Grace Sermons

The Good Life for a lot of us is The American Dream and the pursuit of our goals and dreams, leading to a life of comfort, success, and fulfillment.  However, the good life according to Scripture is Jesus Christ Himself!  He is our Life!  As we learn to rest in Him and experience His indwelling Life, He'll lead us into life with others and will express His life through us to a lost and dying world...

What is sabbath rest?  Is Jesus our sabbath rest?  What is the sabbath rest in Hebrews 4?  If you want to find and experience true rest in your life, you must know what it means to have sabbath rest in Jesus.  He is our Rest. #sabbath #sabbathrest #jesus #hebrews #hebrews4  THE GRACE BLOG WEBSITE: https://thegraceblog.com/blog BUY ME A COFFEE: https://buymeacoffee.com/jasonjz

The faithfulness of God is one of His many attributes.  Faithfulness is part of His nature.  God is faithful.  He is faithful to Himself, to His other attributes, and to us.   "God's faithfulness means that because he is the truth, everything he says and does is certain. That means he is 100% reliable 100% of the time. He does not fail, forget, falter, change or disappoint. He says what he means a...

1 John 4:8 tells us that God is love.  God's love is a holy love, a sacrificial love, a gracious love, an eternal love, an unconditional love, and an unlimited love.  Paul says that for the believer, God's love has been poured into our hearts.  You have all of God's love, all of the time. #attributesofgod #godslove #love #godsloveforus  THE GRACE BLOG: https://thegraceblog.com/blog BUY ME A COFFEE...

God is just.  His justice is His attribute by which He acts in accordance with His perfect nature, upholding what is right and addressing what is wrong.  God is always fair, righteous, and impartial.  His actions and decisions are perfectly aligned with His moral law and holy character. As a just God, He cannot simply overlook sin.  He must judge evil.  God sent Jesus as a propitiation of our sins...

God's attribute of holiness means that He is high and exalted, transcendent in majesty, and has infinite moral purity.  He is distinct and like no other.  As sinful human beings, we cannot be in the presence of a holy God, but through the sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, we are made holy when we put our faith in Him for salvation and can enjoy the relationship we were designed t...

The sovereignty of God means that He is the chief ruler of all things.  He is the authority.  God is omniscient, omnisapient, and omnipotent.  God is the supreme ruler and authority.  He ordains whatever comes to pass, and His divine purpose is always accomplished. (Paul Enns, Moody Handbook of Theology ) God's sovereignty is the attribute by which he rules his entire creation, and to be sovereign...

The omnipotence of God means He is all-powerful.  His omnipotence is a communicable or shared attribute.  For those who are in Christ, we share in His power, and He expresses His power through us to make Kingdom impact in this world. Ephesians 3:20…(God) is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us. #omnipotence #attributesofgod #allp...

The omniscience of God means that God knows all things actual and possible, past, present, and future, in one eternal act (Paul Enns).  But God is not only all-knowing, but all-wise.  God can take all of His knowledge and use it in the best possible way to bring about the best possible results, by the best possible means, for the most possible people for the longest possible time (Charles Ryrie)....

God is omnipresent.  As A.H. Strong says, “God in the totality of His essence, without diffusion or expansion, multiplication or division, penetrates and fills the universe in all its parts.”   You are never alone.  God is always present.  As a believer, all of God dwells inside of you at the core of your being through your spiritual union with Jesus Christ.  The more you turn inwards towards Him,...

God is good.  Goodness is part of His nature.  God can't be anything but good.  But not only is God good, He shares His goodness with those who receive His gift of salvation by faith.  Through your union in Christ, you are made good.  He crucified your old self and has given you a new nature (a good nature).  You are a recipient of and expresser of God's goodness. #godsgoodness #attributesofgod  h...

The aseity of God means He is self-existent.  The eternality of God means He exists outside of time.  The Immutability of God means He does not change.  The self-existent and eternal God of the universe created you and even pursues you as He desires to be in and experience a relationship with you and that will not change. The Aseity of God The Eternality of God The Immutability of God https://theg...

We all deal with fear, worry, and anxiety on some level, and it can keep us from experiencing the abundant life we have in Christ.  But God gives us the answer to how to overcome fear, worry, and anxiety in our lives.  In Philippians 4:6-7, we are told to present our anxieties to God.  We name them and release them to the Lord.  In Philippians 4:8, we are told to replace those anxious thoughts wit...

Social media can be used by God for good, but it can easily become our chief discipler as Christians.  Satan can use it as a tool to distract, divide, and devour.  He can use it to conform us to the image of this world.  But Christianity is about fixing our eyes on Jesus and allowing Him to throw off everything that hinders us from experiencing the abundant life we have in Him.  Are you using soci...

It's been said that comparison is the thief of joy.  Satan uses comparison to deceive us into finding our worth and value from how we measure up to other people.  The Bible tells us that Satan is out to steal, kill, and destroy.  Comparison is one of the ways he robs us of our joy in Christ. https://thegraceblog.com/blog #comparison #sermon

Sexual sin in the Bible shows us that Satan has taken God's good gift of sex and twisted it into something that steals, kills, and destroys our lives.  But in Christ, we experience complete forgiveness, a new nature, and resurrection power to move beyond this roadblock in our lives. https://thegraceblog.com/blog #lust #immorality #sermon

Past mistakes can leave us feeling guilt and shame for a long time.  They can leave us stuck on the journey of life.  We all have a past and it can be a major roadblock that keeps us from experiencing the abundant life Jesus said He came to give.  Peter made past mistakes, but in John 21, Jesus leads him beyond the roadblock of his past, and this passage shows us how to move beyond the roadblock o...

Because of Jesus' resurrection, believers in Christ experience a resurrection in their own lives the moment they put their faith and trust in Him for salvation.  Are you living the resurrected life?  It's time to start living from Jesus instead of for Jesus. #easter #resurrectionsunday #resurrection #resurrectionlife #raisedwithjesus #bornagain  https://thegraceblog.com/blog

Jesus entering Jerusalem on Palm Sunday is a pivotal point on His road to the cross and His resurrection.  The people wanted Him to make their situation with Rome better, but He was up to something so much bigger than changing temporary circumstances.  Jesus was entering Jerusalem on Palm Sunday to bring peace between man and God through His substitutionary atonement on the cross. #palmsunday #joh...

What is meaning of Jesus anointed at Bethany?  In John 12:1-8, Mary anoints Jesus as an act of humility and worship, regardless of what others might think about her.  God uses it to prepare Jesus' body for future burial after His finished work on the cross.  

After Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, the religious leaders of plot to kill Jesus.  However, God was at work to bring about His plan to rescue humanity from their sin through the substitutionary atonement of Jesus.  What Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin meant for evil, God meant for good. https://thegraceblog.com/blog #john11 #resurrection

How are we supposed to love our enemies?  That seems impossible!  And in your flesh, it is impossible.  But Jesus loved His enemies, and if you are in Christ, He will love your enemies as He expresses His life through you. Luke 6:27-28... “But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. #luke6 #loveyo...

In Luke 6, Jesus encounters the rule-police (Pharisees) who call Him out for breaking the rules on the Sabbath.  He declares in Luke 6:5, I am the Lord of the Sabbath!  What is the meaning of Luke 6:5?  If Jesus was willing to break the rules of tradition in His day to love people and show them compassion, then shouldn't we expect Him to do the same in and through us today? 5 Then Jesus said to th...

In Luke 5, Jesus tells a parable about wineskins and also about a new patch on an old cloth.  What is the meaning of these parables?  Basically, Jesus is saying that He didn't come to mix the old covenant and the new covenant.  He did not come to mix grace with law.  He came to fulfill the law and offer us a whole new life as we receive His grace by faith. #luke5 #parable #parableofjesus #parables...

Jesus eating with tax collectors and sinners tells us that we should expect Him to express His life through us today in ways that lead us to do the same thing.  Who are the tax collectors and sinners of our day that Jesus wants to use you to invest in and be in relationship with? Luke 5:32 - I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. #luke5 #sinner #taxcollector #repentance ...