2023-08-03

Grace & Mercy For A Victorious Life

Grace & Mercy For A Victorious Life

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Live out our Faith even with our weaknesses

!Our Calling of Life

  • Heb 4:14 Therefore,
    • since we have a great high priest who has gone to heaven, Jesus the Son of God,
    • let us live our lives consistent with our confession of faith. 

      ! Our walk should be consistent with our talk - our preaching and sharing of the Gospel

Facing our Weaknesses
  • Heb 4:15
    • For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses.

      God understands our weaknesses and challenges. That is His mercy

    • Instead, we have one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet he never sinned.

      God overcomes temptations with His grace, overcoming power

Overcoming
  • Heb 4:16 So let us
    • keep on coming

      !  Go to God always - Despite & especially our failures

    • boldly

      !fear not.

      • to the throne of grace,

        ! God is the answer

    • so that we may obtain mercy

      ! Receive God's forgiveness and acceptance again

    • and find grace to help us in our time of need

      ! Get God's empowerment and abilities. to overcome sins or to do great and good things despite our weaknesses.

Grace

! Grace is God's empowerment, abilities to overcome our weaknesses and do good

  • 1Co_3:10
    • As an expert builder using the grace that God gave me, I laid the foundation...

      ! God's grace makes us an expert builder

  • 1Co_15:10
    • But by God's grace, I am what I am, and his grace shown to me was not wasted. Instead, I worked harder than all the others—not I, of course, but God's grace that was with me.

      ! God's grace enables Paul to be a great apostle.

      So will God's grace enables us to be what God calls us to be.

Mercy

! Mercy is God's compassion, acceptance, understanding, and forgiveness for our weaknesses, sufferings, and defeats.

  • 1Pet 1:3
    •  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah! Because of his great mercy, he has granted us a new birth, resulting in an immortal hope through the resurrection of Jesus, the Messiah, from the dead

      God's mercy is our forgiveness and Salvation.

  • 1Pe_2:10
    • Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God. Once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

      God's mercy is our acceptance by God.

  • 1Ti_1:16
    • But for that very reason I received mercy, so that in me, as the worst sinner, the Messiah Jesus might demonstrate all of his patience as an example for those who would believe in him for eternal life.

      God's mercy is our forgiveness

Summary:
  • Every time we feel the need, we can boldly come to God's throne to receive forgiveness, acceptance, and empowerment to overcome our weaknesses and to do great things in the name of God.
Prayer:
  • May we receive God's mercy and grace to live out God's calling in our life, that we may be His light in this world, leading people to know and receive God's grace and mercy for them to have eternal life. Amen.

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以恩典与怜悯来过胜利的生活

活出我们的信仰,即使在我们的软弱中。!我们生命的使命。

  • 希伯来书 4:14 因为我们有一位已经升入高天的大祭司,就是上帝的儿子耶稣,因此,让我们的生活与我们对信仰的认识一致。
    !我们的行为应该与我们的言论相一致——我们传扬和分享福音的时候。
面对我们的软弱
  • 希伯来书 4:15 因为我们的大祭司并非不能体恤我们的软弱,
    !上帝理解我们的软弱和挑战,这就是他的怜悯。
  • 相反地,他在各方面都受过试探,与我们一样,但他从未犯罪。
    !上帝通过他的恩典,战胜了试探,战胜的力量。
战胜
  • 希伯来书 4:16  所以,我们只管坦然无惧地来到施恩的宝座前,
    !无论何时,在失败的时候尤其如此。
  • 为的是要领受怜悯,
    !神是答案。
  • 得到恩惠,作为及时的帮助。 
    !得到上帝的赋能和能力。克服罪恶或在我们软弱中做伟大善事。
恩典 - 恩典是上帝的赋能,能使我们克服软弱,做善事。
  • 哥林多前书 3:10 我作智慧师傅的凭着上帝所赐我的恩典,奠定了根基...
    !上帝的恩典使我们成为智慧师傅。
  • 哥林多前书 15:10 但凭着上帝的恩典,我成为了现在的我,他向我施加的恩典没有落空。与其说是我比众人更努力,不如说是上帝的恩典与我同在。
    !上帝的恩典使保罗成为伟大的使徒。同此,上帝的恩典使我们能够成为上帝所呼召我们成为的人。
怜悯 - 怜悯是上帝对我们软弱、苦难和失败的怜悯、接纳、理解和宽恕。
  • 彼得前书 1:3 愿颂赞归与我们主耶稣基督的父上帝,他因他的深深怜悯,借着耶稣基督从死里复活,使我们有了藉着复活的主耶稣基督得以重生的活泼盼望。
    !上帝的怜悯是我们的宽恕和救恩。
  • 彼得前书 2:10 你们从前不是子民,现在却是上帝的子民;从前未曾蒙怜悯,现在却蒙了怜悯。
    !上帝的怜悯是我们被上帝接纳。
  • 提摩太前书 1:16 然而,我蒙了怜悯,是为要叫耶稣基督在我这罪魁身上显明他的全盛恒忍,给后来信他得永生的人做榜样。
    !上帝的怜悯是我们的宽恕。
总结:
每当我们感到需要的时候,我们可以大胆地来到上帝的宝座前,接受宽恕、接纳和赋能,以克服我们的软弱,并在上帝的名义下成就伟大的事业。
祷告
愿我们领受上帝的怜悯和恩典,在我们的生命中活出上帝的呼召,成为他在这个世界的光,引领人们认识并领受上帝对他们的恩典和怜悯,得到永生。阿门。

Lim Liat (c) 3 Aug 23

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