UGP 014: Making a Grace Escape 

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You can make an escape from performance based religion without anger and destroyed relationships. The zeal for the truth can have the opposite effect to those who aren’t ready to accept the truth.

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Can Christians live anyway they want to and God will still save them? Jesus gave his life as a free gift but it was not cheap-it cost him everything! As a man becomes a new creature in Christ, the disposition to sin becomes less and less as the Holy Spirit works in that man.

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God is a unique, one of a kind being, a spirit, not physically bound, omniscient, and omnipotent. Post-modernism creates our own reality, morality and faith. God wants to bring grace into our lives so we both experience Him at a deeper level and impact others around us. We become agents of transformative change!

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What is our identity with Christ alone? Is your faith about Jesus or what you can do? Grace says that God wants us to be dependent on Him.

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Performance based religion is very different than grace.  The idea of following rules to be acceptable to God can define a performance based religion. A religion that requires standards of behavior and the performance of those behaviors can actually run the risk of not having a relationship with God.

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Our hope as imperfect people is that we can be perfectly loved by God because of grace. Grace can be bring reconciliation to the worst scenario.

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Human touch can be a real healer. A touch of grace makes a difference. Jesus is the one who wants to let grace heal and touch you.

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What does gambling have to do with grace? What’s the risk? It’s all on the table, no negotiating.

What’s the guarantee?

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Joel shares his testimony of grace. What happens when you fall off the “gerbil wheel”? If I mess up, how do I fix it? Pride makes me feed my performance and look for honors from men. What is legalism? It’s all about performance; rules; standards of behavior; the better you perform the more pleasing results you will have. The New Testament shows us the God of love, mercy and forgiveness

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Experience a grace that heals. Grace is defined as an unmerited favor. A gift we receive but don’t deserve. Gratitude. You can have a grace that heals. Replace shame with acceptance, guilt with forgiveness and fear with confidence.

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