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Ways for you because of the grace of God.

That was given you in Christ Jesus.

Oh, this is Paul lifting up a prayer of appreciation that God has given us Grace in Christ.

Jesus.

But before we go any further, let's just ask the Lord to richly.

Give us wisdom as we open up his work tonight.

So let's pray.

Father.

I thank you so much that in the craziness of the week and even in the craziness of the day, we can come together as a church family tonight and we can listen to your word.

We can read it.

We can study it and by your spirit, we can understand it and we can apply it to our lives.

And so father, I pray that you would do the work that you have promised.

Father.

I pray that as we hear your voice tonight, we would follow you.

I pray that as your word is taught, we would understand it and receive it with hearts of full surance and conviction that we I hear your word as it truly is your word not the word of any man.

And so father, give us Grace tonight to understand the grace that we have in Christ Jesus.

We ask this in Jesus name.

Amen.

Okay.

So here in verse for Paul, makes it very clear that he is thanking God for the grace.

That is given both him and other believers in Christ Jesus.

When he writes, I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace given you in Christ Jesus, but I want to bring out for you all tonight.

How Paul thanks God for the fact that the grace that guy has given us in Christ is not a one-time momentary thing but isn't that a if you want an ecosystem and environment of Grace that surrounds the believer from beginning to end, just as the psalmist says?

In Psalm 23 verse 6 that surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.

So also Paul.

Thanks God for the past Grace, the present, Grace, and the future Grace.

That is ours in Christ Jesus.

So, that is the life of a believer in Jesus.

It is a life of Grace Grace behind us.

Grace, besides us grace before us.

And we are thing.

We are appreciate how God has given us first and verse for past Grace, Pastor Grace.

He says, in verse for, I give thanks to my God, always for you because of the grace of God that was giving you in Christ Jesus.

And that's in the past tense in the Greek.

In other words, when we were placed into Jesus Christ, at the moment of our Salvation at.

Very distinct moment.

In time.

We became recipients of God's Amazing Grace.

You still, what is that Grace?

That we received at the Ramona salvation for accounting of it.

No human being could ever tell.

In fact, will be spending all eternity marveling at the grease that we received that Saving Grace.

The moment we were placed into Christ, but in short, you can say, it's Jesus.

It's Jesus.

Paul says, here in verse for that are passed.

Grace was given to us when we were when we were United to Christ.

When God placed us.

He says, in him in cry.

Jesus and then he says later in person that the present Grace that we are receiving, we are enriched in Christ again, and then he says, in verse 7. Our final Grace is given when our Lord Jesus Christ himself is revealed in the end.

So in a very real sense, Jesus is the full expression of God's grace, to his children.

He is God's inexpressible gift from which all other gifts of God's grace flow, but in terms of considering What Grace?

We were getting past tense.

The moment we trusted in Christ.

And for the sake of tonight's message, since verse five, kind of talks about how we how Grace enriches Us in price.

I just want to briefly workout tonight, how God Saving Grace removed from a certain things.

The moment we trusted in Christ and I want to summarize it in three, three things that Grace removed from us.

Guilt obligation, in marriage.

When we were placed into Jesus Christ, God's grace, eliminated for more lies or ought to have eliminated from our lives.

Any sense of guilt, any sense of human obligation and any sense of human Merit.

So think about it first, there is no guilt in grapes, right?

When you were safe.

No sin or guilt will ever be held against you before God for all of eternity.

As we studied in Colossians 2 verse 14, this he set aside.

Nailing it to the cross.

That record of debt is gone from us.

So there is no guilt in Grace.

S, there is no obligation in Grace when you are saved.

There is no excuse.

You are given the freedom to never have to pay God back.

Because frankly you never could you never could as Romans 4 verse 4 and Romans 11 verse 6. Says, if there is a requirement for grace for works, then Grace can no longer be called Grace.

And that's why Romans 7 verse 6 says that we as Believers serve in the new way of the spirit and not in the old way of the written code, right?

We serve God, as followers of Jesus because we Delight you not because we externally have to There is no guilt and Grace.

There is no obligation and Grace and through, there's no merit increase when you were saved.

God saved you and you did not deserve it.

Roman spy six and eight says, while we were still weak at the right time Christ.

Died for the ungodly, when we were yet, sinners Christ died for us as one of the reformers wrote.

The only thing that we bring to our Salvation is the sin that made it necessary.

We did not deserve our Salvation.

There is no merit in Gray.

So this is, I guess, if you could mention a thousand things that were received trusted in Christ, but in terms of a summary, right, this is the pastor Grace given to us than Christ.

The moment God's grace was given to us in Christ.

We stood before God in that moment with no guilt.

No obligation.

No merit of our own.

We got to thank God for this.

We got to thank God for his past Grace that he is removed from us.

All guilt, all obligation, and all Merit of our own.

We have to appreciate that.

God has given us past.

Secondly, I appreciate that God is giving us present Grace.

That's kind of been verses 5 through 7. Paul says here, I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you.

That was giving you in Christ.

Jesus verse five.

That in every way you were in rich in Him in all speech and knowledge.

Cheer Paul says that we were in rich in Christ.

We were in Richton him.

And considering verse 7. The sense that Paul is talking about here is that when we were placed into Christ, we were enriched and we are being enriched continually in Christ.

We are receiving from our connection to Christ, just as branches to the vine.

We are receiving from him, present continual ongoing Grace.

Is they will how Paul says, in every way in other words, we are being enriched in Christ in every way needed and in every way necessary.