The grace of God is a huge subject that must be fully and properly understood to experience the radical transformation from within by the Spirit. Without understanding, there can be no fire.

Truth is wood, Holy Spirit is fuel. Jesus is the truth. People who have been Christians for a long while but lack the real transformation from within, or struggling with status quo, a probable reason is not grasping the grace of God. It is often misunderstood to be cheap. Grace of God may be free, but isn't cheap. It's indispensable. People will perish without the grace of God. It's not an option.

Jeremiah 31:31–34

Many people wander in this world not knowing the true living God, not knowing why we face so much hardship and sufferings and injustice etc. Greed, self-centeredness continues to rule and not the best side of human beings shows forth. So Christianity with our gospel message in Christ Jesus is the central corner stone message for all, and yet people shun church and regard any church as an organized religion and therefore not interested. The root cause of this problem is not the people’s fault or the church. People don’t know God. There is generally a very vague sense at best of what the real nature is of the God the Bible puts forth, and because of that, the Christian message, the Christian life, and the Christian ethic make no sense. Without the foundational knowledge of who God is, nothing else about Christianity makes sense at all. The Ten Commandments make no sense. That’s the reason why they are discarded and ignored in a place like New York City. It’s not simply because people are immoral; it’s because people, in a foundational way, don’t understand who God is.

The religion in this world teaches us that if we try to be a good man or woman in our lives, pleasing to God, He will be pleased to grant us his salvation and give us the eternal life, which is what everyone is after. But what the bible is saying is that we obey because He has loved us and saved us. Obedience is a result of salvation, not as a means to obtain salvation. Salvation is only possible by faith in Christ’s substitution death on the cross for us, and his resurrection.

The religion in this world teaches us that if we try to be a good man or woman in our lives, pleasing to God, He will be pleased to grant us his salvation and give us the eternal life, which is what everyone is after. But what the bible is saying is that we obey because He has loved us and saved us. Obedience is a result of salvation, not as a means to obtain salvation. Salvation is only possible by faith in Christ’s substitution death on the cross for us, and his resurrection.