GRACE

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GRACE

• Its relation to sin, truth and forgiveness

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Teaches (Titus 211-12)
Saves (Eph. 25, 8)
Revealed (Acts 2024, 32)
GRACE
Stand in it (Rom. 52)
Conditional (Eph. 28)
True grace of God (1 Pet. 512)
Can fall from it (Gal. 54)
Can be received in vain (2 Cor.
61)
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Why Study Grace?

• False views of grace lead to
• False doctrine being taught defended
• Sinners being comforted
• False hope being offered
• Faith onlygrace only
• Impossibility of apostasy
• Divorce remarriage
• Innovations in worship, organization work of
  the local church
• Plan of salvation

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Grace and SinRomans 520-21 320-26

• Grace does what law cannot, Acts 1511 (1338-39)
• Law condemns, Gal.310 (Rom. 320 415)
• Justification by faith is due to Gods grace,
  Rom. 321-24 (Gal. 311-14)
• Gods grace is superior to mans sin, Rom. 520-21

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Grace and SinRomans 520-21 320-26

• Gospel of grace teaches us to give up sin as our
  way of life, Rom. 62 (1, 15)
• Deny sin live upright, Titus 211-12
• Sin no longer rules over us, Rom. 614
• No longer live inor be slaves to sin, 62, 6-7
• Dead to sin, 611
• Sin does not reigndo not obey it, 612
• Do not present your body to sin, 613
• Willful sin insults Spirit of grace, Heb. 1029

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Grace and Truth(Companions)

• Jesus is the fullness of both, Jno. 114, 16-17
• Cannot be saved by grace reject truth, Tit.
  211
• Cannot stand in truth with false view of grace
• Standing in grace means we walk in truth, Rom.
  52 Gal. 16-7 54-7 1 Jno. 15-7

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Grace and Forgiveness

• Grace is conditional, Titus 211-12 34-7
  Gal. 55-7
• Grace does not save in spite of ones sins (Rom.
  616, 23)
• Once saved, always saved! (61, 15)
• Grace does not provide automatic forgiveness of
  sins (continual cleansing even as we sin), 1
  Jno. 18-9

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Grace and Forgiveness

• Christians continue to be cleansed when we
  continue to walk in the light, 1 Jno. 17, 9
• Attempt to nullify conditional nature of grace
• Christian sins dies, no chance to repent
  Lost?
• This is used to justify sin without repentance
• Walking in the lightsinning less less (1 Jno.
  21)
• God will judge
• What does this have to do with you?

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Grace and Forgiveness

• If standing in grace means automatic forgiveness
  (continual cleansing), then
• How can Christians ever sin? 1 Jno. 18
• Why are Christians told to confess sin, repent
  pray when they sin? 1 Jno. 19 Acts 822
• Why is fellowship with God conditional?
  1 Jno. 17

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Grace and Forgiveness

• If standing in grace means automatic forgiveness
  (continual cleansing), then
• How can Christians fall from grace? Gal. 54
• How can saints fall short of grace? Heb. 1215
• Why deny worldly lusts? Titus 211-12
• Why obey God? Jno. 1415
• Why are Christians urged to continue in the grace
  of God? Acts 1343

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Save from unrepented sin (Acts
1730)
Make sin righteous (Rom. 61-2
Jude 4)
GRACE DOES NOT...
Eliminate need to obey (Matt.
721-23 Lk. 1710)
Minimize / Overwhelm truth (Jno.
117 Acts 2032)
Make doctrine secondary (Gal.
16-10)
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Grace Sin, Truth Forgiveness

• Saves us, Eph. 28-9
• Teaches us to live in truth righteousness, not
  in sin, Rom. 61, 15
• To be saved by grace we must obey in faith,
  Gal. 56-8