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Life College Week 20 – Grace 3 Eternity Secured
LIFE COLLEGE WEEK 20 – GRACE – SESSION 3
ETERNITY SECURED
SECOND THESSALONIANS, CHAPTER TWO, AND VERSE THIRTEEN
ACCEPTED
Grace provides a _______________ to humanity that prevents all from sliding into unredeemable depraved oblivion (prevenient). Then, through our faith, grace also provides a reconnection to the source of who we are and, through forgiveness, reestablishes us as part of God’s family (justifying).
BUT WAIT THERE IS MORE…
Wesley’s explanation of grace went far beyond forgiveness, our acceptance of this new identity and being beloved children of God.
We all have a desire to be fulfilled, complete and ____________________ and we all try and bring balance to our lives on our ___________.
The only real way to find that divine balance is through restoring God’s _______________and characteristics in us and accepting Jesus as the one who presents that image to a broken world.
God does not want that balance to be here today and gone tomorrow. He desires to bring us to a state of completion once and for all. That desire of God is called grace, and it has three effects on us.
It heals
It restores
It transforms
But to fully heal, restore, and transform, grace must be allowed (free thought) to bring us to complete balance, wholeness, and peace; otherwise, we lose sight of God’s image and look for our own solutions again (Here today and gone tomorrow).
GET OFF THE ROLLER COASTER
Without the ______________ of grace, we get caught in the cycle of blame and shame, reacting and responding with out-of-whack feelings and emotions.
We constantly have spiritual highs, and woe is me lows. We never seem to reach a state of consistency and confidence in who God is in us and the authority we have been given.
Despite knowing Jesus AND belonging to Him, there is still something missing and we struggle to settle in _______________. We end up constantly trying to reason away our emotional restlessness. The only way God can fully break that cycle and allow our healing and restoration to result in full transformation is to establish a way to bring our complete fulfillment and balance. In the true theme of grace He does that when we can not do that ourselves.
Doing things your way tends to cause disappointment and disillusionment
He has to save us from our insatiable need to have any god, even one of our own creations, by uniting us again with Himself, the only true God.
A HOLY PEOPLE
In a historic moment in their walk with God, the Israelites were camped at the foot of Mount Sinai. Moses was about to receive the hand-written tablets from God. He had been away from the camp for some time and the people had grown restless.
When the people saw how long it was taking Moses to come back down the mountain, they gathered around Aaron. “Come on,” they said, “make us some gods who can lead us. We don’t know what happened to this fellow Moses, who brought us here from the land of Egypt.” Exodus 32:1 NLT
Moses was their link to God. When He was around, their _____________ was firm and fixed on ______________ their Divine Liberator. But when Moses disappeared for a time, so did their resolve. They grew impatient and restless, and so they created their own form of worship and their own god to fill the void they felt.
Knowing about God’s desire to redeem us in our broken state or having a general appreciation for His forgiveness is not enough to reach divine consistency in our fickle human spirit. Another effect of grace is needed.
SANCTIFYING GRACE
If prevenient grace is the porch of a house and justifying grace is the doorway, sanctifying grace represents the rooms in the expansive dwelling of God’s constant presence. In those rooms are God’s extensive _______________ and __________________ for humanity, both globally and individually.
Sanctify means “to set a person apart for holiness” or “to make holy.” The final layer of grace is for God to declare us
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By Brownwood.VL.ChurchLIFE COLLEGE WEEK 20 – GRACE – SESSION 3
ETERNITY SECURED
SECOND THESSALONIANS, CHAPTER TWO, AND VERSE THIRTEEN
ACCEPTED
Grace provides a _______________ to humanity that prevents all from sliding into unredeemable depraved oblivion (prevenient). Then, through our faith, grace also provides a reconnection to the source of who we are and, through forgiveness, reestablishes us as part of God’s family (justifying).
BUT WAIT THERE IS MORE…
Wesley’s explanation of grace went far beyond forgiveness, our acceptance of this new identity and being beloved children of God.
We all have a desire to be fulfilled, complete and ____________________ and we all try and bring balance to our lives on our ___________.
The only real way to find that divine balance is through restoring God’s _______________and characteristics in us and accepting Jesus as the one who presents that image to a broken world.
God does not want that balance to be here today and gone tomorrow. He desires to bring us to a state of completion once and for all. That desire of God is called grace, and it has three effects on us.
It heals
It restores
It transforms
But to fully heal, restore, and transform, grace must be allowed (free thought) to bring us to complete balance, wholeness, and peace; otherwise, we lose sight of God’s image and look for our own solutions again (Here today and gone tomorrow).
GET OFF THE ROLLER COASTER
Without the ______________ of grace, we get caught in the cycle of blame and shame, reacting and responding with out-of-whack feelings and emotions.
We constantly have spiritual highs, and woe is me lows. We never seem to reach a state of consistency and confidence in who God is in us and the authority we have been given.
Despite knowing Jesus AND belonging to Him, there is still something missing and we struggle to settle in _______________. We end up constantly trying to reason away our emotional restlessness. The only way God can fully break that cycle and allow our healing and restoration to result in full transformation is to establish a way to bring our complete fulfillment and balance. In the true theme of grace He does that when we can not do that ourselves.
Doing things your way tends to cause disappointment and disillusionment
He has to save us from our insatiable need to have any god, even one of our own creations, by uniting us again with Himself, the only true God.
A HOLY PEOPLE
In a historic moment in their walk with God, the Israelites were camped at the foot of Mount Sinai. Moses was about to receive the hand-written tablets from God. He had been away from the camp for some time and the people had grown restless.
When the people saw how long it was taking Moses to come back down the mountain, they gathered around Aaron. “Come on,” they said, “make us some gods who can lead us. We don’t know what happened to this fellow Moses, who brought us here from the land of Egypt.” Exodus 32:1 NLT
Moses was their link to God. When He was around, their _____________ was firm and fixed on ______________ their Divine Liberator. But when Moses disappeared for a time, so did their resolve. They grew impatient and restless, and so they created their own form of worship and their own god to fill the void they felt.
Knowing about God’s desire to redeem us in our broken state or having a general appreciation for His forgiveness is not enough to reach divine consistency in our fickle human spirit. Another effect of grace is needed.
SANCTIFYING GRACE
If prevenient grace is the porch of a house and justifying grace is the doorway, sanctifying grace represents the rooms in the expansive dwelling of God’s constant presence. In those rooms are God’s extensive _______________ and __________________ for humanity, both globally and individually.
Sanctify means “to set a person apart for holiness” or “to make holy.” The final layer of grace is for God to declare us