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Speaker 2: You were listening to a message from Victory. We hope
Speaker 2: it inspires you to honor God and make disciples.
Speaker 1: In your humanity.
Speaker 3: So today we're going to talk about the graciousness of God,
Speaker 3: or we're going to talk about the grace of God.
Speaker 1: And grace changes everything.
Speaker 3: And I believe God is a message for those of
Speaker 3: us here who'd been in church for many, many years,
Speaker 3: and for those of you who are here just for
Speaker 3: the very first time. So I'm trusting that God will
Speaker 3: be the one to apply the word in your heart,
Speaker 3: and God will help us have a better understanding of
Speaker 3: the grace of God. And it's not just an information
Speaker 3: that we're going to get, but I hope it's something
Speaker 3: that will become real in our life. So can I
Speaker 3: just pray a short prayer before we dive into the word. Tonight, Lord,
Speaker 3: we thank you once again for this evening.
Speaker 1: Lord. We thank you that Lord, tonight as we hear
Speaker 1: your word, Lord, you will apply your word in our heart. Lord.
Speaker 3: You said that faith comes from hearing the message, and
Speaker 3: the message is heard.
Speaker 1: Through the word of Christ.
Speaker 3: So I pray, Lord God, there will be a fresh
Speaker 3: impartation and deposit of faith in our heart. Lord, I
Speaker 3: pray that you will speak to each and every one
Speaker 3: of us in Jesus name me pray Amen. You know,
Speaker 3: one time I was feeling irritate with my with our
Speaker 3: two kids. We have a seven years old and we
Speaker 3: have a one and a half year old kid at home.
Speaker 3: So one time week so bram uh, it was really messy.
Speaker 3: So one thing about me is that I'm not able
Speaker 3: to relax yumbay. Sometimes after a long day at work
Speaker 3: that was ready, I can't help but but to clean
Speaker 3: it up, so I easily get stressed and feeling irritated.
Speaker 1: When I went home.
Speaker 3: This is what I saw, and I was feeling irritated
Speaker 3: at that moment, so as by young wife co and advance. No,
Speaker 3: I was all of a sudden, but I'm from a
Speaker 3: good day. Now it's starting to be a bad day.
Speaker 1: So while I'm at it, I felt like God spoke
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 3: That might sound weird for some of you here who
Speaker 3: was here for the very first time, Boss Nilloyd. But
Speaker 3: you know, God communicates to us in a variety of ways,
Speaker 3: primarily through his word, but not limited to his words.
Speaker 3: Sometimes he can speak to us through other people, through nature,
Speaker 3: through circumstance, common sense. And but for me, most of
Speaker 3: the time, I feel God talking to me by just
Speaker 3: that simple uh antahamdan impression in my heart. And you
Speaker 3: put megaga inka you're so unsure or alamo indito.
Speaker 1: Will nil lord umagan and yongpusumo.
Speaker 3: That's why we need to pay attention to the detention
Speaker 3: because sometimes that's how God speaks to us. There's attension
Speaker 3: in our hearts. Sometimes that's how God speaks to me.
Speaker 3: Or sometimes he will drop a thought that I know
Speaker 3: it's really from God. It's not random thought, it's not
Speaker 3: something I can just shake off.
Speaker 1: It's something that is so strong to me.
Speaker 3: So at that time, while I was feeling irritated, there's
Speaker 3: this thought that came to me, and I felt like
Speaker 3: God was saying to me. Instead of you being irritated,
Speaker 3: you ought to be thankful that you have two healthy
Speaker 3: kids at Homelloyd. You know some people would love to
Speaker 3: be in your place right now to have kids who
Speaker 3: will mess up their house every day. And so I
Speaker 3: was rebuken at that very moment. But instantly my perspective
Speaker 3: of the situation change, my mood change so retablica. Then
Speaker 3: I started just playing with.
Speaker 1: Them and clean it up again as usual.
Speaker 3: But you know, I thought about that because in someone three,
Speaker 3: our main text for tonight, David said in verse one,
Speaker 3: bless the Lord, oh my soul. He was commanding himself.
Speaker 3: You know, sometimes it's okay to talk to yourself to
Speaker 3: encourage yourself. Sometimes there's no one around to encourage you,
Speaker 3: and it's your responsibility to encourage you. Don't wait for
Speaker 3: other people to build your faith. It's your responsibility to
Speaker 3: build your faith. And so David said, bless the Lord,
Speaker 3: O my soul and all that is within me, bless
Speaker 3: his holy name.
Speaker 1: How can you do that?
Speaker 3: He said, Bless the Lord on my soul, and forget
Speaker 3: not all his benefits. How many of you know you're
Speaker 3: loaded with benefits in Christ? The Bible says Christ has
Speaker 3: blessed you with all spiritual blessings, everything that we need
Speaker 3: for life and godliness.
Speaker 1: What do you need to live for Christ? What do
Speaker 1: you need to follow Jesus.
Speaker 3: The Bible says God has already blessed you with every
Speaker 3: spiritual blessing in Christ. We just need to access that blessing.
Speaker 3: It's like you withdrawing money. One time we went to
Speaker 3: Japan for a ministry trip and one of the campus
Speaker 3: missionaries I brought with me, he ran out of cash. Pedal,
Speaker 3: good thing you ATM, you pot pay the international So
Speaker 3: he used the ATM in Japan to access his money
Speaker 3: here in the Philippines, you know, in the same way
Speaker 3: we are here on earth. But the Bible says we
Speaker 3: have the ability to access the blessing from the heavenly realm,
Speaker 3: and so it's not something we can only tap into
Speaker 3: and enjoy.
Speaker 1: The moment we die and join together with God.
Speaker 3: But even now, as Christians, we can access the blessing
Speaker 3: of God. How many you want to access the blessing
Speaker 3: of God? And so David says, bless the Lord O
Speaker 3: my soul, and forget not all these benefits, because sometimes
Speaker 3: just like me at that moment when I saw something
Speaker 3: I didn't like that became just the focus of my attention.
Speaker 3: All of a sudden, everything fade in the background. Yard
Speaker 3: Yama Doman quartunamen. Just because something is not working right
Speaker 3: doesn't mean that everything is not working right. So David said,
Speaker 3: don't forget his benefits. We have to learn how to
Speaker 3: praise God more than thinking and worrying about the things
Speaker 3: that we don't have. We need to learn to praise
Speaker 3: God for the things that we have and the things
Speaker 3: that are working right while waiting for God.
Speaker 1: To fix what is not working in our lives.
Speaker 3: So I'm sure mamana challenge just a life not in
Speaker 3: my mama struggles abouhy natin.
Speaker 1: But I believe God wants to change our perspective.
Speaker 3: If you are experiencing a struggle in your life right now,
Speaker 3: you have two choices or two options. Either you you
Speaker 3: beat yourself and be so down and discourage and say
Speaker 3: grab you two years now it's the church may struggle,
Speaker 3: or maybe you can see that that struggle as a
Speaker 3: sign that God is working in your life. That's why
Speaker 3: there is a fight. The Bible says we are dead
Speaker 3: to our sin. So the fact that there is a
Speaker 3: struggle meaning you are alive in Christ. And so we
Speaker 3: can either see that as Lord is alive or Lord,
Speaker 3: thank you, thank you aheko. Maybe it's not clicking. Maybe
Speaker 3: it's not being it's not getting fixed overnight. But I
Speaker 3: know if I continue walking with you by the grace
Speaker 3: of God, if I continue praising you for what is
Speaker 3: working right, then eventually what isn't working you will fix.
Speaker 3: So David said, bless the Lord, oh my soul, and
Speaker 3: forget not all his benefits. Then David mentioned some of
Speaker 3: the benefits we have in God. He mentioned about forgiveness.
Speaker 3: How many of you are grateful for God's forgiveness and
Speaker 3: so bran, I mean to pace, I'm here now can
Speaker 3: you imagine you offending God? And then the Bible says,
Speaker 3: if you confess your sins, is willing to forgive you
Speaker 3: of your sin?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 3: You know sometimes, but isn't a realist my peace knowing
Speaker 3: when i'm controversies my peace Lang, That's what the forgiveness
Speaker 3: of God brings into our life. Peace with God, the Bible.
Speaker 3: And David said, don't forget that benefit. And he talked
Speaker 3: about healing, and it's not just about physical healing. Many
Speaker 3: times in the Bible sickness is a picture of our sin,
Speaker 3: and salvation is the picture of our healing. And so
Speaker 3: I talked about healing, and then he talked about redemption
Speaker 3: and then provision and then favor guidance, renewal. But in
Speaker 3: verses eight to twelve, David focused on the grace of
Speaker 3: God after enumerating all these blessings, and you can add
Speaker 3: into it. So go, yeah, at Munajanyum benefit Neilodian Trabajo,
Speaker 3: you benefit neilod young good health care.
Speaker 1: You can add to that list.
Speaker 3: But after David mentioned some of these benefits, he a
Speaker 3: loted five verses of course in Manapeologi nomata chapters and verses,
Speaker 3: but he he made an emphasis on the grace of God.
Speaker 3: You know why, because all these benefits, really what makes
Speaker 3: us qualify, qualified to receive is the grace of God.
Speaker 3: You know why we are enjoying these benefits, not because
Speaker 3: you deserve it, not because I deserve it. We are
Speaker 3: enjoying all of this because of the grace of God.
Speaker 3: That's why he focused and emphasized the grace of God.
Speaker 3: And that's what I want to talk about tonight. That's
Speaker 3: what I also want to focus on, the grace of God.
Speaker 3: Everyone say the grace of God. So in some one
Speaker 3: three verse eight to twelve, David continued and said, the
Speaker 3: Lord is merciful and gracious. Everyone say gracious, just making
Speaker 3: sure you're still awake is low to anger and abounding
Speaker 3: insteadfast love. He will not always chide, nor will he
Speaker 3: keep his anger forever. He does not deal with us
Speaker 3: according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities.
Speaker 1: For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so.
Speaker 3: Great is his steadfast love towards those who fear him.
Speaker 1: As far as the east is from the west.
Speaker 3: How many of you can imagine that, as far as
Speaker 3: the east is from the west, so far remove our
Speaker 3: transgressions from us. The sin you've committed in grade one,
Speaker 3: in grade six, in high school, in college prior to
Speaker 3: your salvation, the Bible says, God separated that from you
Speaker 3: so that there will be no trace of your sin,
Speaker 3: so that you can have a brand new start. Some
Speaker 3: people need to relocate to a new place in order
Speaker 3: to be able to have a new life and have
Speaker 3: a fresh start.
Speaker 1: Some people need to change their face. The Bible says, no,
Speaker 1: you don't need to do that. If anyone is in Christ,
Speaker 1: he is a new creation and your sin will be
Speaker 1: separated from you.
Speaker 3: So I want to go through this passage of scripture,
Speaker 3: this part of someone oh three and just talk about
Speaker 3: the grace of God. And again this is this is
Speaker 3: for those of you who are here for the first
Speaker 3: time and thinking if there is a place for me.
Speaker 1: In the faith or in the family of God, and
Speaker 1: for those of us who are Christians already. So first
Speaker 1: one in.
Speaker 3: Verse eight, David said that God is gracious, slow to anger,
Speaker 3: in abounding, in steadfast love. I want to talk about
Speaker 3: his persistent grace, persistent grace, the.
Speaker 1: Nature of God's grace.
Speaker 3: One thing we need to do know and understand better
Speaker 3: is this persistence, the persistent grace of God. The reason
Speaker 3: you are here today is because God did not quit
Speaker 3: or give up on you.
Speaker 1: He was persistent. It's my eldest sister who got saved
Speaker 1: first in the family where a family of eight. I'm
Speaker 1: the youngest.
Speaker 3: When she got saved, I was a high school student,
Speaker 3: first year high school. Only when I was in my
Speaker 3: third year in college, seven long years before I surrendered
Speaker 3: my life to Jesus. So my family member Puio, it's taking,
Speaker 3: you know, really a bit long. You're praying, you're fasting,
Speaker 3: you're sharing the gospel to take effect. Believe me, the
Speaker 3: persistent grace of God is working in their life. That
Speaker 3: something's happening. And that's the nature of God. And not
Speaker 3: only for people who.
Speaker 1: Are far away from God, but even us.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm thankful because mes and guides Christian attaio
Speaker 3: I meany of you know, sometimes we still have the
Speaker 3: propensity or the tendency to sin against God. We have
Speaker 3: this tendency to persist in our own way and not
Speaker 3: obey God.
Speaker 1: The Lord is slow to angry. NDI a gagalitis patient.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I read the story of a donor from Jodson who
Speaker 3: was the first Protestant missionary to Burma from North America.
Speaker 3: The age of twenty five. He was sent to Burma
Speaker 3: and he served there for almost forty years. It took
Speaker 3: him seven years before he had his first convert So
Speaker 3: seven years like we preach Machi Sharian gospel nakipak building
Speaker 3: non relationship, seven years before one person surrendered his life
Speaker 3: to Jesus. So young Mershang local church in North America
Speaker 3: who was sending support and they're thinking fruitful by young
Speaker 3: work not in Saburma.
Speaker 1: Are we wasting fun?
Speaker 3: Should we transfer it to another missionary and another nation?
Speaker 3: And here's what Adnorum Jodson wrote back to the local church.
Speaker 3: His own church is that beg the church as to
Speaker 3: have patients tell the brethren. Success is as certain as
Speaker 3: the promise of a faithful God can make it Sourcia
Speaker 3: to hunting. Payam Mama, bros. We're going to see a
Speaker 3: great harvest in this place.
Speaker 1: And guess what.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of Christians in Burma today. And as
Speaker 3: I read that story, I think about God. That's a
Speaker 3: picture of God to us persistence. We did not find God.
Speaker 3: It's God who came to seek and to save the laws.
Speaker 1: In the Lord. He came here on earth, became a
Speaker 1: man just like us.
Speaker 3: He wore our clothes and ate our food and lived
Speaker 3: among us, so we can identify with him.
Speaker 1: He went to the cross for you and me.
Speaker 3: One time, Pastor Joey was telling us the story when
Speaker 3: he was walking around inside their village Kasamapuyan dog Nila.
Speaker 1: That was happened again.
Speaker 3: He felt like God was speaking to him at that time,
Speaker 3: thought that's me Ma question Lord in the Maman.
Speaker 1: Lord Joey was a doctor, an a man.
Speaker 3: The last question, Mambai to the point and whiling are.
Speaker 1: You willing to be to become a dog like your dog,
Speaker 1: so you can be more close. Are you willing to
Speaker 1: eat the food that your dog is eating? At that point,
Speaker 1: I have been the Lord Lloyd La.
Speaker 3: Even withsa wheeling Mahona, but not to the to that level.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: It's amazing for me to think until today that a
Speaker 3: great God would come to our level, go to our level.
Speaker 1: The Bible says He's took down to make us great.
Speaker 3: He's persistent, and because of that, the grace of God
Speaker 3: made it possible for us to have a relationship with
Speaker 3: God and to enjoy all the benefits something of you
Speaker 3: are grateful for the persistent grace of God. Thank you Lord,
Speaker 3: until today the Lagan Lord boutin Alan. You know I
Speaker 3: still commit mistakes, bad decisions from time to time.
Speaker 1: I'm stubborn. But Lord, I thank you that you are patient.
Speaker 1: You know. In tewod Peter chapter three, verse nine, the
Speaker 1: Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise, as some
Speaker 1: count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that
Speaker 1: any should perish, but that all should reach repentance Verse two,
Speaker 1: romans to verse four. Or do you presume on the
Speaker 1: richness of his.
Speaker 3: Kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness
Speaker 3: is meant to lead you to repentance. Some people think
Speaker 3: that they're getting away with their sin, or maybe God
Speaker 3: is tolerating their sin or approving of their wrongdoing.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no. The Bible says God is not
Speaker 1: approving you're wrongdoing. God is not tolerating your sin. Maybe
Speaker 1: you're thinking.
Speaker 3: Healthbaman, finances. Not because God is tolerating. God is trying
Speaker 3: to stretch his patience, and the purpose of that patience
Speaker 3: is for us to realize that we are going the
Speaker 3: wrong way, so that we are going to make a
Speaker 3: youth turn and return to Him.
Speaker 1: And maybe for some of us here today that is
Speaker 1: God's word for you. He's trying his best to stretch
Speaker 1: the patience. You know. Sometimes the judgment of God is
Speaker 1: letting us have what we are fighting to have.
Speaker 3: Para daughter because one time, for guess you go five
Speaker 3: six years old, come hangam as a Japanese restaurant.
Speaker 1: Was Abbi, Can you become Upi and wife my wisdom
Speaker 1: on mo?
Speaker 3: But since then never touch was Abi. You know, sometimes
Speaker 3: the judgment of God is letting us have what we want.
Speaker 3: But God's is patient Okay, tell the person say the
Speaker 3: next to you, God is patient with YOUNILRD say you,
Speaker 3: God is so patient with you. Praise God number two
Speaker 3: or second. God's grace is extravagant.
Speaker 1: I like this. God's grace is extravagant.
Speaker 3: Now some people use the grace of God is a
Speaker 3: license to sin, and by it the Lord extravagant grace.
Speaker 1: When you say extravagant, it's unreasonable. It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you will look at a person and you just
Speaker 1: know this person is not living right with God. Yet
Speaker 1: God is continually blessing them. Unreasonable grace.
Speaker 3: Lavish in tagalog labbyist labbists, and grace the Lord.
Speaker 1: There are Sometimes.
Speaker 3: Grace is extravagant, it's over indulgent. Chemist, be a prospered
Speaker 3: parishion e Lord. You know, prosperity is never a good
Speaker 3: gauge whether somebody is in God's will or not. No,
Speaker 3: because God, the Bible says David said, he does not
Speaker 3: deal with us according to our sins. He do not
Speaker 3: nor repay us according to our iniquities.
Speaker 1: The dealings of God with us is never equal to
Speaker 1: our obedience to him.
Speaker 3: How many of you know or experience Now you had shortcomings,
Speaker 3: you sind yet God blessed you anyway. I have so
Speaker 3: many testimonies of that, the extravagant grace of God. You
Speaker 3: know the result of that, if we understand, it makes
Speaker 3: us humble, low Apa. It's never really about my accounting skill,
Speaker 3: my strategy, my ability to plan.
Speaker 1: It's not really my perfect execution.
Speaker 3: No, who you are today, what you have today, and
Speaker 3: where you are today, it's all by the grace of God.
Speaker 3: Because if God dealt with us according to our sins,
Speaker 3: we will not be here today. And it's always good.
Speaker 3: It makes us humble, but at the same time it
Speaker 3: makes us hopeful, especially when we fail. And how many
Speaker 3: of you would confess that sometimes you still fail. Cannot
Speaker 3: alag a grace longdon the Lord can say, well, among
Speaker 3: perfect hapening, perfect is fake. There's no such thing as perfect. Okay,
Speaker 3: always a because Latin issue. We all have issues. That's
Speaker 3: why we're all. We all need the grace of God.
Speaker 3: We're all dependent on the grace of God. That's why
Speaker 3: we cannot bose before God or other people. It makes
Speaker 3: us humble, but it makes us hopeful. I remember the
Speaker 3: story of the woman caught in adultery. She was dragged
Speaker 3: to the street. She was she was put to shame
Speaker 3: in in in broad daylight Bible early morning was no, no, no.
Speaker 3: Then she was brought before Jesus, who was doing a
Speaker 3: Bible study at the time. Ablalloyd, I don't gonna go
Speaker 3: in detos amosis. Anyone caught in adultery should be stoned
Speaker 3: to death. We caught this woman. Jesus did not say anything. Instead,
Speaker 3: he stooped down and wrote to the ground with his finger,
Speaker 3: slais does a girl, Jesus, and I'm saying this woman
Speaker 3: was caught in adultery. It said in our law anyone
Speaker 3: caught in adultery should be stone to death. And so
Speaker 3: the woman was there crying, I'm just guessing talagan hallo
Speaker 3: hallouna he ah paho.
Speaker 1: I mean all of that in one day. Her life
Speaker 1: was just in a complete mess. So here's what Jesus did.
Speaker 3: Stood up and then said, anyone who's not guilty of
Speaker 3: any sin, let him be the first one to throw
Speaker 3: a stone this woman. Then after that, the Bible says
Speaker 3: he's took down again.
Speaker 1: And wrote something on the ground with his finger.
Speaker 3: Now there are three theories what he wrote, because it's
Speaker 3: what was never mentioned in the Bible.
Speaker 1: First one is that Jesus do the second.
Speaker 3: Some were saying that he wrote Bible verses that relates
Speaker 3: to the situation.
Speaker 1: But I like the third one.
Speaker 3: The third one, And here's the theory that Jesus took
Speaker 3: down and then wrote with his finger on the ground
Speaker 3: and started writing, by one by one the names of
Speaker 3: the people there, and opposite the name is writing their sin.
Speaker 1: Joe Ash last Saturday.
Speaker 3: The Bible says, one by one, starting with the older ones,
Speaker 3: they went away, you see Mahamada, Robert last.
Speaker 1: Full thoughts with Michael's wife. Robert left, Michael followed so
Speaker 1: one by one, adam so much.
Speaker 3: Land, until it was Jesus and the woman who was left.
Speaker 3: And then Jesus said, where's your accuser? The woman said.
Speaker 3: Jesus said, woman, where are they? As no one condemned you?
Speaker 3: She said, no one, Lord. Maybe she's still shocked, don't
Speaker 3: know what to do, don't know what to say. And Jesus,
Speaker 3: who had the right to stone her to death, to
Speaker 3: condemn her, did not condemn her. Instead, Jesus said, neither
Speaker 3: do I condemn you. Go and from now on say
Speaker 3: no more. Instead of condemning her, God restored her. Jesus
Speaker 3: gave her the opportunity to start all over again. The
Speaker 3: Bible says Jesus did not come to condemn us, but
Speaker 3: to save us. So every time you hear that voice
Speaker 3: condemning you, samasamam or plastica.
Speaker 1: Vi victory weekend Canada, man, but on all these things, and.
Speaker 3: Every time you hear that, you just know it's not
Speaker 3: the voice of God, because God will never condemn you.
Speaker 3: The Holy Spirit will convict you so that you will
Speaker 3: go to God, not condemn you so that you will
Speaker 3: run away from God. Jesus is extravagant with his grace.
Speaker 3: That's the reason why you and I are here today
Speaker 3: because of the extravagant grace of God.
Speaker 1: Lord, I don't deserve this, but Lord.
Speaker 3: You have shown me kindness and goodness, the grace, the
Speaker 3: extravagant grace of God.
Speaker 1: So I want you to know, I just feel like
Speaker 1: maybe there's a person here that you feel like you're dirty.
Speaker 3: You have so many regrets, you have so many stuff
Speaker 3: in your life that you cannot fix, and maybe you're
Speaker 3: looking for answer.
Speaker 1: I believe God wants to say to you that there
Speaker 1: is grace available for you.
Speaker 3: If God extended grace to this adulterous woman. God surely
Speaker 3: is willing to extend grace to you. It wants to
Speaker 3: give you a fresh start, a brand new beginning. Last
Speaker 3: thing I want to talk mentioned about grace is the
Speaker 3: life changing grace of God.
Speaker 1: Life changing grace of God. God loves you just as
Speaker 1: you are, but He loves you so much to leave
Speaker 1: you where you are.
Speaker 3: God is so much more in store for you and me. Again,
Speaker 3: some people are using the grace of God as a
Speaker 3: license to sin. Hey, it's not about my good works,
Speaker 3: no money. Grace nomane Lord, Lord, So Lord, forgive me
Speaker 3: up my sin yesterday and forgive me again for tomorrow,
Speaker 3: because I'm going to do it again. Grace, Nomande Lord jan.
Speaker 1: Save you know. How will you know if the grace
Speaker 1: operating in your life is real grace? It will produce
Speaker 1: a change life, To produce a change life.
Speaker 3: Titus Chapter two, verse eleven to twelve four. The grace
Speaker 3: of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training
Speaker 3: us to renounce and godliness and worldly passions and to
Speaker 3: live self controlled, upright and godly lives. In the present age,
Speaker 3: You'll feel it my power to say no. You can
Speaker 3: walk in victory. You can walk in freedom. You know,
Speaker 3: there's this theologian church father named Augustine.
Speaker 1: Okay, so my early theologiansto and.
Speaker 3: I just read this story that prior to his salvation
Speaker 3: he was living with a prostitute and then he encountered
Speaker 3: God he got saved, so he started avoiding this prostitute.
Speaker 3: One time, when he was walking, this prostitute saw him,
Speaker 3: so she tried to chase him. Augustin, you're gonnasila be
Speaker 3: so lain. Imagine a gostin pero tomato lews delegation and ibangdan.
Speaker 3: Finally she was able to catch him, and the girl
Speaker 3: said Augustin, it is I, to which he replied Augustin said,
Speaker 3: I know, but it is no longer I. The grace
Speaker 3: of God change him inside out. How many of you
Speaker 3: here you want the grace of God to change you
Speaker 3: from the inside out? And Lord, I want the grace
Speaker 3: of God to give me the power. And that's exactly
Speaker 3: what's available for us. We can live the life God
Speaker 3: wants us to live because there is the empowering grace
Speaker 3: of God.
Speaker 1: So the enemy would try to convinced us.
Speaker 3: The man the Mali guggling and yen and all of
Speaker 3: these things. We've embraced lies sometimes maybe we are confessing it.
Speaker 3: In the past, I had some really negative confessions about myself.
Speaker 1: I would incase I'm not realizing I've embraced this lie
Speaker 1: and the enemy is using it to keep me locked
Speaker 1: in this invisible prison. I don't know what are the
Speaker 1: lies that you have bought in or embraced in.
Speaker 3: Your life, but I believe the grace of God wants
Speaker 3: to set you free from whatever is holding you so
Speaker 3: that you won't be able to live for God the
Speaker 3: power of the grace of God. And God wants to
Speaker 3: teach us. The Bible says he wants to teach us Papana.
Speaker 3: When I was a new Christian, I would I would
Speaker 3: try because I'm this, I'm mute to this, so I
Speaker 3: will just say Lord subject, well, i'm cheating college Plloyd.
Speaker 3: I just know it's not good to cheat, so Lloyd,
Speaker 3: I need your grace. So I still remember that exam
Speaker 3: and accounting subject Christian So I beg bahal grace Munato,
Speaker 3: But that's an examview the Man opera reviewro.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 3: I wrote my name and then I don't know, maybe
Speaker 3: one hundred items and I'm just able to answer ten
Speaker 3: or twenty.
Speaker 1: Lord, I need your resurrection power. Lord.
Speaker 3: But the Tempastan, my friends go from a broatherhood.
Speaker 1: The templan holloids you now, sir, the more class mates
Speaker 1: guys see you. But the Labastian results. But suck. I
Speaker 1: have to retake. I need to enroll it for another semester.
Speaker 1: But you know where I experience the grace. I experience
Speaker 1: the grace.
Speaker 3: When I retake that subject for another sem the opmasa. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but you know what, God taught me to rely on
Speaker 3: his grace, So I don't know. Gigging maybe on grace
Speaker 3: mossachen is to experience favor or maybe the grace to
Speaker 3: go through it. Maybe there's no shortcut to this. But Lord,
Speaker 3: starting today, I want to learn to live by the
Speaker 3: grace of God. It's amazing because in the process God
Speaker 3: developed my confidence that I can actually pass without cheating,
Speaker 3: that I can actually live a life of integrity, that
Speaker 3: God can actually grant me success in life without me
Speaker 3: compromising in these areas.
Speaker 1: That's the grace of God.
Speaker 3: God can transform us by his grace, and I hope
Speaker 3: as we understand the grace of God, it will free
Speaker 3: us from fear, because some people are enslave all their
Speaker 3: life by this fear. That's why the Bible says God
Speaker 3: did not give us a spirit of fear. He gives
Speaker 3: us the spirit of power, power to live the life
Speaker 3: God wants us to live. I want to end here,
Speaker 3: and I'd like to read this last verse Romans five,
Speaker 3: verse seventeen. For if because of one man's trespass, death
Speaker 3: reigned through that one man talking about Adam, much more
Speaker 3: will those who receive the abundance of grace everyone say,
Speaker 3: abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign
Speaker 3: in life.
Speaker 1: Through the one man, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3: Through the abundance of God's grace, we can reign in life.
Speaker 3: No need to compromise, no need to cheat, no need
Speaker 3: to sin against God, no need to rebel against His will,
Speaker 3: no need to force something. No, I can reign in
Speaker 3: life by the abundant grace of God.
Speaker 1: God wants you to be victorious. God wants us to overcome.
Speaker 3: God wants us to reign in life not by our
Speaker 3: own by our own strength, by our effort or religious affiliation.
Speaker 1: But by the abundant grace of God.
Speaker 3: Do not forget your benefit, David says, praise the Lord,
Speaker 3: and do not forget.
Speaker 1: His benefits, which includes the grace of God. Amen. I
Speaker 1: mean of you are grateful for the grace of God
Speaker 1: in your life. Let's all stand and let's pray. Right now.
Speaker 3: Lord, deliver us from fear from lives that is holding
Speaker 3: us back from relying on your grace, depending on your
Speaker 3: grace in every area of our life. Lord, this relationship
Speaker 3: started because of your grace. This relationship will be sustained
Speaker 3: by your grace, and we will finish this race by
Speaker 3: your grace. It's all about your grace. Lord, So Lord,
Speaker 3: help us to learn more and more to trust in
Speaker 3: your grace that we will not try to perform. We
Speaker 3: will not try to try to Lord, get pretend we're
Speaker 3: always okay. Lord, I pray we would learn to relate
Speaker 3: to you on the basis of grace, not on the
Speaker 3: basis of our righteousness and works and religiosity. I pray,
Speaker 3: Lord God, that your grace will become more and more
Speaker 3: real to us. Thank you for your persistent grace that
Speaker 3: even though at times may a man of time deconomy,
Speaker 3: you know obey, but you are patient with us, not
Speaker 3: wanting us to perish but to come to repentance.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your extravagant.
Speaker 3: Grace, even though we don't deserve it, your blessings and
Speaker 3: favor you give it anyway. Lord, we can really say
Speaker 3: with all conviction that who we are today, where we
Speaker 3: are today, and what we have today, it's all by
Speaker 3: the grace of God. It's not because of our brilliance.
Speaker 3: It's not because of our Lord God excellence or skill
Speaker 3: or education or influence or connection.
Speaker 1: It's all by the grace of God. So we thank you,
Speaker 1: We praise you. We bless your holy name like David,
Speaker 1: but David said, bless the Lord, Oh my soul. Today
Speaker 1: we bless you, Lord. We praise you with all of
Speaker 1: our heart. Lord, Continue to change us, continue to teach
Speaker 1: us to live for it. Thank you, Lord.
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