God's Gift of Grace

Introduction

Romans 5:20 KJV 1900

20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

Grace bridges the gap

Sin brought separation

++Man and man

++Man and the world

++Man and God

Genesis 3:10 ESV

10 And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.”

Romans 5:12 ESV

12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

Grace is the plan of God

The The Necessity of Grace

We Needed Grace

Romans 9:23–26 ESV

23 in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory— 24 even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles? 25 As indeed he says in Hosea, “Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’ and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’ ” 26 “And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’ ”

By Grace gave us something

++That we couldn’t earn

++That we couldn’t purchase

If we could

++It wouldn’t be grace

++It would be wages

By Grace God

++Made know the Riches of His glory

++Showed both mercy and grace

God’s Grace is Amazing

It reaches to the highest mountain

It flows to the lowest valley

Romans 5:8 ESV

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

By Grace

++God’s love is demonstrated

++He loved the unlovable

++He brought redemption, restoration

Galatians 4:4–6 ESV

4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”

The Gift of Grace

God Give grace

++Not as a right

++As a gift

James 4:6 ESV

6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

Ephesians 2:8 ESV

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

God is not waiting for us

++God has given Grace

++God has initiated a divine act

2 Corinthians 9:8 ESV

8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.

God is Able

When we can’t.....God Can

When we won’t....God Will

Are you ready for the change?

God is able

++No matter where you are

++No matter what you have done

++To deliver you

1 Corinthians 2:9–10 ESV

9 But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— 10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.

Ephesians 2:18 ESV

18 For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

Romans 5:20 ESV

20 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

Romans 5:20 KJV 1900

20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

Ephesians 2:4–5 ESV

4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

2 Corinthians 9:8 ESV

8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.