UNDERSTANDING FIVE DIVINE PERSONS – GRACE, MERCY, FORGIVENESS, JUDGEMENT AND CONSEQUENCE OF SIN
These five are not the same.
Consequence of sin is different from Reward for sin. Consequence of sin is for a season but Reward for sin is eternal, with finality.
If you get the Reward for sin, it means you did not experience forgiveness of your sin, mercy was not shown to you and definitely grace did not work for you.
You can only experience forgiveness of sin because mercy worked for you and the only reason mercy worked for you is because grace is in operation.
Grace is bigger than Mercy. Grace is the grandfather of all. Grace gave birth to Mercy. He also has other children called Truth, Judgment and Consequence of Sin.
Forgiveness is the child of Mercy and a grandchild to Grace.
When a child of grace commits sin, Truth shows up first, to convict him of the sin, Judgment then follows to declare ‘a reward’ but Mercy being the elder brother to Judgment is allowed to speak first and he will recommend his child Forgiveness to step in, but to serve as a deterrent for you as a member of the family (The GRACE Family) not to go astray and to forestall you from reaping the reward, ‘Consequence of Sin’ will be unleashed to whip you for a season.
The difference between David and Saul is that David did not run away from ‘Consequence’ but Saul did. When Samuel (Truth) showed up to convict Saul of his sin, Saul tore his cloth having thought through what ‘Consequence’ will take him through and convincing himself he will not want to go through all that, the result of his action was that Judgment was allowed to do his work, declaring the kingdom taken away from him.
That day, what happened was that the ‘Grace Family’ said – this is not one of us. You will notice that from that day he was making mistakes upon mistakes, upon mistakes, the empowerment to be right disappeared from his life
Grace is that thing that drives you back to God and empowers you to do what is right, even when you have failed, you will come back and say ah, I can’t stay here, that’s grace! Grace is not forgiveness but forgiveness is a grandchild of grace. Without grace there will be nothing called forgiveness, but forgiveness is not grace because grace is bigger than forgiveness.
Don’t you ever get to that point that Satan will magnify ‘Consequence of sin’ to the point that you are so afraid of it and you refuse to repent. I told you about David, he was born by Grace and was enjoying Grace until Bathsheba came. In order for Mercy to clear him and prevent him from loosing Grace, Nathan (Truth) showed up.
Five personalities that we must identify: Grace, Mercy, Forgiveness, Judgment and Consequence of Sin.
Forgiveness of Sin can never come into existence without Mercy, and mercy cannot exist without Grace being in operation, therefore, Grace is the grandfather of all of them. Grace is the Father; Mercy is the son, Forgiveness of Sin is the grandson. But wait a moment, just as the grandfather had many sons, Mercy has brothers and Forgiveness of Sin has brothers as well.
However, when you want to trace Forgiveness of Sin back to its origin you must go through Mercy and get to Grace. Now, there are other children that Grace has; one of them is Truth, another Judgment and another, Consequence of Sin. Taking David as a case study, David was born with grace. Grace was operating in his life.
What is grace? Grace is empowerment to be what God has in mind for us to be. Grace is that return to what was originally in the mind of God when he said let us make man in our own image. We lost it in the garden and God looked for another way of bringing to pass, that ‘another way’ is what is called grace.
An empowerment saying – “My counsel concerning these ones shall stand. How will it stand? It will stand because they will know the truth”. Truth will give birth to them, it will stand because there will be a time when they will need Mercy. It will stand because there will be a time when ‘Consequence’ will need to chastise them because if they don’t go through chastisement they will be bastards.