Knowing God: Chapter 13 Part 2

Knowing God:

Chapter 13: The Grace of God II

grace in your life

• Justification (God's gift of regenerating grace)

  • Defined:

    • to be justified

    • made righteous

    • God's justice fulfilled

    • OT sense of loyalty to the King - Melchizedek (king of righteousness)

• Packer
  "Justification is a judicial act of God pardoning sinners, accepting them as just, and so putting permanently right their previously estranged relationship with himself. This justifying sentence is God's gift of righteousness, his bestowal of a status of acceptance for Jesus’ sake."

• Ezekiel 37: 1-10, 14

• Sanctification (God's gift of holy perseverance/preservation)

  • Defined:

    • to be made holy

    • consecrated

    • to be put into God's service

    • to become Christlike

• Packer
  "Sanctification...is an ongoing cooperative process in which regenerate persons, alive to God and freed from sin's dominion, are required to exert themselves in sustained obedience. God's method of sanctification is neither activism (self-reliant activity) nor apathy (God-reliant passitivity), but God-dependant effort."

• Hebrews 10:19 – 23

• Testimony of God's loving-kindness in your life

• Prayer Time (180/214)

• Rock of Ages (verses 1-3)