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Restoring New Testament Grace

Restoring/Rekindling the Spirit of New Testament Christianity. Restoring New Testament Grace. GRACE. “We look with wonder and appreciation at the universe, our God’s creation. But the greatest wonder – it takes first place, is man the sinner – redeemed by grace .”. Our Plan of Study.

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Restoring New Testament Grace

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  1. Restoring/Rekindling the Spirit of New Testament Christianity Restoring New Testament Grace

  2. GRACE “We look with wonder and appreciation at the universe, our God’s creation. But the greatest wonder – it takes first place, is man the sinner – redeemed by grace.”

  3. Our Plan of Study • The meaning of Grace • What Grace is not • What Grace is

  4. A Good Definition of Grace When a person works an eight-hour day and receives a fair day’s pay for his time, that is a… WAGE When a person competes with an opponent and receives a trophy for his performance, that is a… PRIZE When a person receives appropriate recognition for his long service or high achievements, that is an… AWARD

  5. A Good Definition of Grace When a person works an eight-hour day and receives a fair day’s pay for his time, that is a… When a person is not capable of earning a wage, can win no prize, and deserves no award – yet receives such a gift anyway – that is a good picture of God’s unmerited favor. This is what we mean by the grace of God. WAGE When a person competes with an opponent and receives a trophy for his performance, that is a… PRIZE When a person receives appropriate recognition for his long service or high achievements, that is an… AWARD

  6. Ephesians 2:8-9 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. (NKJV)

  7. Mercy and Grace are Different • Mercy = “Not getting what you deserve.” • We are deserve Hell, but God spares us • Grace = “Getting what we do not deserve as a gift.” • Gloried bodies redeemed in Heaven! • “Unmerited Favor”

  8. WHAT GRACE IS NOT: • IT IS NOT LICENSE • Romans 6:1-12

  9. Romans 6… 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?2Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life… (NKJV)

  10. Romans 6… 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. (NKJV)

  11. WHAT GRACE IS NOT: • IT IS NOT LICENSE • Romans 6:1-12 • IT IS NOT LEGALISM • Acts 15:10-11

  12. Acts 15:10-11 10 "Now therefore, why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?11 "But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved in the same manner as they." (NKJV)

  13. WHAT GRACE IS NOT: • IT IS NOT LICENSE • Romans 6:1-12 • IT IS NOT LEGALISM • Acts 15:10-11 • LEGALISM IS NOT LAW-KEEPING... BUT LAW-DEPENDING.

  14. 2 Timothy 1:9 “God has called us with a holy calling, not according to our own works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.”

  15. WHAT GRACE IS: • FREE - “Unmerited favor” • Ephesians 1:5-6

  16. Ephesians 1:5-6 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved. (NKJV)

  17. WHAT GRACE IS: • FREE - “Unmerited favor” • Ephesians 1:5-6 • RICH AND LAVISH • Ephesians 1:7-9

  18. Ephesians 1:7-9 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace8 which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,9 having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, (NKJV)

  19. WHAT GRACE IS: • FREE - “Unmerited favor” • Ephesians 1:5-6 • RICH AND LAVISH • Ephesians 1:7-9 • PROVIDED UNCONDITIONALLY • Romans 5:8

  20. Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (NKJV)

  21. WHAT GRACE IS: • FREE - “Unmerited favor” • Ephesians 1:5-6 • RICH AND LAVISH • Ephesians 1:7-9 • PROVIDED UNCONDITIONALLY • Romans 5:8 • A GREAT PROOF OF GOD’S LOVE FOR US! • Genesis 22:12

  22. Genesis 22:12 And He said, "Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me." (NKJV)

  23. WHAT GRACE IS: • FREE - “Unmerited favor” • Ephesians 1:5-6 • RICH AND LAVISH • Ephesians 1:7-9 • PROVIDED UNCONDITIONALLY • Romans 5:8 • A GREAT PROOF OF GOD’S LOVE FOR US! • Genesis 22:12

  24. PRACTICAL RESULTS!! • Genuine Humility • Joy! • Motivation • Compassion for the weak… • Depth • Strength • Less likely to fall away...

  25. Obeying the Gospel “He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.” -- Mark 16:16 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. -- Romans 6:23

  26. Romans 6… 5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,6knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him… (NKJV)

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