Righteous Reminders

a ministry of Grace Life International (GLI)

Righteous Reminders is a resource for believers in Jesus Christ to get reminded of the finished work of Christ. A resource that highlights the Grace of God in our everyday lives and the realities of living in a New Covenant in Christ.

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Why Are Reminders So Important?

This resource is built around 2 Peter 1:12 & 13.
2 Peter 1:12-13 Therefore, I will always be ready to remind you of these things, even though you already know them and have been established in the truth which is present with you. 13 I consider it right, as long as I am in this earthly dwelling, to stir you up by way of reminder,
Peter is telling his audience in verse 12 that he “will always be ready to remind you of these things”. Even though you already know them and have been established in the truth. These people already know this truth. They not only know it but are established in it. Peter goes on to say “he considers it right, as long as I am in this earthly dwelling, to stir you up by way of reminder”. He is saying it’s the right thing to do, that he intends to stir them up.
So I hope you are stirred up as well. Stirred up with the truth about Jesus Christ and your union with him, the truth of the New Covenant, and that you are fully Loved, fully Accepted fully Worthy, and fully Secure!

Reminder Articles

  • March 5, 2022

    You are Loved


    Our heavenly father loves his creation. After all, we were created in his image...

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  • October 17, 2022

    What’s the Disconnect?


    Why can we freely and easily encourage others, but when it comes to us, a different standard applies? That can be a complicated question, but it doesn't have to be.

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  • March 7, 2022

    What Makes us Worthy?


    We are worthy not by what we do, but by what Christ has done in us...

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We all Have 4 Basic Needs

Are you getting those needs met using your own recources? Or are you depending on God to fill them?

Popular Reminders


SALVATION: Ephesians 2:8-9 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.


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IDENTITY: And to put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth. Ephesians 4:24 24


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FORGIVENESS: Hebrews 10:10 By this will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time.


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It's Important to Believe The Truth
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Quick Truths for Common Lies

True? or False? Let scripture decide.

You can lose your Salvation
FALSE-(Common sense moment) If you could lose your eternal life (salvation) then it would not be eternal, it would be temporary life. Eternal life is not a thing, it’s a person. Jesus Christ. He’s the Beginning and the End. You are in union with eternal life (Jesus) Romans 8:38-39 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord
God predestined certain people to believe and others have no choice
FALSE-Ephesians 1:11-13 In Him we also have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things in accordance with the plan of His will, 12 to the end that we who were the first to hope in the Christ would be to the praise of His glory. 13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of the promise.

In verse 13 we see a people group; “we also” were predestined as well as “we who were the first to hope in the Christ” Remember this Paul speaking; a Jew himself, He’s speaking to and about the Jews.
Then we see in verse 13 the people group “you also” Paul here is speaking to the Gentiles. This was the great mystery now revealed. Ephesians 3:1-7 That the Gentiles are now fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

Predestination is not about individual selection, but about the inclusion of the Gentiles in the saving Grace of God.
Believers should adhere to everthing Jesus taught
FALSE-We must remember an important fact; Jesus was born under the law. (Galatians 4:4)
Many of the parables and teachings of Jesus during his short ministry were law-based teachings.

Matthew 5:27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery; 28 but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Matthew 5:29 Now if your right eye is causing you to sin, tear it out and throw it away from you
Matthew 5:20 “For I say to you that unless your righteousness far surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.
Even the Lord's prayer concludes “if you do not forgive others your heavenly Father will not forgive you.”

If we were to adhere to those teachings we would be a group of one-eyed, unforgiven, self-righteous sinners. Jesus taught under the law but his mission was to introduce grace. A new way. But he needed to show the utter futility of trying to live up to the law and reveal the need for a savior.
We are saved by Grace, but the 10 commandments are still our moral guide.
FALSE -I think Paul addressing the Galatians says it best;

Galatians 3:1-5 You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? 2 This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by works of the Law, or by hearing with faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? 4 Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? 5 So then, does He who provides you with the Spirit and works miracles among you, do it by works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?

The Galatians received the good news of the gospel and started in the Spirit. Salvation by Grace through faith. But then they were told by those that still followed the law that “Salvation by Grace through faith” is great BUT, you still need to adhere to the law of Moses. In other words, you aren’t dead to the law you are still under it. We know that Jesus fulfilled the law and we are dead to it.

In fact Paul calls the law a “ministry of death” and a “ministry of condemnation” (2 Corinthians 3 verses 7 and 9)
It is your Christian obligation to God to tithe 10%
FALSE - This is another one of those common-sense moments.
Never, anywhere, ever in any of the Epistles in the New Testament do you find Paul, Peter James, John, or anyone else teaching new believers the idea of tithing, let alone 10%. Wouldn’t you think that if that was our duty or obligation to God at least one Apostle would let us know? Here’s our New Covenant, our under Grace instructions for giving;
2 Corinthians 9:7 Each one must do just as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Period.
You have a sinful nature and thats your biggest battle
FALSE - This is a lie that has its origins in a bible translation that erroneously translated the word “flesh” in the Greek “sarx” as sinful nature.
In Galatians 5:16 NIV 16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the (sinful nature). They have since in newer updated versions stopped translating flesh as sinful nature.
This translation misled people to believe that they had 2 distinct natures. One good, our new nature, given by God, and one old, bad nature we were born with. You don’t have two natures.
You may have heard it explained as a good dog and a bad dog. The one you feed the most lives.

The truth is you are a new creation. (2 Corinthians 5:17) Your old self was crucified with Christ. (Galatians 2:20). Romans 6:4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life.

That corrupt, dead old self was crucified and buried. We were born again to a new life in Christ.
The more committed you are to God, the closer you become to him
FALSE - To understand why this is false, we must first understand our closeness to God. The truth is you cannot get any closer to God than you are at the moment of salvation.

Here’s why. Because a miracle happens in that when we receive Christ as savior we not only receive forgiveness of our sins, we are reconciled and justified before God. Meaning a relationship lost with Adam is now restored in us. But that’s not all, we also get Christ's life.

You see, it’s his life that saves us, not the cross. The cross gives us forgiveness, the resurrection gives us life. Christ's life. Romans 5:10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

We enter into a union with Jesus. This union cannot be undone. We did nothing to create it and we can do nothing to change or even alter it.

John 17:20-21 “I am not asking on behalf of these alone, but also for those who believe in Me through their word, 21 that they may all be one; just as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
We must continually ask Gods forgiveness when we sin in order to be cleansed.
FALSE - Hebrews 10:10 By this will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time. Do you see it? ONCE FOR ALL TIME.

Hebrews 10:18 Now where there is forgiveness of these things, an offering for sin is no longer required. Do you see it? There is NO MORE OFFERING FOR SIN.

Before the cross forgiveness was continual. Priests were continually offering sacrifices for the sins of the people. Priests never rested from their duties because there were always sacrifices to offer. The law laid out the particulars for the different types of sacrifices.

At the cross, Jesus himself became the sacrifice for the sins of the world. The continual sacrificial system had ended at the cross. As we see in Hebrews 10:18 and offering is no longer required. Our forgiveness was once for all time. Since forgiveness can only come by the shedding of blood there is no more to receive. Hebrews 9:22,

Hebrews 10:11-12 Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; 12 but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God.
You are not really righteous, God is just seeing Jesus in you
FALSE - To stand in the presence of God we need to be righteous, holy, pure, without sin, we need to be perfect. Sounds impossible, doesn't it? Well, it is apart from Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin in our behalf so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Romans 5:17 For if by the offense of the one, death reigned through the one, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

Romans 8:10 If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

We know there is only one who is righteous. Jesus Christ. 2 Corinthians 5:21 says we have become the righteousness of God in him.
Romans 5:17 says we have received the gift of righteousness.
Romans 8:10 says our spirit is alive because of righteousness. Do you see it?

Jesus is the righteous one and we are alive because we are in union with him. God is not just looking out of the corner of his eye around our sinfulness and seeing only Jesus. He sees us in union with his Son. He sees us as we are now, righteous, holy, pure, without sin, perfected in his Son.
Being under Grace means there is no longer any consequences for sin
TRUE & FALSE – The truth is there are no more eternal consequences for sin. Adam and Eve sinned one time and lost life. We sin every day and never lose life.

We are in right relationship with God because we are in union with Christ.
Christ's sacrifice on the cross settled the sin issue once for all time. Nothing can separate us from God's love.
Romans 8:38-39 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

It's also false because there are natural consequences for sin. When we are in Christ we are no longer built for sin. It's against our new nature. For instance, if you cheat on your wife or husband, there will be consequences. Negative consequences. Both experientially and emotionally for both parties and possibly family and friends. Most if not all our sinning results in an emotional state that is the opposite of the peace we can walk in as a child of God.

We are born of the Spirit so we should walk by the Spirit.

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