Class Outline:
WELCOME TO BARAH MINISTRIES
TODAY’S STUDY
Ten Learned Lessons on God’s Graciousness
How has your relationship with God changed as a result of your study of His graciousness?
Learning Point 1
God Has a Grace Mindset
A Grace Mindset is the Difference Maker in Relationships
GAL 6:1
Brethren (believers in Christ), even if (3) anyone is caught (overtaken) in any trespass (a personal sin), you who are (in) spiritual (condition), restore such a one (encourage rebound) in a spirit of gentleness (by means of God the Holy Spirit); each one looking to (test) yourself, so that you too will not be tempted (to get out of fellowship).
Is your life a reflection of the GRACE of God, both in your human relationships and in your relationship with yourself?
Learning Point 2
God’s Grace Can Be Seen
GRACE makes God visible to us
JAM 1:21-22
Therefore, (keep on) putting aside all filthiness (mental attitude pollution) and all that remains of (the overflow of) wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted (inculcated), which is able to save (deliver) your souls.//But prove yourselves (by continuing to be) doers of the word, and not merely hearers (“gnosis gnuts”) who delude themselves.
JAM 1:23-24
For if (1) anyone (who is a believer in Christ) is (one to keep on being) a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a (noble)man (spiritual royalty) who looks at his natural face in a mirror (in introspection through use of doctrine);// for once he has looked at himself and gone away (from the doctrine), he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was (totally depraved).
JAM 1:25
But one who looks intently at the perfect law (bible doctrine), the law of liberty, and abides by it (by living it), not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer (of divine good), this man will be blessed (+H) in what he does.
As a result of studying God’s graciousness, how has God become more visible to you?
How is your life making God visible to others?
Learning Point 3
God’s Grace is Insignificant
GRACE, while wonderful, is the least significant thing God does for His creatures
PSA 84:11
For the Lord God is a sun (a light for our paths) and shield (a protector on all sides); The Lord gives (all forms of) grace and (the Lord gives) glory; No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly (believers in Christ).
MAT 7:11
“If (1) you then, being evil (and you are), know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your (God the) Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!”
Are you putting God’s GRACE in the proper place in your mind?
Learning Point 4
Grace has only ONE Definition
Grace is God’s promise to do all the work while we get all the benefit
ROM 11:6
But if (1) it (the Plan of God for your life) is by (means of) grace (and it is), it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.
YOU CAN’T EARN GRACE.
We get GRACE because God wants to give it.
YOU DESERVE GRACE BECAUSE GOD THINKS YOU DO.
Learning Point 5
Grace is God’s Guaranteed Solution
You may focus on problems, but God’s GRACE creates solutions
The CROSS is a GRACE solution!
ROM 8:32
(in corrected translation)
He (God the Father) who did not spare His own Son (the Lord Jesus Christ), but delivered Him over (as a sin substitute) for us all (in mankind while we were His enemies), how will He (God the Father) not also (for those in union) with Him (the Lord Jesus Christ) freely give us (believers in Christ the) all things?
REV 12:10
…(Satan) who accuses them (believers in Christ) before our God day and night.”
GAL 2:21
(in corrected translation)
“I (Paul) do not nullify (frustrate or void) the grace of God, for if [1] (self) righteousness comes through (adherence to) the (Mosaic) Law (by means of works…and let’s assume it does), then (the Lord Jesus) Christ died needlessly.”
JOH 1:14
And the Word (ho logos - the Lord Jesus Christ) became flesh, and dwelt (tabernacled) among us, and we saw (beheld) His glory, glory as of the only begotten (uniquely born one) from the Father, full of grace and truth.
The CROSS is a solution!
ISA 61:1
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me (through enduement), because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners…
THANKS FOR LISTENING!
