Grace The Power To Change Part 15

Grace The Power To Change

Part 15

Frustrating the Grace of God

How can we continuously experience the grace of God?

We can continually experience by being 100% persuaded that we are righteous and being committed by walking in that righteousness.

1Pe 4:10 as good servant managers of God's grace in its various forms, serve one another with the gift each of you has received.

John 1:14 The Word became flesh and lived among us. We gazed on his glory, the kind of glory that belongs to the Father's unique Son, who is full of grace and truth.

It was Jesus’ belief about the truth that made grace effective in His own life.

How do we know that we are qualified for God to work on our behalf?

Our qualifications for God to work in us is the finished work of Jesus. God has qualified us in Jesus.

Col 1:12 and might thank the Father, who has enabled us to share in the saints' inheritance in the light.

What does it mean in II Peter 1:4 “…having escaped the corruption that is in the world”?

2Pe 1:4 Through these he has given us his precious and wonderful promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, seeing that you have escaped the corruption that is in the world caused by evil desires.

The term world refers to the world’s system. When we turn to the world’s system, the world’s view, and the world’s way of success, we have turned away from God and His Word. So the corruption that is in the world corrupts us when we try to obtain God’s promises by working the world’s system, a religious system, or any other system rather than trusting God.

Why does God consider unbelief wicked?

Because unbelief either denies that God has given us the promise, or it denies that Jesus alone qualifies us to receive the promise. Unbelief keeps us from living in the promises that Jesus died for us to partake in.

How can we find God’s grace (ability) to come out of sin and work’s righteousness?

Be accepting what Jesus says about us and acknowledging our righteousness through His finished work, grace will begin to flood our hearts. We don’t really believe that believing works. We look at and give heed to our works more than Jesus’ finished work. We have walked in our own abilities for so long that we do not know how to walk in His ability.

Questions to think about.

In what areas are you living in your own ability?

Are you willing to accept the truth in that area and begin to trust in God’s ability in you?

Do you know what Jesus says about your situation?

Find the promises of God that pertain to what you are facing – persuade your heart of those promises and what Jesus did about your circumstances. Write them on note cards, put them where you can see them at all times, confess those scriptures, read them often, open your heart to God’s grace in those areas. See yourself walking in the promises and walking out of your circumstances.