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The Grace Of God

• Gods GraceAndGods Conditions

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Grace Begins With God

• Ephesians 24-10
• Salvation by grace is the gift of God.
• Begins with the nature of God.
• Justice. Romans 323
• Mercy and grace part of the eternal plan. 2
  Timothy 19-10 cf. Ephesians 311
• Is salvation by Grace without conditions?

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Faith Is A Condition

• Ephesians 28-9 John 629 824
• Review of Augustines teaching.

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False Concept of GraceDenies Free Will

• Eden
• Grace enabling power
• Gave Adam the capacity for good.

• Cast out of Eden
• All mankind separated from grace.
• No Free-will
• Totally depraved

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Faith Is Something Man Does

• In order for faith to exist there must be
• Fact
• Witness
• Testimony
• Finally Belief
• cf. John 2030-31 Acts 222-23, 27, 29-32,
  36-37 Hebrews 23-4 2 Corinthians 122-4

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At What Point In Faith Does God Bless Us?

• Some believers, yet lost. John 830-31, 39-44
  1242-43 James 214-23
• Faith is a response to the word. Romans 1013-17
• Faith is a work. John 629
• Condition of receiving grace. Romans 51-2

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• Numbers 216-9 Fiery serpents.
• Israel often departed. 1 Corinthians 101ff
• Today God prescribes the way of healing.John
  314-15

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• Joshua 61-5 City of Jericho taken.
• I have given... cf. 1 John 511
• Wall fell down flat Joshua 620
• By faith the walls fell. Hebrews 1130

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• Judges 6-7 Gideon and the Midianites.
• Israel outnumbered and oppressed. 65
• Gideons army shrinks. 72
• Gideons instructions.
• Look on me and do likewise. verses 17ff
• Every man stood in his place. verse 21

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• 2 Kings 51-14 Naaman the leper.
• None healed like Naaman. Luke 427
• Behold I thought verse 11
• Man must forsake his thoughts.Isaiah 558-9 cf.
  6-7 Isaiah 118 2 Corinthians 105 Philippians
  48

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• John 96ff Blind man healed.
• Never before had such been done.(cf. 932)
• Who sinned to cause this mans blindness?John
  91-5
• How was the blind man made to see?John 96-12

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Nature Of Conditions

• Calls for absolute dependence upon God.
• Calls for absolute trust in God.
• Israelites and the fiery serpents.
• Joshua and Jericho.
• Gideon and the Midianites.
• Naaman and his leprosy.
• Blind man healed.

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The Grace Of God Provides

• The Lamb of God. Matthew 2639
• The Blood of Jesus. Romans 325
• The Gospel. 1 Corinthians 151ff
• Remission of Sins. Ephesians 13,7
• Strength. 2 Corinthians 127-9
• Eternal life. Titus 12

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The Grace Of God Demands

• Love of the truth. 2 Thessalonians 210ff
• Knowledge of the truth. Titus 211-314
• Faith. Romans 51-2
• Obedience of Faith. Hebrews 58-9
• Baptism into Christ. Acts 238 Galatians 326
• Life of Faithfulness. 1 Corinthians 151-2
  Galatians 54

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Grace Came Teaching.Titus 211-12

• Teaching produces Faith. Romans 1017
• Obedient faith is our access into Gods grace.
  Romans 51-2
• Faith is a work of God. John 629 John 824
• Repentance. Acts 1730-31 cf. Titus
  211-12Denying ungodliness and worldly lusts
• Confession. Matthew 1032-33 Acts 837
• Baptism. Acts 2 2216

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• The gospel is Gods power to save. Romans 116-17
• Facts to be believed.
• Commands to be obeyed.
• Promises in which to trust.
• We lack faith in God when we are unwilling to
  trust His word and obey the conditions.