The Different Tenses of Grace

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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Joy, Unknown, Devotional, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Daily Devotional, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Solid Joys, Jesus, John Piper

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🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Grace is not only God’s disposition to do good for us when we don’t deserve it. It is also a power that makes good things happen in us.

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0:00.0	August 11, the different tenses of grace.
0:06.8	We always pray for you that our God may make you worthy of His calling and may fulfill
0:14.3	every resolve for good and every work of faith by His power, so that the name of our
0:21.7	Lord Jesus may be glorified in you and you in Him according to the grace of our God
0:28.2	and the Lord Jesus Christ, 2 Thessalonians 1, 11 and 12.
0:34.7	Grace is not only God's disposition to do good for us when we don't deserve it.
0:41.6	We call this undeserved favor.
0:45.0	God's grace is also a power from God that acts in our lives and makes good things happen
0:52.6	in us and for us, which we also don't deserve.
0:57.2	We all said that we fulfill our resolves for good by His power, verse 11, and then
1:05.5	He adds at the end of verse 12, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ,
1:13.7	the power that actually works in our lives to make Christ exalting obedience possible
1:20.7	is an exertion of the grace of God.
1:26.1	You can see this also in 1 Corinthians 1510.
1:30.9	By the grace of God, I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain.
1:37.0	On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of
1:43.0	God that is with me.
1:46.4	So grace is an active, present, transformative, obedience enabling power.
1:55.7	Therefore, this grace, which moves in power from God to you at a point in time, is both
2:05.1	past and future.
2:09.2	It has already done something for you and in you, and therefore it is past, and it is
2:15.4	about to do something in you and for you, and so it is future.
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