10 But the God of all grace, Who hath called us unto His Eternal Glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. 11 To Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

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Our God is the God of all graceall grace.

Grace = charis --From (chairo); graciousness … especially the Divine influenceDivine influence upon the heart, and its reflectionreflection in the life; including gratitude) :- acceptable, benefit, favor, gift, grace (-ious), joy, liberality, pleasure, thank (-s, -worthy).

Strong's Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary.December 16, 2009

The aspect of graceaspect of grace, that I want to discuss tonight:

The Divine influenceDivine influence upon our heart, and its reflectionreflection in our life.

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We don't deservedon't deserve that God should come into us, take outtake out our hard heart born of flesh,

And instill in usinstill in us a new heart born of His Spirit.

Ezekiel 36 26 A new heartnew heart also will I give you, and a new spiritnew spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27 And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them.

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True Salvation by the Grace of GodV 26 is the Divine InfluenceDivine Influence upon our heart.

V 27 is the reflectionreflection of God's Grace in our life.

We can notnot make one claim that we deservedeserve for GodGod to show any interest is us.

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Psalms 8 3-4 When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained; What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that Thou visitest him?

Compared to the infinite universeinfinite universe that God created, finite manfinite man seems insignificant;

Yet God loves us passionately.

How can we explainexplain such a marvelous thingmarvelous thing?

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I don't know why Jesus loves me.

I don't know why He cares.

I don't know why He sacrificed His Life,

But I'm glad, I'm so glad He did.

It doesn't need to be explainedexplained; it just needs to be receivedreceived and appreciatedappreciated.

10 But the God of all grace, Who hath called us unto His Eternal Glory by Christ Jesus, afterafter that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

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God has called uscalled us to partake of His Eternal Glory by Jesus Christ.

That is Amazing GraceThat is Amazing Grace..

But firstfirst we must partake in the suffering of His SonHis Son, Jesus Christ.

He will makemake us perfect --

That is a processprocess that lasts from our new birthnew birth until the deathdeath of this old flesh.

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God will restorerestore us to our former state before the fall of Adam -- and then someand then some.

John 17 17 Sanctify them through Thy Truth: Thy Word is Truth.

We are by natureby nature inconstant, unfaithful, and fickle.

God will establishestablish us upon the Rock, Jesus Christ.

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We are not strongnot strong in the graces of the fruit of God's Holy Spirit,

But God will strengthenstrengthen us.

To perseverepersevere and growgrow in the graces of our Heavenly

Father,

is our greatest callinggreatest calling.

12 By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of Godtrue grace of God wherein ye stand. 13 The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son. 14 Greet ye one another with a kiss kiss of charityof charity (agape). PeacePeace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

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14 Greet ye one another with a kiss of charitykiss of charity (agape)

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THAT MARKS US AS BELONGING THAT MARKS US AS BELONGING TO JESUS CHRIST TO JESUS CHRIST

John 13 34 A new Commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; asas I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35 By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another.

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PeacePeace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus.

John 14 27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

The Bowman's are coming Friday, February 19, 2010 at 7:00 PM.

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