The Grace Of God Can Be Accepted In Vain

2 Corinthians 5:  ISV

The Apostle Paul tells us how true believers should live. He pleads on Messiah’s behalf for us to be reconciled to God! He warns us not to accept God’s grace in vain!

14The love of the Messiah controls us, for we are convinced of this:

·         that one person died for all people; therefore, all people have died.

·         15He died for all people, so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for the one who died and rose for them.

16So then, from now on we do not think of anyone from a human point of view. Even if we did think of the Messiah from a human point of view, we don’t think of him that way anymore. 17Therefore, if anyone is in the Messiah, he is a new creation. Old things have disappeared, and—look!—all things have become new!

18All of this comes from God, who has reconciled us to himself through the Messiah and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19for through the Messiah, God was reconciling the world to himself by not counting their sins against them. He has committed his message of reconciliation to us. 

20Therefore, we are the Messiah’s representatives, as though God were pleading through us. We plead on the Messiah’s behalf: “Be reconciled to God!” 21God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that God’s righteousness would be produced in us.

2 Corinthians 6:  ISV

1Since, then, we are working with God, we plead with you not to accept God’s grace in vain. 2For he says,

       “At the right time I heard you,

        and on a day of salvation I helped you.”

Listen, now is really the “right time”! Now is the “day of salvation”!