Rule Keeping vs Grace and Relationship
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Religious vs. Grace &Rule Keeping Relationship
Brent LokkerMay 17, 2014
Blazing Fire Church
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Christ defines your faith; He is your freedom from anythingthe law could never free you from!
Find your firm footing in this freedom.Do not let religion trip you up again
and harness you to a system ofrules and obligations!
Galatians 5:1 (The Mirror)
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Religious vs. Grace &Rule Keeping Relationship
Kills
Compares & Tears down
Am I Doing Enough to please God?
Keeps God at a distance
Believes that Sin separates us from God
Gives Life
Celebrates & Builds up
Jesus has made me Enough! I am pleasing!
Christ IN You! Col 1:27 Holy Spirit IN you! 2 Cor 1:22
Nothing can separate us from God’s love!
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“God has enabled us to be ministers of a new covenant--not of the letter
but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.”
2 Corinthians 3:6 (NIV)
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Religious vs. Grace &Rule Keeping Relationship
Kills
Compares & Tears down
Am I Doing Enough to please God?
Keeps God at a distance
Believes that Sin separates us from God
Gives Life
Celebrates & Builds up
Jesus has made me Enough! I am pleasing!
Christ IN You! Col 1:27 Holy Spirit IN you! 2 Cor 1:22
Nothing can separate us from God’s love!
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Religious vs. Grace &Rule Keeping Relationship
Kills
Compares & Tears down
Am I Doing Enough to please God?
Keeps God at a distance
Believes that Sin separates us from God
Gives Life
Celebrates & Builds up
Jesus has made me Enough! I am pleasing!
Christ IN You! Col 1:27 Holy Spirit IN you! 2 Cor 1:22
Nothing can separate us from God’s love!
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Romans 8:35-39The Message Bible
Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ’s love for us? There is no way!”
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“Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture…None of this fazed us because Jesus loves us. I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us!”
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Religious vs. Grace &Rule Keeping Relationship
God is angry when you sin and looking for all the wrong things you do
Your Salvation is always in question
Judges & Condemns yourself and others
Is about Punishment
Finds Reasons to Divide
God is training you to use your freedom to love yourself & others
You Know that God’s Love won’t let you go!
Loves & Accepts while helping others to grow
Is about Restoration
Knows that we are one
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Christian brothers and sisters, you were chosen to be free.
Be careful that you do not please your old selves by sinning
because you are free. Live this free life by
loving and helping others.
Galatians 5:13 (NLV)
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Religious vs. Grace &Rule Keeping Relationship
God is angry when you sin and looking for all the wrong things you do
Your Salvation is always in question
Judges & Condemns yourself and others
Is about Punishment
Finds Reasons to Divide
God is training you to use your freedom to love yourself & others
You Know that God’s Love won’t let you go!
Loves & Accepts while helping others to grow
Is about Restoration
Knows that we are one
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Religious vs. Grace &Rule Keeping Relationship
Takes Life and yourself WAY to seriously
Out of fear, Uses guilt and shame to keep people in line
Discourages you--that you’re not further along in your journey
Exhausting & Makes you want to quit
Takes time to enjoy life and relationships and laughs more
Tells people who they are until they believe it and live it
Knows that God is working in all things in your life
Life-giving and makes you want to worship!
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Religious vs. Grace &Rule Keeping Relationship
Takes Life and yourself WAY to seriously
Out of fear, Uses guilt and shame to keep people in line
Discourages you--that you’re not further along in your journey
Exhausting & Makes you want to quit
Takes time to enjoy life and relationships and laughs more
Tells people who they are until they believe it and live it
Knows that God is working in all things in your life
Life-giving and makes you want to worship!
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Religious vs. Grace &Rule Keeping Relationship
Takes Life and yourself WAY to seriously
Out of fear, Uses guilt and shame to keep people in line
Discourages you--that you’re not further along in your journey
Exhausting & Makes you want to quit
Takes time to enjoy life and relationships and laughs more
Tells people who they are until they believe it and live it
Knows that God is working in all things in your life
Life-giving and makes you want to worship!
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Religious vs. Grace &Rule Keeping Relationship
Your Heavenly Father is not approachable--you better take care of it yourself
God has His eye on you--That’s a bad thing
Follow Rules and learn facts about who God is
Performance-based leaves you love starved
Papa has all the time in the world for you and loves to take care of you!
God has His eye on you--That’s a very good thing!
Follow Jesus and Know God personally and experientially
Acceptance-Based you are love drenched!
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“But when the kindness and love ofGod our Savior for humanity were revealed,it was not because of any upright actions we
had done ourselves; it was for no reason except His own faithful love that He saved
us, by means of the cleansing water of rebirth and renewal in the Holy Spirit
which He has so generously poured over us through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, justified by His grace, we should become
heirs of hope of eternal life.This is doctrine you can rely on!”
Titus 3:4-8
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If you’ve been trying to be a good
person or even a good christian,
it’s time to meet jesus and trade
your life for his!
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Say the welcoming word to God--”Jesus is my Master!”--
embracing, body and soul, God’s work of doing in us what he did in raising Jesus from the dead. That’s it.
You’re not “doing” anything, you’re simply calling out to God, trusting him to do it for you. That’s salvation. With your whole being you embrace God setting
things right, and then you say it, right out loud: “God has set everything right between him and me!”
Romans 10: 9-10 (The Message Bible)
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