GRACE IS GREATER THAN
- SECOND WEEK OF SERIES
- THERE WERE A FEW THINGS WE HIGHLIGHTED TO KICK OFF THE SERIES
- WHY- OUR WORLD AS WE JUST WITNESSED DOESN’T SEEM TO BE FILLED WITH MUCH GRACE
- WE EXTEND VERY LITTLE GRACE
- RUTH SHARED A STORY (EXAMPLE) OF PREVENIENT GRACE- MOST OF YOU SAID SHE SHOULD PREACH MORE
- WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT THE WHY- A JOURNALIST DID YEARS OF RESEARCH ON WORD CHRISTIAN- GRACE WAS NEVER USED TO DESCRIBE CHRISTIAN
- VERSE ALMOST HIDDEN IN HEBREWS
HEBREWS 12
14. “MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO LIVE IN PEACE WITH EVERYONE AND TO BE HOLY; WITHOUT HOLINESS NO ONE WILL SEE THE LORD.
HEBREWS 12:15
15. SEE TO IT THAT NO ONE FALLS SHORT OF THE GRACE OF GOD AND THAN NO BITTER ROOT GROWS UP TO CAUSE TROUBLE AND DEFILE MANY.
- SEE THAT NO ONE MISSES GODS GRACE
- HEBREW CULTURE USED METAPHOR BITTERNESS
- HERE’S A YARD- HEALTHY GREEN GRASS
- LOOK WHATS HAPPENING ALREADY
- ISN’T IT INTERESTING THAT WEEDS/BITTER ROOTS
- OVERTAKE THE GOOD THAT’S HAPPENING
- SO HARD TO UPROOT- DISENTANGLE AND SAVE HEALTHY GRASS
- IT SAYS THAT IT CAN CAUSE TROUBLE AND DEFILE MANY
- A LIFE WITHOUT GRACE- TIRING
- A HOME WITHOUT GRACE-TURMOIL
- A CHURCH WITHOUT GRACE-TOXIC
- OUR WORLD-
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GRACE IS BEST AND MOST FULLY UNDERSTOOD BY WAY OF EXPERIENCE.
- PEANUT BUTTER PIE
- I CAN SHOW IT, EXPLAIN IT, LET YOU SMELL IT
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JESUS NEVER USES THE WORD- BUT TAUGHT US MOST WHAT GRACE IS.
- GRACE IS GREATER THAN – THAN WHAT KEVIN?
- GRACE IS GREATER THAN YOUR BROKENESS.
MEET RITA-HER STORY ABOUT A LAMP AND HER GRAND
REPAIR SHOP
- GRANDFATHER SURVIVED FIRST WW
- SURVIVED A ROOF FALL BECAUSE OF THE LAMP
- THE LAMP HAD A USE- BUT ITS NOW BROKEN
- DON’T REMOVE THE DENTS
ROMANS 8:22
22. “WE KNOW THAT THE WHOLE CREATION HAS BEEN GROANING AS IN THE PAINS OF CHILDBIRTH RIGHT UP TO THE PRESENT TIME.”
ROMANS 8:28
28. “AND WE KNOW THAT IN ALL THINGS GOD WORKS FOR THE GOOD OF THOSE WHO LOVE HIM, WHO HAVE BEEN CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE.”
- WE THINK- WE HOPE- PRETTY SURE
- WE KNOW- ABSOLUTE UNSHAKABLE CONFIDENCE
- ALL CREATION HAS BEEN GROANING-BROKENESS
- PAUL IS SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE
- WE KNOW LIFE IS HARD
- WE KNOW GOD IS GOO
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SOMETIMES THE SPACE BETWEEN LIFE IS HARD AND GOD IS GOOD CAN FEEL LIKE AN ETERNITY.
GREATER THAN SIGN
- WHAT HAVE YOU DECIDED IS GREATER THAN GODS GRACE?
- WHAT YOU HAVE DONE? IS IT GREATER
- WHATS BEEN DONE TO YOU? IS IT GREATER?
- WHAT YOU’RE GOING THROUGH- IS GRACE GREATER?
HOSEA 1:2
2. WHEN THE LORD BEGAN TO SPEAK TRHOUGH HOSEA, THE LORD SAID TO HIM,
HOSEA 1:2
2. GO, MARRY A PROMISCUOUS WOMAN AND HAVE CHILDREN WITH HER, FOR LIKE AND ADULTTEROUS WIFE THIS LAND IS GUILTY OF UNFAAITHFULNESS TO THE LORD.”
HOSEA 1:3
3. SO HE MARRIED GOMER THE DAUGHTER OF DIABLAIM, AND SHE CONCEIVED AND BORE HIM A SON.”
HOSEA 3:1
- “THE LORD SAID TO ME, “GO, SHOW YOUR LOVE TO YOUR WIFE AGAIN, THOUGH SHE IS LOVED BH ANOTHER MAN AND IS AN AULTERESS.
HOSEA 3:1
- “LOVE HER AS THE LORD LOVES THE ISRAELITES, THOUGHT THEY TURN TO OTHER GODS AND LOVE THE SACRED RAISIN CAKES.
HOSEA 3:2
- SO I BOUGHT HER FOR FIFTEEN SHEKELS OF SILVER AND ABOUT A HOMER AND A LETHEK OF BARLEY.
HOSEA 3:3
- THEN I TOLD HER, “YOU ARE TO LIVE WITH ME MANY DAYS; YOU MUST NOT BE A PROSTITUTE
HOSEA 3:3
- OR BE INTIMATE WITH ANY MAN, AND I WILL BEHAVE THE SAME WAY TOWARDS YOU.
Then God ordered me, “Start all over: Love your wife again,
your wife who’s in bed with her latest boyfriend, your cheating wife.
Love her the way I, God, love the Israelite people,
even as they flirt and party with every god that takes their fancy.”
2-3 I did it. I paid good money to get her back.
It cost me the price of a slave.
Then I told her, “From now on you’re living with me.
No more whoring, no more sleeping around.
You’re living with me and I’m living with you.”
- I WAS IN 2ND GRADE- BUS STOP ACROSS STREET
- DARK HAIRED GIRL- SHE WAS LESS GROSS
- WENT TO SCHOOL 1 ST TO 12TH GRADE
- SHE MOVED SOPH YEAR- SAME HS
- NEVER DATED- NO TIME FOR ME
- SR YEAR- SCHOOL JUST STARTED- RUMOR
- START HANGING OUT
FELICIA MARIE HAWKINS
- FRIDAY NIGHT IN OCTOBER- HER HOUSE
- SATURDAY WAS FOOTBALL GAME- COATESVILLE
- NEVER SHOWED UP.
- A NUMBER OF OUR FRIENDS NEVER SHOWED.
- HOME- NO INTERNET YET- RADIO KYW SHARES STORY
- BEEN AN ACCIDENT- NO NAMES
- I NEVER SHARED THE SUPPOSED MOST IMPORTANT
- I WAS BROKEN- LONG TIME BROKEN
VIDEO
- DENTS?
- THE LAMP WAS DESIGNED TO SHINE A LIGHT
- ITS FUNCTION HAS BEEN RESTORED
- YOU WERE DESIGNED TO SHINE
- YOU DON’T HAVE TO HAVE THE DENTS REMOVED
POTTERY PICTURE
- KINTSUGI POTTERY- TAKES BROKEN POTTERY
- RE-AASSEMBLES WITH GOLD-
- IT BECOMES EVEN MORE VALUABLE