Monday, February 22, 2010

ULead-Cheapened Grace

Here's a little recap of what Evan taught us last night:

Romans 5:18-6:7

Grace is mercy and forgiveness that we do not deserve that is given to us freely.

We benefit from this grace in several ways:
Forgiveness
New Creation
Eternal Life

We cheapen grace as we continue in sin and live as if we are not the new creation that God has made us into. God's grace is special and beautiful but we often live as if it's common and cheap.

Like a pig that has just been washed will immediately return to the mud, we often return to the mud of our sin even though we have been cleaned by the grace of God in Jesus Christ.

If we are these new creations, why do we transform back into these junk Camaro's? (Like bumblebee in Transformers 1)

"We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin." (Romans 6:6)

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