Good Morning from FLORIDA!!! YEAH! I'm chillin' down in the Florida state! Except, it's not that warm here in the mornings and evenings! I was surprised ;-D heh heh. Happy Thanksgiving all! Aight on to.... da Word!
And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.
- Paul (Romans 11:6)
Word! That's my man Paul droppin' some knowledge. He's been expoundin' upon righteousness and da Christ, about life and how one is saved, about Israel and the Gentiles, da whole nine. Right before this part, he was spittin' about how the Prophet Elijah was conversin' with Pops about how Israel was layin' waste to all the prophets and destroying Pops' altars. He also felt they were gonna kill him next. But Pops was like, "naw son, i've got 7,000 who have not bowed to Baal." Real quick, Baal is one of the false gods worshiped back in the day. See, there was a "remnant" of peeps! "Chosen by grace."
See, it was not because of any works that these 7,000 became Pops' remnant. It was by grace! Pops gave them deliverance. This remnant chose not to bow down to some false god, but instead chose to remain true to the one true God. It wasn't by works, it was their faith. They chose to grasp onto God's grace, a grace that Pops gives freely. But in order to get it, we gots ta come on out and take it! It wasn't about the dude who has a phat resume of "good" things that s/he has done for society and for others. It was a condition of the heart! Why? Cuz the most evil of peeps can do "good" things, many times for motives that are selfish.
So what does this mean? It means that Pops cannot be won over by works! Cuz it ain't about works! It runs MUCH deeper than that. We can't earn Pops' grace; we can't win our way into His heart and His kingdom. He's already given it all to us. We just gotta reach out, accept it and embrace it. Works, my friends, comes as a result of a changed heart. And if it were the other way around... then grace would be worth beans son! And we'd have a whole SLEW of other problems (pride probably being the utmost cancer). Naw lo, it's grace bruthaz and sistaz! Grace! Let you works follow according to a changed heart.
Aight peeps! Gotta bounce, PeACE!
G_bless,
- patrick
Word! That's my man Paul droppin' some knowledge. He's been expoundin' upon righteousness and da Christ, about life and how one is saved, about Israel and the Gentiles, da whole nine. Right before this part, he was spittin' about how the Prophet Elijah was conversin' with Pops about how Israel was layin' waste to all the prophets and destroying Pops' altars. He also felt they were gonna kill him next. But Pops was like, "naw son, i've got 7,000 who have not bowed to Baal." Real quick, Baal is one of the false gods worshiped back in the day. See, there was a "remnant" of peeps! "Chosen by grace."
See, it was not because of any works that these 7,000 became Pops' remnant. It was by grace! Pops gave them deliverance. This remnant chose not to bow down to some false god, but instead chose to remain true to the one true God. It wasn't by works, it was their faith. They chose to grasp onto God's grace, a grace that Pops gives freely. But in order to get it, we gots ta come on out and take it! It wasn't about the dude who has a phat resume of "good" things that s/he has done for society and for others. It was a condition of the heart! Why? Cuz the most evil of peeps can do "good" things, many times for motives that are selfish.
So what does this mean? It means that Pops cannot be won over by works! Cuz it ain't about works! It runs MUCH deeper than that. We can't earn Pops' grace; we can't win our way into His heart and His kingdom. He's already given it all to us. We just gotta reach out, accept it and embrace it. Works, my friends, comes as a result of a changed heart. And if it were the other way around... then grace would be worth beans son! And we'd have a whole SLEW of other problems (pride probably being the utmost cancer). Naw lo, it's grace bruthaz and sistaz! Grace! Let you works follow according to a changed heart.
Aight peeps! Gotta bounce, PeACE!
G_bless,
- patrick
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