KINGLY KINDNESS (5 OF 8)
Scripture: 2 Samuel 9:1-13
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Title: Kingly Kindness (5 of 8)
Series: The Life of David
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: 2 Samuel 9:1-13
I - The Sad Story of Mephibosheth (1 - 3)
II - The Surprising Summons of Mephibosheth (4 - 6)
III - The Spacious Supply of Mephibosheth (7 - 12)
IV - The Splendid Shield of Mephibosheth (13)
V - The Spiritual Symbolism of Mephibosheth
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
Grace Defined
Today, we're going to talk about another confusing church word - GRACE. If you ask a child what grace is, you might hear him say, "Grace is what we say before we eat." And that's true. We do call that prayer before we eat "grace." But for many, that's about as far as the definition of grace goes.
Most of us have heard that acrostic for grace "God's Riches At Christ's Expense." That's a nice way to remember the basics of what God's grace actually is. But grace is much more than that.
Some have called it "God's unmerited favor."
One man said that "Grace is what God does within you, without you."
Dr. J. H. Jowett defined it like this: "Grace is holy love, but it is holy love in spontaneous movement, going out in eager quest toward the unholy and the unlovely, that by the ministry of its own sacrifice it might redeem the unholy and the unlovely into its own strength and beauty."
This is really a concise definition of grace, but even Dr. Jowett realized how far short he had come in trying to define grace.
To simplify the meaning of grace, we could say that grace is God's undeserved blessing to an undeserving people.
Pastor Carl Kolb
Mephibosheth was an undeserving recipient of the kindness of the king!!!
Real Grace
Joseph Cooke was a missionary to Thailand a generation ago. He illustrated grace this way. Picture a happily married couple in which both husband and wife are all that either could ever wish the other to be. The husband always respects his wife's feelings, always treasures her individuality, ...
Series: The Life of David
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: 2 Samuel 9:1-13
I - The Sad Story of Mephibosheth (1 - 3)
II - The Surprising Summons of Mephibosheth (4 - 6)
III - The Spacious Supply of Mephibosheth (7 - 12)
IV - The Splendid Shield of Mephibosheth (13)
V - The Spiritual Symbolism of Mephibosheth
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
Grace Defined
Today, we're going to talk about another confusing church word - GRACE. If you ask a child what grace is, you might hear him say, "Grace is what we say before we eat." And that's true. We do call that prayer before we eat "grace." But for many, that's about as far as the definition of grace goes.
Most of us have heard that acrostic for grace "God's Riches At Christ's Expense." That's a nice way to remember the basics of what God's grace actually is. But grace is much more than that.
Some have called it "God's unmerited favor."
One man said that "Grace is what God does within you, without you."
Dr. J. H. Jowett defined it like this: "Grace is holy love, but it is holy love in spontaneous movement, going out in eager quest toward the unholy and the unlovely, that by the ministry of its own sacrifice it might redeem the unholy and the unlovely into its own strength and beauty."
This is really a concise definition of grace, but even Dr. Jowett realized how far short he had come in trying to define grace.
To simplify the meaning of grace, we could say that grace is God's undeserved blessing to an undeserving people.
Pastor Carl Kolb
Mephibosheth was an undeserving recipient of the kindness of the king!!!
Real Grace
Joseph Cooke was a missionary to Thailand a generation ago. He illustrated grace this way. Picture a happily married couple in which both husband and wife are all that either could ever wish the other to be. The husband always respects his wife's feelings, always treasures her individuality, ...
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