The Beauty Of Grace

Permanent in Christ

August 03, 2020 Dr. Pete Norris Season 6
The Beauty Of Grace
Permanent in Christ
Show Notes Transcript
Dr. Norris:

Welcome to the beauty of grace and I'm pastor Pete Norris of harvest fellowship, church, Goldsboro, North Carolina. And I won't talk to you about being permanent in Christ. Now I hear a lot of people talk about, well, you know, God, sometimes God tells, you know, sometimes God tells, you know, when you pray and sometimes God's will say, wait a little while. And sometimes God says all these things, and I have a real hard time believing that when the Bible doesn't say that, you know, now I think a lot of times we pray selfish prayers and we pray self motive, prayers, and we pray most of the time about what we want God to do for us. And I don't think he's a slot machine that we can just pull a button and boom, things just fall out to us. But, but I do believe his word is true. And I do believe his word in the promises of God are in him are yes. And in him, amen to the glory of God through us, because second Corinthians one and 20 tells you just that for all the promises of God in him are yes. And in him, amen to the glory of God through us. So we see that that all the promises of God are yes. And they're.

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amen. You s ay, well, pastor, we may press it. He's talking about when you pray, the promises of God, what's in the word of God is going to manifest in your life. And you say, well, pastor, I k now s ometimes t hat my grandmother, she was a b elieving woman and things didn't turn out her way. Well, I want you to understand something here just because you saw a situation that didn't turn out the way you thought it was g onna turn out does not mean that God didn't fulfill his promise in his word because all God's promises, he has to do what he said he was g oing t o do.

Dr. Norris:

Or the Bible said, according to Luke numbers, chapter 23 verse 19, that he's alive. So we see here in Romans chapter one, verse five, and we're going to get some tremendous revelation from this. So I want you to stay with me. Therefore having been justified or declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord, Jesus Christ. Through also, we have access my faith into this grace in which we stand and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. And you see two sets of words here you see in verse one, we see to have in verse two, we see to stand. Both. These words are in the perfect tense, permanent tense, and never needs to be repeated. So you and I, we have peace and we stand and rejoice. Those are permanent places with God and they cannot be changed. So having been justified by faith is in the past, having been just about having been declared righteous, right? We have access by faith into this grace in which we stand is in the nail. So we see Danny rejoice in hope of the glory of God in the future. So we see that we're standing in a permanent place with God, not based on our work, but based on what he did in his perfect work. Cause you and I have been past tense, declared righteous by faith, right? We have peace. We have peace. That means right now we have it. We have peace right now, faith in grace in which we stand in the now and by faith in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God, which is the future tense. So you a nd I o r staining, and we peace with God. Now there's a difference in the peace of God and peace with God because the peace of God passes all understanding, but peace with God means me and him are cool with our relationship. Now I questioned that with a lot of people because so many people are spending so much time just trying to fix things, trying to make God love them, trying to get people to love him. But look, what he's you said here in Colossians, chapter two, verse 13, and you being dead in your trespasses and circumstances going to be flooded. He has made a life together with having forgiven you all your trespasses. Now, how many of you believe he's really forgiving you okay. Of all your trespasses past, present and future past, present, and future. And he gave you all those at the time that you, that you asked him to forgive you. He had forgiven you before you even asked. You just had to believe that he had forgiven you. And once you believe that he had forgiven you, you were born again. It's not about going up there and except, and believing and confessing. It's believing that he's who he says he is. And all of your sins are be forgiven because you can't even remember all that you've done. So you cannot ask for all your sins to be forgiven because you only know what you've done, but he said, I've forgiven you of, Oh, now that all the Greek word for all is all. And it's always all. But look at first, John chapter four, verse 17, and this was something that literally transformed my life four or five or six years ago when I began to get the revelation of this love has been perfected among us on us in this that we have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, so are we we're at when we get to heaven? No, in this world, it says as he is not as he was, but as he is. So how he is, he right now, he's seated in heavenly places in Christ. Jesus. So how am I in this world? According to Ephesians two and six, I'm seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. So we see here that he's reconciled to God through the death of his son, much more having been reconciled. We shall be saved by he is locked. So he died and resurrected so that I could die and resurrect, I was born dead. It born it through Adam, but I became alive in crops and now have been quick and then made alive in him. And now there's nothing separating me from God, not even seeing, because my sin was placed on Jesus. And John said, behold, the lamb of God, John one 29 behold, the lamb of God that t ake i t away, the sin of the world. So my sins h ave been taken away. Your s ins has been taken away. It doesn't matter whether you asked for them to be taken away, he's t aken t hem away. What he wants you to do is recognize he took them away. All the drug addicts, all the people walking o n the street that are dealing with situations, their sins have been forgiven t o in his eyes. All they g otta do is receive that. And what happens, they become born again and become a son of the King of Kings and Lord of L ords. That is the beauty of grace.