True Grace from Heaven

There has been much ministry and discussion in recent years concerning the Biblical reality of the Grace of God!
Many voices of derision have arisen on this subject. Many today both in and outside of the church have a distorted concept concerning the New Covenant of Gods Mercy and Grace!
We have great difficulty accepting the fact that Gods awesome provision of His Son Jesus allowed us to have all our accounts settled forever in Heaven. (Independent of our feeble attempts at righteous goodness)

Jesus Christ forever satisfied the demands of the Eternal Court of Justice when He willingly became obedient to death and allowed Himself to become a sacrifice to secure our eternal release from hell and death. Jesus was not just nicely and neatly crucified as many religious artworks suggest. He did not just receive some small surgical nail prints in His hands and feet. The spear wound in his side was not a G rated artistic wound as we often imagine.

The cruel Crown of Thorns caused massive defacing laceration to his scalp and lovely head. Of course the cat o nine tails used by the Romans was an instrument of Draconian flagellation. The leather cords contained pieces of attached bone and metal pieces that stripped large tracts of flesh from the bone as the beating progressed.

Of course the suffering to remit our sins was not just a bodily physical suffering, it extended to all realms of His Being in order to satisfy what justice demanded to legally bring remission from sin and death to our sin natures. Jesus was tortured spiritually to bring us a New Spiritual Birth to secure our eternal home in Heaven. He was excruciatingly ravaged both mentally and emotionally to secure our soundness of mind and soul.
We must realize that our salvation cost Father God His very best. God didn’t just send a great angel or prophet to die for our sins. Our sin was so massive and profound that it actually extended to the Heavenly Utensils of Worship described in Hebrews.
As we see in the Scriptures below Jesus actually shed His Blood to bring cleansing to the vessels of the ministry in Heaven. So even though sin did not get into Heaven proper, the vessels of worship there were affected. In the old testament the repetitive blood of animals atoned temporarily for the sin of the people, now in the New Testament God Almighty has shed His Own Blood in Jesus Crucifixion to obtain once and forever remission and forgiveness for us all if we believe and receive. Remember under the Old there was only an atonement or covering of sin. Today in the New Testament we have a total absolute removal or remission for our sins for ever, we didn’t achieve this by being goody goodies either. It was all His Work and none of ours.

2 Corinthians 5:21 (CJB)
2 God made this sinless man be a sin offering on our behalf, so that in union with him we might fully share in God’s righteousness.”

HEBREWS 9:21-22 AMPLIFIED
Moses also sprinkled with blood the tent itself and all the sacred vessels. And you will find that in the Law almost all cleansing is made by means of blood—as 22 [In fact] under the Law almost everything is purified by means of blood, and without the shedding of blood there is neither release from sin and its guilt nor the remission of the due and merited punishment for sins.
23 By such means, therefore, it was necessary for the [earthly] copies of the heavenly things to be purified, but the actual heavenly things themselves [required far] better and nobler sacrifices than these.
24 For Christ (the Messiah) has not entered into a sanctuary made with [human] hands, only a copy and pattern and type of the true one, but [He has entered] into heaven itself, now to appear in the [very] presence of God on our behalf.
25 Nor did He [enter into the heavenly sanctuary to] offer Himself regularly again and again, as the high priest enters the [Holy of] Holies every year with blood not his own.
26 For then would He often have had to suffer [over and over again] since the foundation of the world. But as it now is, He has once for all at the consummation and close of the ages appeared to put away and abolish sin by His sacrifice [of Himself].
27 And just as it is appointed for [all] men once to die, and after that the [certain] judgment,
28 Even so it is that Christ, having been offered to take upon Himself and bear as a burden the sins of many once and [d]once for all, will appear a second time, not to carry any burden of sin nor to deal with sin, but to bring to full salvation those who are [eagerly, constantly, and patiently] waiting for and expecting Him.

The common saying has it: “No shedding of blood, no remission of sin.”

Christ has achieved the real appearance before God for us

HEBREWS 9:23-28 PHILLIPS
It was necessary for the earthly reproductions of heavenly realities to be purified by such methods, but the actual heavenly things could only be made pure in God’s sight by higher sacrifices than these. Christ did not therefore enter into any holy places made by human hands (however truly these may represent heavenly realities), but he entered Heaven itself to make his appearance before God as High Priest on our behalf. There is no intention that he should offer himself regularly, like the High Priest entering the holy of holies every year with the blood of another creature. For that would mean that he would have to suffer death every time he entered Heaven from the beginning of the world! No, the fact is that now, at this point in time, the end of the present age, he has appeared once and for all to abolish sin by the sacrifice of himself. And just as surely as it is appointed for all men to die and after that pass to their judgment, so it is certain that Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many and after that, to those who look for him, he will appear a second time, not this time to deal with sin, but to bring them to full salvation.

J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS)

So in light of the magnitude of our sin and the astronomical and unfathomable sacrifice of God on our behalf, let us truly and completely accept the sacrifice of His Son Jesus on our behalf. Let us receive His unmerited favor to us in endless waves of Glory and Grace.
It’s all God from start to finish and nothing to do with us. All we can do is believe and receive. God said "Go up to 100th Floor in 3 minutes time and then, knowing it is totally impossible, He then provided a 200 mph elevator and said "Get on board"!
Another analogy would be for God to tell the human race to jump or fly over Everest in 15 minutes time. Of course even the greatest pole vault athlete in history could never vault over Everest but God provided the Death, Burial and then RESURRECTION of Christ and gave us the same Spirit Jesus had when he Conquered death and ultimately ascended to Heaven bodily. We can never conquer death sin and carnal temptations on our own strength but in Christ all we have to do is Believe and Receive. This gives us imputed Righteousness, We didn’t earn it, we don’t deserve it but Hey, chill out, Jesus Loves us and made the way where there is no way. He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. He is Gods Divine elevator for us to appear Boldly before His Throne to obtain Help and Mercy in the Day of Need.

Shine on Beloved Ones, we have all been dirt bags in our faulty actions in one way or another, but He has made us Righteous by His Faith, Love and Grace!
What a deal, it’s better than realizing Warren Buffet made you the sole beneficiary of his fortune. All of the trillions of dollars of earth could not buy you a cheap seat in Heavens back stalls. But Jesus Precious Blood has purchased a guaranteed awesome tailor made position in the Eternal Heaven of Gods Kindness and Love!

Ephesians 1: 19 MESSAGE BIBLE
I ask the God of our Master, Jesus Christ, the God of glory—to make you intelligent and discerning in knowing him personally, your eyes focused and clear, so that you can see exactly what it is he is calling you to do, grasp the immensity of this glorious way of life he has for his followers, oh, the utter extravagance of his work in us who trust him—endless energy, boundless strength!

20-23 All this energy issues from Christ: God raised him from death and set him on a throne in deep heaven, in charge of running the universe, everything from galaxies to governments, no name and no power exempt from his rule. And not just for the time being, but forever. He is in charge of it all, has the final word on everything. At the center of all this, Christ rules the church. The church, you see, is not peripheral to the world; the world is peripheral to the church. The church is Christ’s body, in which he speaks and acts, by which he fills everything with his presence.