Gospel of Grace!

Gospel of Grace!

Introduction:

There is relations between grace and faith. Grace--given everything; faith--taking everything. If nothing is given, we can't take anything.

{E.g..God has given everything through heavenly relam or spiritual world, we should take it through our Faith, it's working like a bridge to connect spiritual world and physical world}

This teaching is related to faith. We need deep revelation about grace of God. Many doesn't know about grace, they always problem with receiving because they thought their works only giving everything, they confused with grace with deeds and finally they concluded everything we will receive according to our works-good works! If we approach God according to our good works, there is no room for faith!

At the same time Grace and worthiness can't dwell each..E.g.. Ismael and Isaac (Gal 4)

Paul was a good writer, he starts with problem of sin, fall of man and how he became sinner, finally he concluded "no one is righteous in the world" after that in 3 chapter he gave the solution in verse 24.

Problem of man: Man has fallen into sin and he became sinner, he can't stand before God and he can't relationship with Him. God will not look sin, He can't fellowship with sinner, He expect a holy and righteous man like Him but it's impossible because no one is righteous in the world. Law underlined all this truth and God gave ten commandments it's called higher commandments, if we fulfill all commandments we can stand before Him, the problem is man can't fulfill all commandments even he fulfilled 9 commandments its not fulfilled in the sight of God, 90% is failed mark in sight of God(James.2:10)

He designed like that, deliberately he gave ten commandments, man should know and realize that he can't able and has no remedy for problem of sin!

  God demands a man like Him holy, perfect and righteous. Whole humanity needs this qualification but the problem is no one is righteous and holy!

How can get this qualifications, where can get this qualifications, through Gospel of grace we get all answers. Here only we see the different between religion and Christianity, in all religion problem is same, they talks about sin but they used to tell "if you do this you will get salvation" the list goes on...they adopt this method to find God but Christianity states that problem was big and God has to tell the solution because no man has solution, if even he has solution but can't fulfill. God has to come and give solution this is teaching of Gospel! So God sent His son, He died behalf on whole humanity and redeemed from all sins on the cross! If we believe redemption work of God on the cross, the righteous of son of God will be giving like a garment, Jesus' perfect moral character(holy and righteous) will be given like garment those who believe Lord Jesus! This is the Gospel we can't understand in our narrow mind, it has done according to God's wisdom. Now our defects will not shown outside because we are clothed by His holiness and righteousness like garment, we didn't do anything but God has done everything, religion is demands big list "what should do, shouldn't do" but Gospel is revealed what God has done! God never thinks man is lazy he can't do anything but God only can do remedy for the sins of the world, no man can't do remedy for sin even he give his life. Jesus is the perfect sacrifice, all the sacrifice in old testament speaks about Him only! We can't add anything to God's redemption work on the cross, simply we receive and accept plainly by faith!

By Grace...In Greek "Charis" which means "charity" a man gives as much as possible to a unworthy man, same way God also gives everything to a unworthy sinner!

Romans.3:24--four things…

1.Justification 2.Freely

3.By grace 4.Through redemption

Today many people feel hard to get anything from the Lord because they feel their unworthiness but the doesn't know grace of God, he has given everything to humanity no place for qualifications. We should come out past things and understand revelation about amazing grace then only we have clear mind to draw near God by faith!

1.Justification: First we should understand verse Rom.3:23..it says all are sinned against God no one righteous to get anything from Lord but verse 24 says good news that we have eternal life by grace.

"Fallen short of glory of God"...if we run a race up to one mile but we stopped in the middle and condemned because we didn't complete, same way God expects something from us but we are unable to complete the task and became condemned according to law, now we are like criminal before God can't escape from His wrath so God justified this type of wretched sinner!

What is justification?

It's not all sins are forgiven, forgiveness is another subject.

"God has to certify that we are righteous and qualified to fulfill all His demands and came to standards which God expects"

E.g...a criminal in the jail--judge has to tell he is innocent according to law.

Only forgiveness is not solve problem of sin, God is going beyond forgiveness and He sees and declared us no guilty! or He sees us innocent and never sin against God through the perfection of His son Jesus Christ!

2.Freely: why He justified us? What is the motive? Is God made righteous us according to our goodness? No..never!! Actually there is no reason behind His redemption work, it's purely His love because God is love!

3.By Grace: John.3:16-- God loved "this much"...God gave His best Son to the wretched humanity even He can't give more than Jesus!

a.Grace is sovereign (Rom.9)

God may bless and exalt anyone, we can't ask any question.

b.Grace is unconditional..God never demand or any condition for Blessing. The world may see something in us but God never see any goodness in us still He loves us. Angeles are eagerly looking this amazing grace. If a man goes to hell, people will not surprise because wages of sin is death but if a man enter into heaven, it's difficult to understand that how can a sinful man entered in heaven, that's the grace of God!

d.Grace is exhaustive...The grace gives not only eternal life, but it gives power to over sin, enable to access all blessings in the world which God has kept for us!

e.Grace is costly...grace is free gift but its not cheap, why God wants to give freely because we can't buy even we sold everything, it's so expensive!

What's that price...Jesus' life and blood without blemish because of this price we got great salvation!

4.Through Redemption...In Greek commonly used a word "agarso" which means buy a slave in the market.

What is redemption: God has paid price freely and bought us and made His own people but in Rom.3:24 the word redemption is used different meaning..God has bought and release all our bondages and He accept "His beloved in Christ" in the God's family..."You are free to stay with me" (E.g. prodigal son-Luke.15) so, redemption is not only justified it's also accepted in God's family and enjoy all blessings, what a Amazing grace!!

If we add any qualification to this Gospel it's called to be another Gospel!

1 How does the concept of grace make Christianity different from other world religions?
When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor. "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you"(Ezek.36:26).. let's see these prepositions: Christ for me, with me, ahead of me. And I knew I was working beside Christ, under Christ, with Christ. But I never imagined that Christ was in me. No other religion or philosophy makes such a claim. No other movement implies the living presence of its founder in his followers. Muhammad does not indwell Muslims. Buddha does not inhabit Buddhists. The Christian is a person in whom Christ is happening.

2. How grace as aggressively moving toward us.
Rather than tell us to change, he creates the change. Do we clean up so he can accept us? No, he accepts us and begins cleaning us up. Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart—poisoned as it is with pride and pain—and replacing it with his own. His dream isn't just to get you into heaven but to get heaven into you.

3. What's the difference between grace and mercy?
Grace goes beyond mercy. Mercy gave the prodigal son a second chance. Grace threw him a party. Mercy prompted the Samaritan to bandage the wounds of the victim. Grace prompted him to leave his credit card as payment for the victim's care. Mercy forgave the thief on the cross. Grace escorted him into paradise. Mercy pardons us. Grace woos and weds us.

4. The concept of saving grace is familiar to many people. What about sustaining grace?
Saving grace saves us from our sins. Sustaining grace meets us at our point of need and equips us with courage, wisdom, and strength. It surprises us in the middle of our difficulties with ample resources of faith. Sustaining grace does not promise the absence of struggle but the presence of God. And according to Paul, God has sufficient sustaining grace to meet every single challenge of our lives.