GRACE CANNOT BE AMAZING

WHAT IS GRACE?

GOD’S RICHES AT CHRIST EXPENSE.

GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS AT CHRIST EXPENSE.

UNMERITED FAVOR

SHOWING KINDNESS TO A STRANGER IS UNMERITED FAVOR. DOING GOOD TO ONE’S ENEMIES IS MORE OF THE SPIRIT OF GRACE. SEE LUKE 6:27-36

GRACE CANNOT BE AMAZING WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING OUR CONDITION.

WE WERE A CADAVER. (V. 1)

THIS IS NOT AN ISSUE OF GOODNESS BUT OF DEADNESS. GOD HAS PUT IT WITHIN MAN AN ABILITY TO DO GOOD. THIS IS GOD’S COMMON GRACE AT WORK IN HIS CREATION. HOWEVER, MAN CANNOT PERFORM ENOUGH RIGHTEOUS ACTS TO MAKE HIMSELF RIGHT WITH GOD. HE IS DEAD.

THERE ARE NOT DEGREES OF DEADNESS.

WE DON’T ALL LIVE EQUALLY SINFUL LIVES BUT WE ARE ALL IN A EQUALLY SINFUL STATE AND THEREFORE EQUALLY SEPARATED FROM GOD.

WE WERE CONTROLLED. (V.2)

THIS SHOULD BE THOUGHT OF AS INFLUENCED NOT INHABITED.

WE WERE CHILDREN. (V.3)

DOING GOOD DOES NOT NULLIFY OUR NATURE.

WE DON’T SIN AND THEREBY BECOME DEAD. WE ARE DEAD AND THEREBY WE SIN.

SIN IS OUR INBRED NATURE.

GRACE CANNOT BE AMAZING WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING IT CAUSE.

IT’S CAUSED BY NOTHING. (V. 8-9)

GRACE CANNOT BE AMAZING WITHOUT CHRIST

GRACE CREATES A CONJUNCTION (V.4)

GRACE CREATES A CONJUNCTION BECAUSE OF GOD’S CHARACTER (V.4)

VISUAL OF HIS CHARACTER

JESUS PARABLE IN MATTHEW 18:23-35 IS A GREAT DEPICTION OF THE GREATNESS OF GOD’S LOVE. ONE TALENT WAS EQUAL TO 20 YEARS OF WAGES. A DAYS WAGE WAS A DENARIUS. A DENARIUS IS EQUAL TO APPROXIMATELY $60. THIS WOULD EQUATE TO $18,420 A YEAR. THIS WOULD EQUAL TO 3.684 BILLION. HOWEVER, THE WORD USED FOR TEN THOUSAND IS THE WORD MYRIOS AND IT MEANS A NUMBER WITHOUT NUMBER.

WE HAD AN INFINITE DEBT BUT PRAISE GOD THAT CHRIST HAS AN INFINITE SUPPLY OF RICHES.

VIRTUE OF HIS CHARACTER

HE LOVED US WHEN WE WERE NOT LOVABLE.

Romans 5:6 ESV

For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

Romans 5:8 ESV

but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:10 ESV

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

GRACE CANNOT BE AMAZING WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING ITS CONSEQUENCES.

THE FACTS OF YOUR CONSEQUENCES

ALIENATED TO ADOPTED (V. 12-13)

SEPARATED FROM CHRIST TO SOUGHT BY CHRIST (V. 12-13)

MESSED UP TO MASTERPIECE (V.10)

WE ARE NOT SAVED BY GOOD WORKS BUT FOR GOOD WORKS.

GOOD WORKS ARE NOT THE CAUSE OF OUR SALVATION BUT THE CONSEQUENCE.

NO GOOD WORKS CAN PRODUCE SALVATION BUT MANY GOOD WORKS ARE PRODUCED BY SALVATION.

GRACE IS THE ROOT OF SALVATION AND WORKS IS THE FRUIT OF SALVATION.

GRACE CREATES FOR US A LIFE OF GOOD WORKS.

THE FUTURE OF YOUR CONSEQUENCES

RICHES OF HIS GRACE (V.7)

RECONCILIATION OF THE RACES (V. 13-17)

RAISED TO REIGN (V.6)

GRACE IS AMAZING BECAUSE IT HAS ALTERED OF STANDING AND OUR STATE.