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Sermon #B686 - Just Enough Grace
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Dr. Byrd: Let me get quickly in
the word. If you have your
Bibles, go with me to the Book
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of Luke. And we are going to
Luke 7:36. The word of God says
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in Luke 7:36, "And one of the
Pharisees desire him that he
would eat with him,
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and he went into the Pharisee's
house and sat down to meet.
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Behold a woman in the city which
was a sinner when she knew that
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Jesus sat at meat in the
Pharisees house. She brought an
alabaster box of ointment
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and stood at his feet behind him
weeping and began to wash his
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feet with tears and then wipe
them with the hairs of her head
and kissed his feet and anointed
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them with the ointment. Now when
the Pharisee, which had bidden
him, saw it speak within himself
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saying, "This man if he were a
prophet would have known who and
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what man or woman this is that
toucheth him for she is a
sinner." Jesus answering said
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unto him, "Simon, I have
somewhat to say unto thee", and
he said, "Master, say on".
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There was a certain creditor
which had two debtors. The one
owed five hundred pence and the
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other 50, and when they
had nothing to pay, he frankly
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forgave them both. Tell me they
are for which of them will love
him most. Simon answered and
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said, "I suppose that he to whom
he forgave most," and he said
unto him, "Thou has rightly
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judged," and he turn to the
woman and he said unto Simon,
"Seest thou this woman.
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I entered into thy house
that gave his me no water for my
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feet, but she had washed my feet
with her tears and wiped them
with the hairs of her head.
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Now gave his me no kiss this
woman since the time I came in
have not ceased to kiss my feet,
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my head with oil. Now this not
anoints, but this woman had
anointed my feet with ointment.
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Wherefore I said to me her sins,
which are many they are forgiven
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for she loved much but to whom
little is forgiven the same
loves little", and he said unto
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her verse 48, "Thy
sins are forgiven."
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Today, I would challenge you on
the subject just enough grace.
Lord, right now, come over the
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airwaves. Come in this sanctuary
right now. Lord, you are already
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here. I can feel you in this
place. And I pray that by the
power of your holy ghost that
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you would move in a mighty way
on me or on your people, on all
those who are watching,
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on all those who are listening
and may your anointing make the
difference this day.
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I pray in the name of Jesus that
God through the anointing you
would destroy yokes today.
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You would set somebody free
today that you would remind
someone of your matchless grace.
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God I pray that you would be
with us. Forgive me on my sins
and when the appeal time comes
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move, I pray. It is in the name
of Jesus I ask these things and
I begged these mercies. Amen.
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Just Enough grace. A husband and
wife are sitting in the gate
area of an airport.
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Hoping to get some seats on an
overbooked flight after waiting
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and worrying and praying for an
hour that they would get seats
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on the flight. The gate agent
calls them over the PA system to
come to the check-in desk.
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Smiling, the gate agent says,
"You won't believe it. But this
is your lucky day."
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The gate agent not only gets
them seats on the plane, but the
gate agent bumps them up to
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first class. I wish somebody
here. I had a witness to this
place that would say upgrade
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right now. This was the first
and only time they had been in
first class where they were
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pampered on an airplane with
good food, drinks and plenty of
elbow room. Now while they're
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sitting in first class, they
decide to begin to play a game
trying to guess who else doesn't
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belong in first class. They see
a man on the plane walking to
and fro in the first class cabin
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in his socks, restlessly
sampling magazines, trying to
figure out how to use the
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television, playing with
but never actually using the
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in-flight phones. Twice, he
sneezes so loudly that they
thought the oxygen masks will
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drop down. When the flight
attendant brings linen
tablecloths for their breakfast
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trays, the man tucks his
tablecloth into his collar like
it is a bib. The couple,
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they looked at one another and
they knew that this man didn't
belong in first class either.
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The husband then says to his
wife, "You know what? We see
different people at church too.
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We see people at church who look
like they don't belong. But you
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know what? People at church,
they will embarrass us and cause
us to feel superior.
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But the truth is, we don't
belong there anymore than they
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do. And that's the truth for
every single one of us. We don't
belong in this picture of
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Salvation. The only reason
we are alive today is because of
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God's grace. Jesus has come into
the house of a Pharisee. The
Pharisee have social graces.
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The Pharisees knew how to play
the game. He understood
protocols. He understood
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appropriateness. The Pharisee
was religious. The Pharisee had
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resources. The Pharisee could
invite Jesus to his home for
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dinner. Then comes the Bible
says a prostitute knocking at
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the door. Now it was appropriate
for Jesus to be seen with a
Pharisee at his house, but not a
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prostitute. But then if the
Pharisee is supposed to be so
good and the Prostitute is
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supposed to be so bad, how is
the prostitute familiar with his
house in the first place? She is
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not holy. She is not righteous.
She is not pure. She has been
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around the block. She is messed
up so bad that people knew her
by what she did and not by her
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name. What is this woman doing
breaking in among these
important men? She is a woman.
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And back in those days, a woman
was considered a second-class
citizen property of the man.
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And she is not even a good
woman. She is a prostitute. Lady
comes into the house.
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She knows she is not supposed to
be there according to the custom
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of the day. A prostitute talking
to a preacher. When I was a
little boy in grade school,
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they would show us pictures in
school. And I remember one
picture of a living room having
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a sofa, a chair, a coffee table,
an end table, and a
refrigerator, and the teacher
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would ask us, "What is
wrong with this picture?"
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The teacher wanted to see if
our cognitive skills was strong
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appropriateness. enough
to discern And if you had
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reasonable skills, you would
circle the refrigerator to say
that this does not go with that.
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What is wrong with this picture?
It is not Simon. He is a
Pharisee. It is not Jesus.
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He is a prophet. But let us just
circle the prostitute. She does
not have any business here,
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but she is here anyway. She does
not seek Jesus' face. She does
not seek Jesus' hand.
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She does not come for a blessing
plan. She is not trying to get
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his favor. She is just glad
to be in the picture. She falls
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down at his feet. She is weeping
uncontrollably. Her tears are
falling down. She lets her hair
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down. She dries Jesus' feet. She
kisses Jesus' feet. She anoints
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Jesus' feet with ointment that
was in an alabaster box that was
comparable to one year's wages.
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Simon, the Pharisee, the church
member is standing over in the
corner watching all of this,
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turning up his nose,
mumbling under his breath,
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expressing his religious
intolerance to her relational
behavior and he questions Jesus'
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discernment. If Jesus was such a
prophet, he should have known
this woman was a prostitute, a
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sinner. He should have known
that she does not belong in this
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picture. He assumes that if
Jesus knows who this woman was,
he would have stopped her.
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But friends of mine, the fact
is, Jesus did know who she was.
Remember, He is omniscient,
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which means he is all-knowing.
He knew she was coming to the
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house before she even knocked on
the door. Jesus says, "Simon, I
have something to tell you."
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Simon responds, "Tell me." "Two
men were in debt to a banker.
One of the men owed $500.
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The other owed $50. Neither
one of the men could pay up.
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And so the banker canceled most
of their debts. Which of the two
would be more grateful?
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Simon responds. He says, "That
is easy. The one who was
forgiven the most."
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Jesus says, "You are right."
Then turning to the woman, but
still speaking to Simon,
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Jesus says, "Seest thou this
woman." But wait a minute. Simon
is not blind. Simon sees this
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woman. What is Jesus talking
about? But here, Jesus know
sometimes people can see you and
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still not know you. I don't care
if it is your husband. I do not
care if it is your wife, your
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son, your daughter. I do not
care if it is your mother. I do
not care if it is your father.
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I do not care if it is your
grandmother, your grandfather.
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Sometimes, people can see you
and still not know you. You do
not even know who they are.
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You do not even know what they
are capable of. The people you
think belong in the picture,
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do not, and the people you do
not think belong in the picture,
do. But the reality friends is,
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when Jesus, everyone can be in
the picture because you can act
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holy all you want, but everybody
has done something in the past
and everybody has done something
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in the dark. So do not you point
your finger at somebody else.
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But this man Jesus, he knows
me and he loved me when I was
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unlovable. He did not wait until
I got right to love me, but he
loved me when I would not do
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right. He loved me what I would
not act right. He loved me when
I would not talk right.
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He loved me when I would not
walk right. He stopped the car
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from crashing. He stopped me
from dying. He stopped me from
being destroyed. And if you will
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praise Him Today, I Will Bless
The Lord at all times. And his
praise shall continually be in
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my mouth. Jesus says to Simon,
"Seest thou this woman. I came
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to your house. You provided no
water for my feet, but she rain
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tears on my feet and then she
dried them with her hair. You
gave me no greeting. But from
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the time I arrived, this woman
has not stopped kissing my feet.
You provided nothing for me to
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freshen up, but she has soothe
my feet with perfume. She has
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many sins but she was forgiven
for her many sins and she is
grateful. But when the
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forgiveness is minimal, the
gratitude is minimal, but when
the forgiveness is great, the
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gratitude is great. This lady
deserves death. This lady
deserves to be stoned.
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This lady understand she should
be punishable by death. But
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Jesus says, "Woman, thy sins are
forgiven." Not stoned, forgiven.
Not killed, forgiven.
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Not punished, forgiven. That is
grace. I am not talking about
what you say before you eat.
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I am not talking about
somebody's name. I am talking
about getting what you do not
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deserve. I am talking
about God's riches at Christ's
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expense. I am talking about
God's unmerited favor. You
cannot earn grace, you cannot
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buy grace. Grace is a gift and
it is always freely given. We
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are saved by grace and not by
our works and that is why the
gospel is such good news.
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Because if we had to depend upon
our works, none of us would ever
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make it and some of us would
ever be sure never be sure if we
had done not goody works to save
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ourselves. But today, thank God
for God's grace. I do not have
to work for my salvation.
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I already have
salvation. Jesus already died.
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All I have got to do is live so
I may look like I do not belong
in the first class.
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I may look like I do not belong
in the picture. I may look like
I do not belong in the church.
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I may look like I do not belong
here, but I am not here because
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of you. But I am here today
because of God's grace. I am not
what I ought to be.
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I am not what I wish to be. I am
not what I hope to be. I am not
what I should be but praise God,
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I am not what I used to be. God
has given me grace but not just
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grace. He is giving me just
enough grace. You see, when I
think about just enough grace,
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the Apostle Paul comes to mind.
Paul says, "Look, I do not even
belong in this picture.
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I think you may think that I am
all that and then some, but I am
just a sinner saved like you."
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Let me give some
background to Paul.
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One of the greatest questions
that people have when it comes
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to God is God, why do you allow
suffering? Why do bad things
happen to good people?
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Reconciling suffering, is hard
for many Christians to grapple
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with. For New Testament
Christians, suffering was a big
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issue. And when the Corinthian
Christians looked at the Apostle
Paul, they couldn't
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understand how a true Apostle of
Christ can suffer to degree that
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Paul had suffered. For
them, Paul was a great man.
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To them, Paul was a good man.
But why did Paul have to go
through all that Paul went
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through? Paul clears all this
up and II Corinthians. In verse
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number 7, he says, "To keep me
from becoming conceited. To keep
me from getting the big head.
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A thorn was given to me in the
flesh. A messenger from Satan
was given to Buffett me, to
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harass me, to keep me
from becoming conceited."
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This thorn in Paul's flesh was
a messenger from Satan that was
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tormenting him. Satan uses
trials. He uses sufferings. He
uses difficulties to torment us,
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to harass us, to trouble us.
This is exactly what we see,
friends, in the Book of Job.
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Satan was using suffering to
torment Job, so Job would turn
his faith away from the Lord.
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But God was not harassing Job.
God was not tormenting Paul.
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God has another purpose by which
he allow suffering to happen in
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the world. Paul says that for
him, this thorn in his flesh was
given to him so that he would
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not exalt himself or become
conceited. So Paul says three
times, "Lord, I have got a thorn
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in my flesh." And he asked the
Lord, "Lord, remove this thorn,"
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but God says, "I cannot remove
the thorn but my grace is
sufficient for thee." In other
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words, "I am going to give you
just enough grace to endure."
Let me tell you church.
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God does not remove the thorns
in our lives, but he gives us
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just enough grace because his
power is made perfect in our
weakness. Let me tell you
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something. God always takes weak
people to show his strength
because it is those weak people
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who depend on God.
During this covid season,
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there are folk all around this
country, all across this world
on TV, on the internet, radio,
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YouTube, preaching, teaching,
singing, having panels under the
authority and power of the Holy
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Ghost, and they are anointed.
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Let me remind you. You do not
follow them home because if you
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follow them home, you would
realize that they too have a
thorn. You need to understand
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that everybody on your job,
young people, everybody in your
class, everybody in your house,
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everybody in your community,
everybody in this church has a
thorn in their flesh. All of us
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have sinned or come short of the
glory of God. I do not care how
much Bible you know,
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I do not care how much
Spirit of Prophecy you know,
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I do not care how much you can
quote to church manual.
Everybody in here has a thorn
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and God has allowed to
thorn so you can depend on him.
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God allowed you to have a thorn
so you would not walk around
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with the big head. Your nose so
stuck up in the air that if it
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rained it drowned. Your chest so
stuck out that you could not get
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through the door. God allow the
thorn so you would remember that
it is all about his grace.
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And God hallelujah has given you
just enough grace to make it.
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You are not supposed to be in
the picture. I am not supposed
to be in the picture but
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because of God's grace,
I can be in the picture.
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So you better tell somebody who
said I cannot be in the picture,
who made you my judge
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and jury when if it were not for
the grace of God, where would
you be? I long for this church.
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The Oakwood Church to be a safe
place. I long for this church to
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be a safe house. I long for this
church to be a church where we
are trying to outgrace of the
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churches. But too often,
just like the prostitute in the
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opening story, when people look
to the church for grace, too
often, they find ungrace.
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You see, grace empowers
righteous living, but ungrace
disables it. Grace motivates
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obedience because Jesus
died on calvary for our sins,
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but ungrace demands obedience
under the threat of condemnation
if we come up short.
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Grace leads to freedom,
victory, and to release.
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But ungrace leads to
bondage, oppression, and defeat.
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Grace looks to happiness in
Jesus. joy in Jesus and delight
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in Jesus, but ungrace looks to
salvation by works. Legalistic
legislations and bureaucratic
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bottlenecks. Grace means there
is nothing more that we can do
to make God love us. Not getting
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more degrees, not studying and
setting our Sabbath school
lessons more than other people,
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not coming to church earlier
than the next person or eating
more grillers than anybody else.
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There is nothing we could
do to make God love us more.
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The grace also means there
is nothing we can do to make God
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love us less. Adultery, God does
not love you any less. Alcohol,
God doesn't love you any less.
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Deceit, God doesn't love you any
less. Divorce, God doesn't love
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you any less. Doubt, God doesn't
love you any less. Drugs, God
doesn't love you any less.
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Lying, God doesn't love you any
less because he loves you when
you did not love him.
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He loves you when you were
strung up. He loved you when you
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were shooting out. He loves you
when you did not want to come to
church. He loves you when you
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did not want to pray. He loves
you when you did not love
yourself. He did not wait till
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you got right to love you. He
loved you when you did not do
right. He loved me when I was
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not acting right, he loved me
when I was not living right and
that is why I do not care if
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nobody's in this church, but the
media team and the pastors.
Because of none of you all will
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praise him at home, I will
praise him all by myself, praise
him for his grace, praise him in
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the morning, praise him in the
new day. Praise him when the sun
comes down from the rising of
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the sun to the going down of
the same. God is worthy to be
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praised. Let me tell you
something. When a person works
in eight hour shift,
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and they receive a fair day's
pay for their time, that is a
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wage. When a person competes
with opponent and receives a
trophy for their performance,
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that is a prize. When a person
receives appropriate recognition
for their long service
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or high achievements, that is an
award. But when a person is not
capable of earning a wage,
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when a person can win no prize,
when a person deserves no award,
but they get a gift, anyway,
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that is grace. You are a miracle
of grace. I am a miracle of
grace. It is a miracle that I am
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here. It is a miracle that you
are in your home right now. You
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could be anywhere, you could be
locked up right now, you could
be dead, you can be suicidal.
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You can be crazy, you slept
around and fooled around, you
messed around and played around,
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you should have been dead buried
in your grave, but praise God
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for his grace and you have got a
right to praise him. I have got
a right to praise Him.
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Anybody been through what you
have been through. You have got
a right to praise him.
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Let me tell you. I do not need
all you all. People say, how can
you preach to an empty church?
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All I need is about two or three
people who does not care what
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anybody thinks, who do not care
who is looking at you even
though you are watching this
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from your house, who do not care
what you have on, who do not
care what folk are saying about
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you. You are just praising God
for his grace. I feel my help
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coming, Amazing Grace how sweet
the sound that saved a wretch
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like me. I once was lost but now
I am found, was blind. I said
was blind, was blind.
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But now I see. Today, I do not
know what you need, but I need
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just enough grace. Well-known
preacher,A.T. Pearson one said,
"However poor a preacher I am,
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I can preach the gospel better
than the angel Gabriel can,
because Gabriel cannot say what
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I can say. I can say that I am a
sinner saved by grace for I am
not ashamed of the Gospel of
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Jesus Christ, for it is the
power of God unto salvation. I
am alive today because of the
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grace of God. I get to preach
today Hallelujah because of the
grace of God. I get to eat today
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because of the grace of God.
I get to go home and be with my
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family today because of the
grace of God. I have got a roof
over my head because of the
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grace of God. I get to be a
new person today because of the
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grace of God. I get to look at
my future and have hope today
because of the grace of God.
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I get to walk through tough
experiences knowing that God
still loves me and has a plan
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for me. Because of the grace of
God, I am in the picture today.
Because of the grace of God,
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all that I am or ever will be,
his father grace the grace of
God. Grace woke me up this
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morning. Grace started me on my
way. Jesus says to all the
Simons out there, "Seest thou
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this woman." Simon, I came
into your house. You provided no
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water for my feet, but she rain
tears on my feet and she dried
them with her hair. You gave me
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no greeting. But from the time
I arrived, she has not stopped
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kissing my feet. You provided me
with nothing to freshen up with,
but she has soothed my feet with
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perfume. She had many sins, but
she has been forgiven for her
many sins and she is very
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grateful. She deserves death.
She deserves to be punished but
Jesus says thy sins are
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forgiven. Thank you very much
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inspirational message.
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Dr. Byrd: Pain, loss, trama,
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in life we
experience these things.
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My wife and I have a story,
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we have a
testimony of how we lost
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our first born daughter
in a horrific car accident.
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We have this new sharing
book, its en-titled “Gone.”
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And, in it I
want to share with you
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how God has helped me,
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how God has helped my
wife, how God has helped us,
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as we had to endure the fact
that our first born daughter is
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