DAILY TRUTH - Grace Is A Gift, But So Is Faith

Theology Applied

Right Response Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 801 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Grace is a gift, but this gift must be received through faith. And here’s the really neat part - God provides the faith necessary to receive grace as well.

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0:00.0	In less than a year, our podcast has gone from an average of 10,000 downloads a month to 50,000
0:05.3	downloads. What made the difference? You leaving us a five-star review. The more positive reviews,
0:11.6	the more the algorithm picks us up. And more people are confronted by the law and gospel of Jesus
0:17.5	Christ. Help us press forward the crown rights of King Jesus by leaving us a five-star
0:24.0	review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. If the grace of God is like a baseball, then faith is like
0:31.2	the glove. But God gives both. He throws the perfect pitch and he gives you the glove.
0:39.2	God does it all.
0:41.5	We are expected to put our trust in God and not to hedge our bets, but to put our trust in God alone.
0:51.4	But it is, in the final analysis, it is God himself who grants us faith. Faith is not merely
1:00.5	something that can be conjured up, manufactured by the will and sheer grit of man. But faith is
1:08.6	something that God provides. I believe my unbelief God gives faith God grows
1:16.8	faith but he does so through sanctification progressively as a process in his providence in his presence he does he does all of this. It's all his work. It's all his
1:31.6	doing, which is why he gets all the glory. God doesn't share glory with man because, not because
1:38.5	God is petty or arrogant. God doesn't share glory with man because he's just, because he's fair. And it would be
1:50.5	unjust and unfair to accredit man with anything because he hasn't done anything. God gets all the
2:00.4	glory because God does all the work, including not just
2:06.5	grace, but providing the faith to receive that grace. And yet, even though God provides that trust,
2:15.7	he's the one who gives it, but he is still within his rights and
2:21.8	holy and just to command it God commands several things throughout scripture that he
2:28.4	ultimately provides God commands our obedience but if any man is faithful to obey God's commandments, then what will
2:36.8	we say on that final day when we stand before him and he says, well done, good and faithful
2:41.7	servant? Pro tip, I would respond by saying, well done, good and faithful leader. If I followed
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