I think many of us who assume we are pushing the limits of grace, are actually pushing the limits of the natural man’s CONCEPT of grace. More than not our doctrines of grace have PROVEN to be so human when push comes to shove. But, is God a human that He should live according to man? Or is He truly all powerful and are His ways truly higher?[as in unattainable] If God is Spirit can He be understood by flesh? If not, then why are we banging our heads against so many heartless legal conclusions about Him and His miraculous wisdom in Christ?[to us] The same threat of Bad News that John spoke of [ FEAR has to do with punishment] is the same bad news that we read into almost everything when we project that fleshly sense of what God has brought to us through His Son. Worries of blowing it and turning grace into a licence for sin have detoured us from seeing what was really and truly meant to be[and has been] brought to us through the living Christ. The Good News just gets lost in it all. See, the Good News is that all of our legal fears are erased in the One who has taken it all away. The living and enduring word to us is that our sins and lawless deeds are remembered no more. We are clean, justified and dearly loved. There is nothing more we can conjure up in the fear of the legal mind that will add to that in any way. Is God somehow justifying sin? NO. He isn’t doing that. He is the release of sin. He is the power to live upright. The legal stuff isn’t something we need to fear for God knows us who are His and He will be faithful to reveal this true life to us in the midst of any deception thrown at us in this world or even through our bodies and minds. The fact is, we can know that our flesh will drift to grace according to the natural mind even daily but, God who is GREATER will continue to reveal is true grace to us in the midst!