The Grace of God, Part 2

Insight for Living Daily Broadcast

Chuck Swindoll - Insight for Living

Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Religious And Spirituality, Christianity

4.7 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

2 Samuel 9:1–13 We live in a world of earning and deserving. Promotions come to those who perform. Favor goes to those with the right background. But grace—true grace—operates by a completely different economy. It seeks out the undeserving and pulls them to the table. From 2 Samuel 9, Pastor Chuck Swindoll tells the remarkable story of Mephibosheth, a crippled outcast brought to eat at King David’s table as one of his own sons. In this obscure Old Testament story lives the clearest picture of how God’s grace works. See yourself in Mephibosheth. Embrace the grace God extends to you freely, and enjoy the life available to those who sit at His table!

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0:00.0	On Thursday's program, Chuck Swindall left us with a definition that won't let go. He said that
0:13.9	grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving. It's not earned, it's not kindness extended to friends. God's grace is favor poured out
0:23.9	on those who deserve the opposite. Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck takes that definition
0:29.9	off the page and walks it into history, into a forgotten man, a no-place town, and a king who came
0:37.1	looking anyway.
0:38.3	This is where grace gets its face.
0:41.3	Chuck titled his message, The Grace of God.
0:49.3	We learned our last time together that God loves us, remember?
0:58.0	When that love is activated, grace kicks in.
1:04.0	That's the beauty of God's grace.
1:07.2	When love is activated, grace kicks in.
1:11.6	Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.
1:18.6	God sovereignly, apart from anything from us, any goodness, any effort, any attempt to win his favor or friendship, God in his
1:31.8	grace reaches down to lift us up even while we fight him in the process. Amazing. Amazing. To illustrate that, look at Romans
1:48.8	chapter 5, verse 8. Just the one verse for a moment. But God demonstrates his own love toward us, and that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
2:13.8	God provides evidence of this characteristic of his love as he reaches out to sinners like us.
2:25.5	He demonstrates his own love toward us.
2:30.5	Look at verse 6.
2:32.7	While we were still helpless.
2:35.4	I've underscored the word helpless.
2:38.4	At the right time, Christ died for the ungodly.
2:42.7	Helpless, verse eight, while we were yet sinners, underscore sinners.
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