Grace Bible Church Paris

When Jesus was asked by his disciples to teach them to pray, He does not just teach them what to pray, but He gives them a model of how they should pray. After He teaches them to address God as "Our Father," He says the next thing that we should be concerned about, is that God's name would be hallowed. What does it mean to hallowed God's name? It means that we, as His children, would be concerned...

The Lord's Prayer is such a familiar prayer to so many people, maybe so familiar that we never stop and think what it is, that we actually pray. When Jesus gives us the privilege to call God, Our Father, it comes with many implications. One: we are no longer strangers or children of the devil. Two: we have been saved into a family. The Christian life is not just about me and Christ but it is about...

In our day, we hardly ever hear anything about fasting, but interestingly enough, Jesus assumed the fasting would be part of our Christian life. So He warns us, that when we do fast, we should do it in such a way, where we don't draw attention to our self. Fasting can be abstaining from food or anything good for a period of time for the purpose of seeking after God, whether it is in prayer, or the...

As Christians, we know that we should pray, but to some degree or another, we all struggle with prayer. Wherever we may be on that spectrum, Jesus warns us that when we pray, whether public or private, we must do a careful examination to make sure that we are praying to God our Father in heaven. And not to ourselves or to people that might be present. We are not to be like the hypocrites, who pray...

Giving should be a part of our life as Christians. We have been given much by God, therefore, we should be a giving people. Giving consist of, our money, our time, our service, our talent, or helping neighbors who are in need. As Christians we stand with an open hand, for God to give to us, we need to be ready and willing with an open hand to give to others as well. Giving is the first of the thre...

Jesus Christ never wavered from that which he came to this world to do. He knew from young on that he was here to do his Father's will. He was tempted and tried in every way, but yet he did not sin. Jesus' perfect life of obedience is our righteousness.

Through the selfish act of a prideful king, God's eternal decree is carried out. Caesar Augustus, once all of his people to register in their hometown, possibly so that he can collect more taxes , through that Jesus Christ is born in a little town called Bethlehem, to a poor family in a stable. Which points to the humble life that Jesus Christ lived, and died, so that his people would have salvati...

God had promised a redeemer in Genesis 3:15. People throughout the Old Testament looked with great longing for this redeemer. Often times they felt abandoned and forgotten by God, but God does not make empty promises. He fulfilled his promise, at the exact time that he had predestined that it would come to pass. God provides the redeemer.

As Christians we have been called to love in a way that is not natural. God has demonstrated for us what it means to love one's enemies. Jesus reminds us that God allows the Sun to rise on the good and evil, the Rain to fall on the good and evil, and therefore as His children, we are to imitate him. As Christians, we must do more than the average people. Meaning, we must love, not just those who l...

Are natural reaction to people when they harm us, is to want to harm them back. But Jesus teaches that as Christians we should not think like that. As Christians we should do things that are out of the ordinary, not reluctantly, but joyfully because of what Christ has done for us.

Jesus teaches us, Christians should be known for their word. We should not have to validate our "yes", or our "no" with people that we know and regularly deal with. We should say what we mean and mean what we say.

Jesus shows us that God's intent from the beginning was that there would be one man and one woman who would be united to one another for life. They would individually die and become one flesh. The implication of that, would be that they should never be separated. The Bible does allow for divorce in a few circumstances, but it should never be the first resort. Each married individual, should fight...

Adultery, is not just a physical act, one can commit, but it is also a mental act, one can commit. Many people, my pride themselves, in the fact that they are outwardly moral and operate, but inwardly they might be guilty of immorality. Either we have caused someone to lust, or we are the one who are lusting after someone else. And Jesus says if we do that, we are guilty of adultery.

Jesus demonstrates to us that, breaking the law of God is not just something that we do physically, but it is also something that we do mentally. Murder is something that is done physically but only because it was first done mentally. Jesus strictly warns against bitterness and anger in our hearts. Calls us to deal with them and drastic ways.

Why should we pray? We should pray because God is sovereign! If God is not sovereign then there is no use in praying. Because God is sovereign, we as the people of God should pray earnestly about everything. God in His sovereignty has predestined the end, but He has also predestined the means by which the end is accomplished. Which is prayer!

The doctrine of the preservation of the saints is the most comforting of all. Without this doctrine there is no peace, no assurance, no comfort in salvation at all. God is not just able to save the sinners, He is also able to keep them to the end. That gives us, as Christians comfort and peace.

As Christians, we are not free from obeying the law. Jesus summarize the 10 Commandments in the Great Commandment, "love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, mind and soul," and the second one is like it, "love your neighbor as yourself."  As we Christians, seek to honor Christ and walk in his ways, we are doing what he was doing, which is keeping the law of God.

As Christians, what role does the Old Testament or the laws that God had in the OT play in our lives? That is a question that many Christians struggle with. In these verses we hear Jesus's opinion of the OT and in that we learn what our opinion should be of the OT and how it applies to our life.

How should faithful Christians live in the world? Should they hiding, or should they be live among ungodly people? Jesus says: "you are the light of the world." You cannot hide a city on a hill, and you don't like the lamp and put it under a basket. Nor can we exclude ourselves from non-Christians. Our task and responsibility as Christians, is to be salt and light among people who don't know God.

Jesus says, "you are the salt of the earth." That is not a command but rather a statement of fact. He also makes the point, that just like salt can lose its usefulness by being polluted, we as Christians can lose our effectiveness by being polluted by the things of this world.

According to Jesus, we should be more concerned if we do not face any persecution for the sake of Christ, then if we do face persecution. The beatitudes were meant to be lived out by every believer, and when we do that the inevitable response from the ungodly and nominal Christians will be ridicule and persecution.

Each and every Christian is called to follow the example of Jesus Christ in being a peacemaker. Jesus came to make peace between us and God, and now sends us to be ambassadors on God's behalf to reconcile others to God as well. And as Christians we are to be intentional to live at peace with one another.