Today, in our second part of our sermon series: Understanding the Grace of God,” we focus on God’s enabling grace. His grace enables us to be who we are meant to be and to do what He wants us to do. This can only occur as we abide in Him. So, Paul writes this second epistle (2 Timothy) to Timothy and says to him, “Be strong in the grace that is found in Christ.” Pastor Wallace teaches us in this sermon that the grace of God does not merely save us (although it does do that), it also continues to enable us. It empowers our lives and gives us the ability to stand firm. Even in the midst of suffering and in the midst of opposition, Timothy had to stand firm. We too can stand firm in the grace of God. Like Paul, our past is not a hindrance to the new identity we have in Christ. Like Paul and so many others in the Bible, we can declare: “I am who I am by the grace of God.” You could have been dead, sleeping in your grave, but because of God’s grace you are here! Praise God.
