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What is the OBJECTIVE of this Sermon?
To show the superiority of Grace over Sin
What is the DESIRED RESPONSE for this Sermon?
To appreciate our standing before God because of His Grace and to extend that Grace around us.
TENSION - Where does the tension lie?
The tension for me is why often so forgetful of God’s amazing grace and why do I fail to extend that grace to others.
Me - Yancey
A prostitute came to me in wretched straits, homeless, sick, unable to buy food for her two-year-old daughter.
Through sobs and tears, she told me she had been renting out her daughter—two years old!—to men interested in kinky sex.
She made more renting out her daughter for an hour than she could earn on her own in a night.
She had to do it, she said, to support her own drug habit.
I could hardly bear hearing her sordid story.
For one thing, it made me legally liable—I’m required to report cases of child abuse.
I had no idea what to say to this woman.
At last I asked if she had ever thought of going to a church for help.
I will never forget the look of pure, naive shock that crossed her face.
“Church!” she cried.
“Why would I ever go there?
I was already feeling terrible about myself.
They’d just make me feel worse.”
What struck me about my friend’s story is that women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him.
The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely she saw Jesus as a refuge.
Has the church lost that gift?
Evidently the down-and-out, who flocked to Jesus when he lived on earth, no longer feel welcome among his followers.
What has happened?
The more I pondered this question, the more I felt drawn to one word as the key.
All that follows uncoils from that one word.
Yancey, Philip.
What's So Amazing About Grace?
(pp.
11-12).
Zondervan.
Kindle Edition.
I would submit to you that the legalist doesn’t understand grace and thus has a difficult time extending grace!
I hope this sermon will help us all abandon any vestige of legalism in our hearts and instead revel in the grace that God continues to lavish on us as followers of Jesus!
First, in order to give out grace, we must understand grace’s benefit in our own lives.
I am a recipient of God’s amazing, superseding grace.
Why?
Born with not father to an unwed mother - grace, I was born!
Given up for adoption - grace, I was sacrificed for!
Raised in a wonderful home - grace, given love, care, provision and protection.
Grew up being taught and thinking that I must earn my way to heaven - grace, a process that helped my “get lost” so I’d be ready, one day to understand the gospel.
God stepped in through a powerful bible study and reoriented my thinking and my heart - He saved me from an eternal Hell.
- overflowing grace which is saving grace!
I experiences that day in October of 1991 (30 years ago) His AMAZING Grace.
And I have been the continued recipient of this grace for these many years.
We - Each on of us here, if we are true believers in Christ, have an AMAZING Grace story.
This is a story that God gives you!
Your story is evidence of a changed life.
The grace that changed your life and is still changing your life.
Just the very act of breathing is an act of God’s providential grace!
God - We are at the end of Romans 5 today.
Grace has become an increasing theme in this chapter.
Why does Paul bring this theme of Grace in chapter 5? Well, when you come to the end of the Law, there is no hope.
It is only with God’s grace alone that true and lasting hope is found.
“Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.”
- Phillip Yancey
Main Idea - God’s Law Reveals Sin.
God’s Grace Unveils Life!
Hey, sinner!
These have to be some of the most hope filled words in God’s holy word!
Let’s tear these verses apart and see what is so amazing a powerful about grace...
1.
Your Sin is Greater Than You Think (vs.
20)
Do you remember what Jesus talks about in Matthew 7? He talks about judgment and sin.
In particular, Jesus wants his disciples to understand their own sin.
And so He does a comparison of their sin verses another’s.
The point?
Your sin is bad.
Really bad!
Why did God send the Law to Moses 430 years after establishing His covenant people through Abraham?
What is one of the purposes of God’s Law?
It “came alongside” God’s people!
Why?
To reveal/accentuate their sinful lives.
Lives riddled with sin.
And it is in this sense that the Law “increased the trespass.”
How did God respond?
By giving “Superabounding” grace.
Don’t you love this concept?
Overflowing, superabounding GRACE??
We’re going to talk about this idea of grace in just a few minutes.
But first I want you to consider this very important point Paul makes in the first half of verse
The point of this verse?
You are more sinful than you like to admit to other and especially to yourself.
How do you know this?
God’s law proves it!
Do you love conjunctions?
I do!
Do you see a conjunction worth noting in verse 20?
BUT!
But what?
But where sin INCREASED...
How does sin increase?
Sin doesn’t actually increase in the sense that there becomes more of it.
But it does increase in the sense that we can become more aware of its presence in our lives.
Pink Elephants!
(don’t think about pink elephants).
I gave you a command, and you are breaking it!
But the point is I infected your thinking telling you about pink elephants and not to think about them and now all you are doing is thinking about pink elephants!
Ugh!
Paul suggests the same problem when it comes to sin...
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