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November 22, 2006

Christian Experience - Enjoying Grace (Part 3 of 3)

  1. An Introduction to Christian Experience - The Completing Grace
    1. The teachings in most of today's Christianity cause people to pay attention to outward activities. But today in the Lord's recovery, He has brought us back to the inward aspect. The inward aspect is the life in our spirit. We need to forget about outward activities, outward improvement, outward correction, outward behavior, etc. We have to turn back all the time to the spirit. The Christian life and the church life are a matter of us being in our spirit. Do not try to do anything outwardly. Instead, always return to your spirit, where the Lord Jesus is. This is to receive grace.
    2. This week we will see by the following verses that grace is a main element of the process that we are going through to become transformed and conformed to God's firstborn Son. It is also the element that gets supplied to us in the various sufferings that all human beings pass through. As God the Father answered the apostle Paul, "My grace is sufficient for you." Eventually this grace is a complete supply to us even in the ages to come! Praise Him for His marvelous plan, the economy of God, what it works out for our salvation, and the grace of Christ that dispenses all that the Father has purposed into us!
  2. Verses and footnotes from the Recovery Version of the New Testament
    1. Ephesians 4:293 - Let no corrupt Word proceed out of your mouth, but only that which is good for building up, according to the need, that it may give grace to those who hear.
    2. 2 Corinthians 12:92 - And He has said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness. Most gladly therefore I will rather boast in my weaknesses that the power of Christ might tabernacle over me.
    3. 1 Peter 4:102 - Each one, as he has received a gift, ministering it among yourselves as good stewards of the varied grace of God.
    4. 1 Peter 5:102,4 - But the God of all grace, He who has called you into His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, will Himself perfect, establish, strengthen, and ground you.
    5. Revelation 22:211 - The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen.
  3. Questions
    1. Would you say that grace is God's "mercy" to us or is it God's "grace" and what is the difference?
    2. Does grace have a name? Compare 1 Corinthians 15:10 and Galatians 2:20.

 

NOTE: The footnotes referenced in the outlines are from the The Holy Bible, Recovery Version © 2003 Living Stream Ministry. An online Recovery Version may be searched for verses and footnotes at: The Holy Bible, Online Recovery Version. You may also obtain a free Recovery Version New Testament by filling out a request form on the Bibles for America website.