Living Free Part 3 – Grace Over Grind

Grace Over Grind

Galatians 3:1-3 (NLT) – 1 Oh, foolish Galatians! Who has cast an evil spell on you? For the meaning of Jesus Christ’s death was made as clear to you as if you had seen a picture of his death on the cross. 2 Let me ask you this one question: Did you receive the Holy Spirit by obeying the law of Moses? Of course not! You received the Spirit because you believed the message you heard about Christ. 3 How foolish can you be? After starting your Christian lives in the Spirit, why are you now trying to become perfect by your own human effort?

Galatians 3:10-13 (NLT) – 10 But those who depend on the law to make them right with God are under his curse, for the Scriptures say, “Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the commands that are written in God’s Book of the Law.” 11 So it is clear that no one can be made right with God by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.” 12 This way of faith is very different from the way of law, which says, “It is through obeying the law that a person has life.” 13 But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing. For it is written in the Scriptures, “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”

James 2:10 – For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

1. The law couldn’t be .

Galatians 3:19 – What, then, was the purpose of the law?

2. The law leads us to .

Galatians 3:24-25 – 24 So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. 25 Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law.

Galatians 3:24 (NLT) – The law was our guardian until Christ came; it protected us until we could be made right with God through faith.

• Christianity is not about you .
  • It’s about you being .

1. Grace is a .

Romans 6:23 – The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.

2. Grace is by faith.

Ephesians 2:8-9 – 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—9 not by works, so that no one can boast.

Romans 4:16 (NCV) – People receive God’s promise by having faith.

3. Grace is to everyone.

The Church isn’t for church people.

Romans 10:13 – Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

4. Grace comes only .

Matthew 7:13-14 (NLT) – 13 “You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way. 14 But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it.

John 1:17 – For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Romans 5:15 (NCV) – … many people have received God’s gift of life by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ.

John 14:6 – Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Acts 4:12 – Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”

Galatians 2:21 (NLT) – Don’t treat the grace of God as meaningless. For if we could be saved by keeping the law, then there was no need for Christ to die.

5. Grace leads to.

John 3:16 – For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Grace: When what you becomes what you .