And so I said ok
So God Your grace is amazing
So what does that mean
And God said Most of my people in the world today don’t understand Grace
He said and they definitely don’t understand amazing Grace
I said Ok people in the world
He said no no no people in my church
Like my children like people
They don’t understand grace and they don’t understand Amazing Grace
And he said Michael Just think about how many believers came in to houses of worship today
But they have a sense of shame, condemnation, and a fear of failure.
How many people sitting in this room and watching right now are performance oriented and perfection driven...
OH it’s gon’ be quiet in hear today!
How many of us believers live depressed and discouraged cuz they feel that they can never measure up
Like this is what’s happening in the church
People who's put their faith in Jesus
This is what’s happening everyday and that’s because we don’t understand the grace of God
Cuz somehow you feel like it’s still your works that is making you accepted by God
You think that’s why God loves you
You are in a place right now believing the lie that the enemy wants you to believe that somehow after you receive God’s grace now you have to work to keep it
So I’m out here I’m doing everything I can cuz I don’t wanna make daddy scared I don’t wanna make God mad and that’s why you have so many people that are in church for years and they been serving God out of fear not out of love.
They’re scared that the dad who adopted them is gonna one day put them out of the house.
So I won’t be the child who does anything wrong because If I do one thing wrong I will be ashamed, I will be kicked out, I will be thrown away and somehow I’ll never get to experience the fathers love.
And that’s why you have generations of people who’ve gone to church religiously but they’re empty and their the children aren’t going to church because they see that it’s fake and now we have a whole group of people that are un-churched and de-churched because they don’t wanna have to be feared into something they want to love something.
And that lets me know as a church we don’t understand Grace.
I heard a prominent pastor explain it like this and he said I polled a 100 pastors and I asked them what is Grace and they said something like the unmerited favor of God and he said yeah but 10 percent said it’s the divine enablement to live a new life. And he said I think the church has missed it, Grace is the divine enablement to live a new life
And I was like God that sound Kinda right but I don’t …
He said Michael he missed a key ingredient
He said he asked what Grace is not what Grace does.