CHRISTS JUSTIFYING GRACE,

GODS JUST LAW and

POSTMODERN LIBERTINISM.
By Venerable Dr. Ifechukwu U. Ibeme.
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The Jews in their arrogance mistook the LAW for institutional legalism and
externality instead of guidance to divine truth;
The Church in her ignorance has also mistaken GRACE for individual libertinism
and spontaneity instead of divine enablement for purity.

LIBERTINISM and LAWLESSNESS which are irreligious outward and inward

disorderliness cannot be better than LEGALISM and LAWFULNESS which are
religious outward orderliness. Christ did not save us from legalism unto
libertinism; rather He liberated us from both legalism and libertinism unto power
of loyalty for zealous fruitfulness to God (i.e. LOYALISM and spiritual
LOVINGKINDNESS which are wholesome orderliness).
Ephesians 2:8-10
(8) For by GRACE are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the
gift of God:
(9) Not of works, lest any man should boast.
(10) For WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP, CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS UNTO
GOOD WORKS, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.

Titus 2:11-12, 14
(11) For the GRACE of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people.
(12) It trains us to renounce ungodly living and worldly passions SO THAT WE
MIGHT LIVE SENSIBLE, HONEST, AND GODLY LIVES IN THE PRESENT
WORLD .
(14) Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and
PURIFY UNTO HIMSELF A PEOPLE FOR HIS OWN, ZEALOUS OF GOOD
WORKS.

Titus 3:7-8, 14
(7) That being justified by his GRACE, we should be made heirs according to the
hope of eternal life.
(8) This is a faithful saying, and these things I desire that you affirm constantly,
that THEY WHO HAVE BELIEVED IN GOD MIGHT BE CAREFUL TO MAINTAIN
GOOD WORKS. These things are good and profitable unto men. .
(14) And LET OUR OWN ALSO LEARN TO MAINTAIN GOOD WORKS for urgent
needs, that they NOT BE UNFRUITFUL.

LAW DOES NOT GIVE POWER AGAINST SINS, SELF AND SATAN, BUT
GIVES SPIRITUAL TRUTH.
GRACE DOES NOT GIVE MORAL LICENSE, BUT GIVES POWER AGAINST
SINS, SELF AND SATAN.
We need the divine power of GRACE to do good works against the
powers of sin, self and Satan, but still need the divine precepts of moral
(not ritual) LAW for spiritual Truth.
2 Timothy 3:16-17

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 (16) All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for
reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
(17) That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good
works.

The GRACE of our Lord Christ is given as His blood-covenant generosity which
grants undeserved privileges and power to every penitent believer, which grace
also demands great spiritual and moral responsibility from those saved and
sanctified as a result of such manifold grant (Luk 12:47-48; Heb 10:26-31). The
gentile Church, under the syncretising influence of the TRADITIONS of ancient
heathen cultures and the TRENDS of modern heathen cultures, seems to have
borrowed the word grace from the Scripture only to give it unscriptural and
cultural meaning that implies licentiousness and dissipation rather than
righteousness and regeneration (Gal 5:3; Tit 2:11-12; 1Pet 2:16; Jude 4).
Cultural rationalisation and arbitrary speculation must give way to
contextual interpretation of biblical revelation in matters of saving
TRUTH and faith of Christ. When received TRADITIONS, ideological
THOUGHTS, popular TRENDS and personal TENDENCIES about divinities do not
derive from the Scriptures, they don't really serve any useful purpose in eternity.

It is true that the SACERDOTAL SANCTIFYING WORKS OF THE LAW cannot give
eternal life but the SAVING SANCTIFYING WORK OF CHRIST does (Heb 10:4), yet
the moral standards and righteous judgments of Gods law are unchanging and
binding on all nations and peoples till the final judgment (Mat 16:27; Rev 20:12).
The Apostles insisted that whereas our good works do not save us (Eph 2:8-9; Tit
3:5), yet good works are expected of us after we are saved (Eph 2:10; Tit 3:8).
Scripture also teaches that the temporal SACERDOTAL WORKS OF THE LAW
through animal blood by Aaronic Priests in the shadow earthly Tabernacle/Temple
cannot save eternally nor purify consciences but the SAVING WORK OF GRACE
through Christ blood by Himself Who is the High Priest in the substantive
heavenly Sanctuary cleanses the conscience and saves to the uttermost
eternally (Heb 8:1-6; 9:11-15). This distinct TRUTH confuses modern heathen
minds; consequently todays Church has veered off biblical TRUTH and is sliding
down the path of error with unprecedented alacrity in their personal
TENDENCIES, denominational TRADITIONS, revisionist TEACHINGS and
postmodernist THOUGHTS and TRENDS.

Gentile heathenish misconceptions especially in recent times, give careless

interpretation of scriptural words (e.g. works, law and grace) thereby breeding
confusion in distinguishing:
between our personal good WORKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS which we do,
and priestly ritual WORKS OF THE LAW which is done for us (Eph 2:8-
10; Tit 3:5-8);
between CODES for ritual WORKS of the Law to cleanse the body
ceremonially, and CODES for spiritual WORD of the Law to illuminate and
guide the heart morally.
between personal MORAL PRECEPTS in the commandments,
concessions and counsels of the law (i.e. spirit of the law), and priestly
MEDIATORIAL POWERS in the cleansing ceremonies of the law (i.e.
works of the law);
between shadowy, temporal and external cleansing of RITUAL LAW of
SACRIFICES performed repeatedly by sinful Levites with ANIMAL BLOOD
provided by sinners, and substantive, eternal and internal cleansing of

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 REDEMPTIVE GRACE of SALVATION perfected once-for-all by the sinless
Christ with His PRECIOUS BLOOD provided by God (Heb 9:23-25; 10:8-14).

Christs SAVING GRACE grants undeserved LIBERATION from sin, self

and Satan granting undeserved PRIVILEGE of being indwelled and led
by the Holy Spirit for our purity; however, Grace forbids unreserved
LICENSE and carnality (Rom 6:15 and 8:1-9; Gal 2:17 and 5:13,16-18; 1Pet
2:16). Apparently, the Church in her euphoria is unaware that Christs
GRACE when spurned, brings GREATER JUDGMENT than the LAW could
bring (John 15:22-24; Heb 10:28-31; 2Pet 2:17-20).

Christs GRACE does not only save believers from the penalty, power and
presence of their sins but also translates them from Abrahams Promised Land
and netherworld bosom of paradise below (Luk 16:22-26) unto Christs
heavenly presence of paradise above for eternal glory of the resurrected (2Cor
5:6-8; Rev 6:10-11). On the other hand Christs JUSTICE has further condemned
the NETHERWORLD HELL with its chains of darkness and death in hades unto the
greater damnation of the ETERNAL HELL with its second death and everlasting
torment of gehennah furnace or lake of fire (Mat 5:22; 13:42; 2Pet 2:4; Jude
1:6; Rev 21:13-15).

Christ, the Bringer of Grace declared the balance between God's loving goodness
in salvation and God's wrathful severity in damnation.
John 3:16-18
(16) "For this is how God loved the world: He gave his unique Son so that everyone
who believes in him might not perish but have eternal life.
(17) For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the
world might be saved through him.
(18) Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has
already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God's unique
Son.

St Paul, the Apostle of Grace also gave a warning or teaching against the
erroneous presumption that Gods Grace excludes Gods Righteousness or that
Gods Love excludes Gods Wrath. Some even mistake Grace for Predestination
and irresistible Election. This is Gentile lopsided error and not wholesome
Scriptural truth.
Romans 11:21-22
(21) For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also not spare
you.
(22) Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them who fell, severity;
but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness: otherwise you also shall
be cut off.

1Corinthians 10:1-6
(1) For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of the fact that all of our
ancestors were under the cloud, and they all went through the sea,
(2) and they all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,
(3) and they all ate the same spiritual food,
(4) and they all drank the same spiritual drink, for they continually drank from the
spiritual Rock that went with them, and that Rock was Christ.
(5) But God wasn't pleased with most of them, and so they were struck down in the
wilderness.
(6) Now these things became examples for us so that we won't set our hearts on evil
as they did.

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As the Scriptures warn, Grace is NOT LICENSE (Jude 1:4) to remain as we were
and do the possibilities we could, but unmerited ACCESS into Gods presence and
supernatural ENABLEMENT to do the impossibilities we couldnt. It is by Grace
that all believers in Christ are redeemed from their depraved nature and brought
into His Divine Nature (2Pet 2:3-4) so they begin to live in the supernatural.
New Testament (Saving) GRACE is Gods full and free answer to Human
Depravity.... So Grace as the WORK OF SALVATION finished in Christ,
FULFILS the rituals of the Law (Mat 5:17-20) and ESTABLISHES the
promises of the Law and EMPOWERS us to live the precepts of the Law
(Rom 3:31) for us to inherit the PROMISES of the Law and even better
promises of heaven. Gods Law through Moses gave us the divine
revelation/CONFIGURATION of righteousness for inheritance of the Promised Land
expecting Christ, but Gods grace through Christ gave us the divine
regeneration/UPGRADE to righteousness for the inheritance of the Heavenly
Paradise experiencing Christ.

Todays world of postmodern paganism is angrily rebellious against God and

abhors (THEOSTUGEIA Rom 1:30) the worship of the Holy and Only God because
they learn that according to Gods Law, righteous wrath is incurred by their sinful
lawlessness. This new heathenish vogue that detests any responsibility
for their wrong-doing has produces rebellious hatred against parental
discipline which has become trendy vogue amongst boomer youths
since the hippie countercultural movement in the 1960s as a fulfilment
of 2Tim 3:1-5.

In Postmodern hippie culture someone is hailed to be cool if one does

not frown at anything as immoral or sinful; the only detestable wrong
is when one says that someone else is wrong or especially that
something is sinful. Postmodernists are not angry at their sins but angry at
Gods Law and every absolute standards of morality and truth or any father
figure that would point their sins out or frown at it; yet it is NOT Gods good
Law BUT our evil sins that messed us up before God (Isa 59:1-3; Rom 7:7-13).
Postmodern heathenish existentialism and agnosticism have become a press-
gang driving the Church so hard to deny the divine revelations of Scripture,
confuse the truth about Law and Grace to end up derailing into lopsided fallacies
of antinomianism and libertinism license to get whatever I want and do
whatever I want that has progressively worsened both Church and the world
by day.

The SAVING GRACE of Christs Cross is primarily the DIVINE POWER THAT
DESTROYS SIN AND ENDOWS HOLINESS (Rom 6:11-15) which God grants
favourably through Christ. Postmodern Christianity would promote the
preaching of power to overcome diseases, failure and poverty but not power to
overcome sin; rather silence should be kept about sin and holiness because it
makes the proud, rebellious and sin-loving Gentiles feel angry, depressed and
humiliated.

The post-evangelical Church of postmodern culture teaches the heathen error

and lie that SOBER WATCHFULNESS against falling into sin and CONTRITE
PENITENCE when we sin are what constitute SIN CONSCIOUSNESS in
Heb 10:2-4. Strangely, they think and teach that SEARED CONSCIENCE
wilful refusal to examine ones life with Scriptural law (1Tim 4:1-2; Jude
1:4) is a virtue instead! The truth that agrees with Scripture is that:

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 SIN CONSCIOUSNESS is not WATCHFULNESS TO AVOID WILFUL SIN;
SIN CONSCIOUSNESS is not the terror of falling into the hands of
the living God (Heb 10:26-31) and
SIN CONSCIOUSNESS is not the contrition FOR SECRET AND UN-
CONFESSED SIN
Rather, SIN CONSCIOUSNESS is the failure to realise Gods pardon
for sin or the feeling that such pardon for sin is lost.
Post-evangelicals would teach Christians to confess positively about being
healed, being able to do all things, and about getting all they want (and in Africa
they would teach Christians to confess positively that their enemies would fall
down or die and that ill will be returned to the sender) but would not teach about
positively confessing to sin no more or to be holy.

Thank God, we have the true precepts of COMPREHENSIVE divine revelation

CONTEXTUALLY documented in the Scriptures that we need no modern
heathenish presumptions or unfruitful humanist ideas to misinform us on what is
true. God help us all.
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Updated February 22, 2017

by Ven. Dr. I. U. Ibeme
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