Obligation Blocks Blessing
Obligation is not Grace, it is Self Righteousness.
Anything that causes obligation is not graceful. This is why many fail at tithing/giving, praying and fasting. Believe it or not the feeling of obligation is a type of condemnation. God is the only being that is meant to experience obligation due to his nature. Only he has the independent resources to experience obligation. When his children do things out of obligation they begin to decay and enter into a death race. Obligation is a killer, a very sneaky one.
It is the Lord's strength that produces life, and He gives it to us freely to enjoy. Our designed response is not obligation but thanksgiving. The fall of man produces this idea that we must do something for God to appease or please him. Men run around trying to produce their own faith not realizing that a revelation that comes out from God will complete all the designed works of man. God created man to be fueled by His works/WORD and design, not by self generated effort. Grace is the power of all life, and it causes true service, but not by your strength but his.
These are the works of God:
Precepts produce Concepts
Concepts produce Philosophy
Philosophy produces Faith
Faith produces Belief
Belief produces Behavior
A little known understanding that will inspire great fellowship with God is:
Belief is a work of faith, and faith is a gift of God, and these are not self-generated.
EPH 1:3-12
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who blesses us with every spiritual blessing among the celestials, in Christ, according as He chooses us in Him before the disruption of the world, we to be holy and flawless in His sight, in love designating us beforehand for the place of a son for Him through Christ Jesus; in accord with the delight of His will, for the laud of the glory of His grace, which graces us in the Beloved: in Whom we are having the deliverance through His blood, the forgiveness of offenses in accord with the riches of His grace, which He lavishes on us; in all wisdom and prudence making known to us the secret of His will (in accord with His delight, which He purposed in Him) to have an administration of the complement of the eras, to head up all in the Christ ‐‐ both that in the heavens and that on the earth ‐‐ in Him in Whom our lot was cast also, being designated beforehand according to the purpose of the One Who is operating all in accord with the counsel of His will, that we should be for the laud of His glory, who are pre‐expectant in the Christ.
EPH 2:4-10
yet God, being rich in mercy, because of His vast love with which He loves us (we also being dead to the offenses and the lusts), vivifies us together in Christ (in grace are you saved!)and rouses us together and seats us together among the celestials, in Christ Jesus, that, in the oncoming eons, He should be displaying the transcendent riches of His grace in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For in grace, through faith, are you saved, and this is not out of you; it is God's approach present, not of works, lest anyone should be boasting. For His achievement are we, being created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God makes ready beforehand, that we should be walking in them.
By: George L Maitland
His Image Ministry
www.hisimageministry.org
Categories: Faith-Obedience
Tags: Logos HIM His Image Ministry No Condemnation Faith-Obedience The Word Righteousness
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