Experiencing the Riches of His Grace

The Forgiveness of Sins

The Unregenerated Man- Our Former State

• Adam & Eve fell into sin in the Garden of Eden through disobedience – Gen 3
• The result brought in disobedience & sin to all men – Ro 5:12
• This opened man up into the psychic world
• This explains why there are fortune tellers, tarot card readers & psychics e. They need their sins to be forgiven – Rom 3:23
• Satan has control over their will
• Darkness causes one to stumble & not advance spiritually – Joh 11:10
• Darkness causes one to not grow in their ministry

The Regenerated Man – Begotten or Born Again

• They have been forgiven of ALL their sins
  • God wants to forgive us but, we must believe on his Son – Joh 10:9-16
  • Anytime you want to experience forgiveness of sins again, or need to be restored again, read, believe and pray verse 7 – John 14:6, Eph 1:7
• They are believers, have faith in God – Rom 1:17
• He receives three things from God
  • Redemption – We receive through his blood – Eph 1:7
  • Forgiveness of sins-Rest in this & believe this – John 8:32
    • This will cause you to walk in a new depth and a new awareness & in a new light
    • Darkness causes one to stumble & not advance spiritually
    • Darkness causes one to not grow in their ministry
  • Riches of his grace- By being forgiven of all our sins
    • We receive this by believing on the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus- Rom 10:14-17

How To Receive Salvation Initially

• Hear & reading the word + Faith & Trust = Salvation
  • Hearing the word of God that is taught and preached – Rom 10:17
    • Study the bible – II Tim 2:15
    • Understand what you read & hear – Acts 8:30
    • Philip told the eunuch, “understandest thou what thou readest”
    • Evil spirits fight against you reading the bible
  • Make a decision after you understand the word – Eph 1:13
    • You have a choice to believe or doubt the word
  • The end result, if you choose to believe is faith in God – Eph 1:13-14
    • Having faith in God’s word will bring salvation Heb 10:35
    • Holy Sprit = earnest of our inheritance Eph 1:13
    • Trust in Jesus, He will never fail Eph 1:13
    • Faith and salvation go together, you can’t have one without the other
    • It is like love and marriage, those two go together
    • Believe who God is

Who is God?

• The Father of the Lord Jesus Christ Eph 1:3
• He is also the God of Jesus Christ Eph 1:3
• He blesses us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places Eph 1:3
• He raised His Son Jesus from the dead
• God never fails
• Salvation comes from God
• God gives you salvation on what you heard about Jesus Eph 4:21
• And what you believe to be the truth about Jesus

What is the Riches of His Grace?

• This implies how willing God is able to forgive us
• This is based on God’s Son, how & why he died for us
• Eternal life in the new world
• You are going to reign with Him forever

The Danger of Leaving The Riches of His Grace

• Regretting if you were just not called to preach
• Entertaining the thought & feeling of why you are in this Acts 19:24
• How do you back out royally without making a mess
• People think they are getting away
• It may look like its working
• There is coming a day when you have to answer for that
• God will deal with it later in the judgment
• You will have to answer because you were predestinated, but you decided to jump track
• You were deceived, but it doesn’t get you off the hook

• The Holy Spirit is there to help all those that are predestinated
• No one believes just from their freewill because before we came to the Lord, Satan had control over our will
• The Spirit also works with the Word providing the preacher or teacher giving the word has the Spirit
• The sooner you believe, the better
• Those who usually go far in the Lord are those who open up their heart to the Lord immediately.
• You could be a front runner for God, just make up in your mind that you are going to make up for lost time.
• Know ye not, we all run in a race
• I come to noon prayer because I want the prize
• That is our motivation, there is one prize, and we all are going together.