Unveiling Jesus Grace Nuggets

Spiritual Circumcision. In Colossians 2, where Paul explains what happened to us when we were delivered from the law and joined to Jesus. For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power. (Colossians 2:9-10)1 The law will tell…

Is there any sweeter truth than “there is therefore now no condemnation”? At the end of the day when we’ve messed up, and we’ve done all we could do in our strength to make things right, to give our side of the story, to lick our wounds, earn our way back, and to start afresh,…

I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. (Romans 7:21-22)1From Romans 7:21 through the end of the Romans 7, Paul describes the battle in our minds and the victorious end to the…

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with…

I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and…

Without the law, sin will have no opportunity. …For apart from the law sin was dead. (Romans 7:8)1Who benefits the most from the church never knowing who they are in Christ and never knowing that they are free from the law? The accuser of the brethren! Satan’s main strategy is NOT to try to get…

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.” (Romans 7:7)1The law Paul was talking about here is not the part that told the Israelites what animals to sacrifice and how to kill them or…

Did you now our problem isn’t sin? It’s SIN combined with the LAW which says, “Don’t do it, or else!” When temptation meets the flesh (self-effort), sinful passions are aroused. The more we try to be good by our own self-effort, the more sinful passions are triggered in the flesh. Whatever the sin is, the…

We have died to the law. However, that doesn’t mean that the enemy and his minions won’t still try to use the law by shouting its demands at us, but we don’t have to listen to it! Here are the old days of being married to Mr. Law: When we were [past tense] in the…

Here’s the picture of our union with Jesus: Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by THE WORD, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or…

Paul begins Romans 7 by using the analogy of marriage: are we married to the law or to Jesus? At one time we were “married to” the law. We were “in the flesh” and our identity was in the flesh. Mr. Law gave us our name: “Sinner.” Or do you not know, brethren (for I…

Having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. (Romans 6:18)1 Before we were saved, there was no list of good things we could do to be righteous. We were confined in sin and sinners by nature. No righteous act could change our status, and all our efforts at making sure our naughty…