How is your walk with God now- Is it joyful- Is it real- Is it marked by confession and forgiveness- The confessing life is a happy life. the confessing life is also an open and transparent life. It is a motivated and confident life. It is a life in which obedience toward God is easier.

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There are possibly no issues in the world that have caused quite as much friction and misunderstanding as access to resources. Facing the disparity of access to resources has led people to think that if they had more they could be more effective in their faith. This, of course, is disproved by the effectiveness of the early church and Jesus himself. Yes, Christians are encouraged to give according to their capacities, but this is giving that exceeds monetary giving. A generous heart is a beautiful thing that we see in God himself in Jesus. Jesus' effectiveness is proven in poverty. Although he deserved more, he never claimed the right to more. Jesus' gospel is a gospel of future grace that has an impact on our current living. Do you realise God's plan is to use the poor right now- So how should we then give- This sermon will help you wit ha series of principles that will guide you to give well by extending grace.

Extending Grace

We talk about grace a lot. but so many misunderstandings of grace about. Do you have a clear understanding of what grace is- In Paul's view, grace is evidenced in the sharing of the true gospel and the related mentorship that goes with it. This togetherness in the gospel overflows boundaries of age, gender, ethnicity, culture, and any other. God often does unexpected work in this way through unexpected people. Look at the way God sent Paul, the educated Pharisee to the gentiles while he sent Peter, the uneducated fisherman to the academic Jews. Christians who understand grace continually watch for these opportunities and evidences.

Seeing Grace

Do you seriously believe there is only one way to be saved- Paul certainly did. He even defended it against Peter's error. Every Christian is saved by faith alone through grace alone through Christ alone. Every truly saved person is truly unified through this reality. False teachers who oppose this truth are sneaky and slippery. They want to cramp true believers' freedom in Jesus and make them slaves to self-helpism. True believers fight against this destructive heresy and cling to the gospel of grace.

Protecting Grace and Unity

You may be longing for the ability to change. So many people desire it. The good news is that god is currently changing people by grace. This what God did for Paul. God's work in people glorifies God. On the way to Damascus, Paul was one way, but on the way back he was dramatically different. God crash-coursed him with direct teaching- As a result, Paul shared the gospel wherever he went- By the time returned to Jerusalem some time later, it was obvious that his gospel was the same as that of the other apostles. I was clear that he was taught by Jesus himself. This is still the type of transformation God is effecting in lives today. When God transforms you, there is no doubt that you life, like Paul's, will be strikingly different to what it was before.

I Want to Change

Radical transformation is at the heart of Paul's story and his gospel. It is a story of hope for you and me because it is a story of hope for you and me because it is a story of how God saves his people by grace. He cultivates our past in order to show the greatness of his grace in our future. God calls his people according to his own pleasure and he calls us to eternal pleasure. This is unspeakable grace that carries us through every challenge and into his very glory. This gives life now purpose and motivation. A difficult life with purpose is far better than an easy life without purpose. It was this God-centred purpose that electrified Paul In order to have any hope or purpose at all, you need to be transformed by God.

Authentic Transformation

A man responded to an online advert for a job. They asked for an admin fee. After paying, they let him know he had secured the job. He resigned from his old job and arrived for his first day at work to discover he had been scammed. More tragically, countless people consider themselves true believers but have deceived themselves into thinking they are safe when they are not. To consider yourself saved without true repentance is to deceive yourself. If this repentance does not lead to a changed life you are deceiving yourself. And if this change doesn't include new motives, you are deceiving yourself. One new motive is gratitude for God's past, present and future grace. Another is the glorious kingdom of the King- A new glorious order into which I will be brought forever. Without such a worldview you will be neither salt nor light in this sin-infected and darkened world.

Salt and Light

A Graceless Life

The gospel sets you free from the slavery of pleasing other people. One of the most significant moments of history--Pilate's trial of Jesus--was swayed by Pilate's fear of man. And it was Jesus' conviction and enduring of Pilate's condemnation that sets Christians free from this very fear. You cannot be both a man-pleaser and a servant of Christ. Paul's boldness in the gospel clearly offends many people. His motive is clear-he wants to see the gospel rescuing lost souls, which is a far cry from people-pleasing. Rather, Paul proves himself a God-pleaser. Pleasing God frees you from pleasing everyone else. Paul's past religious life was a life of man-pleasing but that was destroyed when he apprehended the gospel. The power of knowing that God already approves of you cuts away the need to win other people's approval. There is a cost involved in throwing off the expectations of people in order to embrace the fear of the Lord. A cost that returns inestimable dividends that you can never lose.

Escaping the Fear of People

Paul's passion for the gospel is clear in his passionate appeal to the Galatians. His is astounded that they can see the breathtaking beauty of the gospel of grace then turn back to a performance religious treadmill. Strangely, there are people who want you to incrementally return to this miserable gospel by trying to disguise it as the truth. They want you to return to performance slavery- Are you guilty of this kind of reversal of the gospel- The gospel is not about being nice, it is about God's total provision of objective righteousness for the wicked sinner. Can you identify this error in your thinking and drive to perform- Do you realise that those embracing such an error deserve to be eternally cursed- If you know someone who is attracted to, or is trapped in this anti-gospel performance slavery, does your heart go out to them because you know they have placed themselves in a damnable position before God- It is salvation by Christ alone or it is no salvation at all. It is self-destruction. Never lose sight of the gospel of grace or the authority of Scripture through which it comes. Turn back to grace now.

Turning Back to Grace

Have you ever experienced true freedom- Do you know what true freedom is- Do you know how it feels- If you don't know Christ as Saviour, you have never experienced true freedom. Only Christ can grant you true freedom. Freedom is found in understanding grace. Galatians explains this freedom in a comprehensive way. A key principle for Paul is that if it is not Christ alone, we should leave it alone. Another thing Paul shows is that a common attack against the truth is to attack the messenger. This is not logical. But even under attack, Paul shows that he is a messenger who can't be discredited. he was accredited by God himself. But Paul's message focuses on the cross of Christ. Paul preaches to the glory of the Christ of Calvary. It is Jesus whose life, death and resurrection that god accepts as the merits of the wicked sinner. True freedom is found only in being a recipient of this treasure. This is true liberation-

Is Jesus Enough?

David enjoys God's protection at a time when it seemed he had come to the end of his life. Yes, David conducted himself in a foolish way, but god kindly rescued him. Critically, even though he ran to the enemy physically, in his heart he called out to the Lord. The ruin that David had seen behind him presented real danger and it was from this danger that the Lord extracted him. God amazingly commits himself to keeping his people according to his purposes. Joy comes from deliberately worshiping God for the riches of his deliberate commitment to his people. Deliberate commitment includes controlling what comes into your mind and heart. It declares war of self-sufficiency and boasts in the God of all strength. This destroys the fear of death. It also boasts in the strength Christians have in Christian community. This is a start to what it means to boast in the Lord.

Boasting in the Lord

The King of Glory

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