All right I want you to turn your Bibles to Romans chapter 4.

Romans 4, it's the only passage I'm going to ask you to turn to today,

and we're in a series called Amazing Grace.

And Grace is... grace and grace is so amazing I want to just remind you of something all of us that

have accepted Christ all of us that have accepted Christ, all of us were amazed by grace when we got

saved. I mean you think about it when someone shared with you the son of God became a man

and died to pay for your sins and all of your sins can be forgiven and you'll go to heaven if you'll just believe.

You thought that's amazing.

That's amazing.

What I want to know is, are you still amazed by grace?

Because it's that good, because the enemy tries to get us as

believers to move in the works.

You know, we start serving in the church,

we start reading their Bible, we start praying,

we stopped cussing and smoking,

and we don't chew anymore, we don't go to girls who do. You know, we kind of...

We get a little better and we don't see nearly as much as we used to.

And so maybe we don't need grace now quite as much as we did

20 years ago. Well I want you to be just as amazed as you were with saving grace. I want you to be that

amazed with sustaining grace. And let me just tell you, sustaining grace is just as good as saving grace.

It's all grace. So this week we're going to talk about amazing righteousness.

Amazing righteousness and you may not be amazed yet about righteousness but hopefully in a few minutes you will be

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