Grafted In By Grace

Grafted in by grace

Romans chapter 11:11-11:24

Good morning everyone, Please turn in your bibles or bible app to Romans chapter 11and the book of Ephesians chapter 2.

I want to speak a minute on God’s wonderful Grace and believers accepting that grace and being grafted into the kingdom of God.

1 Peter 5:10

“And the God of all grace will himself restore you and make you firm, strong and steadfast.”

God desires as He gives us grace to have us find Him as Lord and savior of our lives.

Our wonderful Lord for a period of time is keeping that door open so that others might take advantage of His wonderful grace. Amen.

Grace period if you will

Really, grace is God giving us something that we cannot obtain for ourselves.

God giving us what we do not deserve and not getting what we deserve.

G.R.A.C.E. God’s riches at Christ expense

The key being that God gave us grace and mercy at Christ’s expense.

You take Jesus out of grace and you have the holy and the justness of God which brings wrath for our sins which is what each of us deserves.

Romans chapter 11- God is talking about a remnant of believers in the nation of Israel.

Remember Elijah feeling the pressure of persecution, feeling like he was the only one serving God. Crying out to God! “Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars, I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me.

What was God’s answer, suck it up cry baby! No, that would be my answer before it would be his-- His was, “I have reserved for myself 7000 who have not bowed and worship other gods.”

By His grace, there is a remnant of believers who will serve Him.

Illustration-

During the building of the Golden Gate Bridge over San Francisco Bay, construction fell badly behind schedule because several workers had accidentally fallen from the scaffolding to their deaths. Engineers and administrators could find no solution to the costly delays. Finally, someone suggested a gigantic net be hung under the bridge to catch any who fell. Finally in spite of the enormous cost, the engineers opted for the net. After it was installed, progress was hardly interrupted. A worker or two fell into the net but were saved. Ultimately, all the time lost to fear was regained by replacing fear with faith in the net.

God is saying that He has a safety net to His remnant and will not allow them to fall.

God has mercy upon us because He is a gracious God.

There is a biblical definition of grace-

If we could be saved (salvation) by works it would not be grace.

Grace is of God and works is of man.

If grace (God) is removed from the picture, it would be left to works (man) for salvation.

Ephesians 2:8-9

“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith, and this not from yourselves, it is a gift of God, not by works so that no one can boost.”

Think for a minute about how your life was before Jesus was Lord of your life- Recall your spiritual condition.

You were without hope because the bible tells us without Jesus there is not hope.

Paul tells us in Romans chapter 6 that without Jesus as Lord that we are actually servants to sin.

Sin shackles us and won’t let go.

God in His marvelous Grace and Mercy offers salvation through Jesus Christ on the cross by faith in what He did on the cross.

God’s grace through our faith in Jesus Christ is how we are saved and redeemed by God.

It is a gift from God and cannot be earned or bought by our works.

Disgrace is thinking that it is something you have done or earned.

Disgrace is accepting Jesus as savior and then living your life as you want to and not obeying God’s Word.

Now keeping all this in mind, let’s look at our text and what God is saying to the remnant of Israel and what He is saying to us this morning who are on the other side of the cross of Christ.

Romans chapter 11:11-11:24 Read from bible

The Jews rejection of the gospel opened up salvation to the Gentiles who was anyone who was not Jewish. The temporary hardening of the Jews allowed us to have the availability to be grafted into God’s grace and mercy.

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

Thank God for His Grace and Mercy that saves men/women today.

There has always been unbelief, God tells us we must believe through faith in Christ.