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God’s Grace
Volume 1
As I have promised, I want to give you this teaching on the grace of God.
Yet I feel that I must break it down into 2-3 teachings. God’s grace is important to fully embrace and have working in your life to be more effective witnesses for the Lord, Jesus Christ.
Grace defined is “GOD’S FAVOR AND ABILITY WORKING IN YOU TO ATTAIN TO THAT WHICH IS UN-ATTTAINIABLE.” If you can get it with your name or mind or strength, then it’s not God’s grace. Now I know that you have been taught that grace is (God’s unmerited favor). That’s good, but everything you get from God is unmerited lest any man should boast. Others define it by taking each letter and making a word like this:
God’s
Righteousness
At
Christ’s
Expense I like this one too, but my favorite is the one I gave first.
To understand grace, let’s review the 3 Greek words for power. Exusia which is delegated authority or energy; dunimus which is the explosive power given by the Holy Spirit; but the last best describes God’s power of grace. It is Kratos! Kratos defined is God’s creative power and might. Less than a handful of verses in the bible use the Greek word (kratos) . I like to think that this Greek word is used to describe God’s grace. This is God’s power from His glory: (Col 1:11; Eph. 1:19; 1 Tim. 6:16; Rev. 5:13) Grace is God’s ability that is the essence of His glory!
Before I get completely lost in the Spirit, let me introduce grace with verses. According to Eph. 3:2, we are living in the dispensation of His grace. Each man is given grace according to the gift of “Christ in us”. Then 2 Pet. 1:2 tells us that it is multiplied unto us by obtaining knowledge of God. James 4:6 indicates that God resist the proud and gives (more grace) to the humble.
John 1:14-17 says that our Lord is full of grace and truth, whom we receive from “grace to grace”. We sing with grace; Col. 3:16; speak with grace; 4:6. We are strong in it, 2 Tim. 2:1. The New Testament church was great in it; Acts 4:33; they continued in it, Acts 13:43; they testified with it, Acts 20:24. God’s word was the word of His grace, Act 20:32 .
TOO LATE!!! I AM LOST IN HIS GLORIOUS GRACE. I WILL SOON GIVE YOU THE THREE KINDS OF GRACE.
Grace #2
There are three kinds of grace are found in the New Testament. Briefly, God’s grace saves you; His grace keeps you in the faith and from falling;
And finally God gives His grace to serve Him and others. I am not able to teach on these three kinds today because I am compelled to still lay a foundation of teaching. Grace has great parallels to the porter ministry.
I was so lost in the Spirit the end of the last time and I will need 5-7 lessons on this very important subject.!
Let’s first look at why man needs grace. Romans 3:23 tells us that all have sinned and (come short of the Glory of God.) Other translations read (stand in need of; fall short or even void of). Have you ever seen a clear-glass light bulb? You can see the wire elements brightly glowing when you turn the power on. The clear glass makes its element naked. I think of that kind of bulb when I read about Adam’s answer to God when he had sinned. He hid himself when he saw that he was naked. When Adam walked with god in the cool of the evening, he was filled with the brilliance of God’s glory. He never even knew that he was naked. Sin voided, or stole from Adam of God’s Glory.
An unbeliever is called a (degenerate). The root word for degenerate is generate. Sin short-circuited Adam’s glory generator! Sin knocked his glory light out! Adam became spiritually dead. He lived many hundreds of year more, but sin separated him from God’s life. When man dies, physically, the heart stops beating, and he stops breathing. A doctor pronounces someone dead when his tests prove that there is absence of life or vital signs.
Now I’m not a doctor but physical death occurs when a man’s spirit vacates, or departs from his body. Now back in verse 23, sin blocks a person from God’s glory. Therefore this sinner (stands in need of) God’s grace. Why? Well, remember when I told you that grace’s power is the Greek word kratos? God places a newly recreated spirit inside of a sinner that can be filled with His glory! He needs to be justified. He needs Jesus, his justifier! Verse 24 reads “Being justified freely by His grace through redemption that is in Christ Jesus. So God can turn on His (glory generator)!
I like to say this: grace makes you justified: (just-as-if-I’d -never-sinned)! So when a sinner gets born-again, he is made (sin-less). Now we can understand one of the bible’s most misunderstood verses on grace. Rom. 4:16 Therefore it is of faith so that it might be according to grace; for the promise to be made sure to all the seed, not only to that which is of the Law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. I like Weymouth; All depends on faith, and for this reason--that acceptance with God might be an act of (pure grace). I like that! When someone gets saved, this happen by God’s pure grace! God’s pure kratos creates a spirit within him that God can dwell in. God deposits His life; nature and His ability! Calm down Daryl! I need to teach.
I want to explain now, how much a believer needs God’s grace. Heb. 4:16 “Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” When does one have a spiritual need? Well, many times it comes when you have sinned and missed God’s best. God is so full of grace and mercy He tells us, during this time, come boldly to what? (God’s throne is called grace!) You need grace when your needy because it causes you to attain that which is not unattainable. You don’t need your clever logic or great physical power. You do not need to think things out, you need God’s grace. 2Cor. 8:7 “Therefore, as ye abound in every thing,…, see that ye abound in this grace also. I left the middle out, but we must stay full of God’s grace.
Rom 5:15 But not as the offense, so also is the free gift. For if through the offense of one many are dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus has abound to many. (THIS VERSE CLEARLY TELLS US THAT WE CANNOT EVEN RECEIVE GOD’S FREE GIFT OF SALVATION WITHOUT THE KRATOS OF GRACE!) Mark 11:22 commands us to have the (God kind of faith). You know, God would be unjust if He would command something that was impossible for every man to have! It takes God’s faith, through God’s grace to be saved.
Some asked “which came first; the chicken or the egg? Well the bible screams out to me that natural man, before Christ, can only operate in a natural level of faith. You have faith that when you sit in a chair, your senses confirm that the chair will hold the weight of your body. But natural man is not able “attain to the God kind of Spiritual faith”. That’s why grace is needed in man to “attain to that which is unattainable”!
Rom 5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which e stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. I feel that this verse is speaking of (keeping grace). In the first verse, it reads “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God.” The tense of the verb, justified, show us that it’s already done in the person that Paul is talking about. Look at the long teaching! I need to stay away from teaching on the three kinds of grace.
Volume #3
Last volume, as I used verses that tell of the different kinds of grace, I must start with defining the 3 kinds of grace and giving references to each.
First, let’s review my definition of the word grace. Gods grace is GOD’S FAVOR AND ABILITY WORKING WITHIN YOU TO ATTAIN TO THAT, WHICH IS UNATTANIABLE. Therefore, if you can get something with your muscle, (brawn), or your intelligence and influence, then it is not God’s grace that you got it with. Grace, God’s grace, is God’s power that is creative. The Greek word “kratos” is used to define God’s almighty, creative power. This power created all that now is when He spoke; “let there be!” and it was in the beginning. It’s the same gracious power that reached down into Hades when our perfect substituted, Jesus, had paid the debt of our sins. Our Father in heaven sent His grace that raised our Lord from the dead!
Therefore, God sends this same grace that raised Jesus from the dead to a sinner that stops rejecting God’s free gift of life for him. We are save by grace. Eph. 2:8 For by grace are ye saved, through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. (I think that I could spend a year just teaching on this one chapter).
I like (KJV) in this verse, because it clearly tells us that grace and faith is not of ourselves. Again, Mark 11:23 tells us “Have God’s faith”; then speak to that mountain……NO FAITH, BUT GOD’S CAN MOVE A MOUNTAIN!! No ability or any power of any man can “attain to” moving a mountain. Look closely at the wording of that verse. Not only grace, but also faith is not of us, but both are God’s gift. In other words, it is the “God kind of grace and the God kind of faith.”
I like (the message), in verse 8 “Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It’s God's gift from start to finish!” Salvation is all God’s idea! WHAT MAN COULD CONCEAVE SUCH A GLORIOUS PLAN? I once heard a man quote this verse like this “grace is used to save us, and nothing else!” I first doubted the accuracy until I knew that this gift comes from the God of grace; from His throne of grace; (Heb. 4:16).
God’s grace pours all of Him into our newly created spirit, like an avalanche rolls down a steep mountain crest. We are covered over with Him and made (white as snow)! We are justified by the Justifier; and made (just-as-if-we-had-never-sinned)! All of His life, all of His nature, all of His ability comes flooding in when someone say’s (Jesus be my Lord); to the glory of God!
If this does not give you an excitement in God using you as an agent to see someone get born-again, then I don’t know what could excite you! I know that we, as church elders have failed to duplicate that same excitement into others. God forgive us all!
I want to close with the words to a song. “ I am covered over with the robe of righteousness that Jesus gives to me; I am covered over with the precious blood of Jesus and He lives in me. What a joy it is to know my Heavenly Father loves me so; He gives to me my Jesus; and when He looks at me, He sees not what I used to be, but He sees Jesus!
Well, maybe two songs…. (Maker of the heaven; maker of the sea; the angels long to see about the gift you gave to me; the love of God, so unreserved and free!) FREELY YOU HAVE RECEIVED NOW JUST AS FREELY GIVE TO OTHERS WHEREVER YOU GO!
Volume 4
In last lesson, I concluded by giving the key verse, Eph. 2:8, that God, by His Holy Spirit, defined saving Grace. I have concluded that when someone receives Salvation that God applies His Grace first. Why? Well, the end of verse 8 alludes to grace coming first: … For by grace are ye saved, through faith; and that not of yourselves: We might ask, “what is (that) speaking of? That is speaking of the Gift of God, by which we’re saved. After one believes, God gives grace through faith. “and that not of yourselves” is speaking of the “God kind of” grace and faith. Both can come from us because everyone has a human level of grace and faith. We all can favor one person over another. (carnal grace); We have a (carnal faith) that puts trust in a chair we might sit in. We might first test the chair by placing our hands on it to see that it’s sturdy first, but we all have this human level of faith. That’s why God clearly proclaims in this verse that “this level is not coming from yourselves, people, it’s coming from me.”
As I stated before, I could teach for months on this one chapter. But now, I want to share the second “God kind of grace”; we are kept by God’s grace. Jude 1:24 “Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy.” Now one might say “hey Daryl, this verse does not contain the word grace in it.” Well, even though the word is not there, God’s grace screams out to me as being the “keeping kratos” that God uses here. God’s grace in you is the only difference between you and the worst sinner in your country. One man said “Ere for the grace of God, so go I.”
We are saved by grace; kept in the faith; and we serve God and others in the household of faith with it. Other verses that speak of keeping grace are 2 Cor. 12:9, Heb.4:16, 12:15, 13:9 and Titus 2:11.
Lets look at 2 Corinthians. 2 Cor. 12:9 “And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.” I have left the second half out on purpose. Other English translations place (power) instead of strength. We see two things about grace here; first, God’s grace is all you ever need in every situation of life; second, God’s grace is God’s power! Paul concluded, in my words, “devil, give me your best shot so God’s grace would always be resting on me!” God gives us His grace, but we must keep it.
Did you notice that in Jude 24, it states that God is “able to keep you from falling? That means that if you fall, it’s not God’s fault! His grace is His (kratos from glory)! That lead us into the next verse. Heb. 4:16 “Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. (Can I explain that if we don’t come boldly to His throne that God calls grace, you will never find grace when you need it the most! When do you need God’s grace the most? It’s when you have just fallen. (Please note that you normally feel guilt instead of boldness at this time.) YOU CAN COME BOLDLY BECAUSE OUR GOD WILL NEVER KICK YOU, LIKE MANY CHRISTIANS DO, WHEN YOU FALL!
Heb. 12:15 “Looking diligently, lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up, trouble you, and by it many be defiled.” When you don’t keep in the grace of God, bitterness troubles you. (God’s grace will never fail you). (WNT) Be carefully on your guard lest there be any one who falls back from the grace of God; …
… and through it the whole brotherhood be defiled; That root of bitterness is contagious! We must encourage each other to stay in God’s grace. Paul began almost every one of his epistles with “Grace and peace be with you.” He would not keep saying this if Christians were not falling from it. Colossians 3:16 Tells us that we must let the peace of God rule our hearts and minds. (God never rules over anything that we have not given to Him!) We must daily give Him the kingdom of our heart!
Heb 13:9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines: for it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied in them.” This means that grace can establish your heart.
Well, as always, there is so much more that I could share on God’s grace that keeps us in the faith! But until the nest time, grace and peace be with you.
Volume 5
To understand grace, let’s review the 3 Greek words for power. Exusia which is delegated authority or energy; dunimus which is the explosive power given and(sent to us by the Holy Spirit); but the last best describes God’s power of grace. It is Kratos! Kratos defined is God’s creative power and might. Less than a handful of verses in the bible use the Greek word (kratos) . I like to think that this Greek word is used to describe God’s grace. This is God’s power from His glory: (Col 1:11; Eph. 1:19; 1 Tim. 6:16; Rev. 5:13) Grace is God’s ability that is the essence of His glory.
Last volume, I began teaching of the grace that keeps you (in Him). After all, staying in the grace is the ability of God from His glory that keeps you in the faith and from falling. Remember Rom. 3:23; for all alike have sinned, and all consciously come short of the glory of God; (Wym) The other bibles state we have “fallen from”. The power of grace, after we’re saved, we have been delivered from and then translated!
All men are slaves. (This is not big in America, but you’re either a slave to satan or our Lord.) You’re slaves to: darkness or Light; flesh or the spirit; satan’s kingdom or the Kingdom of God. I know another song; “I’m free to be a servant of the King of Kings!” ANY MOMENT THAT WE LOOSE SIGHT OF OUR RIGHTIOUSNESS (IN HIM), WE FALL BACK IN THAT WHICH WE HAVE BEEN TRANSLATED FROM). I Cor. 15:34 “Be righteously awake, and sin not; Wake from this drunken fit; Think straight. Awaken to the holiness of life. No more playing fast and loose with resurrection facts. Ignorance of God is a luxury you can't afford in times like these. Aren’t you embarrassed that you've let this kind of thing go on as long as you have?” Darkness is opium that even Christians need to be kept from. This is the essence of the keeping power of Grace.
Most Christians (mentally ascent to) the rightiousness of God. The KJV of verse 34 reads, “for some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.” I am reminded of a story one man told his church elder; “There seem to be two big dogs inside of me that are always fighting.” The elder asked, which one wins? The one that I feed the most, he replied”. You either feed your flesh or your spirit. You are free to choose your master every day. Which will you choose?
V. 6
I want to go to the last kind of grace that we find in the new testament, but I know that there is more that is in my spirit about God’s keeping grace.
I have been free from the thought that “God is in control”. One well-known contemporary artist, in America, composed a song by that title. Since that song had climbed to the top #10 lists, in ratings, I conclude that most Christians believe that statement. (I do not want to be listed as the most popular apostle in man’s eyes!) I only want to proclaim the truth, which gains approval by Christ, my Lord.
Last time, I quoted Jude 24. Any translation that you choose has the words (able to keep you from falling). He is also able to present you spotless… This verse is one of many that contradicts the thought that (God is in control). “Able to”, tells that free choice is involved in His keeping grace. If it is assumed that God chooses to keep us sometimes, and sometimes He just lets us bomb out big time, God would be unjust and prejudice. The bible proves that this is not God’s character. He is not able to be unjust or prejudice.
The only other conclusion is that our actions rules over God’s actions for us and towards us. If this is not true, why then, did Paul always greet the saints with (grace and peace be to you?) Also, why does Col. 3:15 command us to let the peace of God, which passes all understanding, rule your hearts? IF GOD IS IN CONTROL, WHAT DO WE HAVE TO DO WITH HIS PEACE RULLING OUR HEARTS? What do we have to do with him keeping us from falling? WE HAVE CONTROL OVER HIS KEEPING GRACE AND PEACE!
We can either let His peace rule and we permit Him to keep us and present us spotless. We cannot blame God if He isn’t keeping us, ruling our heart, saving us, forgiving us, this list could go on and on. God is in control of anything we make Him Lord over. You can switch rulers in a split second and God has no control over your switch! We can talk the talk, but we control weather we walk His walk.
One reporter working for a major American newspaper wrote an article on this subject. Let me quote some of his words: “I assume that I was an atheist. However learning of the word’s definition I changed my statement. I realized that I was titled an (agnostic). I keep hearing Christian tell me that “God is in control”. If God does exist and He is in control of everything, then He sure has made a mess of this world. I also see the clause in insurance documents that state their company will not support a claim that was caused by (acts of God).”
God does not send hurricanes and other damaging storms. Look what Jesus did in the sea. He rebukes that storm with His peace. If God controls damaging storms, then Jesus was rebuking God! No, we should not blame God if we are bound, tormented, sick or lame. He is not holding back on us. God is not prejudice. God controls everything perfectly when we surrender that control to Him.
Therefore, let me close with a verse I quoted the last time. Cor. 15:34 “Be righteously awake, and sin not; Wake from this drunken fit; Think straight. Awaken to the holiness of life. No more playing fast and loose with resurrection facts. Ignorance of God is a luxury you can't afford in times like these. Aren’t you embarrassed that you've let this kind of thing go on as long as you have?” Darkness is opium that even Christians need to be kept from. This is the essence of the keeping power of Grace. This is also where the blame lies. If we stay in bed, if we keep snoring, that is our shame and our choice. God is not in control.
Volume 7
FINALLY GRACE FOR SERVICE!!! All three kinds of grace are needed every day of your life, but this last one is most important for the more mature. For if you want to be great in God’s kingdom, learn to be a servant of all. I like to see myself as the headwaiter in the finest restaurant in the world. In this restaurant, although the food is worth more than a thousand dollars per serving, all is freely given. The waiters are skillful laborers in serving the power, word and grace of God. Instead of saying (bona petit), we are instructed by God’s word to say, “taste and see that the Lord is good!”
Let’s first see what level of grace was on the New Testament church, in the beginning.
Act 4:32
(ALT) Now the heart and the soul of the congregation of the ones having believed was one, and not one [of them] was saying [that] any of their belongings to be [or, was] his own, _but_ all things were common [property] to them.
(BBE) And all those who were of the faith were one in heart and soul:
(CEV) The group of followers all felt the same way about everything. …and they shared everything they had with each other.
(GNB) …but they all shared with one another everything they had.
(GW) The whole group of believers lived in harmony.
(MSG) The whole congregation of believers was united as one--one heart, one mind! They didn't even claim ownership of their own possessions. No one said, "That's mine; you can't have it." They shared everything.
(WNT) Among all those who had embraced the faith there was but one heart and soul, so that none of them claimed any of his possessions as his own, but everything they had was common property;
Act 4:33
(ASV) And with great power gave the apostles their witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.
(GNB) With great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and God poured rich blessings on them all. (grace is rich)(ISV) ….and abundant grace was on them all.
(MSG) …. and grace was on all of them.
As your Apostle, truly, truly I say unto you that until God’s people that you are privileged to serve, return to the (all things as common property), you must believe God for greater grace upon your actions and words. We are the waiters at the banqueting table of the Lord. We work in the greatest restaurant in the world! We have the revelation that will cause harmony, unity and selflessness to return to the church. God’s message served with great grace upon us, can usher in the great and final revival of this world as it is, today.
Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,
that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
Rom 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable, and perfect will of God.
Rom 12:3 For through the grace given to me, I say, to every man
that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Rom 12:4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
Rom 12:5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
Rom 12:6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace
that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according
to the proportion of faith;
Rom 12:7 Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that
teacheth, on teaching:
Rom 12:8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness.
Rom 12:9 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Rom 12:10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;
Rom 12:11 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Rom 12:12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing earnest in prayer;
Rom 12:13 Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
Rom 12:14 Bless them who persecute you; bless, and curse not.
Rom 12:15 Rejoice with them that rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
Rom 12:16 Be of the same mind one towards another. Mind not high
things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
Rom 12:17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest
in the sight of all men.
Rom 12:18 If it is possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably
with all men.
Rom 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give
place to wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Rom 12:20 Therefore if thy enemy hungereth, feed him; if he thirsteth, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
Rom 12:21 Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
This entire exhortation, given to (preaching elders) , was all based
upon the measure of God’s grace for service. Why even Paul’s ability to receive this exhortation by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, was according to the grace for service that was upon Paul. Rom 15:15 Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly to you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me from God. That which any of us do “In Him” is according to grace to serve! Rom 16:24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
As the Apostles of the lamb, operated with the grace for service that was upon them, great grace was upon each believer! I DISCERN THAT UNTIL THE PREACHING ELDERS OF THIS AGE GET TOTALLY ADDICTED TO GOD’S GRACE FOR SERVICE, THEN GOD’S PEOPLE WILL STAY ADDICTED TO THE WAYS OF THE WORLD!
Volume #8
Have you ever moved to a new area and you started a search for a fellowship of believers that you feel a part of and have a witness about? If you can say yes, brother, then we just discovered a huge difference in the church of today vs. the church in the beginning. There was only one church, in all major cities. Corinth was not a city, but rather a region that is in modern Turkey. This region is the size of many of the countries that we have co-workers in.
Back to my example, if you ever have searched for a new church home,
Have you noticed that if you spent time to visit with the Pastor, you would learn what direction the church was heading. I have always known that “As the pastor goes, so goes the local church.” In like manner, as the leadership of that denomination or non-denomination goes so the entire movement goes. This is because in the beginning they had only one doctrine. Now we have thousands of variations of the original foundation and doctrine. Act 2:42 And they continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread and in prayer.
I want us to examine the verse that we studied the last time: Act 4:33 (ASV) And with great power gave the apostles their witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. (MSG) …. and grace was on all of them. I like to say’ in this verse, that the source of the apostle’s power and the great grace on all of them was the same grace of God! Therefore, as the Apostles went, so the people went, also.
Look at the best example of God’s grace for service: 2Co 12:9 And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Now we can clearly see that God’s perfect power and God’s grace are one and the same. 2Co 12:10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. This strength is the essence or the (power- source of God’s glory!)
If the church would only realize the cheap substitute that it is built upon;
If only church elders would get a taste of the great power of grace was on the apostles of the lamb…..COULD IT BE THAT THE CHURCH WOULD UNITE ONCE AGAIN AS ONE???
If you remember in the first volume, I defined grace as God’s power called (kratos). This is God’s power from His glory: (Col 1:11; Eph. 1:19; 1 Tim. 6:16; Rev. 5:13) Grace is God’s ability that is the essence of His glory! COULD IT BE, SAINTS, THAT IF THE PREACHING ELDERS WOULD ONLY CHANGE DIRECTION IN THIS HOUR, THAT GOD COULD RESTORE HIS PRESCIOUS BRIDE BACK ON HIS ORIGINAL FOUNDATION?
If God’s kratos spoke all that we now see into existence, in the beginning, could His kratos restore today’s church back to where it was in the beginning? (Grant it, oh Lord!) Amen.
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