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What is the Grace? It is the favor that we don't deserve,
something that we didn't deserve, but he gave and did it for us.
You need to understand what the Word of God says:
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God"
Everyone sinned. Do you know what that means?
You are a sinner.
You were conceived in a womb of sin.
You have the contamination, the infection of sin.
The sin depraved you, degraded you.
Do you know why you are evil, angry, perverse?
Why do you lean to the wicked things? Becouse of the sin.
You try to do good, and you fail. Because of the sin.
The evil you do not want to do, but you always do it. Because of the sin.
The sin condemned you. You were condemned, doomed.
Understand this. Stop believing in this cultural christianity,
in this traditional christianity of you country,
and believe in what the Bible says.
Then came the Law. what for did the Law come?
When the law of God arose, when the ten commandments arose,
when the Bible and the commandments arose, it aroused in us the sin.
wich means, the law was created for manifestation of our sin in ourselves.
Because we, for our sin, could not obey the law.
The law says: Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal,
Thou shalt not commit adultery, love your neighbour,
whatever, a lot of ordinances.
Because the sin that is inside of us we can't obey the law.
There is no one that never lied, that never offended a person,
there is no one that never sinned in tought,
no one that never had any evilness in heart, everyone had.
And when your sin is confronted by the law,
it manifests, because you can't obey the law,
because it came to reveals your sin.
Everytime that we look at the law we break it.
Everytime that we look at the commandments we break them.
We can't fulfill them.
And what brings the breaking of the law? Condemnation!
Because of the breaking of the law we were condemnated.
The Bible says that there is a separation between we and God, called sin.
Everyone have sinned, and came short of the glory of God.
Destituted, departed, don't have communion with God. Because of the sin.
And what does God do? You have to understand this, creature,
here you have to understand that you can't miss the service,
that you must often read the Bible,
that you must valorize this tremendous God.
Now you have to understand this love and I will show you
that God is not anything, is not a stuff that you use on the weekends.
that God isn't a thing that you come to see on the weekends,
only for worship Him in a religious way. God is everything in everyone.
The love of God is the only thing that saves us from being killed, exterminated.
Let me tell you: I'm preaching here, and God is using me in a powerful way,
and if God sends me to hell right now, after being used in this way
He would be totaly fair.
If He sends me to hell right now,
like this, after preaching on this supper.
He would not be unfair because I deserve the hell.
What is the grace?
It is, even I deserving to go to hell,
God comes and pays the price of my sin and transgressions,
even I being wrong, guilty, He says: guilty, you are guilty,
you are wrong, you made for deserve, you deserve to go to hell,
but yet I am going to absolve you,
and the price that was for you pay, My Son pays in your place.
This is the GRACE!
What is the grace? The undeserved favor, I don't deserve to go to Heaven.
I don't deserve to be saved, but He still save me.
For you have access to the salvation,
the everlasting life, the Holy Spirit, someone had to pay the price in your place
Jesus dying in the cross, the God's wrath that was to fall upon you,
fell on Jesus.
The condemnation that was to fall unto you, fell on Jesus.
The price that you should pay, Jesus paid in your place.
He died our death, for we could live His life.
He so loved the world, the human race is lost,
the men is rotten, sinfull, dirty, he deserves to go to hell,
but My love is so great, so big, that I (God) will dispose of My only Son,
the only begotten Son, and I will give Him as a payment for human mankind.
Don't look at the sacrifice of the cross as a movie, or a cartoon,
or a story. Look at that Man being torn on the cross
in your place, it was suppose to be you nailed on the cross
it was suppose to be you there,
He descended into hell, it was suppose to be you to descend in there.
He was mocked, you should be mocked,
He was pierced, you should be be pierced.
The wrath came on Jesus, and it was to come on you.
Do you understand what God want to say to you? "My grace is sufficient for thee".
"Lord, heal me? No". "Lord, set me free? No". "Lord, give me a car? No".
"Lord, make anything? No". "Why? Because My grace is sufficient for you".
What God wants to say?
Only the fact of I (God) don't have consumed you with my wrath, it is sufficient.
Only the fact that I (God) have canceled all your sin, it is sufficient to you.
Only the fact that I have given my Son for dying in your place, it is sufficient.
I (God) don't have to do anything else.
Only the fact that I have bought your resurrection
and have written your name in the Book of Life, it is sufficient.
But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.
How did the sin abounded?
When the law was revealed. The sin was generalized, abounded.
Everyone were made sinners, when the law was manifested.
You, when you confronts the Word of God, you see how sinner you are.
How worthy of the hell you are.
Now look one more time, who is this God,
Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.
The law exposed the sin, but Jesus came, and much more abounded the grace.
Why? Great was the exposition of sin,
but greatest was the sacrifice of Christ, so far as to cover all sin.
This is how the grace of God is much more abundant.
The effect of the sin was so great, that condemned.
But the effect of Jesus' sacrifice was so much greater, so it absolved.