Reigniting a Passion for God

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Re-igniting a Passion for God

• His Grace Perfecting Holiness

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REVIEW PSALM 191 (NIV)
The heavens declare the glory of God
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REVIEW Beholding His Glory

• The Physical Creation Declares His Glory
• Jesus Revealed His Glory
• III. We Are to Reveal His Glory

LAST WEEK Beholding His Glory
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2 Corinthians 61 (NIV)
As Gods fellow workers we urge you not to
receive Gods grace in vain
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2 Corinthians 614-18 (NIV)
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For
what do righteousness and wickedness have in
common? Or what fellowship can light have with
darkness? What harmony is there between Christ
and Belial? What does a believer have in
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2 Corinthians 614-18 (NIV)
common with an unbeliever? What agreement is
there between the temple of God and idols? For
we are the temple of the living God. As God has
said I will live with them and walk among
them, and I will be their God, and they shall be
my people.
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2 Corinthians 614-18 (NIV)
Therefore come out from them and be separate
, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing and I
will receive you. I will be a Father to you and
you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord
Almighty.
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2 Corinthians 71 (NIV)
Since we have these promises, dear friends, let
us purify ourselves from everything that
contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness
out of reverence for God
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I. Grace is often misunderstood

• Some confuse grace with mercy
• Some see law and grace at odds
• Some see grace as an automatic irresistible
  occurrence initiated by God
• Some see grace as a means of covering-up and
  thereby cheapen it

His Grace Perfecting Holiness
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II. Law is fulfilled and exceeded by grace

• John 117 For the law was given through Moses,
  but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
• His Preaching the Sermon on the Mount
• you have heard it saidbut I say to you
• Titus 211,12 For the grace of God that brings
  salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us
  that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we
  should love soberly, righteously, and Godly in
  the present age

His Grace Perfecting Holiness
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III. Works are the outflow of grace

• We start with Ephesians 28,9
• For by grace are you saved through faithnot of
  works
• We hear James 224
• You see then that a man is justified by works and
  not by faith only
• We further hear Jesus the Lord
• Addressing the seven churches in AsiaI know
  your works

His Grace Perfecting Holiness