Lesson 139
Romans Chapter Eleven
The Faithfulness of God
The
Doctrine of Grace (cont’d)
c. Grace is the motivational principle for
Christian living!
Understanding that the grace
provision being in Christ is the fountain from which divine good production is
to flow as we walk
by faith and have impact for Christ.
2 Timothy 2:1 You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in
Christ Jesus. (divine
operating resources that are ours in Christ)
1 Corinthians 15:9-11 We see
here what Paul's
life was based on, to
what he credits everything in his life.
God's Grace!!
- This
passage point's out 3 important things here.
1. It was grace that had saved and transformed Paul. "By
the grace of God I am what I am.."
2. It
was grace that motivated Paul. "but I
labored even more than all of them,"
3. It was the grace of God that that enabled him to minister. "yet not I, but the grace of God with me."
Titus
Romans 12:1 we are
to be motivated by what God has provided through Christ and His work on the
Cross.
Ephesians 4:1 I,
therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, entreat you to walk in a manner worthy of
the calling with which you have been called,
d. Grace is to characterize the
way of life for the believer in the Church age.
The biblical liberty or the freedom we have in Christ under grace does
not promote license but provides the motive and enablement for godly
living according to the law of Christ (Rom 8:2) and for the glory of God and
the love of others.
There are rules and imperatives that God lays out in Scripture that He
expects us to live by, that are a part of the law of Christ and we live them out
as we're being conformed to the image of Christ not as a means of merit, or on
the basis of merit but as a response to God’s faithful grace provision.
True obedience is a response not action that is coerced and is not
works.
1 Corinthians
Romans
Romans
8:1-5
Titus
2:12-14
Romans
12:1-2
As Titus 2:12-14 and Romans 12:1-2
(both) teach us, that God’s grace in Christ provides us what is necessary so
that we're able to the deny the wrong things in life (by the strength of God’s grace, that is His
provision) and to live out in obedience
the truths of God's word as our thinking is being renewed.
- grace
provides us the framework for our life in all aspects in Christ.
It becomes quite evident from this
that grace never means the right to unbridled living or doing as one pleases
because we stand in the grace of God.
Romans 5:20–6:1
Ryrie puts it this way, “The final cause of the revelation
of the grace of God in Christ is not by creed, but character” (would add that is the character of
Christ lived out)
e. Grace
glorifies God because it reveals God’s person, His glory and excellence.
God’s gracious salvation and work for man in Christ is to
the “praise of the glory of His grace.”
(Eph. 1:6,12,14)
Romans 4:1-5
Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through
faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of
works, that no one should boast.
2 Peter 1:2-4
f.
Grace guarantees the believer’s salvation. It makes it impossible for
any man to get out of the plan of God from the standpoint of his position in Christ. Why? Because salvation depends on the
character and work of God in Christ and not on man’s record or works. Romans
8:33-39
Believers
will be judged or examined for their works for rewards, but not as a basis of
salvation. 1 Corinthians 3:12-15
Unbelievers
will be judged on the basis of their works at the Great White Throne Judgment,
but they are only at this judgment because they have rejected the grace work
for them of Christ at