God's Grace

1 Timothy 1:12-15

12 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;

13 Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

15 This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

This morning I am so very thankful to our Lord, Jesus Christ for loving me and accepting me into his family, making me a part of the church to be used in his service.  God gave us a work to do and until he comes again, we are to tarry and continue in his work.  Paul gives a good word here when he lets us know that many times our sins are done out of ignorance and unbelief in God's word.  Jesus is so full of MERCY.  He knows our hearts so well and he knows when we sin with the intention of blatantly doing something wrong.  He looks upon sinners with such LOVE and COMPASSION and that is the SOLE REASON he came into this world, TO SAVE SINNERS.  He loves you today and he doesn't want to judge you, he wants to SAVE you from spending eternity in a HELL that was created for the devil and his angels.  

Lamentations 3:22-23 

22 It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

Before Jesus ever walked this world as man, the prophets of old told about his GRACE.  The writer of Lamentations, (thought to be Jeremiah) told us that his MERCY never ends, but that every day it is NEW AGAIN.  

1 John 1:1-3

1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

Jesus Christ came into this world for ONE PURPOSE and that was to SAVE SINNERS.  He allowed himself to be BEATEN AND RIDICULED.  He carried a cross up a mountain and then he willingly allowed himself to be nailed to that cross, where he died for YOUR SINS and MINE.  He AROSE ON THE THIRD DAY and sits now at the Father's right hand to make intersession for you and I.  John taught us that we should not sin, but man is not perfect and because we are not perfect, we will make mistakes.  When we sin and make a mistake, the devil will be quick to tell us that it's all over, that we are lost and God does not love us anymore.  But let me tell you that the devil is a liar.  God NEVER STOPS loving his children.  If we sin, we have a advocate with God, the Father.  Jesus is standing there pleading our case.  We have only to ask for his forgiveness and strive to live according to his word.  Blessed be his Holy name.