If your Jesus is keeping score, constantly disappointed, and waiting for you to do better—you’ve got the wrong Jesus.
He didn’t come to condemn you. He came to save you.
“Whosoever will, come.” Not “whosoever gets it right.”
Religion says fix yourself first.
(Part 1)
Jesus said, come as you are.
He doesn’t treat us as our sins deserve… removes them completely—and chooses not to remember them.
Meanwhile we keep receipts.
And that grace? It’s not just for day one. It’s how He deals with believers every single day, (part 2)…
@DrFrankTurek I see a lot of people in the comments who like to emphasize what we have to do to make God pleased with us and then they list a few things. Nothing we do will make God pleased with us except believe in His son.
There are gonna be a lot of people in heaven one day that will shock the “church” and those legalistic ones who want to beat people down with “you’re not giving enough effort to truly make it and you aren’t doing your part.”
@AZLady1916 @katato__ Jesus simplified things with those two commandments to yet still show that us humans cannot even do those two things consistently. Thank God for his mercy and grace!
The gospel isn’t grace to get saved and works to stay saved.
That’s just religion with Christian vocabulary.
The gospel is that Christ finished the work once and for all. #jesus#itisfinished
@TimTebow I heard an excellent speaker last month at my work conference say something very similar. Instead of saying, “why is this happening to me,” say, “why is this happening for me.” Total perspective shift. @mikedrobbins
The security of the believer isn’t built on our consistency.
It’s built on Christ’s finished work.
“It is finished.”
~ John 19:30
What Jesus completed, we don’t have to maintain.
God is not waiting for your next failure to decide how He feels about you.
Your sin was already judged at the cross.
“Blessed is the one whose sin the Lord will never count against them.”
~ Romans 4:8
The gospel is not: try harder so God accepts you.
The gospel is:
Jesus finished the work so you could rest in it.
“By one sacrifice He has perfected forever those who are being made holy.”
~ Hebrews 10:14
“By one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.” —
Hebrews 10:14
Jesus didn’t just make you improvable.
He made you accepted.