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- 0:08Speaker 1: On Thursday's program, Chuck Swindahl left us with a definition
- 0:11Speaker 1: that won't let go. He said that grace is free
- 0:15Speaker 1: sovereign favor to the ill deserving. It's not earned, it's
- 0:19Speaker 1: not kindness extended to friends. God's grace is favor poured
- 0:23Speaker 1: out on those who deserve the opposite. Today, on Insight
- 0:28Speaker 1: for Living, Chuck takes that definition off the page and
- 0:31Speaker 1: walks it into history into a forgotten man, a no
- 0:34Speaker 1: place town, and a king who came looking anyway. This
- 0:39Speaker 1: is where grace gets its face. Chuck titled his message
- 0:43Speaker 1: the Grace of God.
- 0:53Speaker 2: We learned our last time together that God loves us.
- 0:56Speaker 2: Remember when that love is activated, grace kicks in. It's
- 1:04Speaker 2: the beauty of God's grace. When love is activated, grace
- 1:10Speaker 2: kicks in. Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill deserving.
- 1:20Speaker 2: God sovereiridly apart from anything from us, any goodness in
- 1:25Speaker 2: the effort and the attempt to win his favor or friendship, God,
- 1:31Speaker 2: in his grace, reaches down to lift us up, even
- 1:41Speaker 2: while we fight him in the process. Amazing, amazing. To
- 1:47Speaker 2: illustrate that, look at Romans chapter five, verse eight, just
- 1:51Speaker 2: the one verse for a moment, but God demonstrates his
- 1:57Speaker 2: own love us and that while we were yet sinners,
- 2:08Speaker 2: Christ died for us. God provides evidence of this characteristic
- 2:17Speaker 2: of his love as he reaches out to sinners like us.
- 2:25Speaker 2: He demonstrates his own love toward us. Look at verse six,
- 2:32Speaker 2: while we were still helpless. I've underscored the word helpless
- 2:38Speaker 2: at the right time. Christ died for the ungodly helpless
- 2:43Speaker 2: verse eight. While we were yet sinners, underscore sinners. Christ
- 2:50Speaker 2: died for us helpless sinful Verse ten. For while we
- 3:00Speaker 2: were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death
- 3:05Speaker 2: of his son. Underscore that word helpless, sinners, enemies. Grace
- 3:14Speaker 2: is God extending his favor to those who can't help themselves.
- 3:18Speaker 2: When you lose a loved one and you can't make
- 3:20Speaker 2: it through, his grace gets you through it. Because you're helpless.
- 3:26Speaker 2: When you cannot make yourself well and you're suffering and
- 3:29Speaker 2: suffering over a long period of painful time in your life,
- 3:34Speaker 2: you're helpless to make yourself well. God comes to your
- 3:38Speaker 2: rescue and his grace gets you through it, gets you
- 3:42Speaker 2: beyond it. He helps the helpless. Grace is God's undeserved
- 3:50Speaker 2: favor extended to those who can never earn it and
- 3:54Speaker 2: are unable to repay it. We said it best with
- 3:58Speaker 2: the free sovereign, favor to the ill deserving. Why ill deserving?
- 4:05Speaker 2: Because we are sinful to the core to the core
- 4:13Speaker 2: verse nineteen in the same chapter of Romans five, as
- 4:18Speaker 2: through one man's disobedience, the many were made sinners. Don't
- 4:22Speaker 2: go any further. There's adam. There are your grandparents, your
- 4:25Speaker 2: great grandparents. There's your heritage, there's your progeny. The whole
- 4:30Speaker 2: family of us sinful, every one of us, because one
- 4:35Speaker 2: man sinned, acting as our federal head when he said
- 4:39Speaker 2: we sin, the many were made sinners. Even so, through
- 4:44Speaker 2: the obedience of one Christ, Jesus our Lord, many we
- 4:49Speaker 2: read many will be made righteous. You can't do it
- 4:53Speaker 2: on your own. It must come through Christ. Look at
- 4:56Speaker 2: the next verse. The law came in so that the
- 5:02Speaker 2: transgression would increase. Amazing, even among Christians, transgressions increase. G. K.
- 5:15Speaker 2: Chesterton said it well when he spoke of original sin
- 5:20Speaker 2: as the one Christian truth that can be verified by
- 5:23Speaker 2: observation anywhere in the world, any day of the week.
- 5:28Speaker 2: Just look around the harshest ugliest worst letters I have
- 5:35Speaker 2: ever been sent have been sent by Christians. The most difficult,
- 5:40Speaker 2: angry treatment has come to me from Christians. The most
- 5:46Speaker 2: painful scars on my life were put there by Christians,
- 5:52Speaker 2: Cardinal Christians, sinful Christians. And don't tell me their motive
- 5:59Speaker 2: was right and what it was wrong? And often my
- 6:04Speaker 2: response was not right? Why? Because I'm sinful to the core.
- 6:10Speaker 2: I'm blue also, And isn't it amazing in our society
- 6:17Speaker 2: people deny that. You know, there are audiences where if
- 6:21Speaker 2: I preach like this, they'd be pouring out the aisles.
- 6:24Speaker 2: I mean, they walk it out, and I'm not gonna
- 6:26Speaker 2: listen to that. You know what I did last week.
- 6:28Speaker 2: You know the money I've given her that charity. You
- 6:31Speaker 2: realize how good I am compared to my neighbor. On
- 6:34Speaker 2: and on they go. It's just denial. J. I. Packard
- 6:37Speaker 2: told a wonderful story of how denial can blind us
- 6:41Speaker 2: to the truth. He loved to talk about the psychiatrist
- 6:45Speaker 2: who brought a man into his office who was convinced
- 6:48Speaker 2: he was dead. The psychiatrist's job was to convince him
- 6:52Speaker 2: that he's living. He couldn't convince him. Finally, he settled
- 6:57Speaker 2: on a fool proof plan. He took a couple of
- 7:01Speaker 2: medical books from his shelf and he gave them to
- 7:04Speaker 2: the man, and he said, look, read these chapters and
- 7:07Speaker 2: you will see that dead men do not bleed. You'll
- 7:12Speaker 2: read it for yourself. I said, okay. Came back in
- 7:15Speaker 2: a week and the doc said, well, what do you think.
- 7:18Speaker 2: What did you learn? He said, I'm now convinced, said
- 7:20Speaker 2: the patient. It's perfectly clear that, based on this evidence
- 7:24Speaker 2: in this medical journal and this medical book, that dead
- 7:29Speaker 2: men do not bleed, I'm convinced. Without saying a word,
- 7:34Speaker 2: the psychiatrist pulled out a drawer, got a needle, took
- 7:37Speaker 2: the man's finger and pricked his finger, and out came blood.
- 7:40Speaker 2: The man said, Great Scott, dead men do bleed. Please please.
- 7:53Speaker 2: The evidence is everywhere. Our denial is in reverse. It's
- 7:59Speaker 2: in rever verse. We're in this fixed state where we
- 8:05Speaker 2: believe we're alive spiritually. In fact we are dead spiritually.
- 8:12Speaker 2: No hope to get to heaven on our own without
- 8:17Speaker 2: coming through the cross. We'll hear about Christ on the
- 8:20Speaker 2: Cross and the messages yet ahead, but for now, let's
- 8:25Speaker 2: settle on this. The law tells us what to do
- 8:28Speaker 2: it just doesn't enable us. As the poet wrote, do
- 8:33Speaker 2: this and live the law demands, but gives me neither
- 8:37Speaker 2: feet nor hands. No better word. God's grace does bring.
- 8:42Speaker 2: It bids me fly and gives me wings. It gives
- 8:49Speaker 2: me wings. We are able to live on in this life,
- 8:57Speaker 2: sinful as we are, because of the grace of God God.
- 9:01Speaker 2: We're able to have an eternal kind of life like
- 9:04Speaker 2: God our Father, because God, in his grace, chose to
- 9:10Speaker 2: declare us righteous. John writes of how Jesus brought grace
- 9:17Speaker 2: and truth in his coming. John lived by the way
- 9:21Speaker 2: chapter one of his Gospel. John lived in the in
- 9:24Speaker 2: between era. How interesting would that have been born and
- 9:28Speaker 2: reared in the era of the law, and Jesus came
- 9:32Speaker 2: Later after his death, the Holy Spirit came and the
- 9:37Speaker 2: era of grace kicks in. And John has lived to
- 9:40Speaker 2: see the two and he knows the difference came in
- 9:43Speaker 2: the person of Jesus. John starts right off. He doesn't
- 9:48Speaker 2: mess around in this gospel. Go back to John chapter one.
- 9:52Speaker 2: The Gospel of John. Chapter one. John opens his account
- 9:58Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ, and he doesn't beat around the bush.
- 10:02Speaker 2: Look closely. In the beginning was the word. This is
- 10:04Speaker 2: John's word for Jesus himself. Word in the beginning was
- 10:09Speaker 2: the word. The word was with God, the word was God.
- 10:12Speaker 2: So immediately states that Jesus is deity. In fact, verse three,
- 10:17Speaker 2: all things came into being through him. Jesus is the creator,
- 10:23Speaker 2: He's deity, He's the creator. Verse four. In him was life,
- 10:27Speaker 2: and the life was the light of man. And the
- 10:29Speaker 2: light shines in the darkness. And the darkness did not comprehend,
- 10:33Speaker 2: it did not extinguish, it could not put it out.
- 10:37Speaker 2: The light shone. The original light is not in ourselves.
- 10:40Speaker 2: It is in Christ and Christ alone. If there is
- 10:43Speaker 2: light to take away darkness, it will be in Christ
- 10:46Speaker 2: and Christ alone. If there is any light in us,
- 10:49Speaker 2: it's reflected light, reflected light. In that sense, Jesus is
- 10:53Speaker 2: like the sun. We are like the moon. Jesus the
- 10:59Speaker 2: original star of David, if you will, the Son of
- 11:04Speaker 2: God came, created, brought life, brought light. Look closely now,
- 11:11Speaker 2: verse fourteen, the word became flesh and dwelt among us.
- 11:18Speaker 2: One of the paraphrases says, he moved into the neighborhood.
- 11:22Speaker 2: I've always liked that Jesus came and he moved into
- 11:27Speaker 2: the neighborhood. He didn't remain aloof He didn't live in
- 11:31Speaker 2: a castle. He didn't say to people, stay away, I'm holy.
- 11:36Speaker 2: He became one of us. He spent time with sinners,
- 11:40Speaker 2: tax collectors, prostitutes, people who gossiped, who were ugly to
- 11:45Speaker 2: other people, folks who didn't forgive, people who weren't kind,
- 11:50Speaker 2: people like us. He came to this world and he
- 11:55Speaker 2: dwelt among us. Look at the next statement, John writes,
- 11:59Speaker 2: he was there. This is an eyewitness account. We beheld
- 12:04Speaker 2: his glory, the glory as of the only begotden of
- 12:08Speaker 2: the Father, full of what, full of grace, full of truth.
- 12:15Speaker 2: Without hedging in any way on truth, he demonstrated grace.
- 12:21Speaker 2: The law had done none of this grace, had offered
- 12:25Speaker 2: none of it. And this one who came with his
- 12:29Speaker 2: one of a kind glory, demonstrates fully this grace. And
- 12:36Speaker 2: with Jesus' freedom replaced bondage, and light took the place
- 12:41Speaker 2: of dark and hope the place of discouragement and depression
- 12:47Speaker 2: and emptiness. We learned that about our God, that the
- 12:52Speaker 2: very first time on this godhead series of messages, his glory,
- 12:56Speaker 2: his glory, We saw glory in him there was the
- 12:58Speaker 2: effulgence of God in his presence. It must have been
- 13:02Speaker 2: magnificent to be around the Savior. He didn't glow, didn't
- 13:06Speaker 2: have a halo, didn't walk around the white road going
- 13:10Speaker 2: ooh no, that's a phony idea of him. He was
- 13:18Speaker 2: just like any other Jewish man. However he happened to
- 13:21Speaker 2: have been God. He looked like all the rest of us.
- 13:25Speaker 2: But this verse says, we saw his glory. John was there.
- 13:29Speaker 2: John was there. He saw it. It's like nothing else
- 13:34Speaker 2: he's ever seen. It was glory as of the only
- 13:37Speaker 2: begotten of the Father. Full of what look grace truth.
- 13:44Speaker 2: Grace doesn't deny truth, Grace underscores truth. You're sinful, you
- 13:51Speaker 2: don't deserve what I'm going to do. But the truth is,
- 13:53Speaker 2: my love is activated, and I'm going to extend my
- 13:58Speaker 2: favor in your direction. And as a result, you're going
- 14:01Speaker 2: to be the recipient of grace, even though you do
- 14:05Speaker 2: not deserve it. He was full of grace and truth
- 14:11Speaker 2: verse sixteen. I love it. Look closely, for of his fullness.
- 14:16Speaker 2: We have all received grace upon grace. Eugene Peterson in
- 14:23Speaker 2: the Message renders that we all live off his generous
- 14:26Speaker 2: bounty gift after gift, after gift after gift. It's grace.
- 14:34Speaker 2: It's grace. From John one. Look at Ephesians two. Quickly,
- 14:40Speaker 2: now time is moving Ephesians Chapter two, Verse eight, verse nine.
- 14:50Speaker 2: Paul is in the subject of salvation. He starts, where
- 14:54Speaker 2: I have been verse one. Ephesians two. You were dead
- 14:58Speaker 2: in your trespasses and sins. You were dead, and you
- 15:03Speaker 2: formerly walked in this way. Therefore verse eight, not surprisingly,
- 15:08Speaker 2: it is by grace. You have been saved through faith.
- 15:14Speaker 2: Grace trumped law, Grace overshadowed our sin. You have been
- 15:22Speaker 2: saved by grace through faith. And it wasn't from yourself.
- 15:28Speaker 2: It was the gift of God, not as a result
- 15:31Speaker 2: of work. So that no one may boast the summary
- 15:34Speaker 2: of salvation by grace through faith, not works, by grace
- 15:40Speaker 2: through faith not works. Say that by grace through faith
- 15:47Speaker 2: not works. Again, by grace through faith not works. You
- 15:53Speaker 2: have just stated a truth not known. But the vast
- 15:56Speaker 2: majority of the world, even a world that's heard of Jesus.
- 16:00Speaker 2: Most in this world have not Those who have think
- 16:04Speaker 2: that there's something in them that will somehow gain the
- 16:07Speaker 2: favor of someone that good, when in fact, the purpose
- 16:11Speaker 2: of his death is because we couldn't get good, we
- 16:15Speaker 2: can never be good. Therefore, he will declare us righteous
- 16:20Speaker 2: because of his death. I take it by faith. It
- 16:23Speaker 2: is because of God's grace. It is never because of
- 16:26Speaker 2: my works. The greatest heresy on the planet comes through
- 16:33Speaker 2: words like this. It's not what God does from me,
- 16:35Speaker 2: it's what I do for Him. And the vast majority
- 16:39Speaker 2: of people who even acknowledge there is a God, and
- 16:42Speaker 2: there's a decreasing number every year work hard to please
- 16:47Speaker 2: Him to do good things, when in fact good things
- 16:50Speaker 2: come after we have believed in His son. And those
- 16:55Speaker 2: are valuable works, but they don't get us to God.
- 16:58Speaker 2: They're the result of our knowing God. Now, this wonderful story.
- 17:02Speaker 2: I love this story. In Second Samuel chapter nine, you
- 17:05Speaker 2: may remember when we were on the glory of God,
- 17:07Speaker 2: I used King Uziah as an example who became a leper.
- 17:12Speaker 2: When I spoke on the holiness of God, I referred
- 17:15Speaker 2: to Isaiah, the prophet who stood in the temple and
- 17:20Speaker 2: heard the angels as the antifano voice said, Holy, Holy, Holy,
- 17:25Speaker 2: infinitely holy is the Lord our God, Isaiah. When we
- 17:30Speaker 2: were on the love of God, we looked at the
- 17:32Speaker 2: prodigal son and the prodigal's father. Today, on the grace
- 17:37Speaker 2: of God, we're going to look at Mephibosheth. Back to
- 17:42Speaker 2: Second Samuel, chapter nine. Get your pen handy. I rarely
- 17:48Speaker 2: tell you that, but today I'm going to urge you
- 17:50Speaker 2: to write down the six analogies that tie in with
- 17:52Speaker 2: our salvation coming from the life of Memphibusha. Second Samuel,
- 17:57Speaker 2: chapter nine. I want you to put on your thinking caps.
- 18:02Speaker 2: I want you to travel with me back over twenty
- 18:06Speaker 2: five hundred years, and we are in the palace of
- 18:09Speaker 2: the King. His name is David. His predecessor, King Saul,
- 18:15Speaker 2: has died. David has come to the throne. His dynasty
- 18:21Speaker 2: is now running its course. Listen carefully. In the Eastern dynasties,
- 18:27Speaker 2: when a new king came on the scene, all of
- 18:30Speaker 2: the family of the old king, the former king is exterminated,
- 18:34Speaker 2: or if not exterminated, they run like rats on a
- 18:38Speaker 2: sinking ship because what the new king will kill them.
- 18:42Speaker 2: Their presence, since they have the royal blood in them,
- 18:45Speaker 2: would be a threat to the new king's throne. The
- 18:50Speaker 2: family of Saul have fled away, though David exterminated none
- 18:54Speaker 2: of them. But when Saul died Zeba, his servant as
- 19:01Speaker 2: well as a nurse who was helping with the children,
- 19:07Speaker 2: took up this little boy, mamphibis Chef, and ran for
- 19:10Speaker 2: their lives to hide. In the running, she dropped him
- 19:15Speaker 2: and he was crippled in both his feet. Now that's
- 19:21Speaker 2: the background of the story. Mamphibis Chef here in second
- 19:26Speaker 2: Samuel nine, and David is now in his palace. Can
- 19:31Speaker 2: you see the carvings of around him, the gold appointments.
- 19:37Speaker 2: I mean it is luxurious. Finally pieces come to Israel prosperity.
- 19:45Speaker 2: As one wag put it, there was not only a
- 19:47Speaker 2: chicken in every pot, there was a grape on every vine.
- 19:50Speaker 2: David was a prosperous king, and he took care of
- 19:52Speaker 2: his people. He did not overtax them. He was a
- 19:56Speaker 2: shepherd by God's grace that had been brought to the
- 20:01Speaker 2: place of the kingship. So he's musing on his throne,
- 20:08Speaker 2: as some of you have done when you got promoted
- 20:10Speaker 2: to that place. You now hold CEO, president, you're the
- 20:17Speaker 2: owner or whatever, and you sit back and you think, man,
- 20:27Speaker 2: how blessed him? I And David, as he's sitting and musing,
- 20:32Speaker 2: remembers a promise before his dear friend Jonathan died in
- 20:38Speaker 2: the same battle as Saul, his father had died in.
- 20:41Speaker 2: David promised Jonathan he would take care of his family.
- 20:44Speaker 2: Jonathan said, just make that covenant with me, and David said,
- 20:47Speaker 2: I promise. Suddenly the promise comes back to his mind
- 20:51Speaker 2: and he thinks, this is I've got to make that
- 20:53Speaker 2: promise good. Because of his relationship with his friend Jonathan
- 20:59Speaker 2: and Nathan's father, Saul King, David initiates an act of grace.
- 21:07Speaker 2: Look at it, so, David said, is there yet anyone
- 21:10Speaker 2: left of the house of Saul that I may show
- 21:12Speaker 2: him kindness for Jonathan's sake. You'll read the word kindness
- 21:17Speaker 2: several times through this passage. It's a Hebrew word translated
- 21:22Speaker 2: kindness hassid. If you say it right, something lands on
- 21:25Speaker 2: the back of the neck of the person in front
- 21:27Speaker 2: of you, So be careful of trying about repeating it.
- 21:31Speaker 2: Hassid is a guttural term. It means loving kindness, sometimes
- 21:34Speaker 2: translated mercy, occasionally just love. Here through this passage, it's kindness.
- 21:40Speaker 2: Think of grace, grace, grace, God's treatment, sovereign, free, sovereign
- 21:48Speaker 2: favor to the ill deserved. Is there anyone to whom
- 21:52Speaker 2: I might show free sovereign favor. So he meets a
- 21:58Speaker 2: man named Zeba who from the House of Saul, and
- 22:02Speaker 2: Jeezeba said, I know where there is one, and I'm
- 22:06Speaker 2: just a servant. But verse three concludes, there's still a
- 22:10Speaker 2: son of Jonathan David. He's a cripple, he's disabled.
- 22:27Speaker 1: This is Inside for a Living. Chucks Wndall has shown
- 22:30Speaker 1: us something both sobering and stunning. That the law exposes
- 22:34Speaker 1: the depth of our sin and that apart from Christ,
- 22:36Speaker 1: we're not merely struggling people doing our best. We are dead.
- 22:41Speaker 1: But here's where the story turns, because into that darkness,
- 22:44Speaker 1: grace is revealed not as a reward for the righteous,
- 22:48Speaker 1: but as a rescue for the helpless. Stay with us
- 22:51Speaker 1: because we're just getting started with Chuck's twelve part study
- 22:54Speaker 1: on the attributes of God. He titled this series how
- 22:58Speaker 1: Great is Our God? What of the most meaningful thing
- 23:02Speaker 1: you did this week was sit down with your Bible
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- 23:40Speaker 2: Not long ago, I had the privilege of sitting with
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- 23:55Speaker 2: One of them leaned forward and asked me something I've
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- 24:02Speaker 2: He said, Chuck, how do I quicken the hearts of
- 24:05Speaker 2: my congregation in a world that spends more time staring
- 24:09Speaker 2: into a cell phone than reading a Bible. I smiled,
- 24:14Speaker 2: because I've been waiting my whole life for that question.
- 24:17Speaker 2: Stick to the word. That's it, that's the answer. Don't
- 24:21Speaker 2: chase trends, don't craft clever self help messages dressed up
- 24:27Speaker 2: in religious language. Don't try to out entertain the entertainment world.
- 24:33Speaker 2: You'll lose that race every single time. Just open your Bible.
- 24:38Speaker 2: Tell your people who God is. Let the text speak,
- 24:42Speaker 2: and I promise you you will never ever want for
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