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God’s Love. God’s Grace.
God’s love is the motivation of why He does things. God’s grace is His expression of His love.
They are different from each other and yet it is so difficult to separate the two.
God’s love and grace are His provisions that meet our every need – spiritual, physical, emotional, social, and so on. They are life-changing, life-transforming, mind-blowing.
But why do we see so little change in a lot of Christians and yet they always talk about God’s love and grace? The reason is because God’s love and grace have become cliches, ordinary, everyday, mundane terms – things we take for granted because we believe we know about them already. This is most true for people who have been Christians for a long time already.
However, if a person claims to understand God’s grace and His love and you don’t see any change or transformation in his or her life, it just means that that person doesn’t truly comprehend God’s love and grace. It is also possible that the person doesn’t recognize that a gift has been given to him or her and that that person is still trying to work hard for something that has already been given for free.
Basically ‘grace’ simply means ‘gift’, that is, something that is given to you for free. It is free for you but it cost the person who gave you the gift. However, not all gifts are truly life-transforming. There are three factors that determine the impact of a gift. They are:
1. Indispensability – how important is the need that the gift meets. Can a person do without it or is truly essential?
2. Immensity – how big is the provision. It may be free but is it big enough to meet that need?
3. Cost – a gift is free but it costs the giver. Did the gift cost the giver nothing or very little or was the gift given sacrificially?
It is when we really consider these that we are impacted by the gift.
Join us as we look at the indispensability, the immensity and the cost of God’s grace and love and see how this brings transformation in your lives. This message is equally important to the seasoned believer, the new Christian and to the casual and the serious seekers alike.
The message was taken from the second week of ALL IN Series of Victory Calamba entitled Grace and Love. The approach taken here is very different from the approach taken by the different Victory churches in their ALL IN Series so I believe you would greatly benefit from this message even if you have already listened to the ALL IN Series. It won’t be redundant.
Download, listen and be transformed by the love and grace of God.
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my wife and i were there when you preached one Sunday service and we were greatly encouraged .His grace and love still amazed us.thanks for posting this pastor Ernie.May God bless you more.
hello bro. i’m trying out my laptop kaso lang nangangapa pa…;-))) anyway am glad to have your insights. it really makes me think…several times… sometime maybe, i’ll be with you in calamba. regards God bless
Sure, bro. Will be so glad to have you visit us. Fellowship. There’s a lot I want to share with you din
Great insights! I wanna hear you preach in person, we will visit you there in Calamba! You’re such a blessing to me!