Amazing Grace - Part 1

By Pastor Ric

The gospel message is the good news of God's Grace upon us.

Many people who are unaware of God in their lives, or those who choose to believe that God is not there or is not relevant to them, hear the word Grace and apply it to being graceful, like a ballet dancer or to someone who walks in a graceful way.

Others who believe that they are Christian, attribute Grace to the time we are living in now, they say we are not under the law of Moses as mankind once was, but we are now living in a time of God's Grace, where God allows everything and forgives everything.

Yet others say that Grace is "God's favor toward the unworthy" or "God's benevolence on the undeserving.

But Grace is not an idea, a concept or a time we are living in, Grace is a Person who is alive and alive for evermore having come down from heaven and being born through a woman. Who died on a tree and was raised from the dead by God and who is now alive for all eternity.

This book is Part 1 of a four part series which examines who Grace is and the incredible promises from God that come through Him, to us.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pastor Ric
• Release date: Feb 9, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224123537

Pastor Ric

Having Pastored a mainline Christian Church for many years, I am now producing Mobile apps, ebooks and paperback books on many Christian subjects, you can download them from https://noprisoners-ministry.com/.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - The script for life Part 1

Chapter 1 - The script for life Part 2

Chapter 2 - How Faith works.

Chapter 3 - Taking down the old self.

Chapter 4 - My own righteousness and righteousness in the mind of Christ.

Receiving Salvation

Receiving the Holy Spirit

Appendix 1 - God's Plan of Salvation

Appendix 2 - Two Trees Part 1 reviewed

Appendix 3 - What happened in the Garden?

Appendix 4 - The sower sows the Word - 5 stumbling stones.

Appendix 5 - The sower sows the Word

Chapter 1 - The script for life Part 1

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n the beginning, not the beginning of God who is eternal  , but the beginning which came out of God, the creation of all things   God spoke through His voice, the word of God.

His voice when He spoke 'Let there be light'  contained a complex wave and particle waveform that contained all the instructions for light to assemble, the light came from Him   was projected from Himself through the word into creation.

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Astounding as this may seem, it did not stop there and God continued to speak the whole of creation into existence, including us who came from the first man and woman, the man called Adam and the woman which Adam called Eve.

Then when God had concluded creation He declared it as 'very good' 

The name Adam in Hebrew means bright red glow and Adam when he was made, glowed in His blood with the blood from the earth and the blood of God which is light.

Scientists lately have been making an extensive study about blood because they saw that there is something very 'peculiar' and supernatural about blood.

They have come to this conclusion: that blood is congealed light!. 

It is light that has become solidified. In other words, in the body of man there are veins and these veins are flowing with a red substance which is none other than light. 

Light that has miraculously become congealed. Do miracles happen, all that God does is miraculous.

Then the Woman ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and gave to Adam who also ate, when he ate, he entered the pathway of the knowledge of good and evil, the broad way

Matthew 7:13 Enter through the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and spacious and broad is the way that leads away to destruction, and many are those who are entering through it.

Jesus is the door to the narrow pathway of the tree of life which resides in the Spirit and satan is the way into the pathway of his warped antiChrist mind, in our mind when we choose the broad path that leads to death.

When Adam and the woman entered the pathway in their mind, they began living life from their mindset that did not acknowledge God.

Satan deceives mankind through the mind into thinking that they can be completely independent of God and walk by their own god, which is themselves, they were to live life in their own decision of what is good and what is evil and this is what forms the mind and thinking of many in satans world of his mind. 

Read more about the two trees in appendix 2  and   .

The reason why Adam could no longer live by God, only able to live by his own mind was that when he ate and entered the pathway his unbelief caused his faith to fail.

When Jesus had shared the last Passover supper with the disciples, they went out and sang a hymn before going to the Mount of Olives.   Then Jesus said to the disciples You will all be offended and stumble and fall away because of Me this night   and Peter answered and said Peter declared to Him, Though they all are offended and stumble and fall away because of You [and distrust and desert You], I will never do so. 

Peter thought that this was a declaration to Jesus of his faith and loyalty to Jesus, but it was Peter standing in his own confidence and faith in himself not to desert Jesus. 

This is what Paul was telling us in Philippians 3:9, when he says not having a righteousness of my own, this is the kind of faith that most Christians are standing on, their own righteousness.

Their own faith which says that I believe in Jesus, therefore this is my faith, my belief in Him. 

Similarly with Adam, we see Adams faith fail then he lost connection with his spirit, it was in his mind that he left God even though God had never left him.

Then Adam began to develop his own righteousness, the god in his thinking which would lead him to death, first death in his spirit, then physical death  . 

What happened to Adam is the blueprint of what happens to us.

We were all born with an inheritance which came from Adam, an inheritance in the way we think, choose and feel an inheritance of living by the god of our own soul (our mind, will and emotions) working in our own thinking, but our true mind that God has given us and that can only be done by working with the Holy Spirit and allowing Him to bring revelation or the revealing of the mind of Christ (the thinking of Christ) which is in us  .

 

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But also when we were born, God the one true God gave us gifts, he gave us His faith in our spirit, but like Adam our faith is cut off from our soul and with it our access to the spirit.

It is not until we repent of living without God and we speaking our repentance to Jesus Christ, that faith is activated and with its activation our access to grace is open as we receive a resurrected reborn spirit.

Until we repent we continue to live in the pathway of the knowledge of good and evil.

When we, like Adam walk in the pathway of the knowledge of good and evil we walk according to a script or narrative that has been authored by satan. 

This was inherited from Adam and came though the generation embedded in our DNA and is referred to in the Bible as the sin nature a a natural inclination toward accepting sin which is rebellion towards God.

This means that when we are presented with a choice to do God’s will or our own, we will naturally choose to do our own thing.  .

Lucifer, when he became satan the devil, was responsible for Adams fall. [more info]

Isaiah gives us the summary of satans script, In this account Isaiah is addressing the heart of the king of Babylon whose own heart had been overtaken by satans heart, so it gives us a snapshot of what satan is saying in his own heart, which is sin that he spreads to our heart, but it is actually addressing the heart of satan who is working through the heart of this King.

How have you fallen from heaven.

And you said in your heart, I will ascend to heaven,  I will make myself like the Most High. 

Satan is saying all will worship me.

But God has authored The Script or narrative of our life and it is not satans script, it is the Gospel of Christ and we saw that His gospel was written within the original Hebrew in the tree of life, the tree of life is in our mind and heart and cannot be overwritten if we maintain our heart and mind in and with God's Word.

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Image of the tree of life which grows in our brain and heart from the seed, the Word of God.

The Tree of life in Hebrew concordance is saying that a Carpenter would come who would have branches, who would hang on a gallows and would bring to all of us sustained life, to revive you, to restore you and bring everything back to you and it even mentions that the tree of life is the word bride.

We the church are His branches and we are like His bride.

We have the script authored by God through the Holy Spirit and it is this word of God, In which is contained an answer to satans script.

This is what God says to satan, yet you shall be brought down to Sheol 

The script that we are born with is dormant and has to be activated by the Holy Spirit and that is why we have to ask for the promised Holy Spirit, this happens when we are born again   , we then enter into Salvation. 

 

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When we are born again we enter into the pathway of the tree of life, the script or