Having Grace for Others
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 27 August 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In our last day of our week long focus on the parable of the prodigal son, we’re going to make space to set our eyes on the father in the story, and ask the Holy Spirit to make us more like him.
Our ultimate calling is to grow up into the clearest reflection of who God is, as his children made in his image. And we see an incredible picture of who we are to be in the character of the father in the parable of the prodigal son.
May we become more like our Father in heaven today as we look at his word, and spend time in his presence.
Our Scripture for today comes from John 13:34-35. Today's worship is Christ Be Magnified by Cody Carnes & Kari Jobe.
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| 0:00.0 | In the last podcast of our week-long focus on the parable of the prodigal son, we're going to make space to set our eyes on the father in the story and ask the Holy Spirit to make us more like him. |
| 0:17.2 | Our ultimate calling is to grow up into the clearest reflection of who God is as his children |
| 0:22.0 | made in his image. May we become more like our father in heaven today as we look at His |
| 0:28.5 | Word and spend time in His presence. Welcome to the First 15 podcast. In response to the wealth of grace given to us by our Heavenly Father, we are called to be ministers of his grace to others. |
| 0:46.5 | Until we set others free from having to live up to our standards, we will never experience true freedom ourselves. |
| 0:53.8 | Living apart from an attitude of continual grace |
| 0:56.8 | robs us of the joy of living without unrealistic expectations of others. |
| 1:02.5 | When we are slow to offer grace for the sins of others, |
| 1:05.7 | we step outside the realm of God's kingdom |
| 1:08.3 | and place our hope and security in this fleeting world. |
| 1:12.6 | Jesus tells an important story for us to heed in Matthew 1821 through 35. |
| 1:18.6 | In this parable, a servant is forgiven of an intermountable debt owed to the king. |
| 1:24.6 | But rather than taking the grace he was shown and offering it to others, |
| 1:29.3 | the servant sought out a fellow servant and began to choke him until he paid off his debt. |
| 1:35.3 | Upon hearing of his servant's lack of grace, the king has him thrown in prison until he paid off |
| 1:41.7 | what he owed. And in verse 35, Jesus' concludes, so also my Heavenly |
| 1:47.7 | Father will do to every one of you if you do not forgive your brother from your heart. |
| 1:53.7 | We are called to offer grace to others, and not because of who they are or what they've done. |
| 2:00.1 | If grace were based on merit or self-worth, it wouldn't be grace. |
| 2:05.1 | We are called to offer grace because no debt owed to us compares to the insurmountable debt |
| 2:11.4 | of sin forgiven by the death of Jesus. |
| 2:14.4 | There is no wrong someone could ever commit against us that could compare to the amount |
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