Receive His Forgiveness and Reign
The Power of Right Believing • Sermon • Submitted
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When we fail
God loves us perfectly
Sees our flaws and still loves us
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
loved us when we were sinners
but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
loved us when we were sinners
Our identity is righteous in Christ
sheep that falls into mud - doesn’t suddenly become a pig that enjoys mud; but is uncomfortable there.
Grace is not a license to sin, it’s the answer to overcoming sin. It’s a license to win.
You are saved and made righteous by grace through faith. As a believer, you will still make mistakes, you will still fail, and you will still be tempted. From time to time, you will fall into sin. But having sinned doesn’t turn you back into a sinner.
At the cross, Jesus redeemed you from all your sins. But do you know that Jesus didn’t redeem you from ever being tempted and sinning again?
The Power to Overcome Sin
For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Forgiveness is Received, Not Achieved
“Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest.
Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you.
Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.”
Obligation Vs. Relationship
Under the new covenant of grace, the motivation for right living has been changed. Under the law, right living is done out of religious obligation.
Under grace, everything we do today is birthed out of an inward motivation that flows directly from a love relationship with Jesus.
when you don’t read the Bible, you should not be feeling guilty; you should be feeling hungry
husbands - love your wives / wives - wives - submit to your husbands?
husbands - love your wives / wives - wives - submit to your husbands?
as ministers, we need to teach the entire verse, which actually says, “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord,” and “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her” (, , emphasis mine). The emphasis is on Jesus’ love for us.
When you store up Jesus’ love in your heart, your wife becomes the direct beneficiary of that overflowing love from Jesus.
You want to be more patient? Meditate on just how patient Jesus has been with you all these years. You desire to be more forgiving toward your wife? Then saturate yourself with thoughts of His forgiveness for every failing you have. Think about how He was right there to pick you up each time you fumbled, with no judgment and no condemnation, only love
for the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.
When you center your heart and life on Jesus and His forgiveness, you will exceed even what the law demands of you. The law says, “Thou shall not covet,” but it cannot command you to be generous. Only grace makes you generous. The law says, “Thou shall not commit murder,” but it cannot put love and forgiveness in your heart for someone who has wronged you. Only the love and forgiveness of Jesus can do that in your heart and transform you to love and forgive your enemies and those who have hurt you. The law says, “Thou shall not commit adultery,” but it cannot put passion, love, and forgiveness in your heart for your spouse. Only Jesus can!
In every way when you are under grace, not only will you fulfill the commands of the law, you will end up unconsciously and effortlessly exceeding all the demands of the law!
That is what God means when He says about the new covenant, “I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people”
That is what God means when He says about the new covenant, “I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people”
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
he who is forgiven much, loves much, and he who is loved most, loves best!