Empowered by Grace: Trusting God's Promises for Contentment
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"Grace in the New Testament as we've just seen is not only God's disposition to do good to us when we don't deserve it, often defined as unmerited favor totally right definition but it's more the grace of God is not just God's disposition to do good to the undeserving it is that but now we've seen its power, grace is power grace moves in and enables me to fulfill a resolve." [00:00:19]
"By the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary I worked, you could you could paraphrase there from first Thessalonians by saying I turned many resolves into deeds couldn't you mean W the same thing I worked so by the grace of God this grace came to me and it was not in vain but I worked many of my resolves many of Paul's resolves to suffer for Christ plant the church and get in prison and endure beatings they came to reality by grace he saying grace did that." [00:01:03]
"Grace is the key the power of grace moving into our lives turning our resolves into hard, that's free and joyful and satisfying in the last thing from legalistic grace doesn't produce legalists its grace it produces hard work Christians aren't lazy because grace is powerful there's another thing we need to know about grace not only is it a power but it is past and future Grace has been in this room since you got here otherwise you would be in hell sustaining your faith sustaining your breath." [00:02:44]
"We run an ocean of grace in this room for the last hour so and your rooms I call that past grace that already happened and we have a little time to go yet in the service and and my guess is that most of us will live to the end maybe not what we'll probably live to the end of the service and and maybe some more good will be done so grace is coming to us in the next five minutes just coming five 20 30 40 50 all night long all morning long grace is coming." [00:03:39]
"The right response of the heart towards past grace is thankfulness and the right response towards future grace is faith this is really fundamental and so simple I mean this is not complicated as grace is coming to you by promises from the future what should you do with that trust them trust it it's gonna come he's gonna help you believe he saying believe me trust me every hour of your life you think trust me I will help you I will strengthen you I'll hold you up I've got an avalanche of promises for you trust me." [00:04:48]
"When I say past grace I mean like Jesus died for me, there's never been a greater demonstration of free grace towards John Piper than when the Son of God died on my behalf and then about 50 years ago no 60 years ago now I was born again that's another stunning grace that's way back there 60 years and then way back there 2,000 years well how should I said gratitude is the main response to that but if I say I trust that Jesus died for me I trust what what do I mean by use the word if you use faith language backward everybody knows what faith language is future right." [00:07:03]
"When you look back and you say I trust you know you would never say to somebody I trust that you would be on time yesterday that's a nonsense sentence but you can say I trust that Jesus when he died died for me but what do I mean when I say that I mean exactly what Kenny started with in this service and maybe it's been expressed in the other services I mean that when he died for me he secured from me infallibly that there will be a river of grace flowin to me forever I cannot fail power is going to keep arriving in my life forever his death guarantees my everlasting life and my moment-by-moment perseverance to get there was also bought back there." [00:08:04]
"Faith in future grace means trust in all that God promises to be for us in Jesus Christ in any one of his promises out there all that he is for us here's what Paul said expressing this this is Philippians for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content is would you accept that content content is another word for satisfied I'm using them that way I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content I know how to be brought low I know how to abound in any in every circumstance I've learned the secret of facing Plenty and hunger abundance in need I can do all things through him who strengthens me." [00:10:27]
"The secret of contentment the secret of satisfaction is trusting the promises Oh to strengthen you I'm gonna strengthen you you're mine I love you and we believe that moment by moment as we walk through life and form our resolves and then trust that promise to come in and empower us to do them I can do all things through him who strengthens me." [00:13:12]
"Grace is both past and future, sustaining us in the present and promising to continue flowing into our lives. Our response to past grace should be gratitude, while our response to future grace should be faith in God's promises." [00:04:19]
"Faith in future grace means trusting in all that God promises to be for us in Jesus. This trust is rooted in the historical reality of Jesus' death and resurrection, which secured an endless flow of grace for us." [00:08:04]
"Contentment, as expressed by Paul in Philippians 4, is a result of trusting in the ever-arriving power of Jesus. This trust actively engages with God's promises, turning our resolves into actions." [00:12:11]
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"By the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary I worked, you could you could paraphrase there from first Thessalonians by saying I turned many resolves into deeds couldn't you mean W the same thing I worked so by the grace of God this grace came to me and it was not in vain but I worked many of my resolves many of Paul's resolves to suffer for Christ plant the church and get in prison and endure beatings they came to reality by grace he saying grace did that." [00:01:03]
"Grace is the key the power of grace moving into our lives turning our resolves into hard, that's free and joyful and satisfying in the last thing from legalistic grace doesn't produce legalists its grace it produces hard work Christians aren't lazy because grace is powerful there's another thing we need to know about grace not only is it a power but it is past and future Grace has been in this room since you got here otherwise you would be in hell sustaining your faith sustaining your breath." [00:02:44]
"We run an ocean of grace in this room for the last hour so and your rooms I call that past grace that already happened and we have a little time to go yet in the service and and my guess is that most of us will live to the end maybe not what we'll probably live to the end of the service and and maybe some more good will be done so grace is coming to us in the next five minutes just coming five 20 30 40 50 all night long all morning long grace is coming." [00:03:39]
"The right response of the heart towards past grace is thankfulness and the right response towards future grace is faith this is really fundamental and so simple I mean this is not complicated as grace is coming to you by promises from the future what should you do with that trust them trust it it's gonna come he's gonna help you believe he saying believe me trust me every hour of your life you think trust me I will help you I will strengthen you I'll hold you up I've got an avalanche of promises for you trust me." [00:04:48]
"When I say past grace I mean like Jesus died for me, there's never been a greater demonstration of free grace towards John Piper than when the Son of God died on my behalf and then about 50 years ago no 60 years ago now I was born again that's another stunning grace that's way back there 60 years and then way back there 2,000 years well how should I said gratitude is the main response to that but if I say I trust that Jesus died for me I trust what what do I mean by use the word if you use faith language backward everybody knows what faith language is future right." [00:07:03]
"When you look back and you say I trust you know you would never say to somebody I trust that you would be on time yesterday that's a nonsense sentence but you can say I trust that Jesus when he died died for me but what do I mean when I say that I mean exactly what Kenny started with in this service and maybe it's been expressed in the other services I mean that when he died for me he secured from me infallibly that there will be a river of grace flowin to me forever I cannot fail power is going to keep arriving in my life forever his death guarantees my everlasting life and my moment-by-moment perseverance to get there was also bought back there." [00:08:04]
"Faith in future grace means trust in all that God promises to be for us in Jesus Christ in any one of his promises out there all that he is for us here's what Paul said expressing this this is Philippians for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content is would you accept that content content is another word for satisfied I'm using them that way I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content I know how to be brought low I know how to abound in any in every circumstance I've learned the secret of facing Plenty and hunger abundance in need I can do all things through him who strengthens me." [00:10:27]
"The secret of contentment the secret of satisfaction is trusting the promises Oh to strengthen you I'm gonna strengthen you you're mine I love you and we believe that moment by moment as we walk through life and form our resolves and then trust that promise to come in and empower us to do them I can do all things through him who strengthens me." [00:13:12]
"Grace is both past and future, sustaining us in the present and promising to continue flowing into our lives. Our response to past grace should be gratitude, while our response to future grace should be faith in God's promises." [00:04:19]
"Faith in future grace means trusting in all that God promises to be for us in Jesus. This trust is rooted in the historical reality of Jesus' death and resurrection, which secured an endless flow of grace for us." [00:08:04]
"Contentment, as expressed by Paul in Philippians 4, is a result of trusting in the ever-arriving power of Jesus. This trust actively engages with God's promises, turning our resolves into actions." [00:12:11]
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