GoGrace: Why Grace Doesn’t Make Sense To Ignorant Believers And The Devil

Grace did not come to make sense in the first place to anyone. His actions is foolishness to the world (1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: ).

They have tried to decode God's work of Favor but to no avail. Jesus came to rescue and renew men but His purpose was not to please men, He owed that to the FATHER on man’s behalf (Heb. 10:9). Therefore, making a perfect sense for the ordinary man to understand His work was out of the line (John 10:6, 12:16, Luke 8:10). Jesus who is defined as Grace in our earlier article concealed the mystery of God’s kindness to the disciples for a reason and such is what ignorant believers have always been preaching against as to the mission and vision of our Lord.

Grace delivered the Gospel and the Gospel is the Truth. Why? Because as discussed earlier in John 1:17, Grace and Truth came together. Where there is Grace, Truth can effectively work to redeem men from works of the flesh.

When the perishing surrenders unto Jesus denying his (the perishing) contributing effort and defining Jesus as the only Lord who can save Him, then the Truth sets Him free. This decision can only be taken when the Gospel has been preached and the Son of God uplifted.

Therefore, the Good News which talks about the Birth, Life, Death, Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus is an embodiment of Grace liberating the perishing and empowering the weak. This two cannot work without the other. Why, though it’s two, it’s put together as one. They marry each other. Grace and Truth came. Singular.

So why did God not make it easy to be understood but went ahead to decrypt the personality and the work of Grace?

Yes; God is perfect and full of wisdom. (Isaiah 55:8-9; For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts). God knows man from the inside out than we know ourselves. Remember, He is the same God that created Lucifer now called Satan, the Achilles’ heel of man. Before we can know why God encrypted Grace, let’s find out what made Him do so.

Why did God encode Grace? (Why didn’t He make it easier to be understood by natural instincts)

Grace also means; absent from the Law. Where there is no law, there is not a record of sin. (Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression). Why? Because the purpose at which the Law was given is misinterpreted by a lot of scholars, commentators and preachers. Why will God give a Law that works anger in man and against God? There must be a reason.

When Lucifer was an angel in Heaven serving the purpose of God on Earth in the midst of a billion angels created for worship, there was something he traded which uplifted his status as a Cherub for God’s use. Pride in his trade resulted in his doom. (Ezekiel 28:18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore, will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee). The word “traffick” is the Greek word, “rekullah” which means trade, merchandise. So what was the devil trading?

Let’s go through the verse again. “by the iniquity of your trade. How can Lucifer iniquitise his trade? By what means. Because Lucifer was a covering and a worshipping angel, he was the leader of a host of angels that worshipped God on earth million years before man was created. His job was receiving Laws from God to the angels and reflecting the worship of the angels back to God. That is how his trade was. Iniquity started in him after he had the notion to overthrow God. How did he plan on doing it? He received God’s Law and upon delivering it to the angels down on earth, he manipulated it to suit his style therefore the angels did it to suit how it has been re-written. This defiled his sanctuary (place of worship describing him as a Priest also) therefore the Lord overthrew him out, not just him but the angels that fell under his charm.

When man was created, Satan never showed up until God gave Laws in the Garden concerning the tree of knowledge of good and evil and the Tree of Life. Why did he wait all this while on earth to make man collapse the moment a law was given to Adam? Because where there is a Law, the Devil is revealed. God knew that and wanted to test man’s devotion towards Him. Was there not the tree of Life in the Garden? The tree of Life was a picture of Jesus, the Life giver. Why did Adam not consume this tree all this while but was tempted to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil? Because whenever the Law is revealed, the devil takes control of man and his choices is all about breaking ground rules and revealing man’s depravity.

The story continued in the time of Israel after they approved God’s decision to hand them the Laws. Did they not murmur, disobey and fight Moses against God right from the Red Sea, the wilderness of sin, the bitter waters of Mara, even when the Mana fell right to Mount Sinai. Was Grace still not upon them? Yes, He was and no account of sin was recorded yet the moment they took the Laws, they sinned against God, recording the greatest sin called Apostasy; an act of denying God.

The Law was true; no doubt about that but it was not the Truth; why? Because it never set anyone free. It kept men under bondage bringing the flesh to the end of our self. The Law purposely came to strip us naked in order to cry for a Savior called Grace. (Galatians 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith). It dealt with every wrong move we made and instantly punished us for it, like a school master constantly lashing out his pupil when late for school or failing his exam.

The Law also focused on revealing the devil and his evil out of man but in the end, because the flesh is too weak to contain the punishment of the Law, man die paying for the wages of sin. So much earning of iniquity in the flesh gives the Law no option that to kill the flesh and eradicate that sin. Unfortunately, man is not man without the flesh.

Romans 7:10 The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

IS GRACE GREATER THAN THE LAW?

You must answer this for yourself. John 1:17; For the Law was given but Grace and Truth came…

Why was the Law given but Grace and Truth approaching? Interesting. The Law was given by God not directly to Moses.

Galatians 3:19 Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

In the Garden, the evidence of the Law was not seen, it was spoken by God. Whenever God speaks, the Speech of the Father comes not direct to be handled by man. every speech of God is defined as His Word. The Word of God is no other person than Jesus, the Son of God. Therefore, when God was dealing with Adam, note; He did it through the Son. And God said, and God commanded, and God spoke. The ever-merciful Jesus was always with them encouraging them about how precious Life is. When they sinned by eating from the tree, something happened. God approached them through the Sound. This time it was not the speaking they heard, he heard the sound walking in the Garden. (Genesis 3:8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden).

The Son was in their midst in the Garden to experience their heartbreak and frustration. Note, they were naked therefore sin has come to dwell in them. Why were they still in God’s presence without burning? Mystery.

In the cool of the day. “Cool” comes from the Greek word; “ruwach” which means wind, or breath. “Day” is from the Greek “yown” meaning a day / warm hour. Putting the two together means that day man sinned, the Spirit of God came during the time man sinned. But how? Please follow me on this.

When man sinned, the voice was not spoken to them rather, the Voice walked to them meaning if voice or sound is ascertained from Words, then Adam and Eve were dealing with the Word of God; Jesus directly. Why? Because they cannot stand in front of the Father in sin (nakedness) therefore the Merciful Son had to intercede on their behalf. No wonder an atonement was made to please Abba. The presence of the Son is defined as a moment of Favor.

Had it not been the Son / Grace in the Garden then, again the victims would have fell dead. What of the Spirit? What was His mission? Interesting. Do not forget the Holy Spirit is Jesus’s Spirit. Wherever the Son walks, the beautiful perfect Spirit is with Him. Not just with Him but He is the Spirit also (Philippians 1:19 for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance).

The Spirit was also present to strengthen them to face the world just like He indwelled Peter and the Apostles on the day of Pentecost to face the world. Adam and Eve sinned but they were not outcast. The revelation of the Word as flesh to redeem the world starts from them so God’s hand was upon them wherever they went. In the Favor / Grace of God, the Holy Spirit can move freely among men.

On Mt. Sinai, the means at which God gave the Law was different. God gave it through an angel and the angel to the mediator called Moses unto the people. Why? Because Elohiym was not content giving the Law unto men. He knew the how the Law will castigate the people yet for the enemy to be revealed and man to come to his senses after boasting in his doings, He gave it out. (Romans 3:19-20 Now we know that whatever the Law says it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the Law comes knowledge of sin).

HOW GOD ENCODED HIS GRACE.

God encrypted the Grace to fulfill the prophesy made in Genesis 3:15 (I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”). This is an insight on Christ coming to overcome the enemy and redeem man to His original post. Lots of activities was orchestrated by the enemy to thwart the Word from coming into the World.

The enemy thought God will choose the mighty, the beauty, the intelligent, the wise and all the good adjectival qualifications. God never did that, He took a direct opposite approach on the issue beginning from Adam, after the murder of Abel and Adam brought forth to hundreds of children, out of them, He chose Seth generating through Enoch, Noah, Abram in the ruins, to Thamar who slept with Judah, her in-law for Phares, through to prostitute Rachab to Obed, Jesse, David the rejected shepherd, to Uriah’s wife for Solomon travelling to Mary and Joseph for Jesus; the Word. These people are the foolishness of the world yet God worked them out for His good. It never made sense to the enemy and his followers.

These are spiritually discerned. 1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

 Even the Word chose not the intelligent men; fishermen, tax collectors, physicians were the ones He selected for the course. A perfect encryption of the Gospel which makes no sense to the World. “1 Corinthians 1:26-29 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence”.