The Gift of God's Grace

• The Gift of God’s Grace
• Romans 6:14-23
• Famous Wendy’s commercial implied in other burgers the most important ingredient missing
• 63% of U.S. population thinks that if a person is good enough he can earn his way to heaven
• 51-56%) describing themselves as Christians worry about dying and not being forgiven by God
• We are Saved by grace …
• Romans 6:13-14 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
• We are Saved by grace …
• 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!…17 But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. 18 And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
Views of salvation…
• SELF - CENTERED
• Salvation pursued for our sakes
• Dependent on our ability
• Focus on demands of law

• GOD - CENTERED
• Salvation pursued for God’s glory
• Dependent on what God has done
• Focus on supply of God’s strength
• Questions to consider..
• If you were to die (or Christ should return) right now, would you be saved or lost ? …
• What are your first thoughts …
– Do I deserve salvation? Have I been faithful, have I sinned since I last asked for forgiveness ?
– Or , Yes, thanks to God and His wonderful promises through Jesus Christ ?
• Wages or gift ?
• Romans 3:21-24 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, … through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
• Wages or gift ?
• Ephesians 2:8-10 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
• Wages or gift ?
• Romans 4:1-4 What then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh? 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. 3 For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." 4 Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt.
• Wages or gift ?
• Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
• Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• The Gift of God’s Grace
• Romans 6:14-23