The Full Meaning of Grace Episode 2

this program is brought to you by the partners and friends of creflo dollar ministries coming up next on changing your world his grace is free and undeserved his grace is unmerited his grace is without your contributions at this point somebody said well what do you do then if you're spending all this time with god the only thing left for you to do is just flow with him do what he tells you to do don't go out and try to fix what we do we've been trying to do something trying to make him do something instead of working with him download and stay connected with the changing your world podcast with creflo dollar keep the word of god at the forefront of your mind with these powerful and uplifting messages with each message that you download and stream you gain revelation of the fullness of god's grace the changing your world podcast brings you life-changing wisdom right at your fingertips no matter where you are subscribe today on apple podcast spotify or your preferred podcast platform this is your world so let's vow to make it better place let every heart that needs know god's love was expressed through his grace so grace is god's love in action grace is god's love in action think about some of the stuff that god has done for you since you've been born again grace is his love in action think about when you were on the brink of life and and just couldn't figure it out and you didn't tried your best and you didn't know and you you thought that god didn't love you and and and you walked in condemnation and you and you walked in shame and and and and you were so condemned and so beat up and and you were trying to live right and you were you were trying to do the word and you you were trying to come to church and be good church member trying to be good choir member trying to be good usher member you were trying and somewhere in there in your life satan convinced you that you ain't all right with god no more satan convinced you that no no no you ain't going to heaven no more satan convinced you no no no no no no god can't bless you no more mean listen was in the ministry and questioned and am going to make it am going to make it lord because some people think well you know preacher's going to automatically make sure no know some preachers who ain't even saved but the grace of god god expressed his love through his grace and he saved them he saved those guys and get so excited anytime hear any preacher who's new testament preacher who've decided to preach jesus christ and the grace of the lord jesus christ because that's the gospel that's the gospel okay let's go to the second piece the second slice of this definition of grace the first slice of course was grace is the operation of god's love here's the second slice this is important god's love is infinite god's love is infinite look at saint john the first john think first john 4 16 in the nlt if you have that bible god's love is infinite now why is that so important well look at this he says we know how much god loves us pause because don't think lot of people know how much god loves them we know how much god loves us and we have put our trust in his love see we spent so much time religion religion had us spending so much time on the issue of how much you love god and the issue is not how much you love god the issue is how how much do you believe that god loves you see that's what the devil was attacking people they were getting people convinced that you have done something and now god don't love you no more no no no no the issue is will you believe the love that god has for you that's what the power is do you believe that god loves you believe god loves me therefore believe what god says in his word believe god loves me therefore believe he'll heal me believe god loves me therefore believe he will prosper me you won't go around talking about well maybe god doing this to punish me and to show me something believe god loves me therefore believe i'm not gonna die of this cancer because god loves me praise god believe god's loved me and so if you get got corona sometime in that whole process believe god loves me therefore i'm coming out of this praise god believe god loves me therefore somehow i'm gonna pay these bills don't know where it's gonna come from but do know god loves me believe god loves me you in jail and somehow another i'm gonna get up out of this and get vindicated believe god loves me and when you believe the love that god has for you you'll believe the power we know how much god loves us and we we we have put our trust in his love god is love and all who live in love live in god and god lives in limb something missing when our christianity is all about how much more money we can get how successful we can be hey no no no no no no no no no your christianity should be clearly defined by the love that we have for one another yeah you don't ever get no shouts on that one do you how much love we have for one another god's looking to see how we treat one another he died for his enemies you don't even speak to yours you ain't even thought about doing nothing when ain't got no enemies yes you do you sitting here minding your business at church somebody talking about you you just don't know they talking about you but we walk in love it doesn't matter we walk on higher level we god is love and his love is so powerful it must infect us pray that you all will be infected by love and that we'll have pandemic of the love of god that you catch love glory be to god that you catch love praise god i've learned in my life that in order for me to do that gotta let stuff go can't if people who keep stuff all that's gonna do is infect you with the wrong kind of stuff and then you're going to end up by yourself because ain't nobody got time for that love you but i'm not going to love you in in in situation where you know instead of you forgiving me you for sale your forgiveness i'll forgive you if you do these three things there ain't no forgiveness that's for sale you're saying if if for sale these three things then you'll forgive me that's not what love is love is patient it's kind it's long suffering it's all the things that church people don't appear to be these days days so as god is infinite so are his attributes so is his characteristics god is infinite his love then is infinite therefore that love which he is must be infinite this love is infinite and again god's love is infinite because the measure of it his only begotten son is infinite there is no dead end for god's love uh-uh don't care how crazy you get or do there is no crazy that can be produced from man that will ever block up stop up god's love the grace of god flowing from infinite love is inexhaustible can't be stopped it can never fail and this is the grace that he has begin to sick upon your life who believe in him am now going to deal with you with love that that's inexhaustible i'm going to deal with you with love that cannot fail my love cannot fail now here's the problem as christian people we've not known how to receive that love by faith and just showed you lord believe you love me believe you love me lord so you're not gonna let me be complainer all my life believe you love me lord sure so you're going to show me how to how to live my life away from my past think prayed this this morning can't alter my past but can't bring my past to the altar and his love never fails that's the grace of god believe the love say it see believe the love say it again believe the love say it again believe the love that's how you receive that you have to remind yourself over and over again believe god loves me know god loves me in the midst of crazy time do not know the lights just went out and you don't know you have nothing to pay those bills god loves me that's why there's gonna be way he's gonna make way for me to be able to get out of this god loves me that's why i'm gonna operate in promotion god loves me that's why i'm going to be the best husband the best wife the best children god loves me amen he can't fail so can't do nothing and won't do nothing without reminding myself he loves me especially when get concerned and when get hurt have to have to remind myself god loves me god loves me god loves me mean my wife will tell you for about week or two wasn't sleeping too good and just got in the word because god loves me god god loves me don't need to be going around talking about all of the scientific reasons why ain't sleeping that'll helping me i'm sleeping and got in the word and looked up every scripture could find on sleep and the one that did it for me was when my head hits the pillow lie down in peace and my sleep shall be sweet man when got that first eight hours that came up want to take picture and put it on the instagram or whatever have you seen this let everybody see just show them the time got up this morning and you know what did just started praising god for his love you love me this can't go on you love me and because you love me you go we gonna figure whatever we gon you go you love me those are you looking for job god loves you and god wants you to have the best job he wants you to have job where you can state your own salary he wants you to have job where you you can state your own salary state your own situation they gonna come up to you and tell me you you you want to work home you want an office i'm going to stay want to stay home what else you want you want to you you need car to get around there and whatever we know somebody that they did it they got everything they wanted they got bigger salary and and and and they asked what else can we do for you what else can we do for you that's the inexhaustible love of god that's the grace of god it wasn't because you were so outstanding it's because he's so outstanding all right number three so we know grace is the operation of god's love it is infinite it never can fail here go number three it's unmerited now this is the part that's gotten us believe in in church it's unmerited it's undeserved it's unearned you're not you can't you can't qualify for this you see man can do nothing or contribute nothing to that which god does in grace and nor do we do anything to merit it or deserve it you can't contribute nothing we think we can because religion has taught us do these three things and that'll happen do this and that'll happen do they and none of it's coming out of your heart it's coming out of an attempt to try to get god to do something for you look at romans 11 6 and nlt romans 4 and 4 in nlt and luke chapter 18 and i'll give you the verse in minute in nlt man can do nothing or contribute nothing to that which god does in grace so everything that god does for us he does it in grace and you still think you're contributing something somehow you're trying to brag on something that god did the reason why that happened because see what you don't know is went on five-day fast didn't even have no water there's you can't contribute anything to which god has decided to do by grace he's already whatever issue you're facing he's already decided for the best outcome for you and you you think you can make god do it and then we got to the point where we think we can be like god without god and that's called religion look at this in verse six and since it is through god's kindness then it is not by their good works for in that case god's grace would not be what it really is free and undeserved his grace is free and undeserved his grace is unmerited his grace is without your contributions at this point somebody said well what do you do then if you're spending all this time with god the only thing left for you to do is just flow with him do what he tells you to do don't go out and try to fix what we do we've been trying to do something trying to make him do something instead of working with him you have plenty to do god got to tell you do this he'll tell you to do that here just just flow with god just do what god tell you to do just walk in in this wonderful obedience towards the holy spirit as he leads and guides you along the way what gets you is this you can't figure out how to do something where you can boast about it you know church for little boast about what they did you can't do it the bible says we're saved by grace we get it through faith lest any man should boast you know what he did he said the grace gave you salvation you ain't got nothing to boast about cause you didn't have nothing to do with it you didn't deserve it you didn't earn it he said this grace is free and clear it was by works then grace would not be what it is free and undeserved well deserve it because and this is what gets me and can't wait to get to this part of the sermon i'm tither what you know what mean like that gives you some type of give me the word some kind of entitlement look at that entitlement came in the church you think you are entitled to be blessed because you are tither well you know pastor this was good person and there was tithe or two well that don't qualify you for nothing you can tell i've been holding that while i'm tiger so therefore should be able to have these privileges i'm tither that's not entitlement you know that's what's wrong with our world right now so entitled now watch this look at romans 4 and 4 in the nlt when people work their wages are not gift but it's something that they have earned grace is gift to work for it turns that gift into payment for something earned so anytime you think you can do something to earn it you've turned what god released as gift and turned it into wage something that was earned now look at luke chapter 18 verses 9 through 14. i'm gonna look at this and then we'll stop right here look at eight luke luke eight verse nine we're gonna read nine through 14. then jesus told his story to some who had great confidence in their own righteousness and scorned everyone else two men went to the temple to pray one was pharisee and the other was despised tax collector the pharisees stood by himself and prayed this prayer thank you god that am not like other people i'm not i'm not cheater i'm not like other people cheaters sinners adulterers i'm certainly not like that tax collector seriously that was prayer fast twice week and give you tenth there goes of my income but the tax collector stood at distance and dared not even lift his eyes to heaven as he prayed instead he beat his chest and sorrow saying god be merciful to me for am sinner next verse tell you this sinner not the pharisee returned home justified before god for those who exalt themselves will be humbled and those who humble themselves will be exalted see what that pharisee was doing with self-righteousness self-righteous people always like to compare themselves with somebody else self-righteous people always say well at least ain't do that that's self-righteous don't do this don't do that that's self-righteous your self-righteousness is enough is sin but somehow satan convinces you that you're doing that and that's going to earn you god's grace it's it doesn't work like that that's not how that happens that's not that's not how that works therefore works as means of obtaining god's favor and grace are completely excluded listen to this god's grace always acts first on behalf of man before man can act on behalf of god hear this god's grace always acts first on behalf of of man so god's doing something first for you enabling you now to act on behalf of god that's an excellent scripture to to to show you first first john chapter 4 verse 19 in the king james first john 4 19. see man can't ever act on behalf of god unless god has first of all acted on man's behalf love him because he first loved us we can't love him first he got to love me first it's his love for me that enables me to love him we love him but he acted on our behalf first of all we didn't act on his behalf but grace is more than just unmerited favor it is favor towards those who deserve the very opposite grace is favor on those who deserve the opposite the thing you're supposed to get you don't get and grace operates for those who deserve the opposite look at romans 5 and 8 and romans 5 and 10 in the nlt romans 5 and 8 and 5 and 10 in nlt that's something grace operates on on behalf of somebody who deserves the opposite of grace but god showed his great love for us by sending christ to die for us when while we were still sinners christ died for us verse 10 for since our friendship with god was restored by the death of his son while we were still his enemies he restored us we were all enemies of god please understand that he says we will certainly be saved through the life of god so by the grace of god jesus died for sinners jesus died for his enemies sin therefore does not in fact cannot limit the grace of god sin can not limit the grace of god now that don't mean you go and just sin to test it it won't happen because grace is teaching you not to sin are you searching for deeper understanding of god's grace in the series deeper definition of grace creflo dollar gives solid understanding of our covenant and true picture of our god grace is the truth anytime you hear grace it's jesus jesus is the source of grace the very same grace that brings salvation also teaches those who are saved how to live pleasing unto god growth in your spiritual life can only come by grace and he will not abandon you he will work out his plan for your life and you know what he's working out that plan right now all three messages in this series can be yours today for love gift of just 20 us dollars or more plus shipping and handling be sure to visit creflo dollarministries.org and click e-store scan the qr code or call the number on your screen to get yours now gracelive conference 2022 is almost here july 14th 15th and 16th we're going back to the classroom to learn how understanding grace empowers change join us live online or in person for 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