The Apostle Peter, in his first letter, in summing up all he said in the letter, said “…this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand,” 1 Peter 5:12. There is a true grace of God which the New Testament teaches. If there’s a true grace, there must be a false grace. If there’s a true teaching of grace, there must be a false teaching of grace. There is a true grace that produces a holy, godly life, and there is a perverted, twisted, greasy grace that produces license to do as you please and serve yourself.
Grace that promotes license is not grace but lasciviousness (Jude 4) and a false grace. Grace doesn’t mean a license to do as one pleases. Lasciviousness is the total lack of self-restraint that has no feeling of shame and no restraint from impurity. Grace also doesn’t mean defiance for or disregard for God’s moral standards, which is called lawlessness (1 John 3:4).
True grace teaches us how to live soberly, godly, righteously (Titus 2:11, 12) while denying ungodliness and worldly lusts. Any teaching on grace that produces slackness, looseness, ungodly, unrestrained living is a perversion of true grace. True grace never promotes unrestrained careless liberty but loving service (Galatians 5:13). God’s grace frees us to serve.
Pastor John Rasicci is the founder and Pastor of Word of His Grace Church in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, where we are building people who are building the Church. Pastor's ministry mission is to help people discover God's dream for their Life, the Local Church, and the Last Days' Harvest. With a strong emphasis on the grace of God and with a prophetic voice, Pastor John preaches and teaches in churches, conferences, and crusades both locally and throughout the world. He has produced books, tapes, and other teaching materials to empower, enable, and equip Believers with the Word of God. Pastor John is married to his wife Candy who with their three children, Krista, Joanna, John Anthony, and two son-in-laws, Matt and Doug, serve together in the ministry. After graduating from Kent State University, Pastor John pursued a career in professional baseball before accepting the call to the ministry. He and his wife, Candy, received their ministry training from Rhema Bible Training Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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