In this message entitled “Grace, not Karma", I ask the question: why do so many Christians believe that God doles out misery in proportion to our sin—that pain is God’s pay back for bad behavior? Why do so many of us assume, like Job’s friends, that the suffering we endure is God’s punishment for what we've done?

And the answer is, because we don’t truly believe that God is a God of grace.

The funny thing is, the sins you think God is still punishing you for, He doesn’t even remember: “For I will forgive their wickedness and remember their sins no more” (Hebrews 8:12). Because of Jesus, “your sin is cast into the sea of God’s forgotten memory.”

Robert Capon said that “If God has announced anything in Jesus, it is that he has pensioned off the bookkeeping department permanently.” Amen!

I hope this message encourages you greatly…