The Motivation of Grace

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The Motivation of Grace
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• What is Your Response to the Grace of God?

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Grace Motivates Us to Renounce Sin
and Live for God.

• Grace not only saves us, but teaches us to deny
  sin.

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Titus 211-12 (NASB)

• 11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing
  salvation to all men, 12 instructing us to deny
  ungodliness and worldly desires and to live
  sensibly, righteously and godly in the present
  age.
• Deny (from arneomai) renounce, give up,
  reject.

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Grace teaches us to deny ungodliness

• Not to disrespect God in our speech, conduct, and
  worship.
• Not to treat God like a hobby for Sundays only
  and disregard Him throughout the week.
• To not be defiant of His laws as given in the
  Scriptures.

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Grace teaches us to deny wordly desires

• Indulgences in wealth or materialistic things,
  alcohol, drugs.
• Sensual pleasures (e.g., lust, pornography,
  fornication)
• Carnal or fleshly entertainment, recreation, or
  dance.

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• Grace teaches us to live a holy life!

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Grace Motivates Us to Renounce Sin
and Live for God.

• Grace not only saves us, but teaches us to deny
  sin.
• Grace not only saves us, but teaches us to live
  for God.

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Titus 211-12 (NASB)

• 11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing
  salvation to all men, 12 instructing us to deny
  ungodliness and worldly desires and to live
  sensibly, righteously and godly in the present
  age.

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Grace teaches us to live sensibly (soberly)

• To exercise self-restraint or self-control to
  say NO to the sin that brought our Savior to the
  cross.

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Grace teaches us to live righteously (justly

• To not just act religious or attend church, but
  to commit ourselves to the practice of right
  living.

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Grace teaches us to live godly.

• To be God-centered or devoted to God to fear God
  or reverence Him to please God and become more
  like Him.

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We deny sin and live for God
because the Lord is
coming.

• Titus 213-14 (NASB) 13 looking for the blessed
  hope and the appearing of the glory of our great
  God and Savior, Christ Jesus 14 who gave Himself
  for us, that He might redeem us from every
  lawless deed and purify for Himself a people for
  His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

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Grace Motivates Us to Renounce Sin
and Live for God.

• Grace not only saves us, but teaches us to deny
  sin.
• Grace not only saves us, but teaches us to live
  for God.
• Gods grace motivates us to repent and be
  baptized into Christ.

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Acts 238 (NASB)

• And Peter said to them, "Repent, and let each of
  you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for
  the forgiveness of your sins and you shall
  receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

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• You repent (i.e., change your mind in the way you
  view sin) - you renounce your sin and
  turn to God (are baptized) so
  you can receive Gods grace!

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Grace Motivates Us to Live the New Life.

• Too often, grace is abused or used as a
  license to sin.

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Romans 520-21 (NASB)

• 20 And the Law came in that the transgression
  might increase but where sin increased, grace
  abounded all the more, 21 that, as sin reigned in
  death, even so grace might reign through
  righteousness to eternal life through Jesus
  Christ our Lord.

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Romans 61-2 (NASB)

• 1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in
  sin that grace might increase? 2 May it never be!
  How shall we who died to sin still live in it?

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Jude 4 (NASB)

• For certain persons have crept in unnoticed,
  those who were long beforehand marked out for
  this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the
  grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our
  only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

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• Grace does not give us permission to sin!
  Such is a perversion
  of the gospel.

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Grace Motivates Us to Live the New Life.

• Too often, grace is abused or used as a
  license to sin.
• If we have died to sin (i.e., been baptized into
  Christ) we will no longer live in sin.

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Romans 62-3 (NASB)

• 2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin
  still live in it? 3 Or do you
  not know that all of us who have been baptized
  into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His
  death?

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• Resolved
  Those who have been baptized into Christ have put
  to death their sins have destroyed and
  renounced them, to put them away forever!

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Romans 62-3 (NASB)

• 2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin
  still live in it? 3 Or do you
  not know that all of us who have been baptized
  into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His
  death?
• No one is in Christ (where grace is found)
  until he or she has been baptized into Christ (as
  a penitent believer Acts 238 Mark 1616)

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Grace Motivates Us to Live the New Life.

• Too often, grace is abused or used as a
  license to sin.
• If we have died to sin (i.e., been baptized into
  Christ) we will no longer live in sin.
• Grace motivates to walk in newness of life.

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Romans 64 (NASB)

• 4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through
  baptism into death, in order that as Christ was
  raised from the dead through the glory of the
  Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

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Romans 65-7 (NASB)

• 5 For if we have become united with Him in the
  likeness of His death (at baptism ML),
  certainly we shall be also in the likeness of His
  resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old self
  was crucified with Him, that our body of sin
  might be done away with, that we should no longer
  be slaves to sin 7 for he who has died is freed
  from sin.

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• Grace provides you the forgiveness of your sins,
  a new start, a clean slate freedom from
  slavery, a new life!

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Grace Motivates Us to Live the New Life.

• Too often, grace is abused or used as a
  license to sin.
• If we have died to sin (i.e., been baptized into
  Christ) we will no longer live in sin.
• Grace motivates to walk in newness of life.
• Grace motivates you to do the very best you can
  to live the new life, yet never meritoriously.

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Do the best you can to live the new life

• Can a Christian go a whole day without sinning? 2
  days, 3, or more?
• Many are quick to reply But we cannot live a
  sinless life!
• True (Rom. 323 James 32), yet we have been
  called to live a new life which means we do our
  best to go as long as we can without sinning.
  Isnt that what God expects?

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Christians are called to resist sin.

• Romans 612-13 (NASB) Therefore do not let sin
  reign in your mortal body that you should obey
  its lusts, 13 and do not go on presenting the
  members of your body to sin as instruments of
  unrighteousness but present yourselves to God as
  those alive from the dead, and your members as
  instruments of righteousness to God.

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Yet, the efforts we make must
not be made
meritoriously.

• Romans 614 (NASB) For sin shall not be master
  over you, for you are not under law, but under
  grace.
• We are not under law or a meritorious law system
  in Christ (Rom. 320 Eph. 28).
• If we were under law, then sin would be our
  master!

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• Instead, we are under grace grace motivates us
  not to earn our salvation, but to demonstrate an
  obedient faith that trusts in Jesus.

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Romans 615-16 (NASB)

• 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not
  under law but under grace? May it never be!
  16 Do you not know that when you present
  yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience,
  you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either
  of sin resulting in death, or of obedience
  resulting in righteousness?

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Grace motivates us to do Good Works of Faith.

• Eternal salvation cannot be earned by our good
  works it is achieved by the blood of Jesus which
  results in grace.

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Ephesians 17 (NASB)

• In Him we have redemption through His blood, the
  forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the
  riches of His grace.

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Ephesians 28-9 (NASB)

• 8 For by grace you have been saved through
  faith and that not of yourselves, it is the gift
  of God 9 not as a result of works, that no one
  should boast.

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Grace motivates us to do Good Works of Faith.

• Eternal salvation cannot be earned by our good
  works it is achieved by the blood of Jesus which
  results in grace.
• Yet once saved, we are given a new purpose in
  Christ to perform good works!

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Ephesians 210 (NASB)

• For we are His workmanship, created in Christ
  Jesus for good works, which God prepared
  beforehand, that we should walk in them.

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Grace motivates us to do Good Works of Faith.

• Eternal salvation cannot be earned by our good
  works it is achieved by the blood of Jesus which
  results in grace.
• Yet once saved, we are given a new purpose in
  Christ to perform good works!
• Grace motivates us to fulfill our God-given
  purpose!

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Ecclessiastes 1213 (KJV)

• Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter
  Fear God, and keep his commandments for this is
  the whole duty of man.

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A Life of Meaning, not Vainty

• The works we do fulfill a divine purpose our
  works of faith lead to eternal life!
  (1 Cor. 1550-58)

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Gods grace enables us to work.

• It is Gods grace in Christ that enables us and
  motivates us to do the works that we do
  (1 Cor. 1510 2 Cor. 129
  2 Thes. 111-12).

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1 Corinthians 1510 (NASB)

• But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His
  grace toward me did not prove vain but I labored
  even more than all of them, yet not I, but the
  grace of God with me.

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• Gods Grace is a Great Motivation to Live
  the Christian Life!