SUNDAY SERMON APRIL 9th 2017

Message Title:-

MISUSE OF DIVINE GRACE
Or,
MISUSE OF HEAVENLY GRACE.

This season we are in a season called Easter period.
When the blanket of grace was spread from the Cross to the entire world.

God has redeemed us from the hands of the law.
He made it plain that being born again and crucified to the Cross,
The spirit of the Son that gives liberty to elements of this world is in you.

-Christ in me,the hope of glory.

With this,it is expected of you to be free from all this beggarly elements of this world.
And this is where many believers are missing it.

What are the elements of this world you are turning to again that makes the grace vain?
That’s what we are looking into today.

Text:-
2 Peter 1:2
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the “KNOWLEDGE” of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

So let us look at the beggarly elements of this world.

They are the 10 commandments of this world:-
-ways of this Worlds
-behaviour
-ideas
-ignorance of the Word
-little Faith in the Word
-not discerning His ways
-easily influenced by bad doctrines
-blindness of this world
-lust of this world
-i don’t cares of this world
The flesh is persecuting the Spirit.

-As long as the heir,born again
-As long as the heir,hope of tomorrow
-As long as the heir,the Elect,

Is still but a child,the spirit of servanthood/slavery makes them bound and not free to exercise their princely role.

That is why our text is talking to us about 2 important thing about grace:
-knowledge of God
-knowledge of Christ.
If you understand these 2,
Grace and peace is yours.

A man who walks in Divine Grace ought to know what he must do or dont.

There is an expectation on you,i.e
Stand still and see the glory of God

A new birth is seen in you by the smelling from your cologne of holiness and faith.
1 Cor 2:14
The natural man can never understand the things of the spirit.

In Daniel Chapter 3,
We read the story of the 3 Hebrews.
That was an example of men who walks in grace.

They have crucified themselves to the cross.
He has promised,
“I will always be with you when you pass through fire.

They are conscious of that.
And when they need Him,
He appeared as the 4th man in the fire with them.

But that was not the most fascinating action they took.
It was their stand.
-if we die,we die.

Daniel 3:17-18 KJV
[17] If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. [18] But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. …

The rest is history.
Am praying for someone today:-
Power to Recognise whom you are in Jesus,envelope you mightily.

On the other side,
Judges 16,
Is the story of Samson.

Samson life shows a man who misuse the grace.
“I will go out as before”
That is their quality.

Doing evil and expecting heaven to be there for them.
You cannot eat your cake and still have it.

Beware of the leaven of the pharisees
Can we continue to live in sin,disobedience and wish the heavenly grace abounds?
Far from it.

Our God is not a God of confusion.
A man can fall from grace simply when the consciousness of sin is no more.

When guilty conscience disappear,
When your conscience is dead,
There is no more grace.

Can you eat your cake and still have it?
You have to release something for to keep Other.

For your salvation and redemption of your soul,Jesus died for you on the Cross.
He released His life to save yours.

Many want to be seen as believers,but they dont want to sacrifice their friendship with the world.

Bring your Isaac to the altar today.
That you loved most,is being asked of you by the Lord.

Sacrifice that lusting,
Sacrifice your illicit affairs,
Sacrifice your love of, parties,Owambes, to His devotion.

When will you provide for your heavenly home?
Jacob asked this strange question that am asking you today?

-Maybe when you are 70,
-Maybe When everthing you are selling is no more valuable.

Beloved,
pumping up the breast will stop one day.
It will not look attractive again to your admirers.

When will you provide for your heavenly home?
-maybe when your skin will go on ‘conkurs’,am saying early pension.
-maybe when you have the 3rd leg.

Am praying for you,
You will not realise when it is too late.

Tell your neighbour,
Time Waits for no man.
What if heaven decides to call you home.
What will you do again when your toes are pointing up.

Alexandra the great asked for his hands to be free out of his coffin to show the world he came to this world with nothing,and he is going home with Notting.

Look at the word of Father Abraham to the rich ruler.
In Luke chapter 16:25

He was telling him:
“Remember”

-when the preacher was speaking to you and you are hating him for speaking the truth.
-remember ,when you decided to join the world instead of hearkning to the Lord.
-remember when heaven anoints you for to save humanity and you are saying it’s not yet time.

Where you are going,
There is no more grace.
Even before you depart,you might have worked yourself out of grace.

You can still redeem your life
Kill that horrible thing called flesh today.
Allow total obedience for heaven to have his way.
And you will now see,what others are running for,will be running after you.

Grace is God in me,the hope of my glory.
Not otherwise.
Not glorifying yourself and saying the grace is there.

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