Sola Gratia Prayer Service

Supplications:

Amber: Shalimar’s friend with heart trouble

Hugh Webster, Travis Webster (Healing, Repentance, Faith)

Mark Hill, Danny Williams: Liver Issues

Andrew Herrington and family

Sonya Lewis: Chronic Respiratory Disease

Allen Garver: Skin Cancer and Diabetes

Gale Jenkins, Ty Benton, Makenna Cook, Hope Sanders, Randy Young.

God’s Mercy for the “innocent” caught in the cross-hairs of war.

Peaceful Resolutions to world conflicts.

Repentance for Western Society

Repentance and Faith for the Jews.

Repentance and Faith for the Palestinians.

Strength, Protection for the Church.

Wisdom, Guidance, Provision, Perseverance, Fear of the Lord for this church.

The same for our sister churches in the county.

The Five Solas:

Sola Scriptura

Solus Christus

Sola Gratia

Sola Fide

Soli Deo Gloria

Justification

Christ Alone

Grace Alone

Faith Alone

Sola Gratia

A Misunderstanding:

Rome does not teach that one is saved by works apart from the grace of God. She, in fact, teaches that one is saved by the grace of God.

To what, then, did Rome object in the Reformers' teaching? Where does the line of difference between Rome and the Reformation lie? It lies in a single word—sola ("alone").

The Reformers maintained that the sinner is saved by the grace of God, His unmerited favor, alone.

This doctrine means that nothing the sinner does commends him to the grace of God, and that the sinner does not cooperate with God in order to merit his salvation.

Salvation, from beginning to end, is the sovereign gift of God to the unworthy and undeserving. — Guy Waters

-Our Confession says it this way:

8:8 To all those for whom Christ has obtained eternal redemption, He certainly and effectually applies and imparts it...

...All these things are by free and absolute grace, apart from any condition for obtaining it that is foreseen in them. — 2LBCF 1689

More importantly, the Scripture puts it this way:

Romans 4:13–17 (ESV)

13 For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

14 For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void.

15 For the law brings wrath...

16 That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

17 as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.

Ephesians 1:3–7 (ESV)

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,

4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,

6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.

7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

Ephesians 2:4–9 (ESV)

4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,

5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

9 not a result of works...

Romans 3:23–24 (ESV)

23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

Romans 11:5–6 (ESV)

5 So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.

6 But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

Titus 3:3–7 (ESV)

3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.

4 But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,

5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

6 whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

7 so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

2 Timothy 1:9 (ESV)

9 who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,

Prayer of Adoration