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Greetings,
Today I am going to finish with my theme of grants from God with two final grants. There are no doubt many grants found in Christ, but I have been presenting some things that are specifically said to be grants in the Scriptures. These final two grants are the grant of God’s mercy and the grant of reigning in partnership with Jesus by His Spirit.
Mercy is a judgment that frees us from the power of the law. We cannot break laws. We can only violate them and then they break us – unless we surpass them with a higher law. The higher law of justice is our Father’s love. Jesus made it possible for us to receive God’s mercy that triumphs over all other judgment. It is because of this that we can boldly come before the throne of God’s grace and receive mercy, that we might find grace (Heb. 4:16).
Mercy is not only God’s judgment that frees us from the judgment of death, but it is also a part of the nature of our compassionate Father. When the Lord grants us mercy, we receive a testimony of God’s love that frees us from the consequence of other judgments in life.
2 Timothy 1:16 The Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain; 17 but when he arrived in Rome, he sought me out very zealously and found me. 18 The Lord grant to him that he may find mercy from the Lord in that Day—and you know very well how many ways he ministered to me at Ephesus.
Mercy is part of the character of God. His love for us reveals His compassionate gift of mercy. Mercy is the judgment of God that conveys us from the administration of law and conscience to one of grace and truth. The grace empowered sacrifice of Jesus enables us to know that we are children of God. Our sins are forgiven, and we have a Father who loves us. Jesus has forgiven our sins and revealed to us our loving Father in heaven.
God’s mercy is a judgment of God’s compassion towards us and it justifies us to live, but His grace empowers us to reign in life. It is through His gift of mercy that we have the forgiveness of sins. We are justified to live. We have redemption through the blood of Jesus. There is also an administration that can sum up everything in Christ. That administration is one of God’s grace (Eph. 1:9,10). The manifest presence of Holy Spirit working in and through our lives is the power of God’s grace. God’s manifest presence in our lives grants us an ability to reign in life.
We are justified to live because of the shed blood of Jesus, but we are saved by His grace. His gift of mercy justified us to live, even though we were bound to death in our sin. His grace working in our lives grants us the ability to reign in life.
Romans 5:9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
The grant of reigning in partnership with Jesus by His Spirit is a testimony of God’s intimate and overcoming power. God stands at the door of our hearts and calls us to open the door to His presence. He wants to partner with us and us with Him in every aspect of our lives.
Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. 21 To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
Let us abide in the love of God and receive His gifts of life that we might live in this life as children of God who know the power His wonderful love. Leaders set an example in receiving these gifts from our Father in heaven. These are gifts given to us in Christ:
- The grant of salvation in every situation of our lives.
- The grant of a changed and enlarged heart.
- The grant of deliverance from our enemies
- The grant to be bold in speaking God’s word with miracle power, signs, and wonders in Jesus’ name.
- The grant of repentance unto life.
- The grant to be patient with others and to comfort one another.
- The grant to be strengthened with might through God’s Spirit in our inner man, to know Christ in us with a revelation of God’s love, increasingly filled with the fullness of God.
- The grant of God’s mercy.
- The grant of reigning in partnership with Jesus by His Spirit.
Food For Thought,
Ted J. Hanson
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