Sunday Re Cap (17th Oct 2010)

The Two Fold Nature of Grace

Rom 3:5-8 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who lays on wrath? (I speak as a man.) (6) Let it not be! For then how shall God judge the world? (7) For if in my lie the truth has more abounded to His glory why am I still judged as a sinner? (8) And not rather, (as we are wrongly accused, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do bad things that good may come? Their condemnation is just.

Rom 6:1-2 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may abound? (2) Let it not be! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?

The grace that Paul preached was not a so called “balanced” view of grace but a totally extreme view!

Why did Paul preach an “extreme” form of grace? Because an extreme form of grace will produce an extreme form of believers. When we preached grace radically, we produce radical disciples.

How would we categorise ourselves, and the church in general? Are we producing radical disciples? Are people on fire for God? Why? Could it be because we are preaching “mild” or so called “balanced” grace?

Today we want to look at the life of Paul and see what radical grace produces.

Grace is both to be received and grace is also empowering. Believing and LIVING!

1Co 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace which was toward me has not been without fruit, but I labored more abundantly than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

Act 20:24 ; Tit 2:11-12

Witness Lee..Grace is giving the Holy spirit free rein to operate in and through our lives.

Grace has a twofold characteristic; it is to be received and it is to be expressed. The fruit of grace is an attitude of gratitude and graciousness. Parable of the unforgiving servant; parable of the sheep and the goats (Matt 25:31-46)

The Apostle Paul was the most successful missionary apostle in the Bible and we see that it was radical grace that propelled him to a radical ministry and lifestyle.

Let us fully embrace the double fold nature of grace which is to bless us with favour and empower us with RIGHT LIVING. Let us embrace radical grace, like Paul, and see radically explosive sons and daughters of God produced!

Samuel Hari @ GROW BM