Living Under Grace 3
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Living Under Grace 3
Merit system - not new Mgt grace
Confining God to the natural - not supernatural
Not trusting underserved favor
When you trust in undeserved favor, you set God free to do what he wants to do
Look at your qualifications
My debt is under grace
I don't make enough to take care of the huge debt
Doctor says I can’t have children
Abraham didn't trust the natural, he trusted undeserved favor
Heart settled - in a way that it can't be
if it depends on you
Because your are under undeserved favor
(as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations”) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;
who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.”
And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,
and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.
Thayer - 1st meaning -
Thayer - 1st meaning - having a good opinion of God
Thayer - 1st meaning - having a good opinion of God
δόξα, -ης, ἡ, (δοκέω), [fr. Hom. down], Sept. most freq. for כָּבוֹד, several times for הָרָר, הוֹד, etc.;
δόξα, -ης, ἡ, (δοκέω), [fr. Hom. down], Sept. most freq. for כָּבוֹד, several times for הָרָר, הוֹד, etc.;
I. opinion, judgment, view: in this sense very often in prof. writ.; but in the Bible only in (18).1
1 Thayer, J. H. (1889). A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament: being Grimm’s Wilke's Clavis Novi Testamenti (p. 155). New York: Harper & Brothers.
2nd meaning - splendor, brightness
What Does Glory Mean?
What Does Glory Mean?
What Does Glory Mean? Having a good opinion of God
δόξα, -ης, ἡ, (δοκέω), [fr. Hom. down], Sept. most freq. for כָּבוֹד, several times for הָרָר, הוֹד, etc.;
I. opinion, judgment, view: in this sense very often in prof. writ.; but in the Bible only in (18).1
2. Have a Good Opinion of God
2. Have a Good Opinion of God
2. Have a Good Opinion of God
2. Have a Good Opinion of God
1 Thayer, J. H. (1889). A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament: being Grimm’s Wilke's Clavis Novi Testamenti (p. 155). New York: Harper & Brothers.
2 Have a good opinion of God
Doesn’t have to be chapter & verse
God, because you love me...you’ll keep me healthy.
God, because I’m your child...you’ll never let that happen to me
God, because you are with me...you will not let this plane go down.
12 spies - the 10 had a bad opinion of God
Caleb
Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.”
Joshua/Caleb
If the Lord delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, ‘a land which flows with milk and honey.’
Only do not rebel against the Lord, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, and the Lord is with us. Do not fear them.”
say, God is with me