More Grace

More Grace

SERIES: The Face of Grace

 

James 4:6 NIV

6   But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

 

Grace is God giving me anything I NEED but don’t DESERVE when I didn’t EXPECT it and though I could never REPAY it, God gives it to me ANYWAY.

 

Matthew 5:45 NIV – that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

 

Grace is the face God put on whenever He looks at our FAULTS, FAILURES and FLAWS.

 

1. I.                The POWER of Grace

 

More Grace is needed when:

• You are at your LOWEST.
• Life is at itsHARDEST.
• You are at your WEAKEST.
• You are at your WORST.

 

1. II.              The PEOPLE of Grace

 

The HAUGHTY get LOWERED

The HUMBLE get LIFTED

 

1. III.            The PROMISE of Grace

 

God’s capacity to FORGIVE is greater than our capacity to SIN.

 

Romans 5:20 NIV – The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more.

 

 

Surprised by Grace

SERIES: The Face of Grace

 

2 Samuel 9 NIV

1   David asked, “Is there anyone still left of the house of Saul to whom I can show kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”

2   Now there was a servant of Saul’s household named Ziba. They called him to appear before David, and the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?” “Your servant,” he replied.

3   The king asked, “Is there no one still left of the house of Saul to whom I can show God’s kindness?” Ziba answered the king, “There is still a son of Jonathan; he is crippled in both feet.”

4   “Where is he?” the king asked. Ziba answered, “He is at the house of Makir son of Ammiel in Lo Debar.”

5   So King David had him brought from Lo Debar, from the house of Makir son of Ammiel.

6   When Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he bowed down to pay him honor. David said, “Mephibosheth!” “Your servant,” he replied.

7   “Don’t be afraid,” David said to him, “for I will surely show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table.”

8   Mephibosheth bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should notice a dead dog like me?”

9   Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him, “I have given your master’s grandson everything that belonged to Saul and his family.

10 You and your sons and your servants are to farm the land for him and bring in the crops, so that your master’s grandson may be provided for. And Mephibosheth, grandson of your master, will always eat at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)

11 Then Ziba said to the king, “Your servant will do whatever my lord the king commands his servant to do.” So Mephibosheth ate at David’s table like one of the king’s sons.

12 Mephibosheth had a young son named Mica, and all the members of Ziba’s household were servants of Mephibosheth.

13 And Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, because he always ate at the king’s table, and he was crippled in both feet.

 

Psalm 145:8 NIV – The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love.

 

 

 

Grace is God giving me anything I NEED but don’t DESERVE when I didn’t EXPECT it and though I could never REPAY it God gives it ANYWAY.

 

Grace is the face God puts on when He looks at our FAULTS, FAILURES and FLAWS.

 

GOD’S GIFT

Romans 3:24 NCV – and all need to be made right with God by his grace, which is a free gift. They need to be made free from sin through Jesus Christ.

 

RECEIVED by FAITH

Ephesians 2:8-9 NIV – 8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith–and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God– 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.

 

AVAILABLE to EVERYONE

Romans 10:13 NIV – for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

 

COMES through JESUSCHRIST

John 1:17 – For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

 

EXCEEDS your GREATESTSIN

Romans 5:20 NIV – The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more.

 

 

Grace is:

1. I.                UNCONDITIONAL
2. II.              UNDESERVED
3. III.            UNLIMITED
4. IV.           UNMERITED

 

Grace is a five letter word spelled JESUS.

 

Hebrews 4:16 NIV – Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.