Sunday Sermon: We Need Grace

We Need Grace

“But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.”

— 2 Corinthians 12:9 (NIV)

We need grace of God in these areas

1. Infirmities (sickness, weakness, physical ailments)

2. Reproaches (ridicule)

3. Needs (provisions)

4. Persecution (suffering for Christ sake)

5. Distress

Sickness and Ministry of Healing

1. Adam: Created Spirituality Perfect.

2. Adam: Created Psychologically and emotionally perfect.

3. Adam: Created physically perfect.

Single act of disobedience brought

            * dis - ease

            * dis - order

            * dis - ability

            * dis - tress

            * dis - appointment

            * dis - couragement

            * dis - comfort

            * dis - aster

            * dis - cord

            * dis - harmony

            * dis - integration

Sunday Sermon: Because of Grace

Because of Grace

“But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.”

— 1 Corinthians 15:10 (ESV)

“So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

— 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 (ESV)

“You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus,”

— 2 Timothy 2:1 (ESV)

Sunday Sermon: Expiation and Propitiation

Expiation and Propitiation

“He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.”

— 1 John 2:2 (ESV)

“and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.”

— 1 Thessalonians 1:10 (ESV)

“In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”

— 1 John 4:10 (ESV)

Sunday Sermon: Consecration

Consecration

“In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted,
but you have given me an open ear.
Burnt offering and sin offering
you have not required.
Then I said, “Behold, I have come;
in the scroll of the book it is written of me:
I delight to do your will, O my God;
your law is within my heart.””

— Psalm 40:6-8 (ESV)

Sunday Sermon: My Grace Is Sufficient For You

My Grace Is Sufficient For You

“So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations,[a] a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

— 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 (ESV)

“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,”

— Ephesians 2:8 (ESV)