The Truth shall make you free.

God does not want any to perish, but we were all doomed for destruction. "All have sinned" and "the wages of sin is death." Because He so loved us, He gave His own Son for us to be saved by Him: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life." John 3:16

God loves righteousness and hates wickedness (Psalm 45:7.) We need absolute righteousness (perfect obedience to the law) to enjoy His blessings (Deut. 28:15.) But "no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands..." (Romans 3:20.) Our own law-keeping and good works done to get into His good books just won't cut it. Isaiah 64:6 says "We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in Your sight." This concerning the good things we do. Because God so loved us, He gave His own Son for us to be made righteous: "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." 2 Corinthians 5:21. His righteousness is a gift to all who believe.

God hates sin because destroys the world that He so loved; akin to but waaaaay beyond how a loving father hates the cancer that is destroying his beloved child. Sinful deeds lead to death (Romans 7:5) and He doesn't want us to perish but to have eternal life. Rev. 21:8 says "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." Because God loved so us and wants none to perish, He sent His own Son to save us from our sins that lead to death: "She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” Matthew 1:21.

God wants us to prosper, even in material things, and He causes us to do so by His Grace, "For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich." 2 Cor. 8:9. All the giving in the world, if done in order to be rich, cannot make any earn this God kind of rich. Christ does it all.

God loves a cheerful giver so He makes His children cheerful givers, like the givers in the church of Macedonia of whom Paul said of their giving in 2 Cor. 8:5- "This was totally spontaneous, entirely their own idea, and caught us completely off guard. What explains it was that they had first given themselves unreservedly to God and to us. The other giving simply flowed out of the purposes of God working in their lives." By grace, stop trying to be rich or earn His blessings by human effort at giving. Give yourself totally to our Saviour like a helpless sheep that has no idea how to shear itself much less distribute its own wool and you will give cheerfully and according to His purpose working in your life. In Him, the thoughts of the Holy Spirit become our action.

God made Christ to become a curse for us, thus Christ redeemed all who believe from the curse of the law. Did you know that even the generational curse is of the law? See Deut. 5:9-"...For I, the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me," Christ hung on the cross to redeem you and I from the curse that we might be blessed and Spirit-filled. See Galatians 3:13-14-

"Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith." 

By grace, beware of places of worship where the Accuser's mouthpieces accuse believers of being under generational curses and such straight from the pulpit.

The blessing does not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith: "For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith." Romans 4:13.

So much more. This is Grace- undeserved, unearned, unmerited favour. It is akin to scoring zero in an exam but being pushed to the highest level and collecting all the prizes because Another, Jesus Christ, took our place at the bottom: died in our stead. But do all of these mean that we now have liberty to go on sinning sprees and just do evil as many say? Certainly not! God's grace is not a license to sin. He is the Way to right living.

Try to obey the law to get right with God and sin will have dominion, "For sin shall not have dominion over you for you are not under law but under grace." Romans 6:14. Also see Galatians 2:21- "I refuse to reject the grace of God. But if a person is put right with God through the Law, it means that Christ died for nothing!" By grace, let's get these verses right.

Believer, see the effect of giving up on our own strength to get right with God/enjoy God's promise and allowing the Lord our Shepherd to carry us His sheep all the way home on His shoulders after we've totally messed up with sins, addictions and the worst offences; from the "well-behaved" sinner to even the vilest offender:

"For the sin of this one man, Adam, caused death to rule over many. But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and His gift of righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death through this one Man, Jesus Christ." Romans 5:17.

Fear, stress, sickness, lack, oppression, are all "death begun." Recall that Adam whose sin caused death to rule over many did not literally drop dead immediately after eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (a picture of the law; the letter kills.) He started dying after he ate. See Gen. 2:17- "'and of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou dost not eat of it, for in the day of thine eating of it -- dying thou dost die.'"

Adam lived a life of toiling and sweating and died physically at almost 1000 years, a day gone by in the sight of God. Death still does not end here. There is still the second death (hell) which was the fate of all of Adam's seed but for Christ dying in our place.

With God's abundance of grace and His gift of righteousness, we get to live in triumph over sin and death (and all of death's symptoms) through our Saviour Jesus Christ. We get to "produce a harvest of good deeds for God" (Romans 7:4.) Yet not us but Christ in us. This is why we sing "tis no longer I that liveth but Christ that liveth in me."

Believe Right and you will Live Right.