Why The Grace of God Is Not Permission To Sin

People often depict the grace of God or the fact that we are currently living under grace and truth as a carte blanche invitation to sin. As if Messiah's suffering, death, burial and resurrection means that the law is therefore now void and antiquated and unnecessary. First let me say, that every kingdom has laws and the kingdom of God is no different. Without law there is only anarchy and anarchy is not of God but of Satan. The suffering, death, burial and resurrection of Messiah was never intended to render the laws of God's kingdom obsolete. Instead the grace of Elohim exists before we even sin and provides for us the opportunity not to sin in the first place but if we we're to sin, we still have the avenue of repentance once we realize and confess our accountability for the sin that we commit. Grace exists so that we are empowered through the habitation or indwelling of the Holy Spirit not to sin in the first place. The grace of God gives us the ability to obey the laws of God rather than providing for us an opportunity to explain just how "human" we are by submitting to this flesh and sinning. The law was considered bondage because there was no way for us in our human frailty to fulfill the law but it is through God's grace and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit that we are able to abide by God's laws not to be idolatrous, liars, cheaters, murderers, fornicators, adulterers, etc. We cannot afford to take for granted that just because the grace of God exists that we then have the freedom to sin without repercussions. When we sin, even after we repent, that is a seed sown and a harvest that will be reaped. The grace of God helps us to refrain from sowing seeds that we are not willing to reap through sin. We will always reap what we have sown but repentance and the grace of God determines to what extent we will reap what we have sown. Although some people think that we cannot "out sin" God's grace as it is infinite, God's grace is abundant and infinite in that it will keep us from sinning in the first place as we submit to the Holy Spirit and conform to the image of Messiah. We cannot keep gossipping, backbiting, lying, cheating, etc. after the Holy Spirit convicts us, override the conviction, make excuses and justifications for our sin and then expect that the grace of God will keep us saved. When we disobey God, we put ourselves in the precarious position of removing His covering (His grace) from ourselves when we willfully and overtly sin. Yeshua came to fulfill the law not make it obsolete! So Believers need to stop the erroneous teaching of grace and truth as the coverall for sin. When you fulfill a task, you have completed it not made the task obsolete. When a man fulfills his wife, he has completed her not done away with her. MESSIAH FULFILLED THE LAW SO THAT WE WOULD BE FREE FROM COMMITTING SIN IN THE FIRST PLACE NOT SO THAT WE CAN WILLFULLY SIN, OVERRIDE HIS CONVICTION AND MAKE LAME EXCUSES FOR OUR SIN AND THEN EXPECT THAT GOD WILL ALLOW THE SACRIFICE OF HIS SON TO BE REPEATEDLY VIOLATED AND TROUNCED UPON. HABITUAL SIN IS REFUSING GOD'S GRACE. WE DON'T HAVE TO SIN! THAT'S THE GOOD NEWS!
THE GRACE OF GOD EMPOWERS US TO OVERRIDE OUR SIN NATURE SO THAT WE ARE NOT A SLAVE TO IT! 

Using grace as if it will cover willful, habitual sin is to live without reverential fear of God and without reverential fear of God, we rebel against Him and disobey His laws consistently and jeopardize our souls. We enslave ourselves to our flesh and sentence ourselves to a life of mediocrity not to mention living as a carnal Christian who never matures spiritually and actually puts themselves in jeopardy of becoming a spiritual reprobate. Grace is not permission to sin! Grace is submission to the process of sanctification so that we are holy. Grace is the power, that only God can give us through the Blood of Jesus and the indwelling of His spirit not to sin! We are to die daily and submit to the Holy Spirit so that we can conform to the image of Messiah not continue sinning as if we have no help or hope!

Mocha Brown aka Koretta L. Allen is available for public speaking engagements especially pertaining to subjects of single parenthood, being single, women's empowerment through the word of God and much more. Mochababybrown@gmail.com

The Reality of This Present Time.

 Often at the beginning of a bright, shiny new year we may find ourselves wanting to gaze into the future: what we hope the future will be and what we pray it will not be. But after all is said and done it is imperative for us to prepare ourselves to abandon all of our finite planning, goal-setting and dreaming for God's infinite plan and purpose for our lives. My reality is the following: I may not ever get married. I will soon be 40 and I am not sure if I still want to get married. I am tired and weary of the subject and just want to be content with where God has me as a single woman and as a single mother. 

Once upon a time, I was very guilty of the sin of idolatry. I idolized the idea of marriage, family and having children hence my screw up in putting the cart before the horse and having my first child out of wedlock then after that relationship ended disastrously, I found myself on the rebound and with baby number two! I wanted marriage, family, and children more than I wanted anything...including God! I can admit this now and I believe that for the sake of catharsis as well as to stand as a testimony, it is high time that I came clean! My parents divorced when I was 5 years old but even before that I was 3 when they first separated. So I longed and ached for a whole and healthy family. I never got it! I prayed for my mother and father to get back together and the reality that they would never be married again was more painful than I could bare. I thought that I was justified in wanting these things more than I wanted God, besides I didn't ask to be here and I most certainly didn't ask to be born to parents who couldn't make it together. But Jesus still required faithfulness and commitment to Him. I did not have the right to use the pain that I experienced as a child of divorce to forsake Christ and erect an idol in my life that caused me to sin against the very God who could heal me.

Whether I like it or not, I may not ever get married. I may not ever be anybody's wife or spend the rest of my life knowing what it is to have a man love me enough to make me his wife. These are musings that have crossed my mind and they are facts that I have to face. I am a single mother and like it or not, I cannot afford to have just any man in my life for the health, safety and stability of my children. It is quite enough that my sloppy life (prior to selling out to Christ) has deprived my children of a healthy father/child relationship and I refuse to make matters worse for them by inviting any ol' piece of man (as my grandmother use to call them) into my children's lives. Don't get me wrong, I would like to get married but marriage is not the priority that it once was in my life.

My priorities at the present are submitting my life as worship to God and raising my children to be sold out people of God who avoid the pitfalls that I fell into as a young person. I would truly like for my children to have a father-figure in their lives but I will not allow them to become the object of a sexual predator or random nutjob that preys on single mothers and their children; the mothers who are desperate for male companionship while the children are desperate for a father figure. This is a recipe for trouble as many single mothers have married or have engaged in pseudo-marriage relationships with men who took advantage of the women and sexually, physically and/or emotionally abused the children. I am also aware that there are lots of mentor groups for fatherless children but unless I know the man personally, there is absolutely no way that I will ever allow some random man, that I don't know at a church or with an organization or anywhere who feigns himself to be a mentor and father figure to fatherless children only to have my children's innocence and virtue compromised by some closet pedophile. 

Desperation for anything or anyone outside of Christ can have disastrous consequences. Hey, that's how I got to be a single mother in the first place! I was desperate for a husband and kids so much so that I compromised myself and everything that I believed in order to try to get my way. Well, I didn't get my way and what's worse is that I allowed myself to become so consumed with wanting to be married that I decided not to do it God's way either. But to God be the glory for helping me get it together two kids and no husband later. God is faithful and I truly believe that He who has begun a good work in me is faithful to complete the work that He has begun in me (Philippians 1:6). I haven't completely shutdown on marriage but I've simply decided that my life is better spent committed to God and the things that He has entrusted me to have stewardship of right now than commit myself to getting and being married and even going so far as to try to subvert God's authority, plan and purpose for my life as well as the lives of my children.

In addition to not obsessing over marriage I had to clean some other demons out of my closet and this is just one of the videos that really helped me to face me and stop making excuses for sins that were separating me from God. I don't agree with all of this brother's videos but this one is on point for sure. However if you are not willing or ready to face, confess and repent of your own sin then you might not want to watch this video as he is very frank about a subject that most single Christians and even Christian single parents struggle with overcoming. 

Remember mediocrity hates greatness, so be great and let the haters, hate!

LadyfromZion aka Koretta L. Allen is available for public speaking engagements especially pertaining to subjects of single parenthood, being single, women's empowerment through the word of God and much more. Mochababybrown@gmail.com

The Mistake

Whatever you're angry, bitter, hurt or offended about today, just let it go! If there is something constructive that you can do to help the situation and improve it, then fine! Do it! But if you've done everything that you can do, then it's time for you to step aside and allow the Lord to be the great, big God that He desires to be in your life. If you're worried then it's probably because the issue, whatever it is, is too big for you to handle. So release it to God. How? Every Christian should have at least 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes at the end of the day to just pray, meditate and spend time in the presence of the Lord. That's how you gain the strength, courage, insight and godly wisdom to locate where you are when you're feeling lost so that you can, if need be, repent and move beyond to where God wants you otherwise you'll stagnate yourself and subsequently lose sight of your goals.  Psalm 139:23 says, "Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts." Realize that whenever you are anxious it is more than likely because your outer man and your spirit man are trying to take you in different directions and you are uneasy because you're leaning toward the desires of the outer man which are out of sync with God's plan and purpose for your life. So it is up to you to invite God's presence into your surroundings and into you so that He can search you and locate you when you're lost in the muck of your anger, bitterness, and offense. This is why Philippians 4:6 says, "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God." Anxiety, fear and worry are derivatives of rebellion, defiance and disobedience which also come from feelings of anger, resentment, bitterness and offense. As you mature emotionally and spiritually, you will accept that anxiety, fear and worry and everything associated in anyway with these feelings that could lead us to sin against God, are simply not worth the time or energy to indulge.  When you find yourself tired of those things to the point that you tell God, "Not my will, Father but your will alone be done!" and mean it, then you will have shut down any access that you've unwittingly given to the enemy to wreak havoc in your life because of your erroneous behavior. Anger, bitterness, etc. along with fear, anxiety, worry as well as doubt, unbelief, and distrust are all a part of a vicious destructive cycle that works in cooperation with each other to destroy everything that God has planned for you. Jeremiah 29:11 says, "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Understand that Satan's mission is to kill, steal and destroy and if you give him access to your life by being unproductively angry and bitter or resentful and offended then you are in jeopardy of losing everything that God has promised you.


As Christians it is ever so crucial for us constantly practice love and forgiveness! Ephesians 4:26 says, "'In your anger do not sin': Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry..." This scripture is referring to holding on to anger and not forgiving people in a timely manner because that kind of anger (also known as a grudge) will taint you in every aspect of your life, cloud your judgment and prevent you from believing and trusting God which will limit God's power in your life. We see this example in Matthew 13:58 when it says, "And He did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith." Matthew 13:57 even says that the people became "offended at" Jesus and that's why He couldn't perform the miracles that He wanted to perform but their offense caused unbelief which is always a deterrent to the move of God. Don't you understand that it even grieves the Holy Spirit when we allow ourselves to be captivated by thoughts, feelings and emotions that constrain His movement in our lives? Don't make the mistake of being bitter, resentful and/or holding on to anger you'll only stunt your own spiritual growth and end up in opposition to the will of God for your life which simply an exercise of futility.


Pray constantly, forgive daily and love, love, love! I Peter 4:8 says, "Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins." When you truly love God and love what God loves, you'll release everything that threatens to separate you from Him. Please examine yourself and open yourself up to be searched by the Holy Spirit so that you can get in a position of faith and trust in God that will open you up to the awesome future that your Heavenly Father has promised you and not just in the life to come but right here in this life! What's more important your "right" to be angry and offended or your hope in Christ? Anger and offense will obliterate that hope if you continue to give them sanction! It's just not worth it!                               

Be abundantly blessed! Mediocrity hates greatness...be great and let the haters hate!

Mocha Brown aka Koretta L. Allen is available for public speaking engagements especially pertaining to subjects of single parenthood, being single, women's empowerment through the word of God and much more. Mochababybrown@gmail.com