Pew 2 You
10-11-15
Pastor Phil Vance
Grace and Truth
Highlights:
1. It is not grace or truth, but grace AND truth. Grace and truth work together in balance.
2. Truth reveals sin and grace removes sin.
A. Grace without truth would be deceitful. Truth without grace would be condemning. But, grace and truth is transforming.
3. Grace does not lower the standard, grace raises us up so that we can meet the standard.
Discussion Questions:
1. Pastor Phil talked about how we see different aspects of God’s heart in the New Testament and the Old Testament but the same God in both. How do you see the consistent grace and truth of God across both testaments.
2. Why must grace and truth be held in tension to each other?
3. To experience amazing grace we must know that we have fallen terribly short of God’s righteous standard of truth. What is your testimony of realizing how far short you’ve fallen and how great God’s grace was when you needed it?
Kew Scriptures, Definitions and Quotes:
-Comprehend: to take eagerly, seize, posses.
-In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. He existed in the beginning with God. God created everything through him, and nothing was created except through him. The Word gave life to everything that was created, and his life brought light to everyone.
John 1:1-4 NLT
-So the Word became human and made his home among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen his glory, the glory of the Father’s one and only Son. John testified about him when he shouted to the crowds, “This is the one I was talking about when I said, ‘Someone is coming after me who is far greater than I am, for he existed long before me.’” From his abundance we have all received one gracious blessing after another. For the law was given through Moses, but God’s unfailing love and faithfulness came through Jesus Christ.
John 1:14-17 NLT
-Fullness
A. That which is filled
B. That which fills up.
C. That which is brought to fullness
-Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins! But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed. All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all.
Isaiah 53:4-6 NLT