Amazing Grace

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Amazing Grace
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It Saves

• Amazing Grace! How sweet
  the sound that saved a
  
  wretch like me!
• Ephesians 28-9
• 1 Timothy 113-15
• Paul could literally say, I was blind, but now I
  see
• Acts 917

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Ephesians 28-9

• For by grace you have been
  saved through faith, and that
  not of yourselves it is the gift of
  God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.

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1 Timothy 113-15

• I was formerly a blasphemer,
  a persecutor, and an insolent man
  but I obtained mercy because I did it
  ignorantly in unbelief. 14 And the grace of our
  Lord was exceedingly abundant, with faith and
  love which are in Christ Jesus. 15 This is a
  faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance,
  that Christ Jesus came into the world to save
  sinners, of whom I am chief.

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Acts 917

• And Ananias went his way and
  entered the house and laying his
  hands on him he said, "Brother Saul, the Lord
  Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you
  came, has sent me that you may receive your sight
  and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

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It Teaches

• Twas Grace that taught my heart to
  fear
• Titus 211-14
• Note People must be taught how the grace of God
  saves. It is through Christ that we have access
  by faith into this grace (cf. Romans 512).

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Titus 211-14

• For the grace of God that brings
  salvation has appeared to all men,
  12 teaching us that, denying ungodliness
  and worldly lusts, we should live soberly,
  righteously, and godly in the present age, 13
  looking for the blessed hope and glorious
  appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus
  Christ, 14 who gave Himself for us, that He might
  redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for
  Himself His own special people, zealous for good
  works.

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It Keeps Us Safe

• Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, and
  grace will lead me home.
• Romans 837-39
• 2 Peter 15-10
• Through many dangers, toils and snaresI have
  already come

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Romans 837-39

• Yet in all these things we are
  more than conquerors through
  Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that
  neither death nor life, nor angels nor
  principalities nor powers, nor things present nor
  things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any
  other created thing, shall be able to separate us
  from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our
  Lord.

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2 Peter 15-10

• But also for this very reason, giving
  all diligence, add to your faith
  virtue, to virtue
  knowledge, 6 to knowledge self-control, to
  self-control perseverance, to perseverance
  godliness, 7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and
  to brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these things
  are yours and abound, you will be neither barren
  nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus
  Christ. 9 For he who lacks these things is
  shortsighted, even to blindness, and has
  forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.
  10 Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to
  make your call and election sure, for if you do
  these things you will never stumble.

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It Provides Hope

• The Lord has promised good to me, His
  word my hope secures
• Romans 824-25
• Hebrews 617-20
• Gods Amazing Gracebrings about Amazing Hope

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Romans 824-25

• For we were saved in this hope,
  but hope that is seen is not hope
  for why does one still hope for what he
  sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see,
  we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.

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Hebrews 617-20

• Thus God, determining to show
  more abundantly to the heirs of promise
  the immutability of His
  counsel, confirmed it by an oath, 18 that by two
  immutable things, in which it is impossible for
  God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who
  have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set
  before us. 19 This hope we have as an anchor of
  the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which
  enters the Presence behind the veil, 20 where the
  forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having
  become High Priest forever according to the order
  of Melchizedek.

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It Speaks of Eternity

• When weve been there ten thousand years,
  bright shining as the sun weve no less days
  to sing Gods praise than when we first
  begun.
• 2 Corinthians 51
• Romans 622-23
• God assures us that eternal life is the reward of
  the faithful (cf. Matthew 2546)

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2 Corinthians 51

• For we know that if our earthly
  house, this tent, is destroyed, we
  have a building from God, a house not made
  with hands, eternal in the heavens.

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Romans 622-23

• But now having been set free
  from sin, and having become
  slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness,
  and the end, everlasting life. 23 For the wages
  of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal
  life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Amazing Grace
The song expresses wonderful sentiments, and we
should sing it often. However, the Grace the
songdescribes is even greater! We should praise
God for the wonderful gift of eternal life that
He has given usthrough His Son.