Speaker 1: Welcome. Just hand Away Tagalog sermon podcast. Your Daily does
Speaker 1: a inspiring from heartfelt tagalog sermons from different pastors and
Speaker 1: speakers all over the Philippines. We hope that this podcast
Speaker 1: finds you in good shape. And now here's your message.
Speaker 1: Are you guys excited for the word today? You know,
Speaker 1: God answers prayers. Amen. And my prayer was that for
Speaker 1: the people who were here in the first week to
Speaker 1: be here again in the second week of the year. Amen. Okay,
Speaker 1: no effect, Okay. You know, we are starting a new
Speaker 1: series entitled Amazing Grace. And when we talk about amazing grace,
Speaker 1: it's one of those words as people of God that
Speaker 1: we actually use, but there is a portion where we
Speaker 1: actually don't know the magnitude of the word, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Sometimes it's one of those Christianese words
Speaker 1: that we say, up, it's the grace of God. Amen.
Speaker 1: But when we talk about grace, we know it's something great,
Speaker 1: it's something that will affect us. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: whenever people ask you anubayun grace, what is grace? Sometimes
Speaker 1: it's very difficult to answer. And for the five weeks
Speaker 1: that we have and this is our new series, amazing grace.
Speaker 1: We are going through it to know really what grace
Speaker 1: is all about. As much as we want to preach
Speaker 1: it for one week, we don't have enough time. Why
Speaker 1: because the meaning of the word grace is so much
Speaker 1: to actually digest, it's so much to actually understand that
Speaker 1: it will not it will be disserviced to us if
Speaker 1: we only preach it for one week. But one thing
Speaker 1: is for sure when we talk about amazing grace, this
Speaker 1: is the truth that I want to share that amazing
Speaker 1: grace comes from God and God alone. When we talk
Speaker 1: about grace, we know that He's the author and the
Speaker 1: initiator of grace. And that's why. Apostle Paul said this
Speaker 1: in his book Acts chapter two or Acts chapter twenty
Speaker 1: rather verse twenty four. He said this about grace, that
Speaker 1: my life is worth nothing to me unless I use
Speaker 1: it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord,
Speaker 1: the work of telling others that the good news about
Speaker 1: the wonderful grace of God. Paul was saying that his
Speaker 1: life is useless or worthless unless he preaches about the
Speaker 1: wonderful grace of God. What is grace and how does
Speaker 1: grace affect us in our lives today. You know, the
Speaker 1: basic and most or the easiest definition of grace that
Speaker 1: we can remember is this. I'm sure a lot of
Speaker 1: you have heard this. Grace is the unmerited favor war
Speaker 1: of God. It's the favor that we do not deserve
Speaker 1: from God. And so if grace is this as a
Speaker 1: basic principle, We're gonna talk about a different kind of
Speaker 1: grace today, a deeper kind of grace. And so for
Speaker 1: our first week, we will go through the Book of Titus.
Speaker 1: So if you have your Bibles with you, please open
Speaker 1: your books bibles to Titus chapter three and we will
Speaker 1: go through several verses there before I read the passage.
Speaker 1: You know, Titus was one of the disciples of Paul
Speaker 1: that was asked to lead the church in Crete. And
Speaker 1: so if you're good with how demographics and maps look like,
Speaker 1: Creede was something like Sebu I let you run, and
Speaker 1: Sibu it's an island that is not connected by land.
Speaker 1: So it's you have to travel via I'm not exercisor yes,
Speaker 1: you have to go there via both. It's a just
Speaker 1: like Saibun. No, it's a cigar shape. Saving Crete was
Speaker 1: an island and so he's now assigned to go to
Speaker 1: that place and lead the church that Paul planted. And so,
Speaker 1: because of Titus being there for a while, Paul his
Speaker 1: victory group leader as you call it, his disciple, his leader,
Speaker 1: actually wrote him a letter, very short letter, three chapters
Speaker 1: that talks about how to run the church. And he
Speaker 1: starts with verse one of chapter three. It says, remind
Speaker 1: them to su I'm going to read through the energy version.
Speaker 1: Remind the believers to submit to the government and its officers.
Speaker 1: They should be obedient and always ready to do what
Speaker 1: is good. They must not slander anyone and must avoid quarreling. Instead,
Speaker 1: they should be gentle and show true humility to everyone.
Speaker 1: This is a basic call for believers. Right do you agree? Yes?
Speaker 1: All of us are asked or called to be live
Speaker 1: the right way. Ke kel Agan, We do not slander people.
Speaker 1: We are not quarel Sam name is kalator s I
Speaker 1: was there here, No, Maka's a church. We're not called
Speaker 1: We are called actually not to be like that. What else?
Speaker 1: Instead they should be gentle and show true humility to
Speaker 1: every one. Look at the person to your right. Do
Speaker 1: they look gentle or humble? Why was Paul talking about
Speaker 1: these things? Why was he saying that pat In they
Speaker 1: should not act like this. Why we'll see here in
Speaker 1: the next verse, Chapter three, Verse three, he says, once
Speaker 1: we two were what foolish, this obedient. We were misled
Speaker 1: and because became slaves to many lusts and pleasures, our
Speaker 1: lives were full of evil and envy, and we hated
Speaker 1: each other. Paul was saying that the Cretans Yamahatakajan, they
Speaker 1: are foolish, disobedient, they are full of evil. In Gitzilla
Speaker 1: they hate each other. What does that mean? You know,
Speaker 1: during the time the place of Creed were known for
Speaker 1: this reputation Amagataka Creed. When you say they are Cretans,
Speaker 1: what you're really saying is they are also liars. It's
Speaker 1: their reputation. It's actually a place where you hire mercenaries.
Speaker 1: Are you familiar with the word mercenaries. Yeah, honestly I
Speaker 1: didn't know what aka. Mercenaries are people that you hired
Speaker 1: to kill the baparangacept. But really, when you look at
Speaker 1: the dictionary, mercenaries are people who earn money from unethical ways.
Speaker 1: So it's not just beating a people, it's dishonest gain.
Speaker 1: Mercenaries were living in Creed, and so when you need
Speaker 1: to do something that is not right, you would actually
Speaker 1: go to create and hire people. Then on pulling picture
Speaker 1: and creed. They were dishonest, they were disloyal, they were liars.
Speaker 1: But wait, the Bible says, what's the first three words?
Speaker 1: He says, once we too were foolish and disobedient. Paul
Speaker 1: was not a Cretan. He was not from there. But Paul,
Speaker 1: if you look at the letter in the Book of Acts,
Speaker 1: you would see here that Paul was actually a really
Speaker 1: bad person. Right. He was actually one of the ones
Speaker 1: who persecuted the believers. He actually allowed the stoning of Stephen.
Speaker 1: He was one of the most wicked men. And so
Speaker 1: we know this. He might not be Cretan, but he
Speaker 1: was also just like this evil, full of evil, full
Speaker 1: of ingat, full of pleasures and loss of the world,
Speaker 1: disobedient and foolish. But he also said, we too, Sabina,
Speaker 1: we were once gani too, Taio. What do we assume
Speaker 1: is Titus a Cretan bon Cretan densititusba once we too
Speaker 1: gannon dins Titus. You know, I'm not sure if Titus
Speaker 1: is from gret I'm not sure if he confessed his
Speaker 1: sins to Paul. But Paul knew one thing. One thing
Speaker 1: is for sure, Paul, the Cretans and Titus were foolish, disobedient.
Speaker 1: They were slaves to the loss and pleasures. Our lives
Speaker 1: are full of evil and envy, full of hate. You know,
Speaker 1: Paul was making a point. Regardless if you have a
Speaker 1: reputation of being a bad person, regardless of what you've
Speaker 1: done that people don't see, regardless of who you are,
Speaker 1: Paul was making a point, we are all wicked, we
Speaker 1: are all sinful. I was looking for the best illustration
Speaker 1: for this, and I was actually able to unearth my
Speaker 1: first ID, sab doing some online Sabina, if you're a
Speaker 1: student and you have an ID, you can actually get
Speaker 1: the student discount. So Sab becomi idea, naha ido, you
Speaker 1: want to see how I look like when I was
Speaker 1: in kinder Thank you, Mark, Yeah, yeah, I'm kid no,
Speaker 1: you know. Pastor Dennis used also this illustration. A lot
Speaker 1: of people were messaging me. It was mixed having is
Speaker 1: what happened. You know, this was my prep idea rather
Speaker 1: not my Kinder ID. As you know, I'm not Filipino.
Speaker 1: That's why I studied in morning June Montessori, brooks Side,
Speaker 1: kent Resal. You know this picture is a picture of
Speaker 1: it's hard to say, a very cute kid. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: why am I sharing this? You know? Growing up, my mom,
Speaker 1: my dad, my Lola, Lola always would tell me anabat,
Speaker 1: good boy too, good good by, good boy too. You know,
Speaker 1: it was fully convinced that I was really a good boy,
Speaker 1: the boy next door, good boy. Even when I honored
Speaker 1: my mom during my wedding, I said, thank you for
Speaker 1: raising up a good boy. But you know what I realized.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna confess this to all of you. Kanti Langmania
Speaker 1: six hundred. You know what I realized. I believe at
Speaker 1: around grade three, I learned how to curse without my
Speaker 1: mom and that knowing about it. When I'm in school,
Speaker 1: I would say it, but when I'm home, I'm this
Speaker 1: good boy. What did I realize? I actually learned to
Speaker 1: lie at an early age, probably kinder or even before school.
Speaker 1: I could actually convince my parents that I was not
Speaker 1: feeling well, just to watch he man in the afternoon.
Speaker 1: I learned to lie, but in the image of everyone,
Speaker 1: I was a good boy. I learned to steal money
Speaker 1: from my parents' wallet and get a little and a little.
Speaker 1: You know. Growing up, we also at the Sari Sari
Speaker 1: store and Loki and Shampola because I knew that the
Speaker 1: jar was big, and you would tell it purpise and
Speaker 1: I would get one dialin Dinam and my papa semem
Speaker 1: dudur ugnaman right, but actually get my merienda there and
Speaker 1: not tell anyone why because everyone thought that I was
Speaker 1: a good boy. You know, I learned the right words
Speaker 1: to say to people so that I could get what
Speaker 1: I want. I was a manipulative good boy. Why am
Speaker 1: I sharing this other than my cute photo? You know,
Speaker 1: I'm sharing this because if there was one thing that
Speaker 1: I was really good at, you want to know, I
Speaker 1: tell Mark, you want to know what I was really
Speaker 1: good at as good at pretending. At the end of
Speaker 1: the day, I realized this, I was not a good boy.
Speaker 1: You know. Paul was making a point when he said
Speaker 1: we were once foolish, disobedient. Paul was making a point
Speaker 1: when he was saying we were lovers of evil things,
Speaker 1: the loss and pleasures of the world. He was saying this,
Speaker 1: we are all sinners. You know, the world's measurement of
Speaker 1: value when we talk about value is different from how
Speaker 1: God sees us. The world would tell us if you
Speaker 1: have this, if you have your accomplishments, good. But at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, when judgment comes, we know
Speaker 1: that it is only one measurement when we face God,
Speaker 1: and that is we have fallen short of His glory.
Speaker 1: You know what do we realize when we read the
Speaker 1: Bible this way? It gives us a reflection of our state.
Speaker 1: It gives us a reflection of who we are. You know,
Speaker 1: Cretans were known to be this, the bad people. But
Speaker 1: the reality is we may not be known to be bad,
Speaker 1: but we are all bad. We're all sinners. And the
Speaker 1: truth is this that we are all sinners in need
Speaker 1: of a savior. Why we can never save ourselves as
Speaker 1: much as we want to save ourselves with doing this
Speaker 1: and that. What Paul is saying is that par para
Speaker 1: islamtile we have disqualified ourselves from the goodness of God.
Speaker 1: The Bible says Roman six twenty three. What does it
Speaker 1: say for the wages of sins our death? Does it
Speaker 1: say sins or does it say for the wages of
Speaker 1: sin is death? What does that mean? One sin and
Speaker 1: we are disqualified? You know the enemy is so excited
Speaker 1: that when we are kids Sinlanton all, if only this
Speaker 1: person would sin more and more, I would own this person.
Speaker 1: The enemy would say, we are disqualified of the goodness
Speaker 1: of God. The reality is we can never do anything
Speaker 1: in this world to save ourselves. Preaching for the year.
Speaker 1: If there's something that equalizes all of us, what is
Speaker 1: that sin? We are all sinful? Verse four. But when
Speaker 1: God our Savior revealed his kindness in love, let me
Speaker 1: pause there, and I hope this is my prayer for
Speaker 1: all of you this year, that whenever we are feeling hopeless,
Speaker 1: that whenever we are going through trials in this life
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty, my prayers that you will encounter a
Speaker 1: But God, you know when God would speak, when God
Speaker 1: would intervene, just like here in Titus three, he says,
Speaker 1: but when God, you know that the change will happen,
Speaker 1: that the situation will turn around. And so there is
Speaker 1: a turnaround in this part. He says, But when God
Speaker 1: our Savior revealed his kindness in love verse four, verse five,
Speaker 1: he what what did he do? He saved us? Our
Speaker 1: salvation comes only from God. He's the only one who
Speaker 1: can save us. And so the Bible says He saved
Speaker 1: us not because of the righteous things we have done,
Speaker 1: not with the good things that we have done. You know,
Speaker 1: growing up the school that I went to, I'm passing
Speaker 1: great punamen is only fifty per quarter. S know, I
Speaker 1: think it's seventy or seventy five Bpala hole sa men
Speaker 1: inindishapala hol it's fifty and so agdell, I'm a good
Speaker 1: boy and not great. My goal was to actually just
Speaker 1: reach fifty. My goal at the end of the year
Speaker 1: per subject is to reach two hundred. He now prinsamt
Speaker 1: per quarter fifty fifty fifty. The perfect score is four hundred.
Speaker 1: I would actually just aim at fifty. So there were quarters,
Speaker 1: and I Tita, don't tell this to my lola. There
Speaker 1: were quarters that I actually got forty eight Gravino in
Speaker 1: great because a mat forty eight some goal connect semester,
Speaker 1: next quarter fifty two lang oh, now fifty two. I
Speaker 1: would actually run after the fifty two is so I
Speaker 1: would study a little harder. I would try to do
Speaker 1: this and that you know the problem with trying to
Speaker 1: balance things out in the end, we know we will fail.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we do this for God. Case think you know,
Speaker 1: nothing can happen. Sometimes we try to Lord Bababe. Next
Speaker 1: week casitin Gin's office, Miko, Lord Bababe aose, I will
Speaker 1: treat everyone in the office Cassi. I fired one because
Speaker 1: I didn't like how he looked. We try to balance
Speaker 1: things out. Look at a person beside you, Mohabashan Balanzado.
Speaker 1: You know, at the end of the day, we know
Speaker 1: that we will always be in the losing end. It
Speaker 1: will never be enough. Uh. You know, every January nine
Speaker 1: in the Philippines, a lot of the votees would actually
Speaker 1: celebrate this. Are you familiar with this? It's what they
Speaker 1: call translation. It's a procession from one place to the other,
Speaker 1: and the vote is here in the Philippines. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if people from out of the country would go here.
Speaker 1: It would take probably millions of people. This year, they
Speaker 1: were estimating the devotees of the Black Nazerene to go
Speaker 1: around two point four million just to follow, just to
Speaker 1: have a glimpse, just to get near this Black Nazarene.
Speaker 1: You know, they all have different motives. Two point four millions.
Speaker 1: Some just want to see, but others are what's the
Speaker 1: word porcigido namagalabet, that's the goal right for them to
Speaker 1: be able to touch and get near the Black Nazarene.
Speaker 1: Why because they believe that when they get close enough
Speaker 1: to the Black Nazerene, what will happen. The things that
Speaker 1: they want to happen will come to pass. A lot
Speaker 1: of them have different reasons, some to be forgiven, Lord
Speaker 1: lat some want breakthrough in their career. Lord, that's why
Speaker 1: we want we see this in the news, that they
Speaker 1: would feature popular people who equate their credibility and you
Speaker 1: based on this uh Ant Panata the Black Nazerene. Everyone
Speaker 1: has different motivations of getting nearest to the Black Nazerene.
Speaker 1: Their They've devoted their lives to just get near. If
Speaker 1: only I could do this, if only I could just
Speaker 1: touch it, if only I could do this, I would
Speaker 1: be okay with the Lord. You know, the Bible talks
Speaker 1: about a different kind of God, because the God that
Speaker 1: we know is the God who reaches out to us.
Speaker 1: The God that we know is the one who stoops
Speaker 1: down and saves us. Imagine, Panion queinty kenlape it. You'll
Speaker 1: wait another year just to get a glimpse and a
Speaker 1: touch of the Black Jesus. I hope you know that
Speaker 1: the God that we worship is the one who reaches out.
Speaker 1: Why because the Bible says we are slaves. Slaves can't
Speaker 1: go out of its jobs. Slaves can't Why we're tied up,
Speaker 1: tied up to sin, tied up to our ways. I
Speaker 1: hope you know that when we talk about the grace
Speaker 1: of God, will be reminded of this truth that it
Speaker 1: is God who makes a way. It is God who
Speaker 1: reaches out. It is God who will make sure that
Speaker 1: He is here and that he is leading you back
Speaker 1: to him. We can't do it on our own. That's
Speaker 1: the reality. The problem is how we view ourselves. Tim Keller,
Speaker 1: one of the popular New York pastors in the US,
Speaker 1: said this, If you want to become a Christian, all
Speaker 1: you need is nothing, he said, But most people don't
Speaker 1: have that. Most of us come with our recommendation, debters, Lord,
Speaker 1: you know what without paracel, most of us with our resume. Lord,
Speaker 1: I've accomplished this, and I've donated this much for your
Speaker 1: people with our money. Lord, I would do this for you.
Speaker 1: But you know what, all of that is nothing for
Speaker 1: the Lord Almongustny Lord from us. You want to know
Speaker 1: just us, not what we do for him, not what
Speaker 1: we try to do and wain in his favor. God
Speaker 1: wants us, just us, and that's why God makes away.
Speaker 1: See Lord an lum my lapt saying, you imagine for
Speaker 1: a moment, indulge me for a few seconds. Why are
Speaker 1: you here in this church? Think about it? Was it
Speaker 1: you who decided to go to Victory Greenhills when you
Speaker 1: first came here. It's either some of you were invited
Speaker 1: by friends, right, some of you just googled something and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you find this church. Maron. Some
Speaker 1: of you called and this is not a job. We
Speaker 1: have people who called seven underd Club and when they asked,
Speaker 1: where do you live? I live in San Juan, go
Speaker 1: to Victory Green Hills. Some of you are not. I
Speaker 1: hope you know that all of us are here not
Speaker 1: because of our efforts. It's God who leads us here.
Speaker 1: It's God who brings us here. Do we believe that?
Speaker 1: Thank you to the three people who believe that. No, really,
Speaker 1: do you honestly believe that the reason why you're here
Speaker 1: is only because of you. I'm not here because I
Speaker 1: chose to be here. I believe God brought me here.
Speaker 1: It's on an accident that you're here, tap the person
Speaker 1: here sign God wants you here. Okay, don't tap the
Speaker 1: person to here right, shake the person tore right and
Speaker 1: magigizing en. As you continue, it says God save us.
Speaker 1: What does saving mean? You know when people bail out someone,
Speaker 1: when people need saving some and would need bailing out,
Speaker 1: and so you would call your friend, can you save
Speaker 1: me from this fiasco? Can you save me from this problem? Man?
Speaker 1: You call coparently saying you they would bail us out?
Speaker 1: Why because they feel like and problem? But the reality
Speaker 1: is when God saved us, the Bible says, what did
Speaker 1: he actually do? Number one? He washed us? But because
Speaker 1: of his mercy he washed away what hour since? Why?
Speaker 1: Because what we could only do is cover it up?
Speaker 1: Because nobody will know about my the thing that I've
Speaker 1: done before, nobody will know. We all try to cover
Speaker 1: it up. And that's why when we are confronted with
Speaker 1: the truth, we just lie about it, right and Lemnian
Speaker 1: problem When we try to cover things up, when we
Speaker 1: try to lie about it, you know what the problem is,
Speaker 1: we will end up lying more. Here, rapp, it's very
Speaker 1: hard to maintain a lie. I know that, ma Hoolia
Speaker 1: why Because God knows what you did last summer. He
Speaker 1: knows everything. The truth will always come out, and so
Speaker 1: he knows that we can't hide it. The only solution
Speaker 1: is washing. The only solution is to remove. How do
Speaker 1: we remove the dirt from our clothes? We wash it.
Speaker 1: And so if you've done something really bad, ind along
Speaker 1: wi ushing machine the Lord see non rocks cabah but
Speaker 1: no morea But God washed you anyway? Heavy preaching. But
Speaker 1: I hope you know that the truth about God is
Speaker 1: that he is the only one who can forgive. Since
Speaker 1: what else he did not only forgive us, he actually
Speaker 1: gave us new births. What does that mean? The oldest God,
Speaker 1: the new has come? If it's a been, the enemy
Speaker 1: can no longer lie to you. Whenever you do something good,
Speaker 1: the enemy would tell you experience enemy. The enemy would
Speaker 1: try to deceive us and tell us you know what
Speaker 1: you tell that person you want you know, tell that person,
Speaker 1: Yes I was that person, but I'm no longer that person.
Speaker 1: The old has gone, the new has gone. Declare it.
Speaker 1: The more that the enemy tries to bring you back
Speaker 1: to your past, allow the Lord, the spirit of the Lord,
Speaker 1: to remind you that you are no longer that person.
Speaker 1: But na not attempt God to look at billboards and
Speaker 1: you're having a hard time. Just declare, the old has gone,
Speaker 1: then you has come. I have new set of eyes
Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus. I will not last with
Speaker 1: that image in the billboard. In Jesus name. Why because
Speaker 1: we are no longer that Amen, sinus problem say, it's
Speaker 1: Nashian commania. We are born new what else? The Bible says,
Speaker 1: giving us new birth and new life through the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: What does new life mean? You know the life that
Speaker 1: we lived before? And I hope you know this. We
Speaker 1: were spiritually dead, but by we could never have that encounter,
Speaker 1: a personal encounter the Lord. It's hard to have a
Speaker 1: devotion life with God. Why because we are spiritually dead.
Speaker 1: But when God saved you, not only did he forgive
Speaker 1: your sins. Not only are you born again? What else?
Speaker 1: You are given life in life to the full. And
Speaker 1: that's why we can declare, just like what Tim was
Speaker 1: singing a while ago, it is what finished. Why because
Speaker 1: we now can live a life of victory as people
Speaker 1: of God. When God made a way, his desire for
Speaker 1: you is to live a life of victory. Amen. Thet talunan.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that again. Deti talunan the talunan Amen?
Speaker 1: Why because God saved us, gave us new birth and
Speaker 1: gave us new life. Tap the person her right sim signe.
Speaker 1: God gave you new life. Tap the person to your left,
Speaker 1: sim signator verse six. What else? He generously poured out
Speaker 1: the spirit upon us through Jesus Christ, our savior. What
Speaker 1: does that mean? God, in his sovereignty, put so much
Speaker 1: of him to us? How through the Holy Spirit? And
Speaker 1: I was asking God, Lord, what is this picture? How
Speaker 1: much of your grace and love did you pour out
Speaker 1: to us? And God gave me this picture. Imagine you
Speaker 1: have a cup, a coffee cup, can you imagine it?
Speaker 1: And God wants to give you grace. God wants to
Speaker 1: pour out his spirit upon you in picture. Lord. It's
Speaker 1: not a falset that you turn on, and it's not
Speaker 1: a well that you dip your cup in. It's actually
Speaker 1: the picture God gave me was waterfalls that would actually
Speaker 1: put your cup and it would overflow and it would
Speaker 1: not stop. Why he don't say, Lord, be beginning Sabbath.
Speaker 1: The grace of God will always overflow. That's why we
Speaker 1: can say, Lord, I live my life. Through your grace,
Speaker 1: you are more than enough. Why it overflows sabila. The
Speaker 1: grace of God is like a wave doesn't stop, resort
Speaker 1: and wave but Gama dilimna, but was not let waves
Speaker 1: never stop. It just comes and it comes, and it
Speaker 1: comes the grace of God. So we continue verse seven.
Speaker 1: And because of his grace, the Bible says he made
Speaker 1: us right in his sight and gave us confidence that
Speaker 1: we will inherit eternal life. All this is because of
Speaker 1: the grace of God. The reason why he washed you,
Speaker 1: the reason why he gave you new birth, the reason
Speaker 1: why he gave you new life, the reason why he
Speaker 1: saved you from sin, is anchored on this truth. Because
Speaker 1: of his grace. Life is so unfair. Have you said
Speaker 1: that once in your life that's happen a Lord, Life
Speaker 1: is so unfair barbichagan badi chaggana. Life is so unfair.
Speaker 1: But the reality is, if you think about it, really,
Speaker 1: God would say life is really unfair because if you
Speaker 1: ask for what you deserve, you deserve death. Everything that
Speaker 1: God has given us is something we do not deserve.
Speaker 1: The grace of God, the inumerited grace of God, in
Speaker 1: merited love, of God. You know, if you think about it,
Speaker 1: really we deserve eternal dumb nation. And that's why I
Speaker 1: stop saying life is unfair. Why because I always get
Speaker 1: what I don't deserve in the Lord, you know, I
Speaker 1: just don't deserve anything. Why is he ailing to see
Speaker 1: France se manipulative to look in in ailing due? But
Speaker 1: what did God do? God said, say The Bible says,
Speaker 1: God chose what is foolish in this world? Look at
Speaker 1: the person. You're right, it's a proof of God's faithfulness,
Speaker 1: aren't you glad? Church that God shows you booting the
Speaker 1: laplord hoping And that's the reality of it. It's because
Speaker 1: of His grace. I'm gonna share with you one trivia
Speaker 1: about the grace of God. A la Kamara saying in
Speaker 1: as a karma as a Christian scire right, Tamaba like, yes,
Speaker 1: what is karma? Karma is a cameleon. Karma is what
Speaker 1: you get what you sir, right, that's what they say.
Speaker 1: Karma daw is you get what you deserve. And that's
Speaker 1: why they don't do something. But cassaid, they will get
Speaker 1: what we deserve. You know what grace is we get
Speaker 1: what we do not deserve. I'd rather live my life
Speaker 1: in the grace of the Lord than live my life
Speaker 1: in fear of karma. You know, in my life I
Speaker 1: would say this, ninety percent of everything in me I
Speaker 1: don't deserve, and the ten percent, yeah bank. The reality
Speaker 1: is we don't deserve anything good from the Lord. But
Speaker 1: God gave it anyway. The Bible says, because of his grace,
Speaker 1: he made us right. That's what we call justification. We
Speaker 1: are made righteous. When God saved us, he had to
Speaker 1: make us right. We know this. God is just. He
Speaker 1: will judge us for what we have done. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, He is also merciful, and his grace
Speaker 1: is there. Think about it today, have an activity very quick?
Speaker 1: Can I ask everyone to close their eyes, hold on
Speaker 1: to your phones and close your eyes quick in the
Speaker 1: past twelve days of January twenty twenty and assess today
Speaker 1: if the things for the past twelve days you have
Speaker 1: done right and done wrong, how would you assess the
Speaker 1: first twelve days, ten being doing all right and one
Speaker 1: being really bad at everything? Five or pain? A man,
Speaker 1: assess your first twelve days based on right and wrong? Okay,
Speaker 1: open your eyes, nip pero. Most probably because twelve days
Speaker 1: Palanan the new year. Most of you will say seven,
Speaker 1: can telega perfect as a parking nim remains have been
Speaker 1: one twelve days, twelve days, I'm a right. How many
Speaker 1: of you said seven? That's thank you for your honesty.
Speaker 1: How many of you said five? How many have said
Speaker 1: less than five? Lord kid lat You know? The reality
Speaker 1: is we assess our lives based on what we do.
Speaker 1: Oh good ah, the good week failed. But I hope
Speaker 1: you know when we say that we are justified in Christ,
Speaker 1: it means so much more. Do you want to know
Speaker 1: what it means that when Christ died on the cross,
Speaker 1: rose from the dead, what did he do? He took
Speaker 1: our place? The things that we did wrong. He took
Speaker 1: that from us since past, present, future, the things that
Speaker 1: we can't do to fulfill the law in the word
Speaker 1: of God. Jesus did it for us. The wrong things
Speaker 1: that he did. He got nailed on the cross for
Speaker 1: the wrong things that we did. Rather, he got nailed
Speaker 1: for the cross for how is that a picture of justification?
Speaker 1: Are you familiar with this? You know, justification is a
Speaker 1: legal term. When we say we are justified through Christ,
Speaker 1: it means that God is just. God, the Father judged us.
Speaker 1: And you know, the judgment of the Lord is we
Speaker 1: are guilty, right, and then we are all guilty the
Speaker 1: judgment of God. Right. You know God is josh that
Speaker 1: he will not say we are not guilty, neignancy Lord,
Speaker 1: he is true and so Sabina, we are guilty. So
Speaker 1: but guilty t punghatulan no meh wrong? What's after that verdict? Penalty? Right,
Speaker 1: there is penalty for our guilt. And so this is
Speaker 1: the picture of justification. God seated at the judgment the chair,
Speaker 1: the judgment chair and says you are guilty and tells
Speaker 1: the mediator or your lawyer Jesus and says guilty. Shah,
Speaker 1: You'll be the one to take his punishment. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say that again. God is just says we are guilty,
Speaker 1: and says, son, because he is guilty and you are sinless,
Speaker 1: be the one to take his place, be the one
Speaker 1: to get punished, be the one to die for him.
Speaker 1: We are justified through Christ. And so what does that
Speaker 1: mean in regards to the activity. I did you know
Speaker 1: what that means? That whenever God sees you, he always
Speaker 1: sees a ten. Never God looks at you to day,
Speaker 1: you may see that you are a seven. You may
Speaker 1: see that you are a five, but the reality is
Speaker 1: God sees you as a ten. You want to know why.
Speaker 1: That's the great exchange God sees Jesus in you. God
Speaker 1: took away your penaltry, gave it to his son, Jesus dies,
Speaker 1: and God sees a ten for us. Can we declare
Speaker 1: that to day I am a ten? In Jesus said,
Speaker 1: you know, we're not saying this to brag about it,
Speaker 1: but lebasnio, I'm at ten. But aren't you blessed to
Speaker 1: know that God sees you righteous today? The law atlega Again?
Speaker 1: Aren't you blessed? Really knowing that God sees you us
Speaker 1: a ten? Amen? What else? God made us right in
Speaker 1: his side? What else? And he gave us confidence that
Speaker 1: we will inherit eternal life. When God saved us, not
Speaker 1: only does he want to make sure that we are okay,
Speaker 1: we'll live victory victorious here on earth. It's actually in
Speaker 1: preparation of life with Him in eternity. You know, I
Speaker 1: realized in twenty nineteen in assessing my year, I'm going
Speaker 1: to ask the worship team to go up. This is
Speaker 1: what I realized. You know, life here on earth is short,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately we really fail. As much as we can
Speaker 1: say that or we want to say that we are,
Speaker 1: that we fulfilled whatever we need to do, we know
Speaker 1: this that life is short and that eternity is longer.
Speaker 1: You know, when God saved us not only for this lifetime,
Speaker 1: it's really in preparation for the life with him. The
Speaker 1: Bible says he wants eternity with him for us, and
Speaker 1: he doesn't want you to experience eternity of death away
Speaker 1: from him. And this is the grace of God. I
Speaker 1: hope you know that the grace of God not only
Speaker 1: does it affect us, it actually changes us. You know,
Speaker 1: you may have been a believer for the longest time,
Speaker 1: but this truth you need to hear today, that we
Speaker 1: are recipient of God's grace. You know, sometimes we forget
Speaker 1: that we have received disgrace. Sometimes we live as if
Speaker 1: it's all about us and our efforts. Sometimes we pray
Speaker 1: to God and say Lord kaanabhalah, but in reality we
Speaker 1: do it on our own. I hope you know that
Speaker 1: the grace of God changes everything in our lives. It's
Speaker 1: full It's the only thing that will allow us to
Speaker 1: live in victory. The grace of God. We can never
Speaker 1: do anything to deserve the grace of God, but we
Speaker 1: have received it anyway. I'm going to end with this state.
Speaker 1: You know, the enemy, the enemy's plan. Who's the enemy? Satan,
Speaker 1: the devil, the great deceiver, the great liar. You know
Speaker 1: what his planned for twenty twenty. His plan is to
Speaker 1: make the trivial big. His plan is to make the
Speaker 1: small things big in your life. All of us have
Speaker 1: experienced this, the things that we are concerned about. I
Speaker 1: know were go into it too. But you know, God
Speaker 1: wants to know, wants to let each and if you,
Speaker 1: all of us, know this that His grace is sufficient
Speaker 1: for you that if He could save you, he could
Speaker 1: wash you, he could give you new life, He could
Speaker 1: give you a new birth. You know what that means.
Speaker 1: He could actually give everything to you. The Bible says,
Speaker 1: if he did not withhold his one and only listen
Speaker 1: to die on the cross. What more these things? We
Speaker 1: are recipients of His greece. Amen? Can you please, can
Speaker 1: we all declare that in a personal way, just say it.
Speaker 1: I am a recipient of God's greece. We don't deserve it,
Speaker 1: but God gave us that grace anyway. We don't deserve it,
Speaker 1: but God made away. Thank you for listening. We hope
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