By The Grace of God
Rev. Dr. Omar Williams Preached on 2/2/2025
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Summary
Rev. Dr. Omar Williams explores the dual nature of God's grace, emphasizing that while grace redeems us from the penalty of sin, it must also reform our daily practices to prepare us for the return of Jesus Christ.
Key points
- •The grace of God is not just a pardon for past sins (Redemption), but an active force that instructs us how to live (Reformation).
- •Grace operates like a coach for a child, patiently teaching us to 'unlearn' ungodliness and 'learn' sober, righteous, and godly living in the present age.
- •Salvation is described as a three-fold process: we were saved (justification), we are being saved (sanctification), and we will be saved (glorification).
- •Receiving the merits of grace without submitting to the instructions of grace leads to spiritual vulnerability and potential loss of eternal rewards.
Scripture
Grace
Holiness
Discipleship
Spiritual Growth
End Times
Life application
Identify one specific 'worldly lust' or 'ungodly' habit this week and consciously ask the Holy Spirit for the 'coaching' grace to deny that behavior while replacing it with a 'sober' or 'righteous' action.
Reflection questions
- In what areas of your life have you accepted God's pardon but resisted His transformation?
- How does viewing Grace as a 'patient coach' change your perspective on your own spiritual growth and failures?
- What does it mean to you personally to live 'soberly, righteously, and godly' in today's specific culture?
- Are you living with the active expectation (the 'Blessed Hope') of Christ's return, or has that hope become a background thought?
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0:00Hallelujah
0:00Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hal
0:03Hallelujah Hallelujah
0:07Hallelujah
0:09Hallelujah Jesus Keep Me Near The
0:13Cross there a precious
0:17Fountain free to
0:20all that healing
0:22stream it flows from calvary's Mountain
0:26hallelujah thank you Lord hallelujah
0:29thank you Lord thank you Lord
0:32hallelujah what the powerful Hymn of the
0:35Saints till my
0:38Rapture Hallelujah Soul shall find I'll
0:43find
0:44rest rest beyond the
0:47river thank you God for that glorious
0:50reminder this
0:51afternoon that we will find rest beyond
0:55the river the river that demarcates
0:59life and eternal life
1:03sometimes Lord on this Earth in this
1:07existence of
1:09ours there is a lot of us who have no
1:13rest
1:15Hallelujah but God if we can find rest
1:19in your Holy Spirit
1:22today we set ourselves on the
1:25road for that day when we will find rest
1:29Eternal rest beyond the river
1:33Minister the hearts and Minds right now
1:35God show us Lord how to surrender to you
1:39that you might fill us with your spirit
1:42how to live for you in this world that
1:45we too will find rest someday beyond
1:48that River in the name of the Lord Jesus
1:51we pray and everybody say
1:54amen hallelujah turn with me in your
1:56Bibles to Titus Chapter
1:592 Titus Chapter 2 a amen Titus Chapter
2:052 and it was read this morning in your
2:08hearing Titus Chapter 2 I'll just
2:11read just
2:13a a few select verses and then we will
2:17be
2:19seated
2:21Hallelujah Titus 2 let's read verses
2:2511-4 it says for the grace of God that
2:30brings
2:31salvation has appeared to all men or all
2:36people teaching us that denying
2:38ungodliness and worldly
2:41lusts we should live
2:44soberly
2:45righteously and godly in the present age
2:50looking for the Blessed hope and the
2:53Glorious appearing of our great God and
2:57Savior Jesus Christ who gave himself for
3:00us that he might redeem us from every
3:03Lawless deed and purify for himself his
3:08own special people zealous for good
3:11works the Lord bless you you may be
3:13seated in the presence of our good and
3:15our gracious God greetings to my darling
3:18wife to a Shepherd mother in the house
3:22Pastor Chris Lady Leah who are currently
3:25preaching at our sister Church in West
3:29Palm Beach to all our elders and their
3:32spouses all our our leaders and their
3:34family members all our Saints guests we
3:37greet you in the precious name of Jesus
3:39we are so delighted to have you in the
3:41house of God today amen a welcome also
3:46to the family of uh we've got one or two
3:49students from pentab Academy who will be
3:51baptized in water in the name of Jesus
3:55today amen and so we thank God uh for
4:00them being in the house with us today
4:02amen amen amen praise God praise God
4:07just want to amplify uh a couple of
4:09things that was mentioned earlier uh I
4:12want to once again on behalf of all the
4:15leaders thank you Saints thank you so
4:18much from the bottom of our hearts for
4:20responding to the Urgent appeal that we
4:24made a couple Sundays ago and last
4:27Sunday you really showed your love and
4:30your trust and your compassion
4:33and I am telling you that there is a lot
4:35of
4:36gratitude amen so we want to say thank
4:39you so much for uh for what you have
4:43done also want to amplify that this
4:46Wednesday night of course uh there is a
4:49lot of changes happening in terms of how
4:53our immigration laws are enforced not
4:56new laws just being enforced differently
4:59uh both in the state and at the federal
5:02level and so of course uh there is a lot
5:05of questions and concerns that I am
5:07hearing among the the people of God and
5:10so we want to have this informational
5:14session uh let me just
5:16clarify it's not an opportunity for a
5:18free
5:20consultation all right so it might it
5:22might not even be conducive for you to
5:24raise specific issues but we just want
5:27to have this informational session and
5:30let me appeal to us because there are
5:31some of us who might feel well I don't
5:32need to be here I'm safe I'm good right
5:35and that's the truth but could we all
5:37come out and and here's why let's all
5:41come out so that if there are people
5:43with needs there's not a vul a sense of
5:45vulnerability and exposure that they
5:47feel by being here amen Saints amen
5:51Saints please as many of us let's come
5:53on out because even if you are safe you
5:56might know somebody who might need help
5:59so let's all come on out on Wednesday
6:01night at 7:30 p.m. we've got two lawyers
6:05who are members of the St to attorneys
6:08who are Cutting Edge in their
6:10field and uh one of them is a specialist
6:15at uh immigration law and so uh they'll
6:18be here on Wednesday night to share with
6:21us information they'll have a booth
6:23outside also so if there's anybody who
6:26need uh needs a consultation they are
6:29going to offer that at a reduced cost
6:33if you are in attendance on Wednesday
6:35night if you have special cases that you
6:38would like to bring to their attention
6:40to get some guidance they'll offer that
6:43at a reduced cost so let's come on out
6:46amen amen and invite somebody to come
6:50with you as well brother Matthew erens
6:54from pentab West Palm Beach has written
6:56a book my destiny it's available on
6:59Amazon and he asked me just to to share
7:01it I'm sorry
7:03with the Saints here he's our brother
7:05amen so if you want to pick up a copy I
7:08have some copies in the office or you
7:10can purchase on Amazon amen all right
7:13let's turn our attention
7:14to Titus 2:
7:1811-14 we're continuing our if you could
7:21restart my time
7:26please if you could restart my time
7:28please we're continuing our series
7:31Rapture Ready and and today we want to
7:34uh look on the topic by the grace of God
7:39by the grace of God as I've been going
7:42through the series and I have to hear
7:46this these
7:47messages multiple times every time I
7:50take them up every time I take up the
7:52Bible and read through as I am preparing
7:56and even when I've completed writing the
7:58notes every time I take it up to edit to
8:01reread I have to he hear the messages
8:03over and over in my own heart before I
8:07can preach to the congregation and I'll
8:09be honest with you sometimes when I'm
8:11going through I'm like God this is tough
8:13who will make
8:16it and so no Rapture Ready series could
8:19be complete without talking about the
8:22grace of God because it is only by the
8:26grace of God that we are going to be
8:28saved only by the grace of God that
8:31we're going to be
8:33saved in September 2013 I I took a road
8:38trip from New York to Atlanta to visit
8:42my friends and family in
8:44Atlanta at the time I was not yet
8:46delivered from the speed demon I think a
8:49lot of us in here need to be delivered
8:51from
8:52that and so I was
8:54speeding on the way to long journey and
8:57I took pride in trying to get through it
9:00in as short a time as possible possible
9:04so I was speeding and when I got into
9:07the state of Virginia by this time it
9:10might have been about 4 a.m. 5 a.m.
9:15there
9:17abouts I got pulled over by a State
9:21Trooper now if you know anything about
9:23the state of Virginia even to this day
9:26historically Virginia ranks in the top
9:30five I think now they're at number two
9:33in the country for the number of
9:36speeding tickets issued in other words
9:39the state troopers in Virginia they do
9:41not play to give out speeding
9:45tickets and so that's why Lady J is so
9:48good to see you in the house amen good
9:50to see you uh that's why I felt so
9:54graced by God that morning that after
9:59being pulled over for
10:01speeding I was
10:04guilty and it's one of those situations
10:06where you can't say
10:08anything you have no reason because he
10:10pulled you over he had time to see you
10:14pull me over I was guilty but he gave me
10:17Grace everybody say grace he gave me
10:20Grace he withheld from me that's Mercy
10:24the ticket that I
10:25deserved and he gave me Grace and he
10:28gave me a warning he was very polite I
10:32must say he gave me a warning and he
10:35said to me drive safely I know you're
10:38trying to get to Atlanta quickly but
10:40drive safely because right all through
10:44the the stretch of Highways you're going
10:46to have a lot of Troopers this
10:49morning
10:50so I took the grace that he gave me I
10:54was happy to not get the ticket does
10:57anybody know what I'm talking
11:01about I kept on driving and I drived
11:04cautiously for several hours listening
11:07to his advice in the back of my head but
11:11you know they say that all habits die
11:14hard and so it wasn't long before I was
11:17speeding
11:19again I got to Anderson in South
11:24Carolina
11:27and I mean I I stepped on that pedal
11:34I didn't realize that the speed limit
11:36had dropped from 70 to
11:3865 and I was going
11:4193 I kid you not that is baked into my
11:46mind I'll never
11:47forget I swung around into the fastest
11:51lane of the traffic and as soon as I did
11:56that I did it right in front of a State
11:59Trooper who had just pulled over
12:01somebody else
12:03I was going so fast he waved that person
12:06off that he had just pulled over jumped
12:08in his car and came after
12:11me I got the highest ticket I have ever
12:16gotten in my life on that morning in
12:20September of
12:232013 and I I I I asked myself the
12:29question what went wrong
12:38because I I received Grace that
12:42morning I received Grace that morning
12:45but still ended the day paying the
12:50highest
12:52price that I had ever
12:55paid I tell you what happened that
12:58morning I was
13:00overjoyed to receive
13:03the merits of Grace in the state of
13:07Virginia I was happy that I was sped the
13:10penalty for my actions in the state of
13:14Virginia but I ignored the other side of
13:19Grace and that is a side of Grace that
13:22gives
13:24instructions as to how we should live so
13:28that we no longer make ourselves
13:32vulnerable or guilty or susceptible to
13:35the penalties that we had initially
13:38incurred I ignored that side and I ended
13:42up paying a very high price I'll never
13:45forget it I paid
13:48$370 for that speeding ticket that
13:52morning brothers and sisters that's my
13:55story and I'm sticking to
13:59it but can I tell you that beyond that
14:03there is a human
14:05tendency to rejoice in the pardoning
14:09aspect of Grace but to neglect or to
14:13reject the transformative side of Grace
14:18that is there to teach us how to avoid
14:23the behaviors that got us in trouble in
14:26the first place it's a human tendency
14:30most times when we hear people talking
14:32about the grace of God we are only
14:35referring to the side of the grace of
14:38God that graciously pardons our
14:42sins but without understanding that
14:45there is another side of Grace that
14:49there is a side of Grace that is there
14:53after we have been pardoned by God to
14:57teach us how to live in that pardon
15:00after we have been given a new lease on
15:03life by God to walk in this new lease of
15:07life so that we are no longer CAU up
15:10again in the same
15:11chains that once held us bound there is
15:16that side of Grace and this is what Paul
15:18commends to us in the book of Titus as
15:21as you read through the book of Titus
15:23you'll realize that in every chapter
15:26Paul talks about the grace of
15:28God and in the last chapter verse 7
15:33he said to us that having been justified
15:36by Grace hear this we should everybody
15:39say should we should become the ears
15:43according to the hope of eternal life in
15:46other words we should God's intention
15:49thank you is that giving us Grace should
15:53lead us to reaping the benefits of
15:57Joyful eternal life in Jesus Christ Our
16:01Lord but I can't get around the fact
16:05that he said we should everybody say
16:08should that word should is a conditional
16:12term it's different from shall because
16:16shall indicates that something is going
16:19to happen but he said we should inherit
16:24eternal life that is to say that it is
16:27possible to experience the grace of God
16:32but not live true to the entirety of the
16:36grace of God and still run the risk of
16:39losing out on eternal life oh brothers
16:42and sisters I want to suggest to every
16:45one of us in this house that we do not
16:50gamble with the grace of God that we
16:53receive from God but that we take God's
16:56grace in the full grace of God not only
17:00the pardon of God's grace but the
17:02transformation of God's grace so that we
17:05are on the side of rejoicing when we get
17:09into eternal
17:10life I like Titus 2:
17:1511-4 because it makes a point for us
17:19that everybody has a chance to
17:20experience
17:22Grace
17:24but really cooperating with the grace of
17:27God to the end of the journey is not
17:30automatic that there is a response that
17:33is needed for all of us I like Titus 2
17:3611-4 and there are three lessons I want
17:38to share for us as to how the grace of
17:41God ought to prepare us that we might
17:44make it into eternal life firstly Grace
17:48redeems us from our sins penalty
17:51everybody say grace
17:53redeems yeah tell a neighbor Grace
17:55redeems it says for the grace of God
17:59that brings salvation has appeared to
18:02all
18:03people Grace has appeared we've got to
18:06talk about the appearance of the grace
18:08of God God's grace God's love God's
18:13mercy God's pardon has not only come to
18:16a few of us but God's Grace has appeared
18:20to all people everybody say all people
18:23it doesn't matter what time frame in
18:26history you came from it doesn't matter
18:29what geographical location you you
18:32originate in the grace of God that
18:35brings salvation has appeared to
18:38everybody God's grace appeared in the
18:41person of Jesus Christ walking upon the
18:44Earth in him was Grace and Truth said
18:47the writer of St John chapter 1 in him
18:50was Grace and Truth and then God's grace
18:54is now available to us in the gospel
18:57everybody can hear the word of God for
19:01God so loved the world that he gave his
19:05only begotten son the grace of God the
19:09love of God the mercy of God is
19:13available to everybody in this house
19:15right
19:16now it's available to everybody you know
19:20everybody you care about and even those
19:23you may not care about the grace of God
19:26has appeared to
19:28everyone God's Grace has appeared to
19:32everybody and God's Grace has brought
19:35atonement there is the appearance of
19:37Grace there is the atonement of Grace
19:39because he says the grace of God brings
19:42salvation everybody say salvation now
19:45sometime we talk about salvation as
19:47though salvation is only an event the
19:49atonement of Grace we talk about it as
19:52though it's only an event so we say we
19:54got saved in the altar but as I've come
19:57to understand God's grace is not an
20:00event God said salvation is not an event
20:04but rather it is a process when the Lord
20:08saves me at the altar it is the
20:11beginning of a process when he forgives
20:14my sins in
20:16justification that only brings me into a
20:19process where he saves me to continue
20:22saving me so he saved me at the altar on
20:26January 1st
20:281991 but every day from that time on
20:31until today God is daily saving me and
20:36delivering Me From Myself breaking old
20:39habits and all patterns and all ways of
20:42thinking and behaving by the grace of
20:45God so I was saved I am being saved and
20:49that is why he says work out your own
20:53salvation with fear and trembling before
20:56God we have got to cooperate with God
21:00from the day he baptizes us in the Holy
21:02Ghost until the day he calls us home so
21:05I was saved I am being saved until the
21:09day when I will ultimately be saved from
21:12the presence of
21:13sin it may happen at my death it may
21:17happen at the Rapture but a day is
21:19coming when I will be pulled from the
21:22presence of sin when I will be pulled
21:25from the possibility of ever falling
21:28into sin again because while we are
21:31alive
21:32sin is still possible and that's why
21:36where sin abounds Grace does much more
21:40abound because there is the possibility
21:43to sin there is always the grace of God
21:47to teach the people of God how to
21:49overcome sin in our lives so there is
21:52the appearance of Grace there is the
21:55atonement of Grace by Grace you have
21:59been saved through faith and that not of
22:02yourselves it is the gift of God I'm
22:06saved by the grace of God and I'm daily
22:10being saved by the grace of God and I
22:13will ultimately be delivered from this
22:16world by the grace of God somebody shout
22:19hallelujah Hallelujah by the grace of
22:22God but then we have to deal with the
22:25availability of Grace Grace is not only
22:28available to a limited few the grace of
22:32God has appeared to who everybody shout
22:35that word
22:36all that three little word that includes
22:40everybody and excludes nobody everybody
22:44under the sound of my voice today and
22:46the reach of media the grace of God is
22:50available to you God's grace is
22:54available to
22:55everyone you know but people have a way
22:58of I don't know maybe some of us are
23:01just too
23:03studied we are just too
23:07intellectual uh how going I put it now
23:09intellectually complicated complex
23:12because we can take something as simple
23:14as
23:15this God's Grace has appeared to all
23:18people and we can make doctrines about
23:21it that are contrary to what the text
23:24actually says so there is this
23:27understanding of this that is called
23:29universalism everybody say universalism
23:31universalism everybody say
23:33universalism universalism argues that
23:37Christ died for all people and because
23:40Grace is available to all people then
23:43all people are automatically saved no
23:46matter what they do in their Lifestyles
23:48do you believe that that is
23:49true that is not what the word of God
23:52teaches because even though God so loved
23:55the world that he gave his only begotten
23:58son it is what whoever
24:01that believes in him who shall be saved
24:05and have everlasting life so we are not
24:09automatically saved simply because Grace
24:12is available to us number two there is
24:15the idea of limited atonement so this
24:18scripture is not about universalism
24:21number two it is certainly not about
24:23limited atonement limited atonement
24:25suggests that there is an elect people
24:28God elect a certain number of people
24:32and those alone are the ones Christ died
24:35for and they are the only ones to whom
24:38the spirit applies the grace of God and
24:41they are the only ones who will be saved
24:43and the rest of us who were not elected
24:46by God we are going to bust hell wide
24:49open do you believe that that is true
24:52that's not what this text is teaching
24:54the grace of God has appeared to
24:58everybody you ought to Pat yourself in
25:00the church and say I have a chance to be
25:01saved come on I have the opportunity to
25:04be saved by the grace of
25:08God and then there is the view of
25:11General Redemption that I agree with it
25:14suggests that the death of Christ was
25:17available to everyone and the Holy Ghost
25:20has made the grace of God available to
25:24everyone but because we are free moral
25:27agents we have the opportunity to choose
25:30to accept and to live by the grace of
25:33God or not so it's not that God's grace
25:37is not available to All God's grace is
25:39available to everyone but we need to
25:41understand this that God is not going to
25:45overpower our human will to make us
25:48accept the grace that he has given he
25:51has given the grace but you and I have
25:54got to choose he said behold I stand at
25:57the door and I knock and if anybody will
26:01open up I will come in and I will suck
26:03with you and I'll have fellowship with
26:05you and I'll save your
26:07soul Hallelujah so God's grace is
26:10available to all of us but we've got to
26:12choose to respond to the grace of God as
26:17was read this book uh uh uh will there
26:21be faith will there be faith on earth a
26:23book written by Thomas groom some years
26:26ago and I I found something that really
26:28intrigued me and I want to share with us
26:29it says this quote the Imp sinner
26:32paralyzed by sins can do nothing by or
26:38of self to save themselves but once
26:42God's mercy and Grace is revealed it
26:45enables belief the capacity to respond
26:49to God grace comes to us as a
26:53responsibility slash as a response
26:57ability unquote that is to say that we
27:00cannot do anything to save ourselves but
27:03when the grace of God comes to us it
27:07awakens a capacity within us to be able
27:11to respond to God when God's grace comes
27:14to you it awakens something within you
27:17that says I must now say something back
27:20to God I must now confess my sins when I
27:24find myself in the presence of The God
27:26Who says to me that I should come boldly
27:29before the throne of grace that I might
27:32find Grace and help in the time of need
27:35when I go before that God I'm not trying
27:37to act all cute I'm going before that
27:39God to tell him I need help Lord do I
27:43have any witness in the house I've got
27:45some chains that I can break off of my
27:47own life I've got some strongholds over
27:50me that I need the power of your grace
27:53to deliver me from I might talking to
27:55anybody here when I come before God I
27:58come before God awakened by the grace of
28:02God to cry out to God about the help
28:04that I need from God that I can provide
28:06for
28:07myself Hallelujah but there are people
28:11sadly who are in the presence of the
28:13grace of God but remain passive to the
28:17help that God desires to
28:19give there's a story that was told about
28:23a person who just refuse to shout
28:26Shepherd mother they they they they
28:27prided themselves on just never shouting
28:30never never losing their cool and so one
28:33time it said that they got caught up in
28:35a fire and they were stuck and they
28:36couldn't run out and uh the firemen came
28:39to help and the person was there some
28:41assistance
28:44please some assistance
28:46please but when the smoke began to
28:48overwhelm them my God I feel the help of
28:50the Lord here and the fire Drew near and
28:53they could feel the heat coming closer
28:55them and they realized that nobody was
28:57hearing some assistance please he lost
29:00all that dignity and says
29:02help and when he cried out for help they
29:05knew where he was and can I tell you
29:07come here for a second there's a lot of
29:09us in here we are in Desperate
29:11situations and when we come before God
29:13we are busy some said but God is saying
29:16can you just lose yourself in my
29:19presence and holler help and I will help
29:22you by my
29:26grace
29:28Hallelujah
29:30Grace redeems us from our sins penalty
29:33but let me go further this text also
29:36teaches us that Grace reforms us from
29:41our sinful practices this is important
29:45the same Grace that redeems us from our
29:51sins penalty like it did with me in
29:55Virginia needed to reform me from my bad
29:59practices so that I wouldn't get another
30:01ticket along the
30:02way so Grace must redeem us from our
30:07sins's penalties but it must also reform
30:10us from our sinful practice let's read
30:12that part verse 12 teaching us that
30:16denying ungodliness so this is the same
30:18Grace he's talking about now the same
30:21Grace that justifies us the same Grace
30:24that remove the penalty for our sins the
30:26same Grace that baptizes Us in the Holy
30:29Ghost and cleanses us when we're
30:31baptized in water calling upon the name
30:33of Jesus that same Grace is there all
30:36through our lives to teach us to deny
30:39ungodliness to deny worldly lust to
30:42teach us how to live soberly and
30:44righteously and godly in the present age
30:48Grace has an ongoing work in the lives
30:52of the Believers Grace didn't stop
30:54attending to me when I ask God to
30:57forgive me for my sins no but Grace is
31:00there to work on me every step of the
31:04way everybody say grace coaches come on
31:08Grace is the best coach that there is
31:10Grace the grace of God is there to coach
31:14us with that word teaching pad literally
31:17means that Grace comes beside you as a
31:19coach it's a and it's not just a coach
31:21for a random age group it is somebody
31:24who coaches
31:26children now if you got to work with
31:28kids you know the patience you need that
31:31is to say that the grace of God will
31:34patiently stand beside you and walk with
31:38you all through your life I'm telling us
31:40again brothers and sisters that if
31:42anybody fails to make it into the
31:45Rapture it is not God's fault because
31:49the grace of God comes beside you and
31:52say let me coach you because I know you
31:54don't know how to do what is right I
31:56know you don't know how to pray and fast
31:59and read the word and to practice the
32:01spiritual discipline but let me come
32:03beside you to walk with you along the
32:05Journey of life that's the grace of God
32:11hallelujah the grace of God walks beside
32:14me and trains me with the patience of a
32:17coach to a little child who will make
32:21mistakes over and over and over again
32:23but Grace says I will not leave you in
32:26this life Hallelujah I will stand with
32:29you through your imp Perfections through
32:32your down times through the times you
32:34fall I will stand with you to teach you
32:37how to get your life together does
32:40anybody want to thank God for the grace
32:42of God does anybody want to thank God
32:45that Grace never leave you like some
32:47people do but the grace of God stays
32:50with us the grace of God it coaches us
32:55Grace corrects us everybody say corrects
32:57us I noticed that before Grace teaches
33:01us how to live
33:03soberly and righteously and godly Grace
33:08does something before that Grace
33:11corrects what was wrong before it tries
33:15to enforce what is
33:17right because in God there are things
33:20that we must
33:22unlearn and then there are things we
33:24must learn so Grace says I know where
33:28you're coming from you are coming from a
33:31life in which you practice to live a way
33:35that wasn't pleasing to God yes you you
33:39you might not have come from a place
33:40where you knew how to pray you practice
33:43fasting you practice the reading of the
33:45word of the Lord and surely there may
33:47have been other things that you engage
33:49in Grace says let me help you unlearn
33:52that let me help you unpack that so that
33:56then I can teach you how to do the right
33:58thing am I talking to anybody in here do
34:01have any teachers in the house that that
34:02your students come to you and they come
34:04with all kinds of erroneous Concepts and
34:07you have to help them to unlearn the
34:10error before you can teach the right
34:13thing so Grace says let me correct some
34:16things let me teach you how to deny some
34:20things in your life let me teach you how
34:22to renounce some bad behaviors you
34:25already had let me teach you how to
34:27confess and to walk away from some
34:31things that you used to do from the old
34:33habits that die hard let me help you
34:35work through those things I feel the
34:37Holy Ghost in here already I I am so
34:40glad that While others might be
34:44impatient with us and expect us to
34:46unlearn some things overnight that the
34:49grace of God says that you may not get
34:52it perfect on the first try but I'm here
34:54to work with you until this thing is
34:57purged out of you am I talking to
34:59anybody here Grace says come on let me
35:02talk to us Grace says Grace says that
35:05your testimony might not be the day the
35:08Lord saved me he knocked the hunger for
35:11cigarettes out of my mouth that may not
35:13be your testimony thank God for those
35:16who can testify that but what about the
35:19ones who it has taken them years the
35:23ones who after one year of getting saved
35:26they can say to you I'm down to one
35:27cigarette a year am I talking to anybody
35:29here and we may turn turn our eyes up on
35:31them but you don't know where they're
35:33coming from my God I feel the help of
35:36the Lord in here and Grace is saying
35:38I've got to help you to unlearn these
35:41things that I can teach you how to do
35:44right with
35:48God I it's it's tight but I know it's
35:52right Peter was
35:55walking with
35:58Jesus and even
36:01when Jesus was about to be crucified
36:04three and a half years
36:06later Peter was still walking with his
36:08dagger under his
36:10cloak when that man came to arrest Jesus
36:14and he cut the ear off where do you
36:15think he got the sword from you think he
36:17went somewhere to search for it no Peter
36:19was still walking and I know that there
36:22are some packing Peters in the pews
36:23right now and God thank God for his
36:26grace that is working on you to unlearn
36:30the bad me thank God that Grace doesn't
36:33write me off but Grace continues to help
36:36me to deny the worldly lust the
36:41ungodliness the ungodliness anything
36:43that is unlike God grace is helping me
36:47to remove those things out of my life so
36:50that I can learn how to truly live for
36:54God in the words of a great man of God
36:57hallelujah on Whose shoulders We Stand
36:59today
37:01quote I will keep out of my life all
37:06that will keep Christ out of my mind
37:08unquote Bishop s Robert Stewart he was
37:11talking about how the grace of God works
37:14with us to remove those things out of
37:17our life so that then we can begin to
37:19learn how to live like God I feel the
37:22Holy Ghost anybody want to thank God for
37:24Grace one more time the grace of God
37:26that teaches me how to deny ungodliness
37:29and my worldly desire desires and
37:31affections so that they do not inhibit
37:34the power of the spirit and the work
37:36that Christ is trying to do in my life
37:40hallelujah hallelujah Grace corrects
37:43Grace coaches it corrects but Grace also
37:46converts everybody say grace converts so
37:48after unlearning helping us unlearn all
37:51of those things now Grace comes now to
37:53show us how to live sober living
37:55everybody says sober living that is how
37:57how to live a temperate life Within
38:00Myself I must Grace teaches me how to
38:02live with myself a lot of us our
38:04greatest trouble begins uh with not
38:08learning how to live with
38:11ourselves so Grace has got to come to
38:14teach me how to be temperate Within
38:17Myself when nobody is seeing me how to
38:20be restrained and self-controlled that's
38:22what this word soberness means it means
38:24to live a life that is controlled by God
38:28and by the spirit of God so Grace having
38:31un helping me to unlearn the ungodliness
38:34and the worldly lust Grace now teaches
38:37me how to have self-control Within
38:39Myself am I talking to anybody here so
38:41that when the preacher is not around and
38:43my Sunday school teacher is not there
38:45I'll still do the right thing why
38:47because the grace of God is helping me
38:50to get my act together Within
38:54Myself Grace helps me not only to be
38:58sober but it also teaches me
39:00righteousness everybody say
39:02righteousness this word now extends from
39:05just myself to now my interpersonal
39:08relationships so Grace works with me
39:10within myself to get myself right and
39:13then Grace now regulates the way I
39:15relate to other people and as we said
39:18last week God is going to judge us on
39:21how we relate with other people around
39:24us we can't treat other people like
39:26trash and tell oursel we're going to
39:28God's heaven the devil is a liar great
39:31has got to teach us how to relate to
39:33each other Grace has got to teach us how
39:36to treat each other right I wonder I
39:38wonder if there's anybody here who can
39:40Testify the reason I have not broken a
39:42fight in church is because the grace of
39:45God was there to calm me when I lost my
39:49am I talking to anybody in this place I
39:52didn't fight in the parking lot I didn't
39:54fight in my job because the grace of God
39:57has taught me how to love my neighbor
40:01thank God for the grace of
40:04God somebody ought to holl by the grace
40:06of God hallelujah teaches me how to live
40:10right Within Myself how to live right
40:12with my neighbor but it also teaches so
40:14there's soberness there's righteousness
40:16but then there's godliness so I must
40:18live right Within Myself I must live
40:20right with my neighbor and then I must
40:23live right in the presence of God am I
40:25talking to anybody here do you see the
40:27levels firstly I must get it right
40:29Within Myself because if I don't have it
40:31right Within Myself it is going to be
40:33hard for me to have it right with
40:35anybody and if I don't have it right
40:37Within Myself and I just have a show I
40:40can't really have a right relationship
40:43with God so the grace of God teaches me
40:46how to get right how to have right
40:48relationship with my neighbors and how
40:50to have right relationship with God is
40:53there anybody in the house that want to
40:55lift your hand in the house right now
40:57and say the reason I can live Godly and
40:59soberly and righteously is because the
41:03grace of God is helping me to get my
41:06life
41:08together
41:09Hallelujah by the grace of God grace
41:14redeems Grace
41:16reforms lastly Grace rewards us with our
41:20savior's presence Grace redeems us from
41:25our sin's penalty Grace reforms us from
41:29our sinful practice is but lastly Grace
41:33rewards us with our savior's presence
41:36that's how Paul presents the Titus he
41:37says Grace is teaching us how to look
41:41for the Blessed hope I feel the Holy
41:43Ghost here and the Glorious appearing of
41:46our great God and Savior Jesus Christ
41:49let me pause right there in other words
41:52all of us who have experienced the grace
41:54of God we are in a mindset that we're
41:58looking for the Glorious Return of the
42:01Lord Jesus Christ I am not just looking
42:03for another opportunity to push the
42:06boundaries of Grace I am looking for the
42:09return of the Lord to deliver me finally
42:13and fully from the possibility of ever
42:15falling into sin again by the grace of
42:18God I will be ready does anybody want to
42:21lift your hand in the house right now
42:22and say by the grace of God I will be
42:24ready when the Lord returns by the grace
42:27of God I will be sober by the grace of
42:30God God I'll be righteous by the grace
42:32of God I'll be Godly by the grace of God
42:36I'll be ready for the return of my
42:39savior
42:40hallelujah hallelujah it is only
42:43possible by the grace of God he makes
42:46the case for us in verse
42:4914 that we must be a people who by the
42:53grace of God are living for Jesus
42:56somebody say living for Jesus why
42:59because he gave gave himself for us that
43:02he might redeem us from every Lawless
43:05deed and purify us for himself as
43:09special people who are desirous of doing
43:13good works if you have experienced the
43:16grace of God God has bought you back
43:20from the penalty of sin that you deserve
43:22that we deserve we should have fallen
43:25our souls cast away but anybody want to
43:29rejoice in here that Mercy Mercy Mercy
43:32Mercy rewrote my
43:36life is that anybody song in here Mercy
43:39rewrote my life for I should have fallen
43:43my soul should have been cast down but
43:45thank God that the mercy and the grace
43:48of God came my way thank God that he
43:52delivered me from myself thank God he
43:55didn't always give me what I deserve
43:57thank God that he drew me up from the my
44:00pit he brought me back from the my pit
44:03he brought me back from a life that was
44:06consumed by alcohol by drug addiction a
44:09life where I was chasing the skirt tail
44:12everywhere they went I was going from
44:13bed post to bed post am I talking to
44:15anybody in here I was telling one lies
44:17after another I was drinking one cup of
44:20alcohol after another I was smoking one
44:23weed one reer after I'm not talking to
44:25anybody here I was shooting up the dope
44:28but thank God that the Great
44:30and the mercy of God has broken my
44:34chains and has sent me is there anybody
44:37want to thank God right now thank God
44:39for the grace thank God for the
44:41Redemption thank God for broken chains
44:44thank God he paid the price and you and
44:46I who are wretched he now says you are
44:50my special people I feel the Holy Ghost
44:52in here somebody got to Pat yourself on
44:54the church and say I'm God's special
44:56people come on if you have experienced
44:59the grace of God that has pardoned your
45:02sins in the baptism of the Holy Ghost
45:04and in the baptism of water in the name
45:06of Jesus you are to Pat yourself on the
45:08chest and say I am God's special
45:12people come on don't be afraid to say it
45:14in here say I am God's special people I
45:18Am The Peculiar person I am the speckle
45:21bird in the sight of God his eyes are
45:24under Sparrow but he watches even more
45:27so over my soul he gives me more grace
45:31he gives me more pardon because I am
45:34God's special
45:37people I feel the Holy Ghost in This
45:39Place we are a special people you ought
45:42to holl at one more time in this house
45:44said we are a special people and God has
45:48called us for good works we are not
45:50saved by good works but once the grace
45:52of God has appear to us we must now do
45:56good works we must learn how to love
45:59where we used a hate I'm might talking
46:01to anybody here we must learn now how to
46:04have joy where we would go around mad at
46:06the whole world I feel the Holy Ghost in
46:09here we must learn not only to be peace
46:11lovers but to be peac makers in the
46:14sight of God am I talking to anybody in
46:17this house I'm desirous of doing good
46:19works for the Lord I'm desirous of doing
46:23good things for the Lord and for the
46:25people of God somebody shout glory in
46:28this place
46:30I feel the Holy Ghost in This Place huh
46:33I got to live for Jesus but he says I've
46:35got to look for Jesus everybody said
46:37look for Jesus so while I'm living for
46:39Jesus I'm looking for the Lord to come
46:43while I'm doing good I'm looking for the
46:45Lord to come while I'm serving God I'm
46:48looking for the Lord to come while I'm
46:51treating my neighbor with dignity and
46:52respect I'm looking for the Lord to come
46:55while I'm cultivating a prayer life I'm
46:58looking for the Lord to come while while
47:00I'm cultivating a fasting Life by the
47:02grace of God I'm looking for the Lord to
47:05come while I'm cultivating a life in the
47:07word of God by the grace of God I'm
47:10looking for the Lord to come am I
47:12talking to anybody here say my eyes are
47:15watching and looking and longing for my
47:19blessed hope because I've got a blessed
47:21hope is there anybody in this house that
47:24has a blessed
47:27hope yes yes yes because my Jesus did
47:31say to me let not your hearts be
47:34troubled you believe in God believe also
47:38in me I go to prepare a place for you
47:43and if I go and prepare a place for you
47:46I will come again and receive you unto
47:50myself that where I am there you may be
47:54also that's my blessed hope I'm looking
47:57for the day to come when he will come
48:00back to receive me unto him my to
48:02himself for this world is not my
48:07home I'm just passing through but my
48:11treasures they are laid up somewhere
48:16beyond the do I have any witness in the
48:18house is there anybody in here who can
48:21testify that on this Earth I'm satisfied
48:25with just a cottage below just a little
48:28silver and and a little gold but in that
48:32city where the ransom will shine I want
48:36a gold one that is Silver Line cuz I've
48:41Got a
48:43Mansion Just Over The Hilltop in that
48:47bright land where we will never grow old
48:50and someday Yonder we will never more
48:53Wonder but we'll walk the streets that
48:57are pest gold can I encourage somebody's
49:00heart in here let me encourage your
49:02heart in here lady youa Lawrence and
49:04your family members let me encourage
49:07your heart in here lady Monica Clark and
49:10your family let me encourage your heart
49:12in here I feel the Holy Ghost in This
49:14Place brother McCormack Elder McCormick
49:17let me encourage your heart in here
49:19mother Higgin let me encourage your
49:22heart in Here Lady Grace let me
49:24encourage your heart in here my blessed
49:27hope is that when I see Jesus
49:30all my tears will be wiped away when I
49:34see Jesus all my troubles will be
49:38gone when I see Jesus I'll be reunited
49:43with all my loved ones who have gone on
49:46before when I see
49:49Jesus I will have joy Everlasting sh
49:55Glory sh
49:57Glory sh Glory
50:02somebody holler by the grace of God said
50:05by the grace of God I will see Jesus by
50:10the grace of God I'll see him for myself
50:14for though worms destroy this body said
50:17job I know that my redeemer lives and in
50:21the latter day he will stand upon the
50:23Earth and my eyes shall see him for
50:28myself I'm looking for the blessed hope
50:30I'm looking for the Glorious appearing
50:33I'm looking for the day when he comes in
50:37glory the first time he came he came as
50:40a baby but the next time he's coming as
50:44a conquering King the first time he came
50:48to save my soul but he's coming back to
50:50resurrect my body he came to be
50:53crucified but he's coming back to be
50:56crowned he came for a tree but he's
51:00coming back for a throne am I talking to
51:02anybody here he came in humility but
51:06he's coming again in honor he came he
51:09came to save but now he's coming back to
51:12judge and I'm so glad that when he comes
51:17I'll be with him is there anybody in
51:20this house who can say
51:23Bye by the grace of God I'll be with him
51:28I feel the Holy Ghost here
51:30Amazing Grace how sweet a sound that
51:35saved a wret like me I once was lost but
51:40now I'm found I was blind but now I see
51:46and for all those who are going through
51:47hell and the thorns in your flesh
51:50through many dangers through many
51:53dangers through many trials through many
51:56snares to many strongholds you have have
52:00already come and the grace of God that
52:03brought you Sav this far is able to
52:07bring you all the way somebody say I'm
52:09going all the way say I'm going all the
52:12way I will not stop until he comes I
52:17will not quit until I see my Jesus I
52:20will not backslide by the grace of God I
52:24will not give up by the grace of God I
52:27will be in the Rapture by the grace of
52:34God by the grace of God by the grace of
52:37God hallelujah I have been walking
52:41H hand in hand with Jesus that's why I'm
52:47saved glory glory
52:50glory glory Lord hallelujah hallelujah
52:56hallelujah by the grace of God
53:00[Applause]
53:01God I am saved Hallelujah let's stand in
53:05the house to everybody
53:07Hallelujah let me revisit my story as I
53:10open the
53:12altar I received
53:14Grace that morning of September
53:1813 I was
53:20joyful that my
53:22penalties were redeemed I didn't get the
53:26ticket but I still ended the day paying
53:30the highest traffic ticket I've ever
53:34gotten why because I
53:37celebrated the Redemption of Grace but I
53:41did not accept the Reformation of Grace
53:45and therefore I could not be
53:47rewarded to get to my journey without
53:51getting a
53:52penalty that's my story I got over
53:56that I I have now become Driving Miss
53:58Daisy but here's the
54:00deal here's a
54:02deal on a higher Holier More
54:06consequential Level I believe a lot of
54:08us are flirting with the grace of
54:12God
54:13ha and God's grace is saying not only do
54:17I want to redeem you I want to reform
54:20you I want to save you and keep you
54:23saved that ultimately you will be
54:26ready for when I Comm back to this
54:31earth the question we must answer
54:33individually
54:35is who will pay the Eternal price for
54:38your
54:39sin will you let Grace paid through
54:41Jesus Christ and you allowing him to
54:45reform you or will you pay it yourself
54:48it's a high price I promise you you
54:51don't want to pay that price it's a
54:53steep
54:55price will you allow Grace to cover your
54:58old sins and transform you to live a
55:02Godly and a righteous
55:05life if your answer is yes I want to
55:08invite you to this altar today we want
55:09to pray with you we want to talk to you
55:12about how God's grace can save you and
55:16keep you saved until the day that Jesus
55:20returns I want to te I want to I want to
55:23call this to the alt today where we can
55:24we can experience the grace of
55:27God that can keep us
55:30help us unlearn bad behaviors teach us
55:33right
55:34behaviors and have us ready when the
55:36Rapture comes come on I want to invite
55:38somebody today if you have not yet
55:41surrendered to the grace of God by faith
55:43come on come on this altar is open to
55:46you today Hallelujah come on come on
55:48come on if we could lower the lights
55:50please just lower the lights come on
55:53somebody come on don't wait any longer
55:55don't tar any longer God's grace is here
55:58to renew you you yes thank you my
56:01brother thank you for coming thank you
56:03for coming yes yes clap him as he comes
56:06come on clap for him as he comes yes
56:08thank you for the boldness to come to
56:10step forward come on come on yes yes yes
56:14more are coming more are coming H sh by
56:18the grace of God can we have some saints
56:20who want to help us to speak with thank
56:23you thank you for coming thank you for
56:25coming thank you for coming thank you
56:27for coming yes thank you for coming yes
56:30Hallelujah yes yes yes I feel like there
56:34are more people who could come today and
56:36say God I want your grace to save me to
56:39help me unlearn some of these bad habits
56:41I
56:42have these sinful habits I have these
56:45worldly and carnal desires I have and
56:49teach me how to live soberly righteously
56:51and godly that I may be saved when you
56:54come
56:56yes yes lift it rewrote my life
57:01re
57:03my hey God thank you Hallelujah yes I
57:08could have fallen I should I should I
57:12should I should Hallelujah yes Lord yes
57:16Lord yes Lord yes Lord yes Lord yes
57:20Lord thank you all the workers thank you
57:22Saints Hallelujah but Mercy Mercy reot
57:28re
57:30my My
57:33Life Lift Your Hearts to God one more
57:36time
57:37Mercy
57:39Mery rro my
57:42life thank you
57:46Jesus thank you Jesus that's God's mercy
57:49rear out my life
57:52oh
57:53mer yes
57:57yes my
58:02[Music]
58:02[Applause]
58:04I should have fallen
58:08I have
58:10fallen my soul yes Lord yes
58:17Lord oh Mercy
58:20[Music]
58:24Mercy my life
58:29else needs God's mercy to reite their
58:32lives Mercy
58:37Mery Ro my
58:46life Mercy
58:48[Music]
58:50Mercy roll
58:53[Applause]
58:56my yes it is
58:59for I
59:02should have
59:04fall my
59:06[Music]
59:10soul W Mercy
59:13mer Mercy
59:16[Music]
59:17re my life he can rewrite your life
59:22today somebody sing
59:25Mercy Mercy yes it did
59:30re
59:35my yes did
59:38Mercy
59:41Mercy
59:43re
59:48my I should have
59:51fallen I
59:53should have
59:56fallen my soul
59:59[Music]
60:00[Applause]
60:04but
60:06Mercy
60:09re my
60:15life for
60:19years I
60:22travel on the
60:25road
60:27all my God
60:29my
60:31heart oh had lost sing it's Joy it's joy
60:38and it song and it song then Grace then
60:44Grace came and place
60:48me right
60:51where I be sing that song when mercy oh
60:55and
60:56mercy yes the Lord yes the Lord
61:00re Lord
61:03my yes Lord yes Lord
61:08Mercy
61:10[Music]
61:11Mercy
61:13re
61:16my thank you
61:18Jesus
61:20Mercy Mercy
61:23Mercy re
61:26re my life
61:31I should have
61:33fallen I should have fall
61:39fall
61:45Soul
61:47Mercy thank you Lord Do It
61:51Jesus
61:53my verse two my
61:57mistakes my
62:00[Music]
62:10St every
62:14te
62:16turn into
62:21Joy my sins my
62:26SS forien
62:29new name a new name oh was written with
62:35Mercy
62:37ohy
62:41Hallelujah
62:44my oh yes
62:48Mercy
62:49Mercy yes Lord yes
62:53Lord
62:55my thank you Jesus yes it did yes it did
62:59yes it did Mery yes Lord rro
63:05reot