Post by Les Brewer on Jan 21, 2024 15:02:41 GMT
Saved by Grace By: Amy Boucher Pye
Click here for the Audio Message
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect.
1 Corinthians 15:10
Today's Scripture & Insight :
1 Corinthians 15:1–11
Gareth, a staunch atheist, was adamant: “There is no God.” But then he attended church and his belief system was “rocked”. He shared how, being Welsh, he “enjoys a good sing-song”. And although he wouldn’t normally consider the meaning of the words, this time he cried as he sang, “the vilest offender who truly believes, that moment from Jesus a pardon receives”. Imagine! He who hadn’t shed tears after the death of his father or his son stood in the chapel and wept.
Then the congregation sang the hymn “Amazing Grace”. “I knew I was toast,” Gareth admitted. He suddenly realised that the “catastrophic” things he had done—including ongoing drug and alcohol use—hadn’t resulted for him in death, illness or prison. Rather, that grace had operated in his life. In that moment, “I realised that I knew Jesus, and I had to accept him.”
In his conversion experience, Gareth followed the apostle Paul, who considered himself “the least of the apostles” because he had previously persecuted the church (1 Corinthians 15:9). Yet Paul recognised God’s grace changing him: “But by the grace of God I am what I am” (v. 10), and he became a “new creation”, as he wrote to this church elsewhere (2 Corinthians 5:17).
When we accept God’s grace, we too receive a full pardon. God releases us from our sin and welcomes us into a relationship with Him. What amazing grace!
Reflect & Pray
How can you trace God’s grace working in your life? How has God changed you, making you more like Jesus?
Saving God, thank You for sending Your Son to live and die for me. Help me to share the gospel of grace with those I meet today.
SCRIPTURE INSIGHT
At the heart of the gospel is the atoning death and resurrection of Jesus. “Christ died for our sins according to Scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:3-4; cf. Matthew 1:21). God validated His sacrifice for our sins by raising Him from the dead (Romans 4:24-25; 1 Corinthians 15:14-18). The resurrection confirms the sufficiency and efficacy of His death. (Romans 6:4-11; 1 Peter 3:21-22).
Our Daily Bread
1 Corinthians 15:1-11
King James Version
15 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:
6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
7 After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.
8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
Click here for the Audio Message
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect.
1 Corinthians 15:10
Today's Scripture & Insight :
1 Corinthians 15:1–11
Gareth, a staunch atheist, was adamant: “There is no God.” But then he attended church and his belief system was “rocked”. He shared how, being Welsh, he “enjoys a good sing-song”. And although he wouldn’t normally consider the meaning of the words, this time he cried as he sang, “the vilest offender who truly believes, that moment from Jesus a pardon receives”. Imagine! He who hadn’t shed tears after the death of his father or his son stood in the chapel and wept.
Then the congregation sang the hymn “Amazing Grace”. “I knew I was toast,” Gareth admitted. He suddenly realised that the “catastrophic” things he had done—including ongoing drug and alcohol use—hadn’t resulted for him in death, illness or prison. Rather, that grace had operated in his life. In that moment, “I realised that I knew Jesus, and I had to accept him.”
In his conversion experience, Gareth followed the apostle Paul, who considered himself “the least of the apostles” because he had previously persecuted the church (1 Corinthians 15:9). Yet Paul recognised God’s grace changing him: “But by the grace of God I am what I am” (v. 10), and he became a “new creation”, as he wrote to this church elsewhere (2 Corinthians 5:17).
When we accept God’s grace, we too receive a full pardon. God releases us from our sin and welcomes us into a relationship with Him. What amazing grace!
Reflect & Pray
How can you trace God’s grace working in your life? How has God changed you, making you more like Jesus?
Saving God, thank You for sending Your Son to live and die for me. Help me to share the gospel of grace with those I meet today.
SCRIPTURE INSIGHT
At the heart of the gospel is the atoning death and resurrection of Jesus. “Christ died for our sins according to Scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:3-4; cf. Matthew 1:21). God validated His sacrifice for our sins by raising Him from the dead (Romans 4:24-25; 1 Corinthians 15:14-18). The resurrection confirms the sufficiency and efficacy of His death. (Romans 6:4-11; 1 Peter 3:21-22).
Our Daily Bread
1 Corinthians 15:1-11
King James Version
15 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:
6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
7 After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.
8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
