Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

1Cor.1:3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Many Christian professing Jesus Christ never find peace of God because they have not understood or received the grace of God, what is the grace of God? It is unmerited kindness, or putting it another way, it is undeserved kindness, a gift that cannot be earned by our own merit through good works. When Christian's find themselves defending personal good works, that is, how good of a person they are for accepting Jesus Christ they lose God Holy Spirit which brings them peace, but why?

Romans 3:20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Simply put, it is not about us it is about Christ Jesus who's life we have become a part of, what does this mean? It means that the good works done through a Christian are actually Christ Jesus good works because of his righteousness, and not our own. We have no personal righteousness, we do have Christ Jesus righteousness given us as a gift of undeserved kindness. Nothing we can do will earns us Christ Jesus righteousness, it is a gift of God's love which gives us peace, but how does it give us peace?

John 11:25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

Christ Jesus righteousness replaced, or completed the righteousness of the Old Law or Covenant. Christ blood removed the wrath of judgment of the Old Law condemning us to death for our sins. Now we have received the gift of life without having our sin accounted against us, that is, because of the gift of undeserved kindness in the life of Christ Jesus. We thus, stand righteous before God because we have had imputed too us the merit of what Christ Jesus earned for us. So we cannot earn righteousness it is a free gift, Thus, we must rest by our faith in what Christ Jesus has done for us.

Now we can receive peace with God allowing the free working of the Holy Spirit as another gift for Christ Jesus sinless life. Where we return to earning our own righteousness by merit of good works performed by doctrines, we loss the peace of God that excels all thought in a violent world.

Romans 5:18 So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.