Key Scripture: Romans 10:3-4 TLB
3 For they don’t understand that Christ has died to make them right with God. Instead they are trying to make themselves good enough to gain God’s favor by keeping the Jewish laws and customs, but that is not God’s way of salvation. 4 They don’t understand that Christ gives to those who trust in him everything they are trying to get by keeping his laws. He ends all of that.
KEY POINT #1: GRACE ISN’T FAIR
LUKE 15:24 NIV
For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate.
LUKE 15:29 NLT
but he replied, ‘All these years I’ve slaved for you and never once refused to do a single thing you told me to. And in all that time you never gave me even one young goat for a feast with my friends. 30 Yet when this son of yours comes back after squandering your money on prostitutes, you celebrate by killing the fattened calf!’
LUKE 15:31 NLT
“His father said to him, ‘Look, dear son, you have always stayed by me, and everything I have is yours. 32 We had to celebrate this happy day. For your brother was dead and has come back to life! He was lost, but now he is found!’”
KEY POINT #2: GRACE IS A LICENSE TO WIN
ROMANS 6:6-7 NLT
6 We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin. 7 For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin.
ROMANS 3:20 NLT
For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are.
KEY POINT #3. GRACE IS FOR YOU, NOT ABOUT YOU
Galatians 2:21 NLT
I do not treat the grace of God as meaningless. For if keeping the law could make us right with God, then there was no need for Christ to die.
