5-Grace That Works
10/12/14
INTRO:
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 1 Corinthians 15:10
JOHN BRADFORD (16TH C) WATCHING PEOPLE GO TO THE GALLOWS
“There but by the grace of God, goes John Bradford.”
Giving out of the abundance of what you have to benefit someone
BODY:
I.
II.
Grace That Changes Us
“But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was
not without effect” (in vain)
A.
When we let grace in it changes every fiber in our being.
1) EARLY CHURCH HAD EUCHARIST BEFORE THE SCRIPTURE
2) John 6:55-56
For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me,
and I in them.
3) “For we offer to Him His own, announcing consistently the
fellowship and union of the flesh and Spirit. For as the
bread, which is produced from the earth, when it receives
the invocation of God, is no longer common bread, but the
Eucharist, consisting of two realities, earthly and heavenly;
so also our bodies, when they receive the Eucharist, are no
longer corruptible, having the hope of the resurrection to
eternity.”—Irenaeus
B.
We make a mistake when we separate spirit from body.
1) GNOSTICS SEPARATING SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL
2) 1 John 4:2
This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit
that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is
from God.
3) LITTLE KIDS BECOMING PART ORANGE
Grace That Works Through Us
“No, I worked harder than all of them”
A.
Religion without action is nothing more than a trivial pursuit.
1) James 2:26
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith
apart from works is dead.
2) MISSIONARIES WANTING MONEY BUT NOT BODIES
B.
III.
We are saved by faith, but faith is an action word.
1) Philippians 2:12-13
Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it
is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his
good pleasure. (ESV)
2) Grk (energeo) activity, ability, effectiveness
3) WATCHING GRANDPA SPLIT THE STUMP IN HALF
Grace That Changes the World
“Yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me”
A.
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Jesus brought grace to us, so that we could change the world.
1) Ephesians 1:9-10
He made known to us the mystery of his will according to
his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put
into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring
unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.
2) Grk (anakephalaimai) Lat. recapitulate—bring back to the
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B.
What was the meaning of Jesus coming in the flesh?
a) Tertullian—“The Cross—the whole reason Jesus came
was to go to the cross and reconcile us back to God.”
b) Irenaeus—“The Incarnation—the entire life of Jesus was
to reconcile everything in the world back to God.”
God has called us to be more than mere recipients of his grace.
1) CHRISTIANS ARE THE WORST TIPPERS
2) Ephesians 2:10
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do
good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
3) KINDNESS BOOMERANG VIDEO
OTHER SCRIPTURES:
Luke 6:46-47
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?”
1 Corinthians 12:6
There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is
the same God at work.
Galatians 5:6
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for
anything; the only thing that counts is faith working through love. (NRSV)
Move it or lose it
Colossians 1:27
To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious
riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
John 1:14
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his
glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of
grace and truth.
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us
and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your
hearts and establish them in every good work and word. (ESV)
James 2:22
You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith
was made complete by what he did.
James 5:16
The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. (NKJV)