SAM HONIBALL BLOG

DO YOU BELIEVE THAT JESUS IS INTERESTED IN YOUR SUCCESS? JESUS IS INFINITELY interested in your TOTAL WELL-BEING – In your family, career, marriage, ministry, fulfillment in life, and so the list just keeps on and on! Some think He has got the whole universe to run and is not interested in their miniscule problems and concerns. Remember IF IT BOTHERS YOU IT BOTHERS HIM! DO YOU KNOW HOW IMPORTANT YOU ARE TO JESUS? He knows you perfectly, and yet accepts and loves you perfectly. That is truly undeserved favor from Jesus. Jesus' undeserved favor will protect, provide, prosper, deliver and bring restoration to you. PSALMS 35:27 “  LET THE LORD BE MAGNIFIED, WHO HAS PLEASURE IN THE PROSPERITY OF HIS SERVANT. ” GOD'S UNMERITED FAVOR IS NOT A SUBJECT, IT'S A PERSON AND HIS NAME IS JESUS. The more you increase in the knowledge of our loving Savior Jesus Christ and His finished work at the cross, the more GOD'S UNMERITED FAVOR will manifest itself in your life. It will

GAL. 5:4b ..., YOU WHO ATTEMPT TO BE JUSTIFIED BY LAW;  YOU HAVE FALLEN FROM GRACE. ANY LEGAL SYSTEM PUTS YOU UNDER BONDAGE, and you have to follow it meticulously. Getting a TICKET FOR SPEEDING is an illustration. IT WILL CORRECT YOUR FUTURE BEHAVIOR. You become bound to obey. It hurts to have to pay a fine, and we don't want to hurt. It is an example of legalism that we all understand. THIS IS WHAT IT MEANS TO FALL FROM GRACE: YOU ARE SAVED BY FAITH, THEN YOU DROP DOWN TO A LAW LEVEL TO LIVE. We are not to live by law at all. THE LAW PRINCIPLE IS NOT THE RULE FOR CHRISTIAN LIVING. Paul is saying that since we have been saved by grace we are to continue on in this way of living. GRACE SUPPLIES THE INDWELLING AND FILLING OF THE SPIRIT TO ENABLE US TO LIVE ON A HIGHER PLANE THAN LAW DEMANDED. WE CAN USE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AS A LAW OF LIFE, BUT WE ARE CALLED TO A HIGHER LEVEL TO LIVE. THAT LEVEL IS WHERE THERE IS LIBERTY IN CHRIST. I have a liberty in Jesus Christ, and tha