God's Grace, The Saving Power

From the teaching 9/3/2011

God's Grace, The Saving Power”

Noah represented Grace in the Old Testament; Apostle Paul represented Grace in the New Testament.

Gen. 6:8: But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

Grace (defined):

1. God's unwarranted favor
2. God's redemptive mercy
3. The power and equipment for ministry

Eph. 2:8: For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Gen. 6:1:And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

 2That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.



 3And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.



 4There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.



 5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.



 6And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.



 7And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.



 8But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.



 9These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

And...

11The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

 12And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.



 13And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.



Flesh (defined):

1. Anything that you've given your time to, going against God's will.
2. The weaker element in human nature.
3. The seat of sin in man.
4. Man's lower nature.

 14Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.



Ark: Dimensions: Considering a cubic is 25”, the Ark was about 625 feet long, 105 feet wide, and 62.5 feet high.

Noah

I Peter 3:19: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;

 20Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

II Peter 2:5: And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

Heb. 11:7: By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

Mt. 24:37: But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

 38For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

 39And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

I Corth. 15:9: For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

 10But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

...by the grace:

1. By God's unmerited favor, I have become what I am.
2. His unmerited favor shown to me was not bestowed for nothing.

Paul called by Grace-Jesus revealed in him

Gal.1:15; But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,

 16To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:



Rom.1:5: By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:



Eph. 3:2: If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:

 3How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,

 4Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)

 5Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

 6That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:

 7Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.

 8Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

 9And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:

 II Corth 12:7: And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

 8For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

 9And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.