Growing in Grace

Growing in Grace

Growing in Grace is a weekly program featuring informal conversation to help with growth in understanding the gospel, and to live in the freedom that comes through Jesus Christ.

Episodes

972. Not One Line Item From the Stone Tablets Could Give Life (The Promise of a Better Covenant)

July 26, 2024 • 18 mins
There is one true promise keeper - God. None of us were even nominated or received honorable mention. No "A" for effort. It is an unchanging and eternal promise for those who believe, which began in the days of Abraham and carried through to the Seed - Jesus Christ. Once the Seed had come, the Jewish people were no longer considered as being under the "guardian" ... known as the law of commandments. Many from the twelve tribes wou...
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971. Jews Redeemed From the Curse So Gentiles Might Receive the Promise of the Spirit

July 26, 2024 • 17 mins
Continuing in Galatians Chapter 3, Paul was providing these believing Gentiles with a hard-hitting explanation of why they do not want to pursue works of the law — which they were never under — in order to perfect themselves. They began in the Spirit and were being coerced into thinking they needed Jesus plus works in order to be justified. This was a common mindset among believing Jews in the early church. After all, it wouldn't b...
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970. Abraham Believed and Was Declared Righteous (Faith Not Works)

July 26, 2024 • 19 mins
Paul appears frustrated as he addresses "you foolish Galatians" in the beginning of Chapter 3. Why? They had started out receiving the Spirit of God by faith but were being lured by a more popular persuasion from men who came from James - and had started to convince these Gentiles to adhere to the old Jewish law in combination with faith in Christ. This led to Paul carefully laying out an explanation over the next couple of chapter...
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969. "Draw Near to God! Cleanse Your Hands! Purify Your Hearts!"

July 26, 2024 • 24 mins
We're wrapping up our series about some things found in the letter from James to believers in Jesus from the twelve tribes of Israel ... and the contrasts found with Paul's writings. One example we'll look at is in James 4, where an old covenant mindset is communicated as James tells believers to draw near to God, to cleanse their hands and purify their hearts. Paul communicated that believers are already near to God, cleansed and ...
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968. After the Cross: The Mixing of Law and Faith

July 26, 2024 • 19 mins
Throughout the pages of the New Testament, we see numerous examples of Jewish people coming to believe in Jesus, but understandably also believed the law of Moses was still in place for them. The Apostle Paul came along a short while later with a gospel message he claimed was taught directly to him by divine revelation ... to declare the former law had been put aside and nailed to the cross. But he was in the minority and suffered ...
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967. "The Law of Liberty" - Something New or Something Obsolete?

July 26, 2024 • 19 mins
Continuing with Program 3 of our series on being a "doer of the word" and what this was meant to be about. The "law of liberty" is seen twice in the New Testament, both times used by James in the first two chapters of his letter written to the twelve tribes of Israel which had been scattered to different regions. In context, he encourages his audience to follow all of that law and to speak "and do" as those who will be judged by th...
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965. Can We Have a Word? (A Look at the Word "Word")

July 26, 2024 • 19 mins
The popular phrase from the Old Testament known as "The Ten Commandments" is more rightfully interpreted as "The Ten Words." Is it a big deal? Perhaps not, but we wanted to point out a few things about this to lay some groundwork before getting into something that James wrote to his believing Jewish brothers and sisters from the twelve tribes. James made a statement to them about being a doer of "the word" and not a hearer only. It...
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966. "Be Doers of the Word" (But What Is the "Word" in This Instance?)

July 26, 2024 • 18 mins
James made a statement in his letter to the twelve Jewish tribes ... believed by most historians to be the earliest writing in the pages known as The New Testament. "Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves" (James 1:22). This passage, along with what follows has a consistent but curious theme of externals, doing and works - and all under the topic of righteousness, salvation and justification. In Program 2 ...
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964. Identifying as a Doer... Or a Believer

July 26, 2024 • 18 mins
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963. Thou Shalt Read Your Bible (And Like It!)

July 26, 2024 • 17 mins
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962. The Things We Do for Love

July 26, 2024 • 19 mins
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960. The Living God Revealing Himself

July 26, 2024 • 17 mins
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961. "I'm Exhausted" (How Can I Rest in the Finished Work of Christ?)

July 26, 2024 • 16 mins
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959. "Flesh and Blood Has Not Revealed This to You"

July 26, 2024 • 16 mins
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958. Having Knowledge of God's Love Vs. Knowing God's Love

July 26, 2024 • 14 mins
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957. Not One Command From the Law Brings Life

July 26, 2024 • 15 mins
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956. "The Great Commandment" According to Jesus (But That You Were Never Under)

July 26, 2024 • 19 mins
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955. Behavioral Changes - How Do You Know if You've "Repented" Enough?

July 26, 2024 • 15 mins
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954. Religion's Well-Meant Bent to Misrepresent How to Repent

July 26, 2024 • 15 mins
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953. Question: "How Can I Properly Interpret Bible Context?"

July 26, 2024 • 18 mins
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