Hello, this is Graham Cook. Welcome to the Brilliant Perspective's Podcast.

Today we're looking at the whole subject of grace, one of my favorite topics. There is an

everlasting supply of grace for us to live from. But first we need to know what grace is and what it isn't.

Many of us have been taught that grace is undeserved favour. But, you know, if this were true, then Jesus never had any.

Because the Bible says that he grew in grace.

So if Grace is undeserved favor, then clearly he must have done

something wrong to deserved grace, which wouldn't that disqualify him from being the

savior? Just saying. I love the fact that Grace always

gives us this incredible confidence in who God is for us and that empowers us to always be working from a place of

fellowship with him. I remember the first time I heard the Lord say to me,

Graham, you are my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. I really struggled

to get my head round that. I guess because I had feelings of unworthiness or something.

And then the Lord said, so you don't believe what I believe about you.

And I was thinking, well, actually, no, you're right. I don't I don't believe that and he just said okay

Then over the next two years

264 people.

Yep, I counted.

Either events would come and put a folded piece of paper in my hand.

You are my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. Or I got

texts, I got phone calls, I got emails 264 times. And what I did for me was it really cemented in my own heart the place where God

wanted me to live from with Him.

And that is that a place where He is pleased with me

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