What’s so What’s so Amazing Amazing

about Grace?about Grace?

By : Servant of the Cross The Living Spring

What’s so Amazing about Grace?What’s so Amazing about Grace?

Extending special favor to someone who :

doesn’t deserve it, doesn’t deserve it, who hasn’t earn it, who hasn’t earn it,

and can never repay it.and can never repay it.

• hain,hain, hananhanan – to show favor, grace to someone – to show favor, grace to someone

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What’s so Amazing about Grace?What’s so Amazing about Grace?

Then David said, "Is there yet anyone left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness [grace] for Jonathan's sake?" 2 Samuel 9:1

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What’s so Amazing about Grace?What’s so Amazing about Grace?

"If it please my father to do you harm, may the Lord do so to Jonathan and more also, if I do not make it known to you and send you away, that you may go in safety. And may the Lord be with you as He has been with my father.

"And if I am still alive, will you not show me the lovingkindness [there's that word again--the grace] of the Lord, that I may not die?” 1 Samuel 20:13-14

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What’s so Amazing about Grace?What’s so Amazing about Grace?

So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, "May the Lord require it at the hands of David's enemies." And Jonathan made David vow again because of his love for him, because he loved him as he loved his own life. 1 Samuel 20:16-17

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What’s so Amazing about Grace?What’s so Amazing about Grace?

"And now, behold, I know that you shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand. So now swear to me by the Lord that you will not cut off my descendants after me, and that you will not destroy my name from my father's household." And David swore to Saul... 1 Samuel 24:20-22

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What’s so Amazing about Grace?What’s so Amazing about Grace?

Now there was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David; and the king said to him, "Are you Ziba?" And he said, "I am your servant.“

And the king said, "Is there not yet anyone of the house of Saul to whom I may show the Grace of God?" And Ziba said to the king, "There is still a son of Jonathan who is crippled in both feet.“ 2 Samuel 9:2-3

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What’s so Amazing about Grace?What’s so Amazing about Grace?

So the king said to him, “Where is he?”

And Ziba said to the king, "Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel in Lo-debar."2 Samuel 9:4

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What’s so Amazing about Grace?What’s so Amazing about Grace?

Now Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the report of [the death of] Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse took him up and fled. And it happened that in her hurry to flee, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth. 2 Samuel 4:4

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What’s so Amazing about Grace?What’s so Amazing about Grace?

Then King David sent and brought him from the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo-debar.

And Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, came to David and fell on his face and prostrated himself. And David said, Mephibosheth." And he said, "Here is your servant!“ 2 Samuel 9:5-6

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What’s so Amazing about Grace?What’s so Amazing about Grace?

And David said to him, "Do not fear, for I will surely show kindness [grace] to you for the sake of your father Jonathan, and will restore to you all the land of your grandfather Saul; and you shall eat at my table regularly." 2 Samuel 9:7

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What’s so Amazing about Grace?What’s so Amazing about Grace?

Again he prostrated himself and said, "What is your servant, that you should regard a dead dog like me?"

Then the king called Saul's servant Ziba, and said to him, "All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master's grandson. And you and your sons and your servants shall cultivate the land for him, and you shall bring in the produce so that your master's grandson may have food; nevertheless Mephibosheth your master's grandson shall eat at my table regularly." Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

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What’s so Amazing about Grace?What’s so Amazing about Grace?

Then Ziba said to the king, "According to all that my lord the king commands his servant so your servant will do." So Mephibosheth ate at David's table as one of the king's sons. And Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Mica. And all who lived in the house of Ziba were servants to Mephibosheth. So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for he ate at the king's table regularly.The Word of God added this---remember ..Now he was lame in both feet. 2 Samuel 9:8-13

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Grace – Understanding the extend of it.Grace – Understanding the extend of it.

1.1. David, the King, out of sheer love for Jonathan, David, the King, out of sheer love for Jonathan, demonstrated Grace to his handicapped son.demonstrated Grace to his handicapped son.

2.2. Mephiboshelh has nothing, deserve nothing, could Mephiboshelh has nothing, deserve nothing, could repay nothing. He was hiding from the king.repay nothing. He was hiding from the king.

3.3. David restored Mephiboshelh from a place of barrenness David restored Mephiboshelh from a place of barrenness to a place of honor.to a place of honor.

4.4. David adopted Mephiboshelh into his family, and he David adopted Mephiboshelh into his family, and he become one of the King’s son.become one of the King’s son.

5.5. MephiboshelhMephiboshelh’s disability was a constant reminder of ’s disability was a constant reminder of grace.grace.

6.6. When Mephiboshelh sat down at the table of the king, he When Mephiboshelh sat down at the table of the king, he was treated just like any other son of the king.was treated just like any other son of the king.

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Grace-It is Grace-It is really really

amazing!amazing!

By : Servant of the Cross The Living Spring