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Join The Table Irresistible Grace?
Pastor Bob
Apr 30th, 2009
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18:01
Is God’s grace irresistible?
Some of you may have heard me teach about “Irresistible Grace” and wondered how I could teach such a thing. Let me be clear…
I believe that we all have resisted God. Isn’t that what the Bible says plainly? All have sinned and fallen short of God’s glory. No one seeks for God. There is no one who does good, not even one. There is no fear of God before our eyes. (Romans 3)
So if we all resist God, how could I talk about an irresistible grace from God? Well I believe that God’s grace is resistible until it isn’t. Let me explain: If you are a follower of Jesus Christ, then at some point God has overwhelmed your will with His own. At some point God interrupted your plans and your will and rescued you from sin, death, and Hell.
Now if you were resisting Him, and somehow you are now saved… how could that be without God making His grace irresistible to you and drawing you until Himself? I believe that God loves you so much that He saw you running from Him towards a gloomy end and in love, He saved you in-spite of your rejection of Him. He caused you to come alive, to see your sin and repent… and trust (believe) in Him completely for salvation. You resisted God’s grace until God made His grace irresistible to you.
It is the most amazing love story in the universe. A holy sinless God who is madly in love with a wicked sinful person who outright rejects Him. So God pays my debt, rescuing me from myself and my own destruction. In love, and in-spite of myself, God drew me to Himself through His irresistible grace.
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TAGS: TULIP
The Calling of God
Pastor Bob
Apr 21st, 2009
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10:41
I get concerned when I hear people talk about knowing God’s calling because of “open doors”… or that God must not be calling them to something because of “closed doors”. Let me be clear on my understanding of the Scriptures… the calling of God usually comes in-spite of circumstances, not because of them! In 2 Corinthians 11, Paul tells us of the “closed doors”, sufferings, attacks and his “far greater labors” that he endured in the ministry:
What did Jesus come to do?
Pastor Bob
Apr 15th, 2009
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07:38
What did Jesus come to do?
- To reveal the Father (Matt. 11:27)
- “All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”
- To be a ransom for many (Matt. 20:28)
- “just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
- To serve (Matt. 20:28)
- “just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
TAGS: Thoughts From My Journal
