If grace is grace…then the implications are outragous

This past weekend we were served well via the Sunday morning message. Byron Yawn of Community Bible Church in Nashville, TN, preached a message on the grace of God, specifically in the context of Galatians two.

I urge you with brotherly love to carve out the 40 minutes to listen to this message. As Byron repeated throughout there is within each of us that desire to put conditions and qualifiers upon God’s grace to make it more manageable. This message was so helpful for me because it is where I live, I feel this tension as frequently as I do my pulse. Listen and be encouraged and challenged by grace.

Here are some of the points…

*If Grace is true then you are no better than the worst person imaginable

*God is not impressed with your good deeds (in fact you should repent from the good deeds you cling to for merit)

*Legalism is just as offensive as licentiousness

*There is nothing you can do to effect your standing before God

*Grace is supplied through Sanctification

*If Grace is not true then God made a horrible miscalculation

You may get the audio as linked below or in the iTunes store under the Omaha Bible Church podcast.

Listen – Download

[Byron labors diligently in his expository preaching ministry in Nashville in the pulpit of Community Bible Church, I encourage you to add his preaching in your sermon diet]

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1. Greatly Encouraged in the Local Church
2. Men’s Breakfast at Omaha Bible Church this Saturday
3. Update from Nashville and a request for prayer
4. Leadership Mattters :: outline and audio
5. Jesus Healing a Blind Man (a sermon)

3 Responses to “If grace is grace…then the implications are outragous”

1. arlog60 says:

   May 8, 2007 at 11:35 am

   Amen! And as Grace is revealed….the worship of Our Lord and Saviour abounds even more! How precious is the knowledge of God’s Grace!
2. Justin Potts says:

   May 8, 2007 at 3:31 pm

   I really appreaciated the observation that he made about assessing our “righteousness” before God and realizing that we need a bigger righteousness – HIS Righteousness. It was a great reminder that even our best is filthy rags before a holy God. I cannot help but think that this was what so offended the Pharisees, that is, the thought that Christ’s righteousness was superior to their own so called “righteousness”.
3. Barry says:

   May 8, 2007 at 3:45 pm

   Amen. What a perspective. My standing before a holy God is because of no merit of own own. It is only by the grace of the Father that my standing is not of a condemned man but of a redeemed man. I love His grace.
   The same grace that gives us men like Byron who obey their calling and preach.