Amazing Grace

WHAT IS GRACE
1.God’s unmerited favor

2.Gods Riches At Christ’s Expense

GRACE IS AMAZING BECAUSE IT OPENS THE DOOR TO GOD
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Ephesians 2:8-9

GRACE IS AMAZING BECAUSE IT JUSTIFIES US BEFORE GOD
…for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus…
Romans 3:23-24

GRACE IS AMAZING BECAUSE IT TRAINS US FOR THE CHRISTIAN LIFE
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.
Titus 2:11-12

GRACE IS AMAZING BECAUSE IT CHANGED OUR DESTINY
But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Titus 3:4-7

GRACE IS AMAZING BECAUSE IT IS SUFFICIENT.
Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12:8-10

GRACE IS SCARY BECAUSE IT TAKES US OUT OF CONTROL

1. We cannot earn Grace

2. We cannot use Grace to keep score

GRACE IS SCARY BECAUSE WE ARE AFRAID PEOPLE WILL ABUSE IT.
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Romans 6:1-4

GRACE IS SCARY BECAUSE IF IT IS NOT PURE IT IS POISON!

1.Diluted Grace kills.
Jude 1:4

2. Grace plus anything else kills.
Galatians 1:6-9

SO WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO?
1.Accept God’s Grace
2.Live in God’s Grace
3.Extend His Grace to others