(2012-07-01) Cheap or expensive grace 1 Peter 1v13-21 Reformed Church Society
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One hears quite the charge against the church and believers that they talk a lot and say nice things, but lacking when it comes to doing; that the church like about love and tolerance and forgiveness and outreach talks, but little of it is visible in the world; that believers believe their sins are forgiven, all too eager to condemn others for their sins. Our text reminds us of a key element of what we confess based on the Bible, God's grace is expensive, not cheap. He has given his Son as a ransom for you, and others, sins. Peter speaks of the "precious blood" of Jesus to indicate that the grace that God has you in Christ, and to always prove, free as a gift given to you but not therefore cheap or worthless is. It is precisely because costly grace Jesus' spotless Lamb innocent died. And because Jesus' grace period, He expects you to live a holy life, to be a faithful disciple. The price you have to pay is to follow him with devotion! Do not have to live God's grace cheapening unclean!
Grace, brother and sister, means that you have something as a gift, a gift, get. You do nothing to earn - you get it free of charge. This gift testifies that God put you in a favorable light up; He was a kind-hearted the attitude towards you. And imprisoned in this gift is your gratitude for this gift you received, for God's kindness to you. This gift tells us something about the nature of God - He is gracious and give this gift because of his kindness to us. But it says something about how particular he give this gift in Jesus Christ. Paul wrote more than any other writer in the New Testament about this - he used the term "grace" 95 times in his letters - more than twice as much as in the rest of the New Testament. For him grace the core of the gospel because we are saved by grace alone (Romans 3:24). servants Our salvation is God's gift to each of us in Jesus Christ - a sign of his kindness, his positive attitude towards us despite our sin! And he gave it to everyone who believes in Christ so that faith is part of the gift rather than earnings. So do grace to the law and any merit there may be in your obedience (Rom 4: 14-16). On the basis of his grace as revealed through the cross of Christ, servants God justifies his children - he put them in a new relationship with him - a relationship of grace rather than earnings. And therefore the Lord's judgment and promise to Paul, "My grace is sufficient for you" (2 Corinthians 12: 9).
This morning, however, we take a step further in giving our reflection on God's grace. What do we really God's grace and how it affects servants our lives as believers? Because we can easily God's grace cheapening. Maybe we do it sometimes because we unconsciously in mind that God gave it as a gift, and because I received it as a gift, I do not attach much importance to it as something for which I worked or paid. We considered it might like a gift that you do not realize servants the real value - it does not seem very expensive and therefore I treat it as if it's cheap. As a church we keep sight of God's grace as an inexhaustible fountain from which we as a church can only pit and pit and pit and can hand out and hand out and distribute, without restrictions. Then grace but a doctrine, something that belongs in our creeds; but just a general truth that can be grasped in faith but not the believers do not require; A cheap covering for your sin without any need for repentance and a new life, my sin is covered by God's grace but as a sinner I do not have to change! Cheap grace, servants brother and sister, is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ as the crucified and risen Lord! Cheap grace is not of God does not come off, but of believers who are more serious about the fact that God's grace is not expensive.
Our text, brothers and sisters, make it clear that God's grace is not cheap but very expensive, "Rather, servants you are redeemed with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unblemished and without blemish." Peter wants us in awe God must live as He judges each man's actions, also on those of his children who live as foreigners in the world. Peter's listeners and readers were believers who were politically and socially aliens, who fled to foreign countries to escape servants persecution. But as believers, we are all in the spiritual sense Vree
City News Home Communication Our Dream and Vision Small groups Word from the Webmaster Youth As We Are Golden Confess Calendar Structure DIAKONIE Sisters Sondagsbelewing newcomers Food Services Funerals Outreach Sermons Contact Us
One hears quite the charge against the church and believers that they talk a lot and say nice things, but lacking when it comes to doing; that the church like about love and tolerance and forgiveness and outreach talks, but little of it is visible in the world; that believers believe their sins are forgiven, all too eager to condemn others for their sins. Our text reminds us of a key element of what we confess based on the Bible, God's grace is expensive, not cheap. He has given his Son as a ransom for you, and others, sins. Peter speaks of the "precious blood" of Jesus to indicate that the grace that God has you in Christ, and to always prove, free as a gift given to you but not therefore cheap or worthless is. It is precisely because costly grace Jesus' spotless Lamb innocent died. And because Jesus' grace period, He expects you to live a holy life, to be a faithful disciple. The price you have to pay is to follow him with devotion! Do not have to live God's grace cheapening unclean!
Grace, brother and sister, means that you have something as a gift, a gift, get. You do nothing to earn - you get it free of charge. This gift testifies that God put you in a favorable light up; He was a kind-hearted the attitude towards you. And imprisoned in this gift is your gratitude for this gift you received, for God's kindness to you. This gift tells us something about the nature of God - He is gracious and give this gift because of his kindness to us. But it says something about how particular he give this gift in Jesus Christ. Paul wrote more than any other writer in the New Testament about this - he used the term "grace" 95 times in his letters - more than twice as much as in the rest of the New Testament. For him grace the core of the gospel because we are saved by grace alone (Romans 3:24). servants Our salvation is God's gift to each of us in Jesus Christ - a sign of his kindness, his positive attitude towards us despite our sin! And he gave it to everyone who believes in Christ so that faith is part of the gift rather than earnings. So do grace to the law and any merit there may be in your obedience (Rom 4: 14-16). On the basis of his grace as revealed through the cross of Christ, servants God justifies his children - he put them in a new relationship with him - a relationship of grace rather than earnings. And therefore the Lord's judgment and promise to Paul, "My grace is sufficient for you" (2 Corinthians 12: 9).
This morning, however, we take a step further in giving our reflection on God's grace. What do we really God's grace and how it affects servants our lives as believers? Because we can easily God's grace cheapening. Maybe we do it sometimes because we unconsciously in mind that God gave it as a gift, and because I received it as a gift, I do not attach much importance to it as something for which I worked or paid. We considered it might like a gift that you do not realize servants the real value - it does not seem very expensive and therefore I treat it as if it's cheap. As a church we keep sight of God's grace as an inexhaustible fountain from which we as a church can only pit and pit and pit and can hand out and hand out and distribute, without restrictions. Then grace but a doctrine, something that belongs in our creeds; but just a general truth that can be grasped in faith but not the believers do not require; A cheap covering for your sin without any need for repentance and a new life, my sin is covered by God's grace but as a sinner I do not have to change! Cheap grace, servants brother and sister, is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ as the crucified and risen Lord! Cheap grace is not of God does not come off, but of believers who are more serious about the fact that God's grace is not expensive.
Our text, brothers and sisters, make it clear that God's grace is not cheap but very expensive, "Rather, servants you are redeemed with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unblemished and without blemish." Peter wants us in awe God must live as He judges each man's actions, also on those of his children who live as foreigners in the world. Peter's listeners and readers were believers who were politically and socially aliens, who fled to foreign countries to escape servants persecution. But as believers, we are all in the spiritual sense Vree
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