The Simplicity of Grace - July 15

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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As we wrap up this week of simple Christianity, today we look at grace. Many of us are so hard on ourselves and struggle to allow ourselves to taste the grace the Father has for us. We look to earn love and acceptance in this world, but God’s way of grace couldn’t be more different from the world who tells us we are what we do. May today be a breath of fresh air as you encounter the grace of God that requires nothing in return.

Our Scripture for today comes from 1 Corinthians 15:10, and today's worship is Whole Heart (Hold Me Now) by Hillsong UNITED feat. Taya Smith.

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0:00.0	As we wrap up this week of simple Christianity, today we look at grace.
0:10.0	Many of us are so hard on ourselves and struggle to allow ourselves to taste the grace that the Father has for us.
0:17.0	We look to earn love and acceptance in this world, but God's way of grace couldn't be more different from the world who tells us that we are what we do
0:26.4	May today be a breath of fresh air as you encounter the grace of God that requires nothing in return.
0:33.6	Welcome to the First of Team Podcast. And the Today's verse comes from 1st Corinthians 1510 and reads, but by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in
1:07.1	vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.
1:18.0	Grace is a glorious commodity of heaven that can only be received and experienced and surrender to the love and will of
1:25.8	our Heavenly Father. Our world is unable to offer Grace because it's in a constant
1:31.6	state of need and Grace can only be offered from a place of true
1:36.0	wholeness and love. In utter completeness our God is able to offer us grace because he needs nothing from us in return.
1:46.0	He requires nothing of us, so he offers us everything, apart from any ability or inherent value that we possess.
1:55.3	Grace comprises the core of the Christian foundation.
1:59.2	It's God's grace that drove him
2:01.2	to send his son as payment for our sins. It's through grace
2:05.6	that we enter into the fullness of restored relationship with our good father.
2:09.9	It's through grace that we receive forgiveness for our sins and it's in the simplicity of
2:16.2	grace that we're transformed into the very image of our Savior.
2:22.3	I find myself continually missing out in all that Grace offers me. I retreat into
2:28.1	a lifestyle of works where I try to earn what God has already given me. I work for the love of my
2:34.5	Heavenly Father and others, vying for affection rather than receiving the
2:39.3	ceaseless love of God for me. I strive in work for holiness and righteousness.
2:45.0	Instead of simply aligning myself with a new nature of freedom, God has offered me in grace.
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