In Colossians 1:6, Paul wrote to the saints at Colosse that they knew the grace of God in truth. What does it mean, to know the grace of God in truth?
What does it mean to know the grace of God in truth?
They knew the grace of God in truth (Kolose 1:6)
The saints at Colosse accepted the Gospel of Jesus Christ. When they heard the words of the gospel and learned about Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Savior of humanity, they believed the words they heard. They believed that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the Savior of humanity.
They accepted Jesus Christ, salamo, and were born again in Christ.
Through Jesus Christ they were reconciled with God and restored (healed) from their fallen state and became sons of God (e faatatau lenei mea i alii ma tamaitai.
From that moment, they became acquainted with the grace of God in truth.
It is important to know the grace of God in truth. It’s important to know what the grace of God means and what the grace of God doesn’t mean.
Many churches preach a false grace of God. This false grace doesn’t call the people to repentance and sanctification but causes Christians to remain carnal and become lukewarm and eventually apostate from the faith.
What’s the grace of God?
- The grace of God is that God sent His Son and through His redemptive work and His blood and by faith in His Name we are saved.
- The grace of God is that we are reconciled to God by faith in Jesus Christ and regeneration in Him.
- The grace of God, that we have become holy and righteous by His blood, and that we receive the Holy Spirit.
- The grace of God, that we are seated in Christ and have the ability to become like Him.
- Yes the grace of God, that the Gentiles have become fellow heirs and of the same body and partakers of His promise in Christ by the gospel.
What’s grace not?
What is the grace of God not? The grace of God is NOT a free card to keep sinning. When you were baptized, you laid down your old life as a sinner. Therefore you shall no longer walk as a sinner.
It is a choice that you have made yourself. No one forced you to do it. You’ve decided to believe and lay down your own old life and become a foafoaga fou in Jesus Christ.
A new creation in Jesus Christ will not return to his old former life as a sinner. Because that means that you will live in bondage of sin and death again.
You are a new creation in Jesus Christ and have the Holy Spirit abiding in you. Because of the grace of God, you have the ability and power to say LEAI to sin.
Let sin not rule your life, but become a ruler over sin.
‘Ia fai ma masima o le lalolagi’
