Thank God He Is His Amazing Grace!
In this 24th Sunday after Pentecost, Pastor Timothy Brassell of New Life Fellowship of Baltimore proclaims the GOOD NEWS that God is His Grace in this riveting Gospel Message entitled “Thank God He Is His Amazing Grace!”
Pastor Tim explores Hebrews 10 and poses the question:
Will you continue to understand yourself and life in terms of man’s idolatry, rebellion and sin or will you begin, as the scriptures do, by looking at the revelation of God in Jesus Christ? After All, it can only be idolatry to trust in anything other than God, anything other than the One Who made and sustains you!
In this gospel Message we learn that:
~Jesus is the Light of the world, and our idolatry, rebellion and sin are NOT, therefore understanding “Who Jesus is?” is the ONLY Way to begin understanding all of scripture. The Context of Jesus, Himself, must fundamentally guide all of our interpretations of the biblical text!
~Jesus is God as Man, and therefore, in Him God the Father and Spirit have also taken up the cause of humanity forever, determined that we will not perish!
~Some of our sufferings, though not caused by God, He works in and allows so we can come to the end of ourselves and trust only in Him!
~Grace isn’t something that stands apart from or beside God. GOD IS HIMSELF HIS BENEVOLENCE AND KINDNESS! Grace isn’t something we manipulate, or a magic symbol that we make – God is himself HIS GRACE and He is the one Who ultimately acts and delivers us. He, personally, is your REST!
~We are often looking for God to give us something primarily other than himself when God says in Christ “I AM YOUR RESPONSE TO ME! The one who stands in for YOU! Work to believe and trust that! I Am your reward!”
~We need to THANK GOD HE IS HIS AMAZING GRACE and not divide Him too strictly from the great Works HE does. IT IS HIM at work when His works are being done, NOT a substance or a commodity called “grace”!
~If we don’t understand and proclaim God as his own Grace then we will subtly allow a “works based” and legal orientation into our lives. We will think that it is our prayer or religious things that are getting the job done when it is actually GOD IN AND AS HIS AMAZING GRACE getting the job done, many times in and through those things!
~God’s judgment and destruction doesn’t mean the end of us as men and women, but the end of what seeks to destroy us as men and women! Threats in scripture don’t always mean that the bad consequences are actually going to happen because, as the writer of Hebrews wrote, “we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.”
Listen, Enjoy, be Encouraged, and find rest in the GOOD NEWS of God as His Amazing Grace!
Trinity and Humanity 
While listening to this message, the thought occurred to me whether if it is in relation to this or not, that Jesus had said” take my yolk for it is easy”. It is awesome that your message came at this time for me, because I have been thinking along these lines of your message for some time. This just brought all of my thinking into more of an organised and sensible meaning. Thank God for you, Tim, and your closeness to Him.
Hello Lisa,
Thanks for responding and nice to hear from you! Yes, I think that Jesus’ comment you mentioned (taken from Matt 11) is consistent with this Gospel message proclaimed here. It is Christ’s Ministry in which we participate in union with Him, literally by the Spirit of Grace, in the context of the Father/Son relationship. In this gracious Act and union He pulls off, He will never let us go and therefore there is Rest and a Yoke to be experienced. Rest and a positive experience of the yoke (union with Christ) if we embrace it. Unrest and a negative experience of the yoke if we resist the yoke (union with Christ)!
Glad to participate in your clarity on the subject and to continue growing in the grace and knowledge of Jesus with you!
Peace, Love and Every Blessing,
Timothy