousness in Christ, is
fundamental. There is no life left in the old system, it is dead and gone; you
have to move on."
Francois du Toit's research
on 're-penance' and its misuse; 'a shifting and change of mind' gets
you thinking/meditating/focused on 'transformation'. Repentance is a vital
'part' of the grace, by faith journey of being transformed into the image of
Christ. Why? Because it gets us to turn away (once and for all) from a failed,
fallen minding of ourselves; and turning us to living in God's mind-set.
We can now truly
move on beyond 're-penance' and the sin-consciousness it produces to a moment
by moment awareness of sharing in and being covered by Christ's righteousness.
God's mind-set, thoughts and opinion of us becomes our plumbline. We literally
take on the 'mind of Christ.'
Man, via 'religion'
built a doctrine of 're-penance'; which gets us to agree with a faith based on
our performance, instead of the finished work of Christ. And this renders us
'impotent' to the power of being transformed completely into the image of
Christ by grace, through faith.
Further; the thief
never owned, nor gets ownership of us! He merely takes advantage of our fallen
mind-set, and perpetuates this lie, as the accuser of the brethren. "God
did not buy man back from the devil, but in the New Covenant of Grace, He
redeemed us from our own ignorance, our fallen (Adamic) mindsets."
The fallen mind-set
passed laws of performance for acceptance. "All that passing laws against
sin did was produce more law-breakers. But sin didn't, and doesn't, have a
chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness we call grace. When it's
sin versus grace, grace wins hands down. All sin can do is threaten us with
death, and that's the end of it. Grace, because God is putting everything
together again through the Messiah (Jesus), invites us into life--a life that
goes on and on and on, world without end." Romans 5:20-21 (Msg)
Papa's minding of us
becomes a continuous re-minding of our acceptance in the beloved, not
performance!
In the grip of Papa’s
Aggressive grace, Ron Ross
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