Introduction
Let me begin with a discipleship question: how will you follow Jesus in prayer and dependence on God this week?
Main Points
In this lesson shaped by Calvary Boise's teaching on BREAKTHROUGH: Receiving God's Grace, Christ invites us to receive truth with humility, practice repentance, and walk in faithful obedience.
Grace and Justification
Will you turn in your Bibles to second Corinthians chapter 6 as we continue in our series that we're calling break through and we. Are going to focus on just a very beginning of this chapter as we really look back to something we studied last week and.
- As an extension of it look to a new theme in it this week starting in verse 1 of chapter 6 it says this.
- We then as workers together with him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain for he says in.
- An acceptable time I have heard you and in the day of salvation I have helped you I want to stop there just reading.
- Two verses this morning as we begin and really focus the attention of our morning on just one word that we read and the.
Word that we're going to study and think about and preach through today is a word that will absolutely define your pursuit and then. Your subsequent walk with Jesus as he calls you to do whatever it is that he has for your life now in one way.
Grace and Justification
I plead with you I'm begging you do not receive the grace of God in vain in a way that it was not meant. To be received or in a way that is not actually applied to your life in the way that God is calling you to.
- Experience his grace so what we're gonna do today is do a couple of things one I want to talk about why that word.
- Is so important and to do that we must understand what it means so what are we talking about when we're talking about grace.
- And then I want to consider and this is why we're gonna do a little bit of a review of last week how are.
- We to receive grace and we extended the passage of scriptures reading this morning into verse 2 because Paul says don't receive the.
Word of grace in vain and then he says today is the day today is the day of salvation which means the message that. We will preach about the importance of God's grace living and breathing and defining your life is not a message of theological understanding and.
Grace and Justification
The waitress came up to me with the bill and as I get I pulled out my billfold to pay her she actually said. The meal has been paid for and I don't know by who so if it was you I want to bank you on the.
- Onset but the picture of this is that what I experienced in that moment was an absolute free gift that had nothing to do.
- With my ability to pay for the meal I was given a picture of grace and grace is this definition that apart what you.
- Can pay for or a part what you deserve from what you deserve God is giving you a free gift that we call grace.
- It's undeserved it's unmerited favor from the Lord another way to picture this is a picture of it that I saw this week in.
Fasting in prayer as every evening the morning the evening session would end and I'd rush home to check in on my family and. I'd have a picture of my wife oftentimes unable to join us in the evening session to pray because she was serving our family.
Grace and Justification
His character through the relationships in our lives and one of the great expressions of his character is Grace and is one of the. First lessons that we learn as we are brought into the world that you are brought into the world given the free gift of.
- Life at the pain of your mother and at the milk of your mother and at the provision of your father not because you.
- Have money and not because you have talent but because they love you that is the gift of God's grace and the definition goes.
- On to say this is the expression of God to men finding it's only motive in the bounty and the benevolence of the giver.
- Unearned and unmerited favor this is the God that we believe in the expression of his character is an expression of grace that you.
Are here breathing living giving resources to thrive in this world not because you earned it but because there is a creator God who. Has blessed you with a free gift of grace this is what we talk about when we talk about grace and now let us.
Grace and Justification
Know him and be a relationship with him and he has brought us back into the design of our being reconciling us to himself. Through Jesus Christ all things are of God he has done the work of bringing us back to him that is called salvation and.
- The first way that we are to consider how to receive grace is to consider saving grace we are given the opportunity to know.
- God to be made and live in God anyway that is not just polishing the old but is offering you a brand new creation.
- A spiritual life within you not because you've earned it and not because you deserve it but because all things are of God and.
- God has provided a way for us to come back to him completely disregarding our ability to reconcile ourselves to him the salvation that.
Is offered the free gift of life is a free gift of grace here's how another passage of scripture says it much better than. I can and for those of you who have come still unreconciled to God and you're part of the messages to receive the initial.
Family Discipleship
This morning you can kind of attach a word or a theme to each decade you know you have the 60s and it's the. Free love culture maybe the hippies or the yuppies now among us and then you have the 70s which was kind of the disco.
- Sideburn culture and I see some of you now who maybe came from the 70s you have the 80s that was the it was.
- Really the beginning of this saturation of the constant news feed and the 80s gave us the cable television and the first beginnings.
- Of the addictions to our screens and then the 90s came and information started to be unleashed and now we live in the information.
- Age and no doubt one of the words that will be attached to the culture that we now live in is the over saturation.
Of information and as I say that and preach this message now I realize full well that you can listen to a message on. This passage of Scripture in any way that you want as you go home you could find 10 messages that are more profound and.
A Call to Ongoing Discipleship
Know the climate that you are now in and this season of your life comes with the expectations of a grade and many of. You come here knowing full well that you have a paper to write or a test to get ready for an exam to study.
- For a GPA to uphold a term paper to turn in and the grades to keep and that is part of the way that.
- We can see the burden of performance and by no means do I want you to march into your professors office at Monday and.
- Tell him to throw all of the ways that he grades your performance and throw it in the trash bin because there are certain.
- Ways that we should be disciplined in our academics but it is a picture of one way of performance and now we live in.
A culture that has taken the grades of that season and turned it into the grades of every season so no matter what you're. Doing you have a way to feel the burden of performance I was looking through the list and if you are looking for a.
Conclusion
We return to the opening teaching: discipleship is not just information, it is transformation through faith and obedience to Jesus. If we receive His Word and walk it out, He will shape us into people who endure and bear fruit.
Lord Jesus, help me hear Your Word, obey it with faith, and grow as Your disciple. Amen.
Conclusion
We return to the opening teaching: discipleship is not just information, it is transformation through faith and obedience to Jesus. If we receive His Word and walk it out, He will shape us into people who endure and bear fruit.
Closing Prayer
Lord Jesus, help me hear Your Word, obey it with faith, and grow as Your disciple. Amen.