sermon: Living by Faith: God's Grace (Part 1)
John W. Ritenbaugh
Given 03-Dec-11; Sermon #1077; 69 minutes
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John Ritenbaugh, continuing the series on living by faith, focuses on Job’s justification in which he recounted the details of his prior behavior, matching them against the false charges made against him. Job was unaware that God had unleashed Satan as a test. Sometimes God’s sense of justice seems unusual or strange to us, giving us many questions to ponder about fairness. Justice and fairness are not exactly identical. Justice is the restoration of balance in a community’s life. Biblical justice is conforming to a rule or standard—whose origin is God’s holy character—as codified by the Ten Commandments and Jesus Christ’s magnification in the Sermon on the Mount. God is faithful in His judgments, not putting anything on us that we cannot bear. God is constantly evaluating us, urging us to overcome, safe-guarding us with His grace. It is impossible for God to render an unfair judgment. God does not always act with justice; He sometimes acts with mercy. God always acts according to His holy righteous character, always in alignment with His purpose. In the very first book of the Bible, God reveals His purpose to mankind, making man in His image. He then warns human beings about the deadly consequences of sin, providing a Law which establishes guideposts to righteous living. The God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament are one and the same—with the law in the New Covenant magnified much more intently, having deeper spiritual implications than the mere physical law. God considers everyone dead before they became converted. God anticipated that we would sin and would require grace on a continual basis. Our sins are directly against the Father and the Son personally. It is not until we have grown in the knowledge of grace, realizing what God could do to us, realizing that we live on borrowed time, in the same class as Uzzah, Nadab and Abihu, and Ananias and Sapphira that we realize our precariousness . It should be unthinkable for us to trample Jesus Christ’s sacrifice underfoot, counting the blood of
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Amazing Grace Appreciation of grace As soon as they eat Balanced Blasphemy against God’s Holy Spirit Buried in baptism Careless about sin Casual attitude toward sin Character of God Conforming to a rule or standard Conscience Crucify again Death penalty Departing from God’s family Divine justice Ephesians 2:1 Exodus 20; 21:15-17; 22:20; 35 Fair Fairness Falling from grace I Corinthians 10:13 I John 1:8-10; 4:8 Genesis 2:17 God does not change God does not lie God has every base covered in His judgments God is faithful God made alive God reproducing Himself Grace Hebrews 3:12-19; 6:5-6; 10:29; 13:8 Immediate death Impossible for God to lie James 1:17 Keil-Deilitzch Commentary vol.1, page 85 Leviticus 19-21 Job Job’s friends Job’s justification John 5:19-30 Kidnapping Let the dead bury the dead Living by faith Lot Lot’s daughters Love Malachi 3:6 Matthew 12:1 Nadab and Abihu No shadow of turning in God Non-justice Numbers 23:19 Romans 1:18-20; 2:11-15; 6:1-13 Sin kills Seriousness of sin Slaves of sin Sodom and Gomorrah “There but for the grace of God go I.” Unbelief Upright Wages of sin is death Words of Job
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