Can A Person Fall From Grace?
So if we do not fall from of grace when we sin then how do we fall from of grace? The answer is when we return to the law.
Romans 10:4 read for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
When Christ died for our sins the law became of non effect; it passed away and Christ became our righteousness but if we reject Him and what He has done for us and return to the law, then we have fallen from grace.
Grace is God's favor to us; it is a gift that He has given us that we did not deserve.
His grace has made us righteous because Jesus took upon Himself all of our sins; He became sin so that we could become the righteousness of God through Him.
Ephesians 2:8-9 read for by grace you have been saved through faith and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God not of works, lest anyone should boast.
When the law was in effect there was labor; people had to work at being righteous but they could not, that is why they had to offer up animal sacrifices to cover their sins but now we do not have to work at being righteous because Jesus offered up Himself once and for all for all of our sins.
The only work that is left for us to do is to believe in His finished work.
But when we return to work as an act of righteousness then we have fallen from grace.
The finish work of Jesus and the law cannot coincide together, the two does not mix and Jesus confirmed this in Luke 5:36-38 He said, no one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old.
And no one puts new wine into old wineskin or else the new wine will burst the wineskin and be spilled and the wineskin will be ruined.
But new wine must be put into new wineskin and both are preserved.
If we try to live by our righteousness or works of righteousness and expect His grace; we will not get it because Jesus has already done the will of the Father and the old way is waxed old, decayed and passed away.
Notice what He said in Luke 5:39 He said, and no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new for he says, the old is better.
This passage of scripture hit home with me because before I began to understand grace, I was engulfed in my works of righteousness and it was hard for me to release it and just accept being righteous.
I read it but for years I had done the opposite of what I was studying.
I thought the old was better but I did not have God's grace at work in my life.
We can fall from grace when we return to the law or we can refuse His grace and continue in the law either way; we lose but this is not God's will for us, He wants us to have access to His grace and to do that is to believe in the finished work of Jesus.
People have sinned and fell into condemnation because of it so they have said that they have fallen from grace but they have not fallen from grace; they have fallen into grace but their condemnation prevented them from receiving it and some have turned back from following the Lord because of their condemnation.
Do you think that this is the will of God? No it is not, He wants us to draw near to Him, not away from Him and that is why His grace much more abounds when we sin.
The only way for any of us to fall out of His grace is to return to the law and our works of righteousness.
Romans 10:4 read for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
When Christ died for our sins the law became of non effect; it passed away and Christ became our righteousness but if we reject Him and what He has done for us and return to the law, then we have fallen from grace.
Grace is God's favor to us; it is a gift that He has given us that we did not deserve.
His grace has made us righteous because Jesus took upon Himself all of our sins; He became sin so that we could become the righteousness of God through Him.
Ephesians 2:8-9 read for by grace you have been saved through faith and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God not of works, lest anyone should boast.
When the law was in effect there was labor; people had to work at being righteous but they could not, that is why they had to offer up animal sacrifices to cover their sins but now we do not have to work at being righteous because Jesus offered up Himself once and for all for all of our sins.
The only work that is left for us to do is to believe in His finished work.
But when we return to work as an act of righteousness then we have fallen from grace.
The finish work of Jesus and the law cannot coincide together, the two does not mix and Jesus confirmed this in Luke 5:36-38 He said, no one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old.
And no one puts new wine into old wineskin or else the new wine will burst the wineskin and be spilled and the wineskin will be ruined.
But new wine must be put into new wineskin and both are preserved.
If we try to live by our righteousness or works of righteousness and expect His grace; we will not get it because Jesus has already done the will of the Father and the old way is waxed old, decayed and passed away.
Notice what He said in Luke 5:39 He said, and no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new for he says, the old is better.
This passage of scripture hit home with me because before I began to understand grace, I was engulfed in my works of righteousness and it was hard for me to release it and just accept being righteous.
I read it but for years I had done the opposite of what I was studying.
I thought the old was better but I did not have God's grace at work in my life.
We can fall from grace when we return to the law or we can refuse His grace and continue in the law either way; we lose but this is not God's will for us, He wants us to have access to His grace and to do that is to believe in the finished work of Jesus.
People have sinned and fell into condemnation because of it so they have said that they have fallen from grace but they have not fallen from grace; they have fallen into grace but their condemnation prevented them from receiving it and some have turned back from following the Lord because of their condemnation.
Do you think that this is the will of God? No it is not, He wants us to draw near to Him, not away from Him and that is why His grace much more abounds when we sin.
The only way for any of us to fall out of His grace is to return to the law and our works of righteousness.
