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If you've ever tried to count the blessings associated with
God's grace, you know that the treasured hymn is entitled
Amazing Grace for good reason. Today, on turning points, Doctor
David Jeremiah continues his look at the many benefits related
to grace, reflecting God's desire for his children to have
joy and contentment. To conclude his message, the comforting Provision
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of Grace.
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Here's David.
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Our study guide has at the beginning of this chapter
that everything we need to begin and continue our walk
with Jesus, peace, encouragement, and more, all of it is
by grace. We're talking about the comforting provision of Grace,
and we're studying Romans Chapter five and the first eleven
verses and making reference to the him Amazing Grace. The
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most recorded piece of music in the history of music,
both secular and sacred. There is no piece of music
that's been recorded more than Amazing Grace. And just about
every artist you and I know has a rendition of
it somewhere, and it's become almost like a national anthem
in our country because of the love that people have
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for this wonderful hymn. We are going to encourage you
once again to avail yourself of the study guide and
the CD package that goes with this series. You can
get those from David Jeremiah dot org and it's very
useful if you plan to pass on this information in
a small group or Bible study, or just for your
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own personal reference. And then let me remind you that
during the month March, our resource is one hundred Bible
Versus Everyone Should Know by Heart, a two hundred and
sixty some page book by Rob Morgan which will help
you grow in your faith and it has actual tips
for memorizing the Scripture from a man who knows a
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lot about it. I hope you will take advantage of
this book and make it your own. As you send
your gift to Turning Point during this month, ask for
your copy of this book and we'll send it to
you right away. Here is part two, the comforting Provision
of Grace.
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Up to this point, everything is obviously very positive. Not
one thing we can say about having peace and access
to God's grace and joy because of what God has
done for us. But now Paul's going to meddle a
little bit in our lives. He's going to quit preaching
and he's going to go to meddling. He's going to
meddle in our lives. He's going to get under our
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skin and talk to us about something that most of
the time we don't want.
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To talk about.
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This is the process God has given us by grace
to develop us into maturity.
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Read with me Verses three and four.
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And not only that, but we also glory in tribulation,
knowing that tribulation produces perseverance, and perseverance, character and character.
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Hope.
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Now, let me ask you this question, and you be
honest with me. What was the last time you rejoiced
because you had trouble? What was the last time you said,
let's all get together and have a praise night so
we can all praise God for the trouble and tribulation
he sent into our lives. We usually we have a
pity party over that, don't we. We don't have a
praise party. We have a pity party.
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Poor me? Why have you let this happen in my life?
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But here's what Paul is saying that when you receive
the grace of God, one of the means God uses
to develop you into maturity as one of his children
are the problems and the tribulations that He sends into
your life, because through those tribulations and through those problems,
he causes you to grow up and understand how dependent
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you really are upon God and his grace, even when
you don't have trouble the problems that you have. I
was in Birmingham and I got up in the morning
and I was reading the Book of Proverbs, and I
read in the tenth chapter of Proverbs this little verse
that says, if you faint in the day of adversity,
where's your strength? And a guy was picking me up
at the hotel to take me to the airport, and
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he was telling me about his family and that his
daughter was deaf and she had been born deaf, and
he was telling me about the adversity that he had.
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So I shared my.
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Little verse from my devotional that moment and told him
about this verse, and I said, God has really trusted
you with this young lady to develop you. And I
was so proud of having shared that with him. And
as we got toward the airport, he said, oh, yeah,
and there's one other thing. I have Parkinson's disease. He
was forty years old, and I saw then his right
hand a tremor. I was almost embarrassed that I'd had
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anything to say to this man about adversity in his life.
But what I observed about him was this. This was
a man who was strong at the center of his life,
who knew who he was, was rejoicing in his relationship
with the Lord, loved his family, and had a maturity
that was evident by just a short ride with him
in the car.
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How did he get like that?
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He got like that because Almighty God trusted him with
some trouble and showed him that in the midst of
his trouble, God's grace was sufficient. Amen, Now watch what
happens in this passage. There's a three little step program
that God uses to grow us up when he gives
us his grace. First of all, this grace happens to
us from this perspective, we go from tribulation to perseverance.
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Notice what it says, from tribulation to perseverance. When we
have tribulation, that tribulation develops in us the ability to persevere.
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Now, what is to persevere? What does that mean?
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Well, it means to stay under the pressure and not
try to get out, not be always looking for a
way out, but to accept the pressure that God has
brought into your life.
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And instead of asking.
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Why God have you allowed this? Ask God, what do
you want me to look in the midst of this?
What are you trying to teach me in this time
of pressure in my life? The word perseverance means to
stay under the pressure. One Peter one six and seven
says this, In.
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This you greatly rejoice that though for a little while,
if need be, you have been grieved by various trials,
watch this that the genuineness of your faith, being much
more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested
by fire, may be found to the praise and honor and.
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Glory of Jesus Christ at his revelation. What is he saying.
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He's saying that God sometimes doesn't just allow pressure in
our lives.
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He sends it in our lives.
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He does that especially to people who are self sufficient,
who don't believe they need God for anything, even in
their Christian life. Oh yes, they're saved by grace, but
they're doing the rest of it quite by themselves, thank you,
And they don't need God.
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What God does is he he helps.
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Them understand through pressures and tribulation that they really do
need him, that they're dependent upon him, and he grows
them up in their dependence upon the Lord. Something happens
to you when you're under pressure, when you go through
a serious disease, or you have a.
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Breakup in your marriage, or one of your.
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Children goes south instead of north, and all of the rest,
and then you look around and you realize you don't
have some of the answers you thought you had. You
thought you had life all figured out, and then all
of a sudden, you have a problem, like my friend
who had Parkinson's or a daughter born into his family death.
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How do you deal with that? You deal with it
by the grace of God.
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And God takes that tribulation, and he teaches you how
to live under that pressure and not let the pressure
dominate your life, but let the grace of God shine
through the cracks in your soul so that everyone can
see Amen. And then God takes it one step further.
He takes it from perseverance to character. Notice that he says,
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when we do this, we end up with character. He
helps us to understand that these principles that are working
in our lives are principles that develop character within us.
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Now, God doesn't want us to be characters.
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He wants us to have character. You know, I know
some people that are characters, don't you. But He's not
interested in us becoming characters. He wants us to have character.
And character is what I saw in my friend in
the car on the way to the airport. I saw
a man of great character who was using his life
to serve young people in the church where he worked,
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even with all the pressures he was living under, the
pressure had taught him perseverance, and the perseverance had created character.
And then there's one more step. This character then produces hope,
and the hope is the knowledge that.
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God is really in control.
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Two Corinthians four seventeen says for momentary light affliction is
producing for us an eternal weight of glory, far beyond
all comparison. What is he saying is what we're going
through right now seems really great to us, but it's
really not great. It's lightweight in comparison to the glory
God has in store for us and the hope that
is ours. Yes, we're going through some tough times down here,
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but look at it this way, compared to what God
has in store for you and the glory he wants
you to have. This is child's play down here. So
hang in there and do what God has called you
to do. Develop character in your life. Knowing this that
God's growing you up, He's giving you character in your life.
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But that's only beginning.
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He's got a great plan for you that takes you
all the way to heaven and eternity.
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Amen. That's what problems do. And I'll tell you the truth.
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I've had more than my share of problems in my life,
and I look back and I realized that every one
of them was God's messenger to me to teach me
and to help me understand how badly I need Him
and his grace in my life. So though I would
not want to go through those things again, and frankly,
I didn't get to vote on him the first time,
as you know, you don't get to vote on this stuff,
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I thank God for them because it was God's pure
fying process in my life to make me not bitter
but better.
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Amen. And that's what he wants to do in your life.
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So if you're in a problem right now, instead of
saying Lord, why me, embrace your problem and say Lord God,
through this time in my life, I'm going to learn
everything you want me to learn so that I can
be everything you want me to be.
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Amen. Now, I'm just going to touch on this quickly.
But notice verses five through eight.
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What do we have If we have grace, we have
a new peace, We have a new encouragement, we have
a new enjoyment, we have a new process for development.
Notice number five, we have a new power for our enrichment. Now,
hope does not disappoint because the Love of God watched this,
and I've underlined this in my Bible. The Love of
God has been poured out into our hearts by the
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Holy Spirit. Did you know that when you receive the
grace of God, it's your conversion. You not only get
God's grace, but you get His Holy Spirit. He comes
to live within you. When you receive Christ, the Spirit
of God is placed in your heart. So you're walking
around today as a Christian in the whole spirits inside
of you, and you know the Holy Spirit's there because
along with the Holy Spirit comes what I've often called
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an automatic sin alarm system.
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Do you have one of those?
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You know, before you were saved, you used to do
stuff and never bothered you at all. Now you're a Christian,
and when you do things that you used to do
that are in violation of the holiness of God, this
thing goes off down here, doesn't it, And it says,
whoa what are you doing? And all of a sudden
you become sensitive to things you were never sensitive to before.
That's the Holy Spirit. He is the Holy Spirit. His
first name is what it's holy. So the Holy Spirit
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comes to live within you. And the Bible says not
only does he come to live within you, but he
is poured out into your life. And the expression there
is one that pictures an abundance of the Holy Spirit
so great that there aren't enough containers to receive it.
You don't just have the Holy Spirit a little bit.
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God has given you the Holy Spirit in his entirety,
and you are.
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The recipient of His blessing.
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And that means to get so much that you overflow.
So the Holy Spirit poured out into your life is
the reason why as a Christian, especially when you're first
converted and become a Christian, you got to tell somebody
you can't keep it inside.
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You got happiness and joy?
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Why because the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of joy,
and he's been poured out into your heart. And the
Bible says you have him in a fullness that is
not just adequate, it's abundant. You have the Holy Spirit.
What do you have if you have grace? You got
the Holy Spirit.
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And he's the.
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One who helps you and guides you and goes with
you and is your constant companion and gives you power.
And the Bible says that you love other people because
of that. The Bible says in Romans, find that the
Holy Spirit is poured out in your heart and that
you love one another by the Holy Spirit that God
has given you.
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Isn't that good news?
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Because there are some people only the Holy Spirit can love.
Isn't that true?
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People that you can't love.
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If the Holy Spirit doesn't love him through you, you
can't love that person. They are hard to love. Anybody
got any people in that are hard to love? Any
difficult people? You work with them, maybe next to them,
or you work for them, which is even worse, or
maybe you live with them. I don't know what to
say about that, but I want to tell you something.
What you can't do in your flesh, what you can't
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do naturally, God enables you to do supernaturally. He gives
you the Holy Spirit and the lutchness. The love of
God is shed abroad in your heart by the Holy
Spirit he has given you, so that God supernaturally makes
it possible for you to put your arm around a
person you would rather push away and embrace a person
you would rather not ever have to see again. And
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by the power of that Holy Spirit, he demonstrates a
love that is beyond any human love you'll ever know.
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Any of you ever experienced that.
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Have you ever had the Holy Spirit help you love
somebody that you didn't really want to love? Well, Until
you do that, you will never truly appreciate the overflowing
power of the Spirit of God in your life.
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Now let's go on, and number.
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Six you not only have a new power for your enrichment,
but number six you have a new plan for your advancement.
And watch this in verses nine to ten. Much more then,
having been justified by His blood, we shall be saved
from wrath through him.
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Now watch this.
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If when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God
through the death of his son, how much more having
been reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More
people than I can tell you have expressed to me
their thought about salvation that goes something like this, Oh, yes, Pastor,
I know I was saved by grace, But after I
got saved, God expects me to take care of my
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salvation and live my life and do right and maintain
my salvation.
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I don't want to tell you something.
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You cannot anymore maintain your salvation than you could attain
your salvation. You can't live the Christian life and the
energy of the flesh any more than you could become
a Christian by good works. The same way that you
are saved is the way that you live the Christian life.
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And this is what Paul says. He says, if God loves.
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You so much when you were enemies to him and
gave you grace at that time, don't you think that now,
since you're his friend and you're a Christian.
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He's going to give you more grace.
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He wants to give you all the grace you need,
not just to receive Him, but to live for him.
And don't let anybody tell you that you're saved by grace,
but that your salvation then is a self run operation.
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It's not.
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And if you try to live the Christian life in
your own strength and in your own energy, you will
fail miserably. The Christian life is not hard, it's not difficult.
It's impossible in your strength. But all things are possible
through the Lord Jesus. This whole process that he gives
to us here is a very interesting thing, because he
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goes from the greater to the lesser.
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He says, if God can do this, don't you think
he can do this?
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If God can love you when you were his enemy
and you had nothing to offer him, and still love
you when you were still a sinner, and love you
so much that Jesus would die for you. If he
would do that for you in his death, don't you
think you can trust him? You give you the grace
by his life so that you can live every day.
Some of you are struggling with your Christian life. Maybe
it's because you're trying to do it alone. God never
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intended you to live the Christian life by yourself. He's
given you all the grace you need to live the
life that He gave you in the first place.
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Amen.
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And if you will appropriate that grace, if you'll get
up every day and say, Lord God, I can't live
my life today without you. I need your grace in
my life. He will fill you so much with his spirit,
and with his grace you will live in a way
that even surprises you, because His grace is sufficient for
that experience. You have a new plan for your advancement.
Number seven, we have a new purpose for excitement. And
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notice verse eleven. Now we're clear at the end, and
Paul says in verse eleven, and not only that, but.
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We also rejoice in God.
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Through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now
received the reconciliation.
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He talks here about rejoicing.
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Have you ever been around people they say they're Christians,
but they look like they were baptized in prune juice.
You know, you say to these people, do you have
any joy? And they say, oh, yes, when you want
to say to them, would you please tell your face
because your face doesn't know it. And then sometimes, you know,
I see people like that, and I've actually had people
say to me, if that person is a Christian, oh,
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please protect me from that.
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I don't want to catch that disease.
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Because you see these people and they're sad and they're sorrowful,
and they want to make sure everybody around them has
the same attitude.
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And they walk into.
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A room, they produce doom and gloom and negativity. And
we have a lot of people in that environment who
are Christians but have decided that God has called them
to police the whole Christian word. They're always judging everybody.
I know, sometimes we have to take stands on things,
and surely we need to stand on the.
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Word of God.
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But you know, there's a wide diversity of how people
express the Christian faith once they genuinely know Christ. Not
all of us do it the same way. We don't
sing the same way, we don't praise God the same way.
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And there are some.
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People who come to the conclusion that if you don't
do it their way, if you haven't adopted their little
narrow view of Christianity, you must be a heretic. And
they will write you off, and they will write letters
about you to people, and they will do all kinds
of mean spirited things. I want to tell you something, friends,
that is not the spirit of Christ. I have a
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friend who is well known in the business community who's
a recent Christian, and I kind of put my arms
around this guy and try to encourage him.
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He's got some baggage in the past that he even
knows he wished he didn't have.
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But when I did this, I got just oh, I
got so criticized by some of these people who don't
understand that it's all right to love a brother who's
not perfect, because you already understand you're not perfect. The
saddest thing about this was that my friend said to me.
One day he said, doctor Jeremiah, my son's not a Christian.
And the other day he said to me, Dan, before
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you became a Christian, I don't know one of your
secular friends and would ever have treated you like some
of these Christians did. If that's what Christianity's all about,
you can forget about me ever becoming one.
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And he wept on the phone.
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He said, how am I supposed to overcome that with
my son when the kind of Christianity he's seen is
what we've been dealing with. You know, one of my
favorite paraphrases of the Bible is Eugenie Peterson's paraphrase, and
I picked that off the shelf and read what he
said about this passage.
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Listen to this What was the question what do you have?
If you have grace, you have all.
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These seven things, and probably at least twelve or fourteen more.
But here's how he translates and paraphrase this passage. Listen,
we continue to shout.
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Our praise even when we're himmed in with.
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Troubles, because we know how troubles can develop passionate patience
within us, and how that patience, in turn forges the
tempered steal of virtue in our lives, keeping us alert
for what God will do next. An alert expectancy such
as this, we're never feeling short changed. In fact, quite
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the contrary, we can't round up enough containers to hold
everything God pours into our lives through the Holy Spirit.
Get that, you can't round up enough containers to hold
everything God pours into your life by his Holy Spirit.
We can understand someone dying for a person he says
worth dying for, and we can understand how someone good
and noble could inspire us to selfless sacrifice. But God
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put his love on the line for us by offering
his son in sacrificial death while we were of no
use whatever to him. Now that we are set right
with God by means of that sacrificial death. There is
no longer a question of being in odds with God
in any way. When we were at our worst, we
were put on friendly terms with God by the sacrificial
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death of his son. Now that we're at our best,
just think of how our lives will expand and deepen
by the resurrection life of Christ.
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Now that we have actually.
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Received this amazing friendship with God, we are no longer
content to simply say it in plotting prose. We sing
and shout our praises to God through Jesus the Messiah.
Listen to what he said. We don't do this in
plotting prose. That's the way it's done in a lot
of churches. They praise God in plotting prose. Does that
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sound boring or what?
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No, we don't do that.
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We praise God in exuberant joy through our Lord Jesus Christ,
who is the conveyor of grace to us. Aren't you
thankful for the grace of God?
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You know, when John Newton became a Christian.
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Understood more than anyone else God's grace because he was
such a great sinner by his own admission. Toward the
end of his life, after he had been a Christian
for almost fifty five years. He wrote a letter to
his wife, and in the letter he wrote a prayer.
And here's part of the prayer that John Newton wrote
that reflects what we've been talking about today. He said,
My gracious God, you have preserved me to see another
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anniversary of that great and awful and merciful day.
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He's talking about the day he was saved, of.
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That great and awful and merciful day when I was
at the point of sinking with all my sins into
the pit which has no bottom. The miracle of my conversion,
he said, in my eyes, is a greater miracle than
the ones you perform for Israel in Egypt and at
the Red Sea. Oh, how I praise you for that
terrible storm which shook my unbelief and helped me believe
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that death was not an eternal sleep. Well, may I say,
with wonder and gratitude, why me, Lord?
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Why me? When you ask that question, why me, Lord?
Why me?
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The only answer is because of the grace of God.
Because of God's grace. And you know what, if you're
here today and you're a Christian, you ought to just
be so filled with joy at this moment because you
have been the recipient of the grace of God. You're
a Christian. Do you know that the vast.
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Majority of the world has never heard about the grace
of God.
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But if you're here today and you're not a Christian,
you ought to be asking the same question, why me?
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Lord?
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Why would you let me come to a service like
this where the grace of God was so presented from
the Word of God that I couldn't misunderstand it?
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Why me?
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And the answer to that question is so that you
would receive the grace of God today and become a
child of the King.
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And I challenge you to do that, to.
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Let the grace of God become your own personal possession
through Jesus Christ, Our Lord. You know I never like
to end this daily program without giving you an opportunity
to put your trust in Christ.
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We know for a.
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Fact that many people who do not know Jesus in
a personal way listen to this program. And it would
be a shame if you listen to a Christian radio
teaching program like this through your adult life and then
never did anything to make changes in your life that
need to be made. So let me ask you to
do that. If you've never put your trust in Jesus Christ.
Make that transaction today. Just ask the Lord Jesus Christ
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to forgive your sin and give you a clean heart.
Tell him that you want to live for him, that
you're sorry for your sin, and you want to know
him better and walk with him, and that you will
seek to serve him the rest of your life. If
you do that, you will endure a profound change that
will forever define who you are as a person. I
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promise you that's true. I'm David Jeremiah. My privilege is
to open the Bible with you every day, and I'm
grateful for that opportunity. I hope to join us next
time as we meet together again on Monday for the
next edition up Turning Point.
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Today's message originated from Shadow Mountain Community Church and doctor
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series Captured by Grace on Turning Point with Doctor David
Jeremiah
If you've ever tried to count the blessings associated with
God's grace, you know that the treasured hymn is entitled
Amazing Grace for good reason. Today, on turning points, Doctor
David Jeremiah continues his look at the many benefits related
to grace, reflecting God's desire for his children to have
joy and contentment. To conclude his message, the comforting Provision
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of Grace.
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Here's David.
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Our study guide has at the beginning of this chapter
that everything we need to begin and continue our walk
with Jesus, peace, encouragement, and more, all of it is
by grace. We're talking about the comforting provision of Grace,
and we're studying Romans Chapter five and the first eleven
verses and making reference to the him Amazing Grace. The
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most recorded piece of music in the history of music,
both secular and sacred. There is no piece of music
that's been recorded more than Amazing Grace. And just about
every artist you and I know has a rendition of
it somewhere, and it's become almost like a national anthem
in our country because of the love that people have
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for this wonderful hymn. We are going to encourage you
once again to avail yourself of the study guide and
the CD package that goes with this series. You can
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useful if you plan to pass on this information in
a small group or Bible study, or just for your
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you right away. Here is part two, the comforting Provision
of Grace.
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Up to this point, everything is obviously very positive. Not
one thing we can say about having peace and access
to God's grace and joy because of what God has
done for us. But now Paul's going to meddle a
little bit in our lives. He's going to quit preaching
and he's going to go to meddling. He's going to
meddle in our lives. He's going to get under our
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skin and talk to us about something that most of
the time we don't want.
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To talk about.
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This is the process God has given us by grace
to develop us into maturity.
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Read with me Verses three and four.
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And not only that, but we also glory in tribulation,
knowing that tribulation produces perseverance, and perseverance, character and character.
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Hope.
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Now, let me ask you this question, and you be
honest with me. What was the last time you rejoiced
because you had trouble? What was the last time you said,
let's all get together and have a praise night so
we can all praise God for the trouble and tribulation
he sent into our lives. We usually we have a
pity party over that, don't we. We don't have a
praise party. We have a pity party.
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Poor me? Why have you let this happen in my life?
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But here's what Paul is saying that when you receive
the grace of God, one of the means God uses
to develop you into maturity as one of his children
are the problems and the tribulations that He sends into
your life, because through those tribulations and through those problems,
he causes you to grow up and understand how dependent
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you really are upon God and his grace, even when
you don't have trouble the problems that you have. I
was in Birmingham and I got up in the morning
and I was reading the Book of Proverbs, and I
read in the tenth chapter of Proverbs this little verse
that says, if you faint in the day of adversity,
where's your strength? And a guy was picking me up
at the hotel to take me to the airport, and
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he was telling me about his family and that his
daughter was deaf and she had been born deaf, and
he was telling me about the adversity that he had.
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So I shared my.
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Little verse from my devotional that moment and told him
about this verse, and I said, God has really trusted
you with this young lady to develop you. And I
was so proud of having shared that with him. And
as we got toward the airport, he said, oh, yeah,
and there's one other thing. I have Parkinson's disease. He
was forty years old, and I saw then his right
hand a tremor. I was almost embarrassed that I'd had
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anything to say to this man about adversity in his life.
But what I observed about him was this. This was
a man who was strong at the center of his life,
who knew who he was, was rejoicing in his relationship
with the Lord, loved his family, and had a maturity
that was evident by just a short ride with him
in the car.
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How did he get like that?
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He got like that because Almighty God trusted him with
some trouble and showed him that in the midst of
his trouble, God's grace was sufficient. Amen, Now watch what
happens in this passage. There's a three little step program
that God uses to grow us up when he gives
us his grace. First of all, this grace happens to
us from this perspective, we go from tribulation to perseverance.
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Notice what it says, from tribulation to perseverance. When we
have tribulation, that tribulation develops in us the ability to persevere.
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Now, what is to persevere? What does that mean?
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Well, it means to stay under the pressure and not
try to get out, not be always looking for a
way out, but to accept the pressure that God has
brought into your life.
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And instead of asking.
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Why God have you allowed this? Ask God, what do
you want me to look in the midst of this?
What are you trying to teach me in this time
of pressure in my life? The word perseverance means to
stay under the pressure. One Peter one six and seven
says this, In.
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This you greatly rejoice that though for a little while,
if need be, you have been grieved by various trials,
watch this that the genuineness of your faith, being much
more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested
by fire, may be found to the praise and honor and.
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Glory of Jesus Christ at his revelation. What is he saying.
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He's saying that God sometimes doesn't just allow pressure in
our lives.
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He sends it in our lives.
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He does that especially to people who are self sufficient,
who don't believe they need God for anything, even in
their Christian life. Oh yes, they're saved by grace, but
they're doing the rest of it quite by themselves, thank you,
And they don't need God.
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What God does is he he helps.
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Them understand through pressures and tribulation that they really do
need him, that they're dependent upon him, and he grows
them up in their dependence upon the Lord. Something happens
to you when you're under pressure, when you go through
a serious disease, or you have a.
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Breakup in your marriage, or one of your.
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Children goes south instead of north, and all of the rest,
and then you look around and you realize you don't
have some of the answers you thought you had. You
thought you had life all figured out, and then all
of a sudden, you have a problem, like my friend
who had Parkinson's or a daughter born into his family death.
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How do you deal with that? You deal with it
by the grace of God.
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And God takes that tribulation, and he teaches you how
to live under that pressure and not let the pressure
dominate your life, but let the grace of God shine
through the cracks in your soul so that everyone can
see Amen. And then God takes it one step further.
He takes it from perseverance to character. Notice that he says,
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when we do this, we end up with character. He
helps us to understand that these principles that are working
in our lives are principles that develop character within us.
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Now, God doesn't want us to be characters.
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He wants us to have character. You know, I know
some people that are characters, don't you. But He's not
interested in us becoming characters. He wants us to have character.
And character is what I saw in my friend in
the car on the way to the airport. I saw
a man of great character who was using his life
to serve young people in the church where he worked,
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even with all the pressures he was living under, the
pressure had taught him perseverance, and the perseverance had created character.
And then there's one more step. This character then produces hope,
and the hope is the knowledge that.
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God is really in control.
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Two Corinthians four seventeen says for momentary light affliction is
producing for us an eternal weight of glory, far beyond
all comparison. What is he saying is what we're going
through right now seems really great to us, but it's
really not great. It's lightweight in comparison to the glory
God has in store for us and the hope that
is ours. Yes, we're going through some tough times down here,
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but look at it this way, compared to what God
has in store for you and the glory he wants
you to have. This is child's play down here. So
hang in there and do what God has called you
to do. Develop character in your life. Knowing this that
God's growing you up, He's giving you character in your life.
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But that's only beginning.
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He's got a great plan for you that takes you
all the way to heaven and eternity.
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Amen. That's what problems do. And I'll tell you the truth.
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I've had more than my share of problems in my life,
and I look back and I realized that every one
of them was God's messenger to me to teach me
and to help me understand how badly I need Him
and his grace in my life. So though I would
not want to go through those things again, and frankly,
I didn't get to vote on him the first time,
as you know, you don't get to vote on this stuff,
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I thank God for them because it was God's pure
fying process in my life to make me not bitter
but better.
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Amen. And that's what he wants to do in your life.
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So if you're in a problem right now, instead of
saying Lord, why me, embrace your problem and say Lord God,
through this time in my life, I'm going to learn
everything you want me to learn so that I can
be everything you want me to be.
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Amen. Now, I'm just going to touch on this quickly.
But notice verses five through eight.
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What do we have If we have grace, we have
a new peace, We have a new encouragement, we have
a new enjoyment, we have a new process for development.
Notice number five, we have a new power for our enrichment. Now,
hope does not disappoint because the Love of God watched this,
and I've underlined this in my Bible. The Love of
God has been poured out into our hearts by the
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Holy Spirit. Did you know that when you receive the
grace of God, it's your conversion. You not only get
God's grace, but you get His Holy Spirit. He comes
to live within you. When you receive Christ, the Spirit
of God is placed in your heart. So you're walking
around today as a Christian in the whole spirits inside
of you, and you know the Holy Spirit's there because
along with the Holy Spirit comes what I've often called
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an automatic sin alarm system.
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Do you have one of those?
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You know, before you were saved, you used to do
stuff and never bothered you at all. Now you're a Christian,
and when you do things that you used to do
that are in violation of the holiness of God, this
thing goes off down here, doesn't it, And it says,
whoa what are you doing? And all of a sudden
you become sensitive to things you were never sensitive to before.
That's the Holy Spirit. He is the Holy Spirit. His
first name is what it's holy. So the Holy Spirit
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comes to live within you. And the Bible says not
only does he come to live within you, but he
is poured out into your life. And the expression there
is one that pictures an abundance of the Holy Spirit
so great that there aren't enough containers to receive it.
You don't just have the Holy Spirit a little bit.
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God has given you the Holy Spirit in his entirety,
and you are.
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The recipient of His blessing.
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And that means to get so much that you overflow.
So the Holy Spirit poured out into your life is
the reason why as a Christian, especially when you're first
converted and become a Christian, you got to tell somebody
you can't keep it inside.
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You got happiness and joy?
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Why because the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of joy,
and he's been poured out into your heart. And the
Bible says you have him in a fullness that is
not just adequate, it's abundant. You have the Holy Spirit.
What do you have if you have grace? You got
the Holy Spirit.
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And he's the.
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One who helps you and guides you and goes with
you and is your constant companion and gives you power.
And the Bible says that you love other people because
of that. The Bible says in Romans, find that the
Holy Spirit is poured out in your heart and that
you love one another by the Holy Spirit that God
has given you.
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Isn't that good news?
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Because there are some people only the Holy Spirit can love.
Isn't that true?
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People that you can't love.
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If the Holy Spirit doesn't love him through you, you
can't love that person. They are hard to love. Anybody
got any people in that are hard to love? Any
difficult people? You work with them, maybe next to them,
or you work for them, which is even worse, or
maybe you live with them. I don't know what to
say about that, but I want to tell you something.
What you can't do in your flesh, what you can't
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do naturally, God enables you to do supernaturally. He gives
you the Holy Spirit and the lutchness. The love of
God is shed abroad in your heart by the Holy
Spirit he has given you, so that God supernaturally makes
it possible for you to put your arm around a
person you would rather push away and embrace a person
you would rather not ever have to see again. And
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by the power of that Holy Spirit, he demonstrates a
love that is beyond any human love you'll ever know.
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Any of you ever experienced that.
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Have you ever had the Holy Spirit help you love
somebody that you didn't really want to love? Well, Until
you do that, you will never truly appreciate the overflowing
power of the Spirit of God in your life.
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Now let's go on, and number.
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Six you not only have a new power for your enrichment,
but number six you have a new plan for your advancement.
And watch this in verses nine to ten. Much more then,
having been justified by His blood, we shall be saved
from wrath through him.
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Now watch this.
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If when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God
through the death of his son, how much more having
been reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More
people than I can tell you have expressed to me
their thought about salvation that goes something like this, Oh, yes, Pastor,
I know I was saved by grace, But after I
got saved, God expects me to take care of my
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salvation and live my life and do right and maintain
my salvation.
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I don't want to tell you something.
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You cannot anymore maintain your salvation than you could attain
your salvation. You can't live the Christian life and the
energy of the flesh any more than you could become
a Christian by good works. The same way that you
are saved is the way that you live the Christian life.
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And this is what Paul says. He says, if God loves.
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You so much when you were enemies to him and
gave you grace at that time, don't you think that now,
since you're his friend and you're a Christian.
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He's going to give you more grace.
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He wants to give you all the grace you need,
not just to receive Him, but to live for him.
And don't let anybody tell you that you're saved by grace,
but that your salvation then is a self run operation.
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It's not.
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And if you try to live the Christian life in
your own strength and in your own energy, you will
fail miserably. The Christian life is not hard, it's not difficult.
It's impossible in your strength. But all things are possible
through the Lord Jesus. This whole process that he gives
to us here is a very interesting thing, because he
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goes from the greater to the lesser.
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He says, if God can do this, don't you think
he can do this?
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If God can love you when you were his enemy
and you had nothing to offer him, and still love
you when you were still a sinner, and love you
so much that Jesus would die for you. If he
would do that for you in his death, don't you
think you can trust him? You give you the grace
by his life so that you can live every day.
Some of you are struggling with your Christian life. Maybe
it's because you're trying to do it alone. God never
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intended you to live the Christian life by yourself. He's
given you all the grace you need to live the
life that He gave you in the first place.
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Amen.
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And if you will appropriate that grace, if you'll get
up every day and say, Lord God, I can't live
my life today without you. I need your grace in
my life. He will fill you so much with his spirit,
and with his grace you will live in a way
that even surprises you, because His grace is sufficient for
that experience. You have a new plan for your advancement.
Number seven, we have a new purpose for excitement. And
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notice verse eleven. Now we're clear at the end, and
Paul says in verse eleven, and not only that, but.
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We also rejoice in God.
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Through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now
received the reconciliation.
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He talks here about rejoicing.
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Have you ever been around people they say they're Christians,
but they look like they were baptized in prune juice.
You know, you say to these people, do you have
any joy? And they say, oh, yes, when you want
to say to them, would you please tell your face
because your face doesn't know it. And then sometimes, you know,
I see people like that, and I've actually had people
say to me, if that person is a Christian, oh,
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please protect me from that.
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I don't want to catch that disease.
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Because you see these people and they're sad and they're sorrowful,
and they want to make sure everybody around them has
the same attitude.
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And they walk into.
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A room, they produce doom and gloom and negativity. And
we have a lot of people in that environment who
are Christians but have decided that God has called them
to police the whole Christian word. They're always judging everybody.
I know, sometimes we have to take stands on things,
and surely we need to stand on the.
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Word of God.
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But you know, there's a wide diversity of how people
express the Christian faith once they genuinely know Christ. Not
all of us do it the same way. We don't
sing the same way, we don't praise God the same way.
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And there are some.
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People who come to the conclusion that if you don't
do it their way, if you haven't adopted their little
narrow view of Christianity, you must be a heretic. And
they will write you off, and they will write letters
about you to people, and they will do all kinds
of mean spirited things. I want to tell you something, friends,
that is not the spirit of Christ. I have a
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friend who is well known in the business community who's
a recent Christian, and I kind of put my arms
around this guy and try to encourage him.
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He's got some baggage in the past that he even
knows he wished he didn't have.
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But when I did this, I got just oh, I
got so criticized by some of these people who don't
understand that it's all right to love a brother who's
not perfect, because you already understand you're not perfect. The
saddest thing about this was that my friend said to me.
One day he said, doctor Jeremiah, my son's not a Christian.
And the other day he said to me, Dan, before
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you became a Christian, I don't know one of your
secular friends and would ever have treated you like some
of these Christians did. If that's what Christianity's all about,
you can forget about me ever becoming one.
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And he wept on the phone.
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He said, how am I supposed to overcome that with
my son when the kind of Christianity he's seen is
what we've been dealing with. You know, one of my
favorite paraphrases of the Bible is Eugenie Peterson's paraphrase, and
I picked that off the shelf and read what he
said about this passage.
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Listen to this What was the question what do you have?
If you have grace, you have all.
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These seven things, and probably at least twelve or fourteen more.
But here's how he translates and paraphrase this passage. Listen,
we continue to shout.
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Our praise even when we're himmed in with.
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Troubles, because we know how troubles can develop passionate patience
within us, and how that patience, in turn forges the
tempered steal of virtue in our lives, keeping us alert
for what God will do next. An alert expectancy such
as this, we're never feeling short changed. In fact, quite
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the contrary, we can't round up enough containers to hold
everything God pours into our lives through the Holy Spirit.
Get that, you can't round up enough containers to hold
everything God pours into your life by his Holy Spirit.
We can understand someone dying for a person he says
worth dying for, and we can understand how someone good
and noble could inspire us to selfless sacrifice. But God
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put his love on the line for us by offering
his son in sacrificial death while we were of no
use whatever to him. Now that we are set right
with God by means of that sacrificial death. There is
no longer a question of being in odds with God
in any way. When we were at our worst, we
were put on friendly terms with God by the sacrificial
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death of his son. Now that we're at our best,
just think of how our lives will expand and deepen
by the resurrection life of Christ.
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Now that we have actually.
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Received this amazing friendship with God, we are no longer
content to simply say it in plotting prose. We sing
and shout our praises to God through Jesus the Messiah.
Listen to what he said. We don't do this in
plotting prose. That's the way it's done in a lot
of churches. They praise God in plotting prose. Does that
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sound boring or what?
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No, we don't do that.
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We praise God in exuberant joy through our Lord Jesus Christ,
who is the conveyor of grace to us. Aren't you
thankful for the grace of God?
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You know, when John Newton became a Christian.
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Understood more than anyone else God's grace because he was
such a great sinner by his own admission. Toward the
end of his life, after he had been a Christian
for almost fifty five years. He wrote a letter to
his wife, and in the letter he wrote a prayer.
And here's part of the prayer that John Newton wrote
that reflects what we've been talking about today. He said,
My gracious God, you have preserved me to see another
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anniversary of that great and awful and merciful day.
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He's talking about the day he was saved, of.
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That great and awful and merciful day when I was
at the point of sinking with all my sins into
the pit which has no bottom. The miracle of my conversion,
he said, in my eyes, is a greater miracle than
the ones you perform for Israel in Egypt and at
the Red Sea. Oh, how I praise you for that
terrible storm which shook my unbelief and helped me believe
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that death was not an eternal sleep. Well, may I say,
with wonder and gratitude, why me, Lord?
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Why me? When you ask that question, why me, Lord?
Why me?
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The only answer is because of the grace of God.
Because of God's grace. And you know what, if you're
here today and you're a Christian, you ought to just
be so filled with joy at this moment because you
have been the recipient of the grace of God. You're
a Christian. Do you know that the vast.
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Majority of the world has never heard about the grace
of God.
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But if you're here today and you're not a Christian,
you ought to be asking the same question, why me?
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Lord?
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Why would you let me come to a service like
this where the grace of God was so presented from
the Word of God that I couldn't misunderstand it?
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Why me?
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And the answer to that question is so that you
would receive the grace of God today and become a
child of the King.
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And I challenge you to do that, to.
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Let the grace of God become your own personal possession
through Jesus Christ, Our Lord. You know I never like
to end this daily program without giving you an opportunity
to put your trust in Christ.
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We know for a.
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Fact that many people who do not know Jesus in
a personal way listen to this program. And it would
be a shame if you listen to a Christian radio
teaching program like this through your adult life and then
never did anything to make changes in your life that
need to be made. So let me ask you to
do that. If you've never put your trust in Jesus Christ.
Make that transaction today. Just ask the Lord Jesus Christ
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to forgive your sin and give you a clean heart.
Tell him that you want to live for him, that
you're sorry for your sin, and you want to know
him better and walk with him, and that you will
seek to serve him the rest of your life. If
you do that, you will endure a profound change that
will forever define who you are as a person. I
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promise you that's true. I'm David Jeremiah. My privilege is
to open the Bible with you every day, and I'm
grateful for that opportunity. I hope to join us next
time as we meet together again on Monday for the
next edition up Turning Point.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Today's message originated from Shadow Mountain Community Church and doctor
David Jeremiah, the senior pastor. Turning Point is also on
radio and TV this weekend. To learn where to find it,
visit our website Davidjeremiah dot org, Slash Radio. That's Davidjeremiah
dot oorg, Slash Radio, or call eight hundred nine four
seven nineteen ninety three ask for your copy of Robert J.
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Morgan's powerful best selling book one hundred Bible verses everyone
should know by heart It's yours.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
For a gift of any amount.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
You can also purchase the Jeremiah Study Bible in the
English Standard, New International, and New King James versions, available
in a variety of handsome cover options. How is this
ministry bringing you closer to Christ? Let us know by
writing to Turning Point po Box thirty eight thirty eight,
San Diego, California, nine two one sixty three. This is
(25:46):
David Michael Jeremiah. Join us Monday as we continue the
series Captured by Grace on Turning Point with Doctor David
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