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Robert Jeffress - Good Grace Churches (Part 2)

April 21, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - Good Grace Churches (Part 2)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Good Grace Churches (Part 2) | April 21, 2026
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  • From the pulpit of the first baptist church
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  • Of dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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  • With dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • Most christians don't realize that god created the church
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  • For our benefit, not his.
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  • And as a result, too many believers think they can survive
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  • And grow spiritually without attending a local church.
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  • Today, i'm going to explain
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  • How a proper understanding of grace ought to impact
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  • Our attitude toward the church,
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  • Especially in the area of giving and service.
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  • My message is titled "good grace churches"
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • Some christians use grace
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  • As a spiritual get out of jail free card.
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  • Others pile on so many rules,
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  • They have no grace for themselves or others.
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  • In "grace gone wild," dr. robert jeffress shows you
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  • What biblical grace actually looks like
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  • And how practicing it leads to true freedom and lasting joy.
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  • Discover how grace can transform your marriage,
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  • Your relationships, and your walk with god.
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  • Last time, we, in our series, "grace gone wild,"
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  • Began looking at how a proper understanding of god's grace
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  • Should impact our commitment to the church.
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  • Ephesians 5 says that, "christ loved the church
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  • "and gave himself for her."
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  • He had a sacrificial attitude toward the church,
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  • And yet many christians today are using grace
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  • As an excuse
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  • For a lackadaisical attitude toward the church
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  • That christ died for.
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  • Today, we're going to look at a third area of church life
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  • That grace should impact,
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  • And that is giving.
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  • Bad grace says, "i can give as little as i want."
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  • Good grace says, "i should give as much as i can."
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  • Now, trust me, i know this by experience,
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  • Nothing evokes more controversy in a church
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  • Than whenever you start talking about giving.
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  • In fact, after 40 years of preaching,
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  • I've discovered an interesting anatomical insight
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  • That is the most sensitive part of the human body
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  • Is the pocketbook,
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  • People's billfolds, or purses.
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  • I'm telling you, you start talking about giving,
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  • Man, you can almost see them grabbing for that wallet,
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  • Or that purse.
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  • People are very sensitive about the issue,
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  • And even if people agree, "well, i know i ought to give
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  • "according to the scripture.
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  • "how much should i give?"
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  • Well, what does the bible say about that?
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  • Some people take a very rigid view of giving.
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  • They talk about the tithe.
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  • They say, "10% is the standard for giving,"
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  • Not 9%, not 11%, but 10%,
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  • And they're very careful to calculate that.
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  • They'll quote verses like malachi 3 in which god said,
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  • "bring all the tithes into the storehouse,"
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  • And he accused israel of robbing him,
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  • Because they failed to tithe.
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  • They point to genesis 14:10, when abraham gave a tithe.
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  • That was 400 years before the old testament law under moses.
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  • They even point out the fact that jesus,
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  • Who condemned the pharisees for many things,
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  • At least commended them for giving their tithes.
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  • However, there are other people
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  • Who aren't so sure about the tithe.
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  • They think the tithe is an old testament concept
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  • Not found in the new testament.
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  • They would say that when you look at the tithe
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  • In the old testament, it really wasn't 10%.
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  • It was more than that.
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  • These poor agricultural jews gave three tithes.
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  • They gave 10% of their meager income to support the priest,
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  • They gave another 10% in order to fund the celebrations,
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  • The worship experiences,
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  • And then every third year, they gave another 10%
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  • To take care of the poor.
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  • So when you put those three tithes together,
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  • It comes to about 23 1/3% every year they were giving,
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  • Not just 10%.
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  • Then they would point out that there is no mention
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  • Of tithing in the new testament, except in one place,
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  • Where jesus commended the pharisees for doing that.
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  • These people would say,
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  • "no, the new testament standard is grace giving,"
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  • And they would point to 1 corinthians 16:2
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  • In which paul said, "everyone should give
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  • "as god has prospered him."
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  • Grace giving, have you heard of that before?
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  • Now, in reality, for most people, grace giving means
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  • Giving as little as you possibly can
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  • Without being overwhelmed by guilt.
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  • And apparently, there are a lot of christians
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  • Who have a high threshold for guilt,
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  • Because they give very, very little.
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  • In fact, since 1961, the percent of income
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  • That christians have been giving
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  • To the church has been going down.
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  • It's now at about 3%.
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  • In fact, today, giving as a percent of income is less
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  • Than it was in 1933,
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  • Which happens to be the height of the great depression.
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  • What does the bible say about giving?
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  • Well, when we understand the concept of grace,
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  • There are three timeless principles about giving
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  • We need to remember.
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  • I want you to write these down.
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  • First of all, everything i own belongs to god.
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  • Everything i own belongs to god.
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  • One problem about just getting fixated
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  • On that 10% number is when we say,
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  • "oh, well, 10% goes to god,"
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  • We have the idea that 90% belongs to us
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  • And we can do whatever we want to with it.
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  • The fact is it all belongs to god,
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  • Not just the 10%, the 100%.
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  • In job 41:11, god said, "who has given to me
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  • "that i should repay him?
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  • "whatever is under the whole heaven is mine."
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  • Everything i have belongs to god.
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  • Why don't you say that with me right now?
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  • Would you say that with me?
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  • Everything i have belongs to god.
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  • Now, say it like you really mean it.
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  • Everything i have belongs to god.
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  • That's the starting place for giving.
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  • We don't own anything.
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  • We're simply managers of what god has given to us.
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  • It all belongs to him.
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  • Randy alcorn talks about that in his book,
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  • "the treasure principle."
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  • He mentions that we are really just money managers for god.
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  • He writes, "our name is on god's bank account.
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  • "we have unrestricted access to it,
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  • "a privilege that is subject to abuse.
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  • "as his money managers,
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  • "god trust us to set our own salaries.
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  • "we draw needed funds from his wealth
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  • "to pay our living expenses.
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  • "one of our central spiritual decisions is determining
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  • "what is a reasonable amount to live on,
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  • "whatever that amount is,
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  • "and it differs from person to person.
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  • "we shouldn't hoard or spend the excess.
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  • "after all, it's his, not ours,
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  • "and he has something to say about where we put it."
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  • God has something to say about
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  • Where we put all of his money, not just the 10%,
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  • And that realization that we are simply money managers
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  • Of what god owns leads to a second important principle,
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  • And that is i should seek the highest rate of return
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  • With god's money.
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  • Write that down.
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  • I should seek the highest rate of return
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  • With god's money.
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  • Remember the parable jesus told in matthew 25
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  • To illustrate that?
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  • He talked about a wealthy person
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  • Who was going to leave on a long journey,
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  • So he called three of his slaves in,
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  • And he said, "i'm going to be gone,
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  • "but i'm going to divide my assets with you,
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  • "and i want you to invest it,
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  • "and when i get back, i'll ask for an accounting."
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  • So to the first servant, he gave five talents.
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  • A talent was about 80 pounds of gold.
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  • To the second servant, he gave two talents,
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  • About 160 pounds of gold.
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  • And to the final servant, he just gave a single talent.
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  • He went away.
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  • The bible says, "'after a long time,' jesus said,
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  • "'the master returned.'"
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  • I think, by the way, jesus was giving us a hint there
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  • When he said after a long time,
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  • Longer than the servants were expected, he returned.
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  • I think he was telling us
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  • That he may be away a little bit longer
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  • Than we expect him to be,
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  • But don't miss the point.
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  • He is coming back again.
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  • And the master did come back in jesus' story,
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  • And when he did come back, he asked for an accounting
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  • Of what was done with the money,
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  • And the first servant who had the five talents said
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  • He had invested it, and he had doubled the master's money.
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  • He now had 10 talents.
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  • The master congratulated him.
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  • The one who had been given two talents
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  • Also doubled the investment to four talents.
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  • He received congratulations.
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  • But the third servant, the one who had only one talent,
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  • Said to the master, "you know, i wanted to play it safe.
  • 00:11:02.952 --> 00:11:06.288
  • "i wanted to be sure to preserve your capital,
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  • "so i just went out and buried the talent.
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  • "didn't earn anything,
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  • "but the good news is you didn't lose anything."
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  • Was the master thrilled about that?
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  • Hardly.
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  • He was angry.
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  • In fact, notice what his response was in verse 29
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  • Of matthew 25.
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  • "for to everyone who has more shall be given,
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  • "and he will have an abundance,
  • 00:11:34.316 --> 00:11:36.385
  • "but from the one who does not have,
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  • "even what he does have shall be taken away.
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  • "throw out the worthless slave into the outer darkness.
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  • "in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
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  • Man, that's a pretty harsh treatment, isn't it,
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  • For some guy who was just trying to be conservative.
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  • But jesus was making an important point.
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  • What we do with the time, with the opportunities,
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  • And yes, with the money that god has entrusted to us,
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  • We are going to give an account of that one day.
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  • And if we understand that, we should understand
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  • That we should seek the very highest rate of return
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  • With the possessions god has entrusted to us.
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  • That's why jesus said in matthew 6:19-20,
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  • "don't store up for yourself treasures on earth
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  • "where moth and rust destroy,
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  • "where thieves break in and steal,
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  • "but instead store up for yourselves treasures in heaven,
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  • "where neither moth nor rust destroys,
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  • "and where thieves do not break in or steal."
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  • Now you may be convinced,
  • 00:12:41.183 --> 00:12:43.319
  • "yes, i want to invest in god's work,
  • 00:12:43.319 --> 00:12:46.889
  • "but how much should i give?"
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  • You may be sincere about that.
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  • Maybe you're just starting out new in the christian life.
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  • "how do i know where to begin?"
  • 00:12:52.361 --> 00:12:54.496
  • After all, some money has to be spent on living expenses,
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  • Some money has to be spent on our kids and grandkids,
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  • Some money ought to be used
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  • To enjoy the life that god's given us.
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  • How do i know how much to give?
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  • The third principle is the tithe is
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  • The starting place of grace giving.
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  • The tithe is the starting place of grace giving.
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  • Years ago, i heard a sermon by dr. bob russell
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  • And he was talking about a group from his church in kentucky
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  • That went to romania on a mission trip,
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  • And this mission group,
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  • Serving with these poor romanian christians,
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  • Were overwhelmed when they found out
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  • That the romanians were very distressed
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  • Because they wanted to give 10%
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  • Of their income to the church,
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  • But the government prevented them from doing so.
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  • The government said, "you can only give 2 1/2%
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  • "to charitable organizations."
  • 00:13:51.020 --> 00:13:53.622
  • And this mission group said the romanian christians were
  • 00:13:53.622 --> 00:13:56.125
  • Constantly looking for loopholes
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  • To get around that limitation,
  • 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:00.663
  • And then bob russell made this point.
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  • He said, "the romanian christians have less.
  • 00:14:02.831 --> 00:14:05.467
  • "they're looking for a way to give 10%,
  • 00:14:05.467 --> 00:14:08.103
  • "and here we are in america,
  • 00:14:08.103 --> 00:14:09.705
  • "free to give as much as we want to give,
  • 00:14:09.705 --> 00:14:12.541
  • "and we even get a tax deduction for doing so,
  • 00:14:12.541 --> 00:14:15.544
  • "and we're looking for loopholes in the bible not to give."
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  • What an indictment.
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  • When our heart is right,
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  • The question is not how little can i give,
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  • But how much can i give and invest in god's kingdom?
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  • Fourth, how does grace impact our attitude
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  • Toward serving in the church?
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  • Here's what bad grace says.
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  • Bad grace says, "i don't have to do anything in the church."
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  • Good grace says, "god has given me the privilege
  • 00:14:45.441 --> 00:14:48.377
  • "of serving somewhere in the church."
  • 00:14:48.377 --> 00:14:51.280
  • You know, congregations, churches that push this concept
  • 00:14:51.280 --> 00:14:54.917
  • Of bad grace, they'll say things like,
  • 00:14:54.917 --> 00:14:58.687
  • "well, after you've invested
  • 00:14:58.687 --> 00:15:00.756
  • "all the time you can at your job,
  • 00:15:00.756 --> 00:15:03.425
  • "and after you've spent all the time with your family
  • 00:15:03.425 --> 00:15:05.828
  • "you can possibly spend,
  • 00:15:05.828 --> 00:15:07.463
  • "and after you've indulged a hobby or two,
  • 00:15:07.463 --> 00:15:09.865
  • "if you have any time left over,
  • 00:15:09.865 --> 00:15:12.668
  • "maybe you can consider serving someplace in the church,
  • 00:15:12.668 --> 00:15:16.372
  • "but don't feel like you have to.
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  • "you can't serve your way into heaven."
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  • Have you ever heard that before,
  • 00:15:21.577 --> 00:15:22.778
  • People who had that attitude?
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  • And yet, good grace understands
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  • That we have both the responsibility
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  • And the the incredible privilege of serving in the church.
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  • I know some of you are saying,
  • 00:15:35.157 --> 00:15:36.658
  • "robert, aren't you kind of stretching it a little bit
  • 00:15:36.658 --> 00:15:38.627
  • "to try to link serving in the church with god's grace?"
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  • So glad you asked that question.
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  • No, it's not stretching the point at all.
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  • In fact, i want to show you the relationship between grace
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  • And serving in a place of ministry.
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  • Turn over to romans 12, romans 12.
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  • You may remember some years ago i did a three-part series
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  • On how to discover and use your spiritual gift.
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  • You can go to firstdallas.org/volunteer
  • 00:16:06.655 --> 00:16:10.559
  • To listen to that series,
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  • But i'm going to summarize that series
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  • Of three messages into about 10 minutes here,
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  • But for some of you, this is going to be
  • 00:16:17.733 --> 00:16:19.501
  • A life-changing concept.
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  • Number one, write this down.
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  • Every christian has been given a unique spiritual gift.
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  • Look at romans 12:6-8.
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  • "since we have gifts that differ
  • 00:16:34.183 --> 00:16:37.119
  • "according to the grace given to us,
  • 00:16:37.119 --> 00:16:40.289
  • "each of us is to exercise that gift accordingly."
  • 00:16:40.289 --> 00:16:44.226
  • When you trusted in christ as your savior,
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  • You received god's grace in your life.
  • 00:16:46.361 --> 00:16:50.766
  • And when you became a christian, god sent you the gift
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  • Of the holy spirit of god.
  • 00:16:54.470 --> 00:16:57.206
  • But with the holy spirit of god,
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  • He brought into your life a unique spiritual gift
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  • Through which to serve him.
  • 00:17:03.245 --> 00:17:04.913
  • What is a spiritual gift?
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  • Write this down.
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  • A spiritual gift is the unique passion
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  • And power god has given you to further his kingdom.
  • 00:17:12.287 --> 00:17:16.525
  • But it's not only a passion, it's a power.
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  • A spiritual gift is a unique power.
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  • It's something you do that when you do it,
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  • People compliment you on.
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  • It's something you're especially good at.
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  • Truth number two, our gift, our spiritual gift is to be used
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  • In the local church.
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  • Paul's whole discussion of spiritual gifts begins
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  • After he has talked about the body of christ.
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  • Look at romans 12:5.
  • 00:17:45.387 --> 00:17:46.889
  • "so we who are many are one body in christ
  • 00:17:46.889 --> 00:17:50.893
  • "and we are individually members of one another."
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  • Every christian is to be a part
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  • Of a local body of believers,
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  • And every christian should find a place of service
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  • In that local body of believers.
  • 00:17:59.902 --> 00:18:02.237
  • We have a saying here at our church is,
  • 00:18:02.237 --> 00:18:04.239
  • "no one can do everything, but everyone can do something."
  • 00:18:04.239 --> 00:18:09.511
  • Have you found your something
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  • That is a great match for your passion
  • 00:18:11.313 --> 00:18:14.016
  • And the power that god has given you?
  • 00:18:14.016 --> 00:18:16.618
  • Find a place to serve.
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  • And that leads to a third truth about spiritual gifts,
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  • And that is we experience fulfillment
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  • From using our spiritual gift.
  • 00:18:25.494 --> 00:18:28.063
  • You know, i've heard christians say
  • 00:18:28.063 --> 00:18:29.531
  • That the greatest joy they ever had in life
  • 00:18:29.531 --> 00:18:32.367
  • Was when they were saved, when they met christ as savior,
  • 00:18:32.367 --> 00:18:35.537
  • But the second greatest joy they ever had is
  • 00:18:35.537 --> 00:18:39.408
  • When they discovered their unique purpose for living,
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  • What is that gift god had given them.
  • 00:18:42.377 --> 00:18:45.948
  • And the fact is there's a link between grace,
  • 00:18:45.948 --> 00:18:50.285
  • Between spiritual gifts, and joy.
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  • Let me show you what that is.
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  • The greek word for spiritual gift is charismaton.
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  • Charismaton, that's the word used here in romans 12.
  • 00:18:58.360 --> 00:19:01.797
  • We have one of those charismatons, one of those seven gifts.
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  • That word charismaton has as a root word charis.
  • 00:19:08.136 --> 00:19:11.707
  • That's the greek word for grace.
  • 00:19:11.707 --> 00:19:14.676
  • And the root word for charis is char, c-h-a-r,
  • 00:19:14.676 --> 00:19:18.547
  • Which means joy.
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  • It's very obvious.
  • 00:19:21.183 --> 00:19:22.951
  • When we receive god's grace,
  • 00:19:22.951 --> 00:19:25.921
  • We receive a charismaton, a gift,
  • 00:19:25.921 --> 00:19:30.559
  • And true joy in life comes when we exercise
  • 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:34.529
  • That unique spiritual gift god has given us.
  • 00:19:34.529 --> 00:19:38.900
  • Aren't you tired of just waking up in the morning,
  • 00:19:38.900 --> 00:19:41.570
  • Having your coffee, going about the mundane task of life,
  • 00:19:41.570 --> 00:19:46.908
  • Coming home, and starting the cycle all over again?
  • 00:19:47.976 --> 00:19:51.013
  • Don't all of us long for something,
  • 00:19:51.780 --> 00:19:54.116
  • To be a part of something that's bigger than ourselves?
  • 00:19:54.116 --> 00:19:57.552
  • "pastor, are you really telling me
  • 00:19:57.552 --> 00:19:59.087
  • "that one person like myself using his gift
  • 00:19:59.087 --> 00:20:02.691
  • "in a local church,
  • 00:20:02.691 --> 00:20:05.193
  • "somehow that can make an eternal difference?"
  • 00:20:05.193 --> 00:20:08.797
  • If you doubt that, you remember the story of edward kimball.
  • 00:20:09.965 --> 00:20:14.069
  • Edward kimball was a businessman
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  • Who taught every sunday
  • 00:20:16.972 --> 00:20:18.974
  • A older high school boys' sunday school class.
  • 00:20:18.974 --> 00:20:23.111
  • He became very concerned about one of his members
  • 00:20:23.111 --> 00:20:25.547
  • Of his class who he knew wasn't a christian.
  • 00:20:25.547 --> 00:20:28.383
  • So one day in april of 1855, edward kimball went to see
  • 00:20:28.383 --> 00:20:32.921
  • His student at his place of work, a shoe store,
  • 00:20:32.921 --> 00:20:36.558
  • And it was over the lunch hour,
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  • So he asked to meet with him back in the stock room,
  • 00:20:38.427 --> 00:20:40.962
  • And talk to him about his need for christ,
  • 00:20:40.962 --> 00:20:43.298
  • And right there on the spot,
  • 00:20:43.298 --> 00:20:44.866
  • That older high school boy trusted christ as his savior.
  • 00:20:44.866 --> 00:20:50.172
  • That boy's name was dwight lyman moody, d.l. moody.
  • 00:20:51.173 --> 00:20:55.744
  • The greatest evangelist of the 19th century,
  • 00:20:56.645 --> 00:21:00.148
  • D.l. moody won thousands and thousands of people
  • 00:21:00.148 --> 00:21:03.151
  • To faith in jesus christ,
  • 00:21:03.151 --> 00:21:05.287
  • But he also founded the moody bible institute,
  • 00:21:05.287 --> 00:21:09.891
  • Later spawned moody radio, moody publishing.
  • 00:21:09.891 --> 00:21:13.228
  • Today, millions of christians are saved
  • 00:21:13.228 --> 00:21:16.531
  • Because of the ministry, the work of dwight l. moody.
  • 00:21:16.531 --> 00:21:20.335
  • But it didn't stop there.
  • 00:21:20.335 --> 00:21:22.270
  • Dwight moody, one of the people he won to christ
  • 00:21:22.270 --> 00:21:25.540
  • And later counseled, was a man named j. wilber chapman,
  • 00:21:25.540 --> 00:21:29.111
  • Who later became a presbyterian minister.
  • 00:21:29.111 --> 00:21:32.214
  • This presbyterian minister was instrumental
  • 00:21:32.214 --> 00:21:35.050
  • In leading another man to christ, billy sunday,
  • 00:21:35.050 --> 00:21:37.886
  • The great evangelist who won 200,000 people to christ.
  • 00:21:37.886 --> 00:21:42.591
  • And billy sunday in 1924 was preaching
  • 00:21:42.591 --> 00:21:46.228
  • An evangelistic meeting in charlotte, north carolina,
  • 00:21:46.228 --> 00:21:50.232
  • And out of that evangelistic awakening in charlotte
  • 00:21:50.232 --> 00:21:53.702
  • That occurred under billy sunday's ministry,
  • 00:21:53.702 --> 00:21:57.873
  • There formed a group called
  • 00:21:58.473 --> 00:22:00.108
  • The charlotte businessman's association.
  • 00:22:00.108 --> 00:22:03.445
  • It was a christian group of men dedicated
  • 00:22:03.445 --> 00:22:06.114
  • To the spiritual revival of the city of charlotte.
  • 00:22:06.114 --> 00:22:10.085
  • In 1934, this group of businessmen decided to hold
  • 00:22:10.085 --> 00:22:14.189
  • An area-wide evangelistic crusade.
  • 00:22:14.189 --> 00:22:17.325
  • They invited a man named mordecai ham to be the evangelist.
  • 00:22:17.325 --> 00:22:21.596
  • One night, when mordecai ham had finished preaching,
  • 00:22:21.596 --> 00:22:24.332
  • He gave the invitation,
  • 00:22:24.332 --> 00:22:26.034
  • And down the aisle walked an 18-year-old boy
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  • To give his life to christ.
  • 00:22:29.337 --> 00:22:31.373
  • His name was billy graham.
  • 00:22:31.373 --> 00:22:34.009
  • Billy graham was responsible.
  • 00:22:34.009 --> 00:22:36.278
  • God used him to win tens of millions of people
  • 00:22:36.278 --> 00:22:39.381
  • To faith in jesus christ.
  • 00:22:39.381 --> 00:22:40.982
  • Some of those are sitting in this room,
  • 00:22:40.982 --> 00:22:43.185
  • Are watching this broadcast right now,
  • 00:22:43.185 --> 00:22:46.188
  • And think about it.
  • 00:22:46.188 --> 00:22:47.856
  • Billy graham was able to do what he did
  • 00:22:48.723 --> 00:22:51.593
  • In leading tens of millions of people to christ,
  • 00:22:51.593 --> 00:22:54.596
  • When you trace it back all the way to the beginning,
  • 00:22:54.596 --> 00:22:58.500
  • It goes back to 1855,
  • 00:22:58.500 --> 00:23:01.269
  • And one layman
  • 00:23:01.269 --> 00:23:04.005
  • Who decided to use his spiritual gift in a local church.
  • 00:23:04.005 --> 00:23:09.377
  • Can a single christian really make a difference?
  • 00:23:10.345 --> 00:23:13.215
  • You bet.
  • 00:23:13.215 --> 00:23:14.483
  • You bet. find that spiritual gift.
  • 00:23:14.483 --> 00:23:17.385
  • Use it in the body of christ.
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  • ♪ music ♪
  • 00:23:20.155 --> 00:23:24.726
  • When we truly understand god's grace,
  • 00:23:25.527 --> 00:23:27.963
  • It changes everything,
  • 00:23:27.963 --> 00:23:29.831
  • Including the way we invest our time, our treasure,
  • 00:23:29.831 --> 00:23:32.601
  • And our talents in the local church.
  • 00:23:32.601 --> 00:23:35.537
  • In closing today, i thought you'd be encouraged
  • 00:23:35.537 --> 00:23:37.706
  • To hear a note i received from a high school teacher.
  • 00:23:37.706 --> 00:23:40.542
  • She wrote, "i listen to 'pathway to victory' every morning
  • 00:23:40.542 --> 00:23:43.745
  • "on my way to teaching high school
  • 00:23:43.745 --> 00:23:45.714
  • "in a very poor county in northern mississippi.
  • 00:23:45.714 --> 00:23:49.150
  • "this school has a horrible reputation for violence
  • 00:23:49.150 --> 00:23:52.521
  • "and a tremendous number of students talk openly
  • 00:23:52.521 --> 00:23:55.724
  • "about using drugs.
  • 00:23:55.724 --> 00:23:57.459
  • "but i know without a doubt that god led me here.
  • 00:23:57.459 --> 00:24:00.862
  • "as a christian teacher, i'm constantly looking for ways
  • 00:24:00.862 --> 00:24:04.232
  • "to teach my students biblical truths
  • 00:24:04.232 --> 00:24:06.868
  • "while in a public school setting.
  • 00:24:06.868 --> 00:24:09.204
  • "listening to your wisdom
  • 00:24:09.204 --> 00:24:10.605
  • "and biblical guidance daily has helped set the tone
  • 00:24:10.605 --> 00:24:13.909
  • "for my entire day.
  • 00:24:13.909 --> 00:24:15.677
  • "i've learned so much from you."
  • 00:24:15.677 --> 00:24:18.213
  • Isn't that affirming?
  • 00:24:18.213 --> 00:24:19.714
  • Through our partnership,
  • 00:24:19.714 --> 00:24:21.249
  • The ministry of "pathway to victory" is reaching people
  • 00:24:21.249 --> 00:24:24.185
  • Like this public high school teacher
  • 00:24:24.185 --> 00:24:26.288
  • Who has made it her mission
  • 00:24:26.288 --> 00:24:27.923
  • To bring light into the darkness.
  • 00:24:27.923 --> 00:24:30.659
  • Now, stay right there.
  • 00:24:30.659 --> 00:24:31.960
  • I'll be back with more "pathway to victory"
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  • In just a moment.
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  • The bible tells us we're saved by grace,
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  • But do you allow yourself to receive grace?
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  • Do you practice grace?
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  • Do you abuse god's grace?
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  • In "grace gone wild,"
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  • Dr. robert jeffress clears up the confusion
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  • And shows you how grace leads to joy, not guilt.
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  • Christians fall into one of two traps
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  • When it comes to grace.
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  • Some believe grace means
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  • There are no boundaries in living.
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  • Others pile on so many rules
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  • That christianity feels like a burden instead of a blessing.
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  • In my book, "grace gone wild,"
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  • I'll show you that true grace leads to a deeper,
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  • More joy-filled relationship with god.
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  • Discover how understanding grace can transform
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  • Your marriage, your relationships,
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  • And every decision you make.
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  • Request your copy of "grace gone wild"
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  • When you give a generous gift to "pathway to victory,"
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  • And when your ministry gift is $75 or more,
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  • We'll also send you the "grace gone wild" teaching series
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  • On both cd and dvd, along with the application guide.
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  • There are too many christians today
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  • Who have taken this marvelous gift of grace
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  • And perverted it.
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  • They are robbing themselves of the joy
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  • That comes from obedience to god.
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  • Thank you for your generous support
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  • Of "pathway to victory."
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  • Your gift helps us bring bold,
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  • Biblical teaching around the world.
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  • Together, we are piercing the darkness
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  • With the light of god's word.
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  • Grace is a gift, but it was never meant to be an excuse,
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  • And a true understanding of grace should actually deepen
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  • Our commitment to the local church.
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  • Next time, we're going to bring that same understanding
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  • Of grace into one of the most important relationships
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  • In your life, your marriage.
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  • Bad grace has done a lot of damage in christian homes,
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  • And it's time to clear up some dangerous lies about
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  • What grace really means when it comes to the family.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview
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  • Of what's coming up next in our series, "grace gone wild."
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  • We say, "oh, yeah, in an ideal situation,
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  • "christians should only marry christians,
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  • "you shouldn't have an affair,
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  • "you shouldn't get divorced,
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  • "but, you know, if you do those things,
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  • "grace is like god's magic wand he can wave
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  • "over all of those acts of disobedience,
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  • "and that magic wand will call all consequences,
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  • "all the hurt and emotional pain to disappear instantly,
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  • "and everything will be perfect again."
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  • That's what you call bad grace.
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  • Set your dvr, and join us next time
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  • For the message "good grace marriages"
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  • Here on "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪ music ♪
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