Gen. 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

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WELCOME

• Gen. 68 But Noah found grace in the eyes of
  the LORD.
• Noah did not find favour in the eyes of men they
  hated and persecuted him, because both by his
  life and preaching he condemned the world.
• But he found grace in the eyes of the Lord,
• and this was honour and comfort enough.

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Mercy Grace

• Mercy Grace is God with-holding His righteous
  judgment against my sins while allowing me the
  opportunity to receive eternal life Heaven,
  though I do not deserve them.

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Grace encompasses His Holiness

• Holiness is "separateness"
• God demands that His people be Holy, i.e.
  separated unto Him
• Leviticus 1144 For I am the LORD your God. You
  shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and you
  shall be holy for I am holy.
• 1 Peter 116 because it is written, "Be holy,
  for I am holy."

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Grace encompasses His Truth

• Truth is part of Gods Existence, Knowledge,
  Power, and Glory.
• Psalm 199 The fear of the Lord is clean,
  enduring forever the judgments of the Lord are
  true and righteous altogether
• We can believe everything He says in His word and
  can depend on His promises.
• Deut. 324 He is the Rock, his work is perfect
  for all his ways are judgement a God of truth
  and without iniquity, just and right is he.

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Grace encompasses His Righteousness

• Righteousness is embracing Holy principles and
  conformity to the life of Christ
• Perhaps a more basic meaning would be
  faithfulness.
• Psalm 96.13 He will judge the world in
  righteousness, and the peoples in faithfulness.

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Grace encompasses His Justice

• Justice is what happens based on what's right.
• Justice also means rendering to everyone that
  which is his due.
• Zephaniah 35 The LORD is righteous in her
  midst, He will do no unrighteousness. Every
  morning He brings His justice to light He never
  fails, But the unjust knows no shame.
• Psalms 8914 Righteousness and justice are the
  foundation of Your throne Mercy and truth go
  before Your face.

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Grace encompasses His Goodness

• The goodness of God is prominent in
• - Gen. 1 431.
• Psalms 335 He loves righteousness and justice
  The earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.
• Psalms 1071 Oh give thanks to the LORD, for He
  is good for His lovingkindness is everlasting
• Probably the most important, was sending a
  Message of Goodness, the Gospel.
• The Good News is that God Loves us and Gave us
  His Most Precious Gift.

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Grace encompasses His Love

• God is love and so the source of love.
• God defines love this way
• 1 John 49-10 In this the love of God was
  manifested toward us, that God has sent His only
  begotten Son into the world, that we might live
  through Him. In this is love, not that we loved
  God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be
  the propitiation for our sins.

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Grace encompasses His Mercy

• God's Mercy is His goodness and love shown
  towards people who have no way out.
• Love and Mercy come together to bring about the
  rescue of the dead and dying.
• Romans 310 There is none righteous, no, not
  one
• Romans 323 For all have sinned and fall short
  of the glory of God
• Romans 623 For the wages of sin is death, but
  the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus
  our Lord.
• The wages of sin is death or spiritual separation
  from God

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Grace precedes faith

• The grace that has awakened us to God is also a
  work of God and not ourselves.
• Faith itself is not an act of will or a decision
  of the mind, but a gift of the Holy Spirit.
• Salvation by grace leaves no room for human
  boasting
• Eph. 28,9 For by grace you have been saved
  through faith, and that not of yourselves it is
  the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone
  should boast.
• Mixing works with grace is a denial of true
  grace
• Rom. 116 And if by grace, then it is no longer
  of works otherwise grace is no longer grace. But
  if it is of works, it is no longer grace
  otherwise work is no longer work.

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Grace and liberty can be so difficult to achieve
and live with balance.

• Legalists do not walk freely in the grace of God
• Liberals attempt to use the grace of God as an
  excuse for sinful living.
• Galatians 51 It was for freedom that Christ
  set us free.
• Romans 67 For he who has died is freed from
  sin.
• Romans 82 For the law of the Spirit of life
  in Christ Jesus has set you free.
• John 836 So if the Son makes you free,
  you will be free indeed.

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We need the grace of God for our daily walk
with God.

• Believers, who are already saved still need
  grace for living the Christian life.
• Eph. 210 For we are His workmanship, created in
  Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared
  beforehand that we should walk in them.
• Rom. 1212 I beseech you therefore, brethren,
  by the mercies of God, that you present your
  bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to
  God, which is your reasonable service. And do
  not be conformed to this world, but be
  transformed by the renewing of your mind, that
  you may prove what is that good and acceptable
  and perfect will of God.

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Grace is necessary for salvation, without grace
we cannot have eternal life.

• Tit. 211 For the grace of God that brings
  salvation has appeared to all men
• Rom. 324 being justified freely by His grace
  through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus

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Gods Mercy toward us

• Sin is universal and touches everything that is
  touched by humanity.
• You cannot talk about grace, without taking sin
  seriously.
• Matthew 545b that you may be sons of your
  Father in heaven for He makes His sun rise on
  the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the
  just and on the unjust.
• God gives the sun and the rain the same is
  true of His grace

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Mercy is not salvation.

• Anything this side of hell is a mercy
• Lamentations 322 through the LORDS mercies we
  are not consumed, Because His compassions fail
  not.
• Just the fact that evil exists God shows his
  mercy, grace, and compassion.

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APPLICATION

• Hand of Mercy
• There is nothing that keeps us even one moment
  out of hell, but the mercy of God.
• John 318. "He who believes in Him is not
  condemned but he who does not believe is
  condemned already, because he has not believed in
  the name of the only begotten Son of God
• The bible says that there are but a few saved
• How many have died before and are gone to hell
• But each one imagines that he has a better chance
  than all those before him.

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So why does God judge and condemn the lost to
hell.

• Sin is the transgression of the law of God, who
  is perfectly just.
• Sin and transgression cannot be removed but by
  the grace of God through Jesus Christ
• Luke 16 1931 rich man in Hades (they have
  Moses Prophets)

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So why does God judge and condemn the lost to
hell.

• Ezra 913 "And after all that has come upon us
  for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, since
  You our God have punished us less than our
  iniquities deserve, and have given us such
  deliverance as this,
• Psalm 103 810 The LORD is merciful and
  gracious, Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy.
  He will not always strive with us, Nor will He
  keep His anger forever. He has not dealt with us
  according to our sins, Nor punished us according
  to our iniquities.

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Hand of Grace

• Salvation originates with God.
• He takes the ungodly sinners that we are and
  saves those who come to trust in Him through
  Jesus Christ.
• Luke 1324 "Strive to enter through the narrow
  gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter
  and will not be able.
• Matt 7 2123 Not everyone who says to Me,
  Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven,
  but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
  "Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord,
  have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out
  demons in Your name, and done many wonders in
  Your name? "And then I will declare to them, I
  never knew you depart from Me, you who practice
  lawlessness!

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Sin is the gate of hell, and wickedness the way
to destruction

• Grace is the gate of Heaven, to all who put their
  trust in Jesus Christ
• Rom. 323 for all have sinned and fall short of
  the glory of God,
• Rom. 623 For the wages of sin is death, but the
  gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our
  Lord.
• John 146 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the
  truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father
  except through Me.
• John 33 Jesus answered and said to him, "Most
  assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born
  again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

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John 336
"He who believes in the Son has everlasting
life and he who does not believe the Son shall
not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him."