Grace to preserve:

Hey everyone!

I’m filling in for Miss Kaite today, I heard y’all have been talking about Grace for the past couple weeks

So what is Grace?

Grace is receiving something that we don’t deserve

If I’m playing with my brother in my mom’s house

And we end up breaking a picture

My mom could punish me and make me pay for it

Or she could give me grace and forgive me and maybe even make me dinner

Grace is receiving something we don’t deserve

And tonight we’re talking about “Grace to preserve”

Does anyone know what it means to preserve?

Have y’all ever had food go bad get stinky or get moldy???

Well, to preserve is to keep that food from going bad or getting moldy

If I put a steak in the freezer, it doesn’t get bad near nearly as fast compared to if i left it in a hot car all week.

So we’re looking at Grace to preserve.

We’re gonna read our passage

GRACE TO PERSEVERE:

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV

6 Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

In this passage, God is talking to Joshua

Joshua is scared and he has fear of what God has called him to do

But God says, do not fear… He says, be strong and courageous

Because God will never leave you nor forsake you

You know, sometimes in life people get mad people get upset and then they leave us

But God doesn’t work like that if we have a relationship with God, he will never leave us

Ephesians 2:4–5 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—

So if we want to have a relationship with Jesus, what do we have to do???

Repent and believe

You have to ask God for forgiveness of sin ask him to help us live for him and love him

And we have to believe that Jesus died on the cross to pay the penalty for our sin and Rose again on the third day To give us new life.

Romans 10:9 ESV

9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

If you don’t have a relationship with Jesus, I would love to talk with you about that tonight

And if you do, I’m very happy to hear that

Because having a relationship with Jesus is the best thing for us…

and the really cool thing about the preserving Grace of God

Is that he doesn’t give me what I deserve but gives me what I don’t deserve

That when I messed up when I fail, and All of us in this room have failed

God still loves me because he calls me his son

Because he has adopted me

So tonight, But I want you to take away is this?

God loves you, and if you have a relationship with him, he will never leave you nor forsake you

No matter what happens he loves you and will never leave you as long as you have a relationship with him

And because of that we don’t have to be afraid

Because of that love because of him, never leaving us

We can be strong and courageous