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Complete these for me...
If it sounds too good to be true... it is.
We make money the old fashion way, we ... earn it.
There's no such thing as a free ... lunch.
No pain no…gain.
God helps those who ... help themselves
Everything in our nation until recently, has taught us that you get what you earn in life.
There is no free lunch and that when you make your bed you lie in it.
This was called the great American Work Ethic.
This is a good thing for any nation, but God does not work that way.
So our work ethic the thing that has made our nation the greatest on the planet, works against us when it come to God.
We cannot work our way into heaven.
Look at this verse is Psalms
God is a gracious or grace filled God.
We don’t deserve it nor can we earn it, He just like to be gracious to us.
You really cannot understand the Christian Life unless you understand GRACE.
When you understand it, you will feel closer to God.
You will love him more and want to obey and trust him more.
What is grace?
That’s not a simple or easy question to answer.
Like looking at a multi-faceted diamond.
One def - God’s love in action… God giving me what I need not what I deserve...
Mercy - When God doesn’t give me what I deserve.
Grace - When God gives me what I don’t deserve.
Too many Christians will say they are saved by grace but they live like they are saved or maintain it by their works.
You do not get to heaven by doing good.
Some Christians act like God is an un-pleasable parent so you live your life trying to please him so that he will love you.
He already does.
I want us to understand GRACE tonight.
Tonight we will look at saving grace.
G - God’s gift to me.
It’s a free gift.
If you asked 100 people on the sidewalk, How do you get to heaven?
They will say some variation of My good has to out weigh my bad… the flaw in this is it’s not true.
story of the righteous judge… let me off because my life has out weighed this one bad thing...
Salvation is a free gift.
circle it.
You do not deserve it and never will.
God gave it to you.
Every other religion in the world is based on doing something.
Christianity is the only one where God does it for you.
No other religion deals with your guilt, Christianity does.
God forgives it.
You do not go to heaven based on what you do, but on what Jesus did.
R - Receive it by faith.
Your faith is the key here.
You just have to believe it… trust it.
If I offered you a $100 bill… if you believed me, you would get up and come get it.
If you sat there, you did not have the faith...
Paul is saying that Salvation is a gift we receive by faith.
You can’t work for it, you just accept it.
Salvation is not based on your performance, it’s based on God’s promise.
You don’t get into heaven because you deserve it… you don’t.
You get into heaven because of His gift.
ILL - Mephibosheth
He was the son of King Saul’s son Jonathan… David’s best friend.
Remember the story of David and Saul.
David was going to be the king.
Saul was the current king and Saul was jealous of David.
So most of David's life, Saul was trying to kill him.
He chased him all over the countryside.
David spent most of his time hiding from Saul, avoiding being killed out of jealousy.
But David never retaliated.
In fact, he became best friends with King Saul's son, named Jonathan.
They made a secret covenant that if either of them ever died they would take care of each other's family.
Later on both Saul and Jonathan were killed in battle.
And David became the king.
All of Saul's relatives immediately were in fear thinking, "David, who King Saul has been trying to kill all of his life, is now in control and he's going to kill all of us."
They all tried to escape and hide.
One of them was the son of Jonathan named Mephibosheth.
As the nurse was carrying the young boy out in the escape, she dropped him.
His legs were broken and he became a paraplegic.
So here was this young disabled boy living in fear, frightened for his life that the man who was now king would retaliate against him.
One day David says, "Is there anybody still alive in Saul's household that I can show kindness to?" (Grace) They said, "Yes, there is.
There's one little kid.
He's a disabled little boy named Mephibosheth.
He cannot walk."
David said, "Bring him to me."
You can imagine the fear in Mephibosheth's heart.
Here's the king, inviting him to the court and he's thinking, "I'm going to be killed, executed.
It's over.
It's done."
But to his surprise when he arrived, David said, "I'm going to take you in, Mephibosheth, and make you a part of my family.
I want you to live here in the palace for the rest of my life.
I'm going to pay all your bills.
I'm going to meet all your needs.
You are to sit at my table each night and dine with me and I'm going to treat you just like you're one of my own sons."
That's grace
The Bible says that God comes to us and we're broken, we're disabled in areas of our lives, crippled in some areas.
Our emotions are crippled or other things are happening in our lives and God comes and says, "I'm going to bring you into My family.
I want you to sit at My table.
I'm going to treat you like royalty, one of My own, simply out of My grace."
Prodigal Son - … that’s grace.
That boy deserved to be punished… to be condemned, but he wasn’t … that’s grace.
A - Available to everyone.
God doesn’t play favorites.
It doesn’t matter what you have done or where you came from.
His grace is for you.
Who are these people who live under the Law of Moses?
The Jews.
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