Crossridge Church
CROSSRIDGE - Sunday, July 20, 2025
Locations & Times
Crossridge Sundays
5732 176 St, Surrey, BC V3S 4C8, Canada
Sunday 9:00 AM
Sunday 10:40 AM
GOD'S GRACE IS NOT...
1. What kind of owner...
2. What kind of worker...
3. What did the workers...
QUOTE - Charles Spurgeon
"Possibly the first [workers] felt their vanity wounded by being paid after the others. They used their waiting time in considering their own superiority to the late-comers. Filled with legal principles, they kicked at the sovereignty of grace, and virtually in this matter rebelled against justice also. Those who are not friends to any one attribute of God are not in love with the others. Sooner or later, those who rage at sovereignty resist justice also. They had what was promised them: what more would they have--a fair wage was given: they received every man a [denarius]. What more could they expect? Human nature tends toward comparison and entitlement."
"Possibly the first [workers] felt their vanity wounded by being paid after the others. They used their waiting time in considering their own superiority to the late-comers. Filled with legal principles, they kicked at the sovereignty of grace, and virtually in this matter rebelled against justice also. Those who are not friends to any one attribute of God are not in love with the others. Sooner or later, those who rage at sovereignty resist justice also. They had what was promised them: what more would they have--a fair wage was given: they received every man a [denarius]. What more could they expect? Human nature tends toward comparison and entitlement."
QUOTE - John Piper
“Now, there are clues here about what’s wrong with this relationship. Clue number one is the word serving. This is the language of slave and master. “I have served you. I’ve served you, master.” Imagine what his father is feeling at this moment, like, “Why are you even using that language? Why are you talking that way? Why are you looking at me like that? I’m not that way! Why do you put me in that category? What’s wrong here? I didn’t do anything to do that, did I? Why have you turned this relationship into a slave/master relationship? I’m your father.” The next clue is, “I’ve never neglected one of your commandments.” It’s as if the older brother is saying, “You’re just a command giver. You’re a command giver, and I measured up, and he didn’t.”
“Now, there are clues here about what’s wrong with this relationship. Clue number one is the word serving. This is the language of slave and master. “I have served you. I’ve served you, master.” Imagine what his father is feeling at this moment, like, “Why are you even using that language? Why are you talking that way? Why are you looking at me like that? I’m not that way! Why do you put me in that category? What’s wrong here? I didn’t do anything to do that, did I? Why have you turned this relationship into a slave/master relationship? I’m your father.” The next clue is, “I’ve never neglected one of your commandments.” It’s as if the older brother is saying, “You’re just a command giver. You’re a command giver, and I measured up, and he didn’t.”
4. Is grace ever...
QUOTE - Flannery O'Connor
“All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful...This notion that grace is healing omits the fact that before it heals, it cuts with the sword Christ said He came to bring.”
“All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful...This notion that grace is healing omits the fact that before it heals, it cuts with the sword Christ said He came to bring.”