Who Is God, Part 5

I don't know if you will agree with me, but I think it's appropriate only three times that a dad can cry in front of his kids three times as appropriate for a dad to cry in front of his kids one if your father of girls and you get to walk your daughter down the aisle. I'll give you a pass on crying. That's fine. I'm not going to pull your man card. I think you're totally in line with being able to cry at that moment number to you can cry in front of your kids. If you're at the baseball park on opening day during a major league baseball game. It's that that high of a moment. You're allowed to cry there in front of your kids. That's that's okay. The number 3 is if you watch any Toy Story movies are kid. Dad you are okay to cry at that because they know how to pluck those little heart strings and get your kiddos there and you're watching these animated figures plot those heartstrings. It's okay to cry that I'm not telling you if I have cried in front of my kids or not, but we do enjoy watching the Toy Story movies and actually if you were sucked in To the Badness of Disney plus they have this this little like short series called for he asks a question. If you know before he is, he's from Toy Story 4 is this lovable little character and he doesn't really comprehend a lot until he comes in and 40. Ask a question is Hill typically take a topic or an item and I'll bring it up and I'll say what is reading and Fork you ask a question. What is reading cuz he's trying to to learn you got a simple mind and he's trying to learn what reading is our what acting is or what a computer is in the ask all these different questions and the person's really trying to explain it and it's and it's most understandable form to somebody who doesn't really comprehended exercise to think about big topics. Can you really explain what they are me they might be common to all of us and we might be able to to say I recognize that word. But can you really describe Emily Define and give a good explanation of what the subject is? I wonder if you could do the same thing with this word. What if somebody says what is Grace? Could you define it for them? Could you describe it? Could you explain what it does in the life of a Christian because here's the danger. It's something that is so pervasive in the scripture and something that we should be so cognizant of all the time that has the ability to take on a Triton assinatura, which culture talking about the grace of God through the second moment ago about the grace of God. How did you sing that song where you moved by it? Will you understanding of the the profound truth behind what Grace really is or has it become something to you? That's really ordinary. I hope that's not the case but this morning if that hopefully the sermon will be a turn in the right direction for you as we asked a question who is God were going to find out that God is gracious. Turn with me in your Bibles the song 145. Psalm 145 this is the the song that we've used this song of description. It's describing who God is and we're seeing that over and over again God revealing himself telling us who he is. And in this song we have this description of a gracious. He's a God who is gracious and merciful and if you look at your outline, it says God is gracious and merciful in. The reason I have that on there is for the next 2 weeks to recover these topics. I want you to think about them together because they appear so often in the scriptures together. So the Lord is gracious and merciful. Today. We're going to focus on Grace next week in part 2 will focus on Mercy Psalm 145 verses 1 to 12 of 1 to 21 says this a song of Praise of David I will extol you my God and King and bless your name Forever and Ever every day. I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever great is the Lord and greatly to be praised and his greatness is unsearchable one generation shall commend your Works to another in How to clear your Mighty acts on the Glorious Splendor of your majesty, you know, your wondrous works. I will meditate they shall speak of the night of your awesome deeds and I will declare your greatness. They shall pour forth the theme of your abundant goodness and she'll sing aloud of your righteousness. The Lord is gracious and merciful slow to anger and abounding in steadfast. Love of the Lord is good to all in his mercies over all that. He has made all your work. She'll give thanks to You O Lord and all your Saints will bless you. They still speak of the glory of your kingdom and tell if your power to make known to the children of man, you're mighty deeds and the Glorious Splendor of your kingdom. Your kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom in your dominion and doors throughout all generations. The Lord is faithful in all his words and kind and all his works the Lord upholds all were falling and raises up all her about down the eyes of all look to you and you give them their food in due season you open up your hand you satisfy the desire of every living thing. The Lord is righteous in all his ways and kind and all his works. The Lord is near to all who call upon him to all who call upon him in truth. He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him He also hears their cry and saves them the Lord preserve's all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy my mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord and let All Flesh bless His holy name forever and ever. We're coming to understand who God is and we want to do that because if we're to be Disciples of Jesus Christ, that's the essence of our Salvation. The essence of our discipleship relationship is that we are learner's growing constantly in the knowledge of God who was saved us John 17:3 says this is salvation that they may know me and my son. My son knowledge is is so fundamental to the Christian Life and yet it can never just beat mere knowledge academic knowledge. It has to be transformative knowledge and that's what we're really hoping for and praying for it in the series and especially on the topic of Grace. I told you grace and mercy appear so much. In fact this formulation of the Lord is gracious and merciful as you saw their inverse 8 slow to anger abounding in steadfast love is almost a Creed in the Old Testament for the Israelites and over and over again from the pentateuch to the writings to the prophets. They're all expressing the same truth. God is gracious and merciful. What does grace mean? Can you describe it? How is it different than Mercy again? I said you could if you put these overlapping circles you would see grace and mercy, they share a lot of overlap. There are areas where they begin to look very similar and that's because the the grace and the mercy that's given are going towards recipients who are in either some sort of difficult state or Unworthy of what they're getting and that kind of mailed the two together but there are distinctions enough for us to pause and go what's the difference between grace and mercy this week. They want to talk about Grace. What does it mean to every week was given a definition? I want to give you a definition now and then as we break down the two points will break down the definition. So we understand it better. This is what I believe God's grace is in the scriptures. God's grace is God's liberating favor given to those who are Unworthy of it. God's grace is his liberating favor given to those who are Unworthy of it.

Football break that down and we'll figure out what we mean by each part of it, but it is as liberating favor given to those who are Unworthy of it good to point out whenever we take a look at these attributes whenever each person of the Trinity share this we just want to highlight that so right at the beginning you can just write these versus down. We're not going to turn their but each member of the Trinity is ascribed to being a god of Grace 1st Peter. 5:10 is God the father. He's the God of all Grace 1st Peter 5:10. The sun in John 1:14, Jesus Christ is full of grace and truth John 1:14. And the spirit the Holy Spirit and Hebrews 10:29 is referred to as the spirit of Grace Hebrews 10:29. The spirit of Grace This Is Our God. He is a God who is gracious his liberating favor upon those who are Unworthy of it. It's going to begin to understand just how incredible this grace is. That's right Point number one down on the outline this way and walk through it for his it's Marvel at the reception of Grace in art definition going to start with the second half of it to set up the 2nd with African start with the second half of the definition to set up a second point. But his first point is that we're going to Marvel at the reception of Grace because the people who are receiving Grace in The Bible or Unworthy of this gift of Grace that is coming from God that done nothing to Merit it done. Nothing to earn it done. Nothing to deserve it. This is gray. Coming from God because he is a God in his Essence who is gracious and merciful. If you just wrote down the words that were going to look at in the moment in the Hebrew in the Old Testament and you would think of like a mother hen that if you spelled it that way you would get the phonetic spelling of how you would say the Hebrew word for Grace, hen or carrots in the New Testament. They both are going to express saver being given benevolence being bestowed from one person to another sometimes of a superior to an inferior. But sometimes it's a question of what is eliciting that Grace. Is there something that is drawing that Grace that favor from the person maybe from a king to a serving. Is there something inherent in the servant or something that the servant is doing that to Alyssa in the grace given to it from the superior and what we want to come to find from the scriptures is that it's never anything. We're doing to elicit the grace of God to earn the grace of God to deserve the grace of God. It's coming from God simply because he's gracious. To see this. Let's go to the first book of the Bible and turn to chapter 6 Genesis 6 Genesis chapter 6 and I believe this is the first time that race appears in the Bible. Genesis chapter 6 in you're going to see a running theme as we look at these different passages in the Old Testament and the New Testament that when Grace is spoken of this often this contrast in this contest is designed to do something to show how amazing this grace is in contrast to where it's being given. Genesis chapter 6 take a look at verse 5 genesis chapter 6 take a look at versus 5 to 8 with me. just chapter 6 verse 5 says this the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually and the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth ending grieved him to his heart. So the Lord said I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land man animals and creeping things in birds of Heaven for I am sorry that I have made them but Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. Silver Saver is the word. Hence the word Grace Noah found Grace in the eyes of the Lord. I think this is the first time it's mentioned in the bible. No notice was being juxtaposed hear the description of mankind, which is a description of the pervasive wickedness that's there and just think how incredibly profound the power of sin really is because this is Genesis 6, and we just had the Garden of Eden four chapters to go. So from the one sin that happened in the Garden of Eden Adam. So come in to the Temptation Of The Devil when when atoms headship fails there from that point there is a proliferation or there's a snowball effect of sin where it goes from that one acts and now every thought and intention of man's heart is only evil always So God right now who's the creator who we've said put him in a class not like you and I put him in the class of the one being in control the one being in the thority now looks at a creation that rebelled against them and everybody has this evil heart. But God shows favor to Noah. That was there anything in the text that gives us the indication that no was receiving this because he was doing some good things will some people will make the argument from verse 9 drop down the first night and take a look at it. These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man blameless in the generation. Noah walked with God and had three sons Shem ham and japheth. So some people want to argue look righteousness and Grace together. He was doing righteous things therefore he found favor in God's eyes, but two things I would say to you first. Just check out the chronology what comes first? God finding favour God bestowing grace on Noah and then the description of his righteousness afterward if it were flopped if if Noah had written first know was a righteous man and found favor in God's eyes. I think you start to make the case look the righteousness the right way that he was living drew the favor of God, but here chronologically just speaking for looking for the text Grace comes first and then the description of Noah afterwards, but there's something even more fundamental in the text take a look at it first nine see how it starts. These are the generations of Noah that phrase bees are the generations of Noah in the Book of Genesis Moses uses as a section marker and every time you want to start a new section, you're going to see that phrase in the beginning of Genesis. This is the generation of this. This is a generation of that. So you know in first 9th Moses is clearly making this distinction what was just said is encapsulating this whole section. There's this darkness that I painted but notice the grace of God coming in a bit all the horrible sin and then the sex Brake and now we're going to talk about Noah what I think that does for us as it sets up this it allows us to see that righteousness is not the reason for God's grace. It's the consequence of it. Sucrase comes first. God gives it to him. And the reason why I know it is going to be this way is because God has bestowed that gracious favor on him. I think we're going to see that as we work our way through out the by the grace of God comes first and then the consequence of that Grace being there causes that fundamental change in the life of a person but it's if that wasn't enough for you turn the Exodus 33 now turn the Exodus 33, you should be familiar chapter 2 cuz almost every single time I think one we didn't but almost every single time that we've looked at an attribute. We've gone to the section and it's so good because we have God revealing who he isn't telling us who he is. So we're not making up these definition for not trying to impute something upon God or right in something about God that he has not said about himself or just simply looking at the text and saying wow, this is how God has revealed himself to Exodus 33 Verse 19 Moses's plaid card Show Me Your Glory. Let me look at this last time we talked about the goodness of God cuz it was so interesting and verse 19 that when Moses asked to see his glory of God said I will make all my goodness pass before you and will Proclaim before you my name the Lord and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious and I will show Mercy on whom I will show Mercy is a very definitive statement there. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious. Don't think that it's something inherent or some action or some outward expression of the person that's a drawing or eliciting or attracting my gaze towards them. I'm going to be gracious to whom I'm going to be gracious. I'm going to show Mercy to want me to show Mercy because I'm God. And you see a little bit clearer. If you drop down to Exodus 34, when we see the Declaration of the the first description of God being gracious and merciful looking for 6 Exodus 34 the Lord passed by him and proclaim the Lord the Lord Our God merciful and gracious slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness keeping steadfast love 4000 for giving an epiphany and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children children to the third and fourth generation. Diverse what directions 34628 is what you begin to see when you get to Psalm 145 verse 8, that's almost the exact same thing you flip grace and mercy and sometimes I think it appears like 11 times in the Old Testament. Praise. The Lord is gracious and merciful. Sometimes it's mercyfirst and Grace sometimes it's Grace versus Mercy, but the essence is still the same God revealing himself and you see the contrast of the gracious God is going to be gracious to whom I will be gracious and why does it have to be that way because of the description of sin? Did you see that in the text? He's slow to anger abounding in steadfast love keeping steadfast left a thousand forgiving iniquity transgression and sin. Those are the three words in the Old Testament for sin. You see all three of them scattered throughout the Old Testament to talk about rebellion against God and all three of them up here here, which is letting us know the totality of his being thought of here and forgetting that that start contrast between the Blackness of sin in the brightness of Grace as their juxtaposed with one another. Why does it have to be God be gracious to him? He's going to be gracious because he's looking at the humanity who is rebellious. And that rebellious Miss is going to draw you see from the text from the guilty people. It will draw one day this expression of God's punishments. It will draw God's anger. But because God is gracious and merciful people can find forgiveness people can receive grace and mercy people can find steadfast love in a relationship with God because he's a god of Grace not because of anything inside of you or I want to ask a question. Does this then match what the New Testament says about Grace absolutely turn the fusions chapter one working our way through this. Ephesians chapter 1

piscina flea Old Testament, it's nothing. But the grace of God that is being extended to people who are Unworthy of it. There's nothing merited. There's nothing earned. There's nothing deserve. In fact, really the only thing that's being brought to buy man is the sin that makes disgrace so necessary. He's in chapter one tells us a little bit more about this starting verse 3 Seasons 1-3. Is this blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ was blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the Heavenly places. Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and blameless before him in love. He predestined us for adoption as Sons through Jesus Christ according to the purpose of his will catch this phrase to the praise of his glorious Grace. So we see right now the Salvation that comes to us all the blessings that are given to us by God that he chose to give us before the world began for the foundation of the world means that there's nothing inherent that we're doing. We're not like doing good works and then God sees that and goes. Oh now you get my grace. I see the goodness in you. I see the value of the sewing favor upon you now, I'm going to pour this race upon, you know, before the foundation of the world God pouring that on people and that causes Paul to describe it as glorious Grace. I can't think of another attribute guys that's described as glorious in scriptures. Can you I mean if you want to come by and we talked about Glory just a few weeks ago and think about it Paul now says this grace is not just regular Grace. It's not common Grace. It's glorious Grace and noticed what made it necessary down in versus 7 in him. We have Redemption through his blood the Forgiveness of our trespasses according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us. So we brought our sin we need we brought our trespasses. That's what you needed to get forgive and God lavished upon us. This Grace. There's no worthiness in us. We're not doing this. It's not because we're doing enough good that God would spend some of his powerful Grace on us. It's simply because God is a gracious gone to the praise of his grace. more passages someone's turn into Romans chapter 4 think through this with me. Romans chapter 4

Describing Grace, we always want to be amazed by it because of our unworthiness of it and what we've seen so far is a God willing to give it because he's gracious even a minute to send that. We bring towards him take a look at Abraham Abraham p*** Oklahomans for Romans 4:24. What then shall we say was gained by Abraham our forefather according to the Flash Fort Abraham was justified by works. He has something to boast about but not before God for what does the scripture say Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness and look at risk for now to the one who works his wages are not counted as a gift. But as his due to that we're gift as the word for Grace. Read that way now to the one who works his wages are not counted as Grace but his do so when it comes to the essence of our salvation and we are saved by grace through faith when it comes to that if there is any work or effort done on our part to get it. It's not a gift of Grace. It's not favor bestowed. It's a wage do it's something earned it merited by us. But this is telling us if it's a free gift of Grace it cannot be something that we've earned. It has to be something freely given one more passage Romans 11:6 Romans 11:6

Everything looking for spotted actually sits up the contacts pretty good Romans 11:5 talking about God's choosing of Israel again. It wasn't because they were so great. You go back to Deuteronomy 7 to find that it wasn't anything inherent limits God choosing to be gracious take a look at eleven 5 and follow the argument. Romans 11 5 and 6 so to the present time there is a Remnant chosen by Grace, but if it is by Grace, it is no longer on the basis of Works. Otherwise Grace would no longer be grace. I mean really if I wanted to stop boring you guys have probably could have just started with that first right there, right instead of taking you through a Litany of all of these different text but we did that for a reason right we did that to show you that Old and New Testament alike are saying the grace of God this amazing powerful uncomfortable Grace that comes in is so amazing and so powerful because of what is juxtaposed against it's not just that God is gracious to the unmerited. It's really God is gracious to the D merited who have sinned against him and have brought about his judgment and yet he's gracious to those people and when you have those contrast it makes a very huge difference. I was watching this documentary. It's powerful to watch Zion National Geographic. I can't remember the title of it. But one of the explorers of the Titanic you've heard of the Titanic. I don't need to describe it to iHome Leonardo DiCaprio wrote on it. If you didn't know that it just part of that. So the Titanic sinks to the bottom don't get distracted. The Titanic sinks to the bottom and people have been going back and forth and trying to find these artifacts on the Titanic and one of the Explorer's they go in and they they try to wrap up whatever they came from the ship and they bring it up and they put it in the lab at one of the explorers who gets to the lab. He was describing it. He says when when they bring these things up from the bottom of the ocean that have been rotting for Century. There's a putrid smell that you can't even imagine like just all of the the most disgusting fragrances that you could ever think of our brats in the bottom of the ocean. But one time they picked up a vial of perfume and it's all of the trash all of the debrief all of the death and they brought it in and they opened up the perfume listen to how the author is now the lab technician described it. Suddenly somebody opened up this leather satchel and out came the fragrance of Heaven all the flowers and fruity smells. It was delicious. It was the most wonderful thing you've ever had. It was a completely overwhelming experience the fragrance of Heaven moves through the room. So instead of being surrounded by dead things for a few minutes to ship was alive again. Scott was recalling that in the documentary. He's crying because all he's surrounded by with his death. But when the fragrance of Life comes in just a posted that an overwhelming experience. That's what Grace is amazing. It's the fragrance of life that comes from God to people who send against them. I think why we started with the glory of God and the Holiness of God in the Transcendence of God because none of this is really that amazing of God's not that great. But if God is as great as we've said he is over and over again the Bible describes him as great and this great God who we have sinned against we send it remember his goodness last week. His goodness is over all that. He's made we've seen this goodness Adam and Eve rebelled against in the garden. And from then on we saw it in Genesis all the way through this Rebellion has been the stench of death on the Earth, but God breathes life and he provides Grace. Only think about the grace of God it is given to those people who are unworthy. And when we think about that I should cause us to worship him all the more. Now I want to switch to the first part of the definition. He said it was God's liberating favor to those who are Unworthy of it and to do that. I want you to turn with me in your Bibles to Ephesians chapter 2 season 2.

Let's figure out if its first part is communicating what the Bible says about Grace.

How that helps you to Marvel at the reception of Grace. You did nothing to earn it. You brought your sin. That was it. It deserves God's judgment and will we see that as we look at this in the second section? You can write this point down in the most CO2 from the tax number two on the sermon today is to meditate on the power of Grace. So if you're marveling that God would be gracious to you this great Transcendent. Holy glorious. God would be gracious to you. That's what you're doing. You're marveling at it. And then as you faced a different situations difficulties Temptations trials Joyce, whatever God puts in your path. I want you to meditate on the power of Grace because that's how you accomplish what God has called you to do. When I meditate on the powers Gracenote pause here for a moment. Let's talk about three different areas where we going to see the expressed power of the grace of God in the Bible, but I want to talk about an area that we're not going to read like a Systematic Theology and probably see it. BabyFirst, I probably even said it before maybe further before the sermon you read it somewhere the phrase common Grace cigarette. If you see if you're the first, Grace, Grace is used to describe things in the Bible that a saved person in an unsaved person receive from God Cub common, Grace you see it over and over again scriptures like Matthew Chapter 5 when it says he allows the rain to fall on the just and the unjust sheologians describe. That is God's common Grace. I just don't know if that's the most helpful term. Cuz what we just looked at in all the context about Grace, first of all, just attaching the word, to it feels weird to me. Secondly, you can search the description of all the times that that happens in the Bible and hen or Charis Grace has never used as the attribute to describe what's being done there. So that's why I feel actually accurate. Why are we saying common Grace? Cuz we're going to look at in the mud in the moment is when Grace comes in it does something and it does something amazing and incredible as a matter of fact, do you know what attributes shows up in those other texts over and over again when you see it the attribute of goodness. What is Psalm 145 verse 9 say the Lord is good to all not gracious to all the Lord is good to all in his mercies are for all that. He's made this a common goodness Acts Chapter 14 verse 17. You didn't leave yourself without Witness by providing good things. So I want to talk about the goodness of God when he is being good to his whole creation and that's common to all of creation because they do get to experience is common goodness, but they don't get to experience Grace the way the Bible describes. It sends a powerful subject we can talk about God's goodness spreading to the mall. We saw an example of the common goodness of God watching the 49ers lose last week. It was amazing to just see and revel in the goodness that it seemed like that doesn't get to Rejoice for a year. That's just good for everybody to do right? But like I said, that's Grace Grace when it comes in Grace Grace is powerful. So we don't meditate on the power of Grace. If I haven't lost you 49ers fans already come back with me. Let's look at the Bible and what it says take a look at this letter a list of accomplished Grace meditate on the power of accomplished Grace. And here's why we should meditate on the power of accomplished Grace because it is the favor of God that liberates us from the penalty of sin. The accomplished grace of God is the power of God that liberates us from the penalty of sin. Has accomplished Greatest Hits we want to meditate on that starred in fusions 2 1 through 3. What it says here? And you were dead in your trespasses and sins in which you once walked following the course of this world following the prince of the power of the year. The spirit that is now at work in the sons of Disobedience among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flash carrying out the desires of the body and of the mind and we're by Nature children of Wrath like the rest of mankind. So appalled here in a fusion has done exactly what has been set up throughout the rest of the scriptures. There is a rebellion against this good God who has done these amazing things and over and over again. They are following their course, they are following their Master. They're not doing what God wants and it describes them as children of Wrath like the rest of mankind before your say. That's what you were described as you were inviting the wrath of God to come upon you because God is glorious and holy infant send it when you rebelled against him guess what happens you get his wrath righteously so because he's created you and that creation implies your obedience to him the same way that a parent requires Obedience of a child that they've made the same way with god making us. There's no two ways about it. It invites the wrath of God. And he should just fill it right away. But what happens was for but God being rich in Mercy because of the great love with which he loved us. Even when we were dead in our trespasses and sins made us alive together with Christ by Grace you have been saved. Do you see the accomplished grace of God right there by Grace you have been saved see there's different ways that you can word use the word saved but one of the ways you need to use it if you're talking to people about it is what am I saved? From? What I say, I'm safe. I don't I just leave it at that because that is a vague term. What am I say from in here? It's saying I'm saved from the wrath of God because of something not that I did but something that God did it comes in distress and noticed mercy and Grace combined together again, but ultimately God has saved you by his grace that again how we constantly see the straps deposition with how amazing this grace is with what our sin deserves and what he gives in Salvation this accomplish great set a lib that liberate us from the penalty of sin. The wrath of God is so incredible to us. unmerited unearned undeserved Don't shut these contrast go back to me to Nehemiah. Why does this happen? Nehemiah remember we study this whole book. A year-and-a-half ago one of my favorite cities that was done. the Nehemiah chapter 9 you get why it's always contrasted. with with sin Nehemiah chapter 9 verse 16 near my nine 16

Look at this. You my 9:16, but they and our fathers acted presumptuously and they stiffen their necks and they did not obey your Commandments. They refuse to obey you and we're not mindful of the Wonders that you have performed among them, but they stiffen their neck and appointed a leader to return them to their slavery in Egypt. I just think of how disrespectful that is to God. This is really two came out of Egypt liberated by the power of God. We would say received God's kindness to them. Let them out when it wasn't going their way. They said let's get a leader that's going to take us back there. How disrespectful what is it say, but you are a god ready to forgive gracious and merciful slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and did not forsake them. That's the nature of God. So we don't want to give up on people we know that God is gracious. We didn't deserve the Salvation. We want to constantly plead with people. Please be saved by the grace of God because God base can overcome anything. If you can overcome the Apostle Paul can overcome your coworker. This is what we know God is a god ready to forgive it when people repent and put their faith and trust in Jesus Christ that Grace is lavished on them. That was an interesting juxtaposition Jonah. Turn the Jonah.

So amazing that Grace is that God is ready to forgive.

Jonah in the Minor Prophets

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for 2 Jonah so we also study the Book of Jonah and we went to a verse by verse you can go back to the the downloads if you want to listen to that but Jonah I say is a rebellious Prophet who constantly running from God and the interesting thing is that God's grace should be juxtaposed with the people of Nineveh and their horrible sin. But really God's grace is shown juxtaposed to the self-righteousness of Jonah himself package on a Ford 1 and 2, but it displeased Jonah exceedingly and he was angry why because he went and preached about God's forgiving Grace. Banana bites repented and God did a great work of salvation. But that made Jonah mad. Why because Jonah thought he was worthy of the grace of God and he said this. Oh Lord is this not what I said when I was yet in my country that is why I made haste to flee to tarshis for I knew that you were a gracious God and merciful slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love relenting from disaster. Do you see now that theology in and of itself is not sufficient to have right Doctrine does not mean you will love God the way you should Jonah could quote for you God is merciful and gracious and he hated it because he thought he was worthy of it and these people weren't you when you study who got his must be humbled that she was gracious to you because you did not deserve it. Just like the next person. When we see that juxtaposition, we see the kindness of God and giving us his grace. Go back to see to get infusions. Ephesians chapter 2 the accomplished grace of God notice How It Ends why why do we want to be so accurate when we when we bring this down so much. That's what it says in Ephesians 2:8 through 10. Seasons 2 8 through 10. Why are we making such a big deal about this season 2 8 through 10. For by Grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing it is the gift of God not the result of works so that no one may boast.

You realized it when you say you're a Christian you're signing up to not have the attention upon you. You're putting yourself under a system that says I was not worthy of being brought in but I was brought in because of the grace of the one who is in control of all things. And so for us that the need for humility comes in not to boast about us but to boast in God to say this is a God who owns though. He has the right to be angry and vent that Rath right away in his grace is willing to forgive you if you come through faith, why because faith is a system that guarantees you can do anywhere for it. I'm believing that you are who you say you are God and that you will do what you promised to do and it's got nothing to do with what I've done. This is what I want to do. I want to post alley accomplished Grace. A God Like I said when this happens when we boast about this, grace of God, we give him all the credit in the world. trust me to Romans chapter 5 Romans 5

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if you've noticed when I talked to said I said the word unmerited I said unearned that said undeserved. I haven't used the word unconditional may be heard unconditional Grace. I don't think it's the worst team in the world. I think it can be helpful. If you're using it synonymously with those other terms unconditional Grace. The reason I try to stay clear of that is because when people associate unconditional with Grace meaning, we're not doing anything for it. I think they wrongly assumed that if I didn't do anything for it. I don't have to do anything with it after I received it and that's my big fear. So I don't try to say unconditional I chose the undeserved unearned unmerited because the Bible talks about accomplished Grace coming in and then doing that work of sanctifying the believer take a look at this in a Roman chapter 5 Romans 5:18. Therefore is one trespassed let the condemnation for all men. So one act of righteousness leads to justification for all men for by one man's Disobedience. The many were made Sinners. So by one man's obedience too many will be made righteous now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased Grace Found it all the more so that that's in rain to death Grace also my train through right? This is leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ Our Lord accomplished Grace. Look at Romans 6:1. What shall we say? Then? Are we to continue in sin that Grace May abound by no means see people who have had the accomplished grace of God in their life should expect that Grace to do a great work as they progress as a Christian. In fact, it's good for us to think about this week. We celebrated that baptism testimony a few weeks ago two weeks ago people got into the waters to profess. I did nothing to save myself God did this is an act of obedience to show what has gone on in my life. And I want to give all the credit to God those people then are by the grace of God progressing to be more like Jesus Christ as they're awaiting the grace of God to come back and bring them into Glory anyone who has the accomplished grace of God apply to their life has this a turning point in their life to understand that I've been listening to this is called. What is it called? Turning points in American history great turning points in American history. And the teacher of the class the professor is going through it and he's marking these different things that have happened saying something that happened in our lifetime like 9/11 things that happen that fundamentally changed the nation so that could no longer be the same after that event took place. So listen to how this author describes the turning point This is a turning point a historical turning point. Is this a moment when it's society's historical trajectory is sent in a significantly New Direction as a turning point in American history. You can think about that with somebody who's received the accomplished grace of God. It is such a significant event that it starts there life on a totally new trajectory. I was going this way in Repentance train from that and turning to God by his accomplishment of Salvation. I have this turning point out where my trajectory is different in my perfect by no means but I'm on a different trajectory. Absolutely if I've received the accomplished grace of God. That's why Pawn Roman says what am I going to send now all the more because I've received Grace I can't do that take a look at verse 12. Therefore let not sin reign in your mortal bodies to obey is fashion. Do not present remember this since as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from Death to life and remembers to God as instrument. Righteousness for you for sin will have no dominion over you since you are not under law but under grace. This new trajectory that you're on you are under grace now in the accomplishments of God liberate you from the penalty of sin the wrath of God, but now it empowers you to follow him. So let it be underneath meditate on the power is the sanctifying power of Grace the sanctifying power of Grace. Those people who have received the grace of God. It's not like God deposits at once and then pulls it away and now you're living the rest of your life by yourself. Isn't that the argument of Galatians you started in the flash you started this. Now, you're going to be completed in the flash that that's foolishness. Anybody would think that that I'm just saved by grace to get in the grace of God is pulled. Sanctifying grace of God. What does it liberate us from sins power? Right? If the first one did Compass when is the liberating us from sin penalty now? This is liberating us from sin power. This is progressively saw this is not done in an instance. This is why we are growing but we need to be empowered by God sanctifying grace. Can I give you to text just to write down and then we're gonna go look at 1 maybe 3, I'll think about it, but you definitely Are the first one to see if I remember the first one is 2nd Corinthians 12 9 and 10. 10 Corinthians 12 9-10 all they're struggling against a messenger in the flash that the messenger from saving that God has put in his life. Praise. God. Please take this messenger from me. And what does God say in return my grace is sufficient for you. the sufficiency of the power of sanctifying Grace Listen, that's why we in desperate need cry out to God when those time God. I need your grace. You understand in the Old Testament. I love some 25 some 86 Psalm 119. This is phrase over and over again. Turn to me and be gracious to me. That should be your prayer everyday. Turn your face to me. Let your favor come to me. Give me your grace because of what I'm facing today. This is sanctifying empowering Grace. It's what we need. This is the the sanctifying grace got the second one. You can write down his second Timothy 2:1 II Timothy 2:1 Paul tells Timothy. Therefore be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ. Jesus be strengthened by it. So we're finding that strength. Remember we did a whole sermon on this when we were going through our discipleship distinctives. Was it mean to be a disciple? Somebody dependent upon Grace. So we begin to talk about things in the Bible that are used that we call this phone sometimes but as something urgent call them means of Grace meaning when I read my Bible when I pray when I Fellowship when I serve gifts in the Bible are called the grace of God given to you that you can bless the church with these are all avenues of God's grace to be funneled to us. So that were strengthened by this is sanctifying Grace. One more passes right now. I'll give it to you. I was going to let you know. How did you three, you know the 1st Corinthians 15:10 1st Corinthians, 15:10. 420 16th and Apostle Paul says this by the grace of God. I am what I am and his grace towards me did not prove in vain on the contrary. I worked harder than any of them yet not I but the grace of God literally with me. It's the grace of God that's in power and Paul to do this ministry. The text. I want to look at is Titus Chapter 2. You might see a combo of the first two that we've been talkin about here.