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A short clip: grace is being under the influence of Christ. God gives a new heart and Spirit, sin loses dominion, and Joseph shows grace at work before the law.
What is grace?
Short answer: Being under the influence of Christ; our appearance, speech and behavior show whose influence we are under.
▶ 0:00 Revelations chapter 1 verse 4 scriptures say grace to you but what is grace there’s a term called being under the influence in our society that term means someone has their mind affected or altered by alcohol and drugs they’re under the influence but grace is being under the influence of Christ. Our hair our clothing our tattoos our piercings our speech our behavior shows. Whose influence we are under. Whether you have input from tv friends reading or what the rich people say you know they’re successful I want to copy what they do we are influenced by all of these inputs.
Scripture in this part
Revelation 1:4 (NKJV)
John, to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne,
— Revelation 1:4 (NKJV)▶ Hear it at 0:00 (quoted; reference not named in the message)How can we be under God’s influence?
Short answer: He gives a new heart and His Spirit and causes us to walk in His ways.
▶ 1:04 Ezekiel 36:26 says that God will give us a new heart and put his spirit in us and that he’ll cause us to walk in his ways His statutes and keep his judgments and do them and so what God is promising here is that we can be under the influence of a new heart and a new spirit and so God is asking the world he’s asking us are we under the influence of the world drugs and alcohol the world’s message or are we influenced by God because we’re going to be influenced by someone and it is way better to be influenced by Christ and the Bible God’s influence affects our speech it affects our behavior and everything about us Romans chapter 6 verse 14.
Scripture in this part
Ezekiel 36:26-27 (NKJV)
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.
— Ezekiel 36:26-27 (NKJV)▶ Hear it at 1:04 (quoted; reference not named in the message)What does “under grace” look like?
Short answer: Sin has no dominion; Joseph refused Potiphar’s wife though he didn’t have the law.
▶ 2:00 It says for sin shall not have dominion over you for you are not under law but under grace. So when you say you’re under grace you’re saying you’re under the influence of Christ just like someone who is under the influence of alcohol or drugs it shows. Somebody who’s under the influence of Christ. Joseph in chapter 39 verse 1 gives us a good example he was handsome in form in appearance Potiphar’s wife said to him lie with me have sex with me even though Joseph didn’t have the law he was under the influence of the grace of God. And we need to be to be God’s grace today.
Scripture in this part
Romans 6:14 (NKJV)
For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
— Romans 6:14 (NKJV)▶ Hear it at 2:00 (quoted; reference not named in the message)Genesis 39:7-9 (NKJV)
And it came to pass after these things that his master’s wife cast longing eyes on Joseph, and she said, “Lie with me.” But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Look, my master does not know what is with me in the house, and he has committed all that he has to my hand. There is no one greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”
— Genesis 39:7-9 (NKJV)▶ Hear it at 2:00More questions this message answers
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