Romans 9:21

21 Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same mass (lump) one vessel for beauty and distinction and honorable use, and another for menial or ignoble and dishonorable use?

In every house there are vessels of honor and vessels of dishonor, but they all work together so that the house is livable, 2 Timothy 2:20. There are also far more vessels of honor in a home then there are of dishonor. The same holds true in our Father’s house. Also, do you get ride of your vessels of dishonor? Do you get rid of your toilets or your garbage disposals? No, you clean them and keep them. If you were to get rid of these things your house would not be as nice. Once again, the same holds true in our Father’s House.

Think about the vessels of dishonor in this world. The best example to me would be would be a preacher who is only in it for the money. They may seem to be the first now, but they will be the last for eternity. Even though all of their works are going to be burned up, they will still be saved, but only as one who has passed through the fire, 1 Corinthians 3:15. They will be forgiven of their many sins and therefore they will love much, Luke 7:47. So the last in eternity will be filled with and controlled by love. They aren’t thrown into Hell to suffer, they are cleaned up and used to love!    

I really cannot stress this Truth enough, because my whole life I have been told that most of us are going to be thrown into Hell and that those who are will have to suffer for all of eternity. I was told that there are far more people who are vessels of dishonor then of honor. But when Jesus talks about Judgement Day in His parable of the Marriage Feast, He only tells us of one man not being allowed to stay, Matthew 22. Why? Why didn’t our Savior tell us that most of us will not be able to stay if there are so many vessels of dishonor? Was Jesus a poor parable teller? I mean if it were true that most of us are going to Hell, why did He only say one? 

Why did Jesus tell us that He was given authority over all flesh and then tell us that our Father would glorify Him so that He could give eternal life to all that He had been given, John 17:2? Why did Jesus specifically tell us that only one man that He was given, Judas, would be lost, John 17:12? If grace is truly grace it does not have to be accepted to be applied or it would be a wage, Romans 4:4. If there are no laws there are no laws, Romans 6:14. There are no laws for family members and there are no laws for guests of the family. Our Father does not respect anyone over another, Acts 10:34.     

Romans 8:6-8

6 Now the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death [death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter]. But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever].

Faith comes for us from hearing the Truth and it is our Father’s Truth that sets us free. Faith, even as small as a mustard seed, will move a mountain and the Truth is that we now have the Holy Spirit controlling us. He doesn’t pick and choose only a few areas of our life’s to control either, He controls everything that there is in our life’s. He never leaves us and He never forsakes us, therefore He is always causing us to triumph. Everything that happens in our life’s now works out for our and our Kingdoms good. 

To believe any other way is to be fleshly minded and that kind of thinking only brings fear. But the Truth brings us great peace and allows us to be used by our Father to serve the world. If we had to be concerned about what we had to do, or if we had to take thought about whether we were properly keeping a set of rules, we would always be focused on ourselves. We would also find a reason to condemn ourselves and others. When we feel intimidated or insecure, we tend to find faults in others. This allows us to feel like were not alone and that we aren’t that bad. But when we are given the Mind of Christ that doesn’t take thought for such things, we are able to forgive and intercede and never take any negative thought for the actions of those who our Father is using us to serve. We are able to fully apply grace because we fully live in grace. If we had to live in Law, we would demand the Law from those we serve. There is no freedom in rules and laws, there is however freedom in Christ.   

7 [That is] because the mind of the flesh [with its carnal thoughts and purposes] is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's Law; indeed it cannot.

To believe that our Father has a set of rules that we on our own have to keep, slaps Him in the face and insults Him. That kind of thinking says that His grace has to be earned and that His mercy has to be accepted, not just freely applied. Religion with all of its rules does not please our Father. It never has and it never will.  

8 So then those who are living the life of the flesh [catering to the appetites and impulses of their carnal nature] cannot please or satisfy God, or be acceptable to Him.

    

Religion is not acceptable to our Father. Jesus is acceptable and Jesus is life and He is peace. Church is great, we are to gather together with like minded believers. But if that gathering turns into a group of people developing a set of rules and laws to show others how to live, it becomes carnal and is unacceptable. We are all individual body parts of Christ. The hand does not act or need what the kidneys do. Our hair needs and acts differently that our eyes. The same holds true with us. Our Father will use and provide for each of us as He sees fit. We are all different and we are all used differently. This is why it is all Grace. What our Father wants me to do and what I need is different than what He wants for you. We are all one body, but we all are individual members of that body. There is not a set of laws that can fit us all, only grace does and we now have it in abundance. 

Romans 7:18

18 For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot perform it. [I have the intention and urge to do what is right, but no power to carry it out.]

Our flesh can do nothing right and I honestly believe that most of us know this. Our flesh on its own is incapable of performing anything correctly. Without Christ our flesh simply fails. The Law is a set of rules that tells the flesh what to do on its own. The Ten Commandments are never displayed with a statement that Jesus has to do these things through us, even though our flesh is absolutely incapable of doing what they tell us to do. Our Father made the flesh to be that way. He did this so that He could send Jesus and then have mercy on all men regardless of what they have done. 

Remember what our Father told us in Romans 11:32 that He would have mercy on all men alike! Through Jesus, our Father has mercy on all of us. He never favors one of us over another. If it was up to our flesh to accept this glorious Truth we would fail. But thank God that all men are now sold into being a slave of Jesus Christ. We were all slaves of sin, but now we are all Jesus’ possessions. He bought us and He now owns all of us, whether we accept this Truth or not. Jesus is responsible for each and every one of us and is is responsible for each and every one of us to have eternal life.

 [Just as] You have granted Him power and authority over all flesh (all humankind), [now glorify Him] so that He may give eternal life to all whom You have given Him. John 17:2

Jesus now has power over all flesh and our Father glorified Him so that He will give eternal life to all flesh. There are a lot of people who try and place The Law and other man made religious rules on us. Laws like where to worship, when to worship, and how to dress when we worship. They try to tell us what to eat and tons and tons of other man made obligations. Jesus did away with all of these laws, except love. Because of Jesus’ success, all laws are now dead for us. They have to be dead for us, so that sin can now be dead for us. It all has to be grace, which means that it all has to be our Father’s power working through us. We cannot boast and we cannot condemn because it is always our Father’s power being greater in us. 

This freedom applies to all men. Think of a worldly judge. What if his son came up before him and had committed a crime, yet the judge let him off, only because that he was his son. Then right after that case, a man who had said nasty things about the judge came up before him. With this case the judge found the man guilty and sentenced him with the maximum sentence, only because he had spoken against the judge. We would be outraged and throw the judge out of office. Today this kind of thing happens all of the time with corrupt judges, politicians, dictators, and dishonest businessmen. When it makes the news we are all outraged and demand that the person is punished. Yet on Sunday we hear that this is the very thing that our Father does. We say that we are forgiven only because we are God’s children, when the Truth is that Jesus died so that the world could be saved. Jesus did away with all of the laws and He did it for everyone. Our Lord is no respecter of persons. When Jesus was here as a man, He favored those who believed Him and those who did not believe Him. Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He never changes!   

Grace is always underserved. We do not have to accept grace, if we had to accept it then grace would be earned and not free. The glorious Truth is that all men have been set free from the Law and grace is for all men. Some of us have been empowered to know this Truth now. We are called the Bride of Christ, which means that we will serve with Jesus for all of eternity. Some of us don’t know this Truth now, but we will after the Resurrection. These people are the guests of the Bride, which means that they will be served by us. But all men will spend eternity with our Father, because Jesus was that successful. 

 [Just as] You have granted Him power and authority over all flesh (all humankind), [now glorify Him] so that He may give eternal life to all whom You have given Him. John 17:2

Jesus has secured eternal life for all that He has been given and He has been given all. Our Father will have mercy on all men alike.

For God has consigned (penned up) all men to disobedience, only that He may have mercy on them all [alike]. Romans 11:32