Have you thought about goals you would like to set for yourself in the New Year? We usually call these New Year's resolutions. Our experience with these resolutions is usually poor. We commonly fail in keeping them beyond the first week of the New Year. How do we respond to this phenomenon? Some refuse to set any goals at all. As one person told me, "My resolution is to make no resolutions." While this may work, it doesn't help us grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
I have found it is best to set simple goals and to not give up on those goals the first time we fail. My goal in this year is to ask God to teach me daily how great a debtor I am to His grace. My heart has been taken captive lately to the verse in "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" which says, "O to grace how great a debtor/ daily I'm constrained to be." The hymn writer's thought is how God by His grace preserves us even though we are determined to wander from Him. Our debt to God's grace is so much bigger than this.
We will look at Paul's statement in 1 Corinthians 15:8-10. In this text, we find a statement of the importance of God's grace in Paul's life and something of the debt that he felt to the grace of God. He was indebted to God's grace because (1) it transformed Him; (2) it defined him, and finally (3) it empowered him. I. Transforming Grace (v. 8-9) II. Defining Grace (v. 10a) III. Empowering Grace (v. 10b)
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Dr. Don has over fourty years of Pastoral experience. He planted churches with Galilean Baptist Mission for twelve years (3 churches) and served as Senior Pastor in three other churches. He retired as the Senior Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church of Lansing, Michigan in 2020. He...