Built Upon

        Today I'm going to talk about something that took me a long time to realize. For the longest time, I thought that as a Christian, what you are supposed to do is live a good life (better than non-Christians) by the statutes in the bible. I thought you did this because Jesus died for  you, so you should at least TRY to be good in return.         What I've come to realize is, that in actuality, Christians aren't supposed to try as hard as possible to live by the rules in order to be a decent person. By no means! Truthfully, we aren't even really capable to change ourselves. The reality is that Christ died for us, allowed us a personal relationship with Him, and through that HE changes us. Our focus should be on our relationship with Him and growing there instead of attempting to better ourselves on our own.         I used to not understand what people meant when they spok...

Should we still follow the ten commandments today, since we're under the new covenant and not the law?         Jesus came to fulfil the law, which means we don't have to attempt to uphold the law by our own fruition. We don't have to live by the law any more. However, the reason God gave us the laws to begin with was because He loves us, so shouldn't they mean something?         Through Jesus' death on the cross, we can have a personal relationship with Christ where He transforms us to be like Him. Even though Grace abounds, we don't keep living in sin because we are being changed by the blood of our Saviour. He works through us to make us in His image. So DO we still follow the ten commandments? Yes, because they are Godly principles. But that isn't what we put our identity in or what saves us, and we don't keep them through our own power and our own desires. Being transformed to live like Christ, you truly can l...