Grace - The Church is God's work of art!

After being in a Ministry meeting on Christ as Grace, I feel very blessed!

1. Grace is Christ Himself as our enjoyment; grace is the resurrected Christ as the life-giving Spirit giving Himself freely to us, being everything to us, and doing everything in us, through us, and for us!

A. Grace is mulitiplied to us through our sufferings, limitations, and weaknesses; grace is Christ as our burden bearer; the more burdens we have, the more opportunites we have to experience Christ as grace. -2 Cor. 12:7-9-- Enjoy Christ as our burden barrier

V. A. Grace as the processed Triune God for our enjoyment becomes our inward motivation and outward expression in our intimate fellowship, with God and our consciousness of God; we all have to learn how to have grace, which is to take grace, possess grace, use grace, and apply grace.

B. The processed Triune God as grace received and enjoyed by us becomes visibly expressed for others to see in our holy living and church meetings.

VIII. God gives grace to the humble, but He resists the proud.

C. We must be willing to be made humble, lowly, under the mighty hand of God in His discipline and to throw our life with its care upon God, because He cares for us lovingly and faithfully. 

X. C. The riches of God's grace, the riches of God Himself for our enjoyment, surpass every limit and will be publicly displayed for eternity.

Enjoyment: Grace is mentioned 8 times in the apostle of Peter. The first mention of Grace in the Bible is Gensis 6:8 "But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD." We should *Pray to the Lord, "Lord, I need Your grace every minute." We should come forth boldly to find grace! Grace is the very presence of God. We should conduct ourselves in the grace of God, in the enjoyment of Christ as Paul did. We should enjoy the Lord, and this enjoyment of the Lord will cause others to enjoy the Lord. This should be contagious in the church life. God has Graced us with Grace! We should pray 2 Corinthians 12:7-9 "7 And because of the ¹transcendence of the revelations, in order that I might not be exceedingly ^alifted up, there was given to me a ^2bthorn in the flesh, a messenger of ^cSatan, that he might ³buffet me, in order that I might not be exceedingly lifted up.

8 Concerning this I entreated the Lord ^athree times that it might depart from me.

9 And He has said to me, My ^1agrace is sufficient for you, for My ^2bpower is perfected in ^cweakness. Most gladly therefore I will rather boast in my weaknesses that the ^dpower of Christ might ^3etabernacle over me." and enjoy Christ as our burden barrier. We should want to recieve the abundance of Grace according to Romans 5:17 "For if by the offense of the one death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the ¹abundance of grace and of the gift of ²righteousness will ³reign in ⁴life through the One, Jesus Christ. " We have to enjoy the Lord, so that others may enjoy Him through us! When we speak, may it be not of ourselves, but from God. When we minister may it be God ministering through us. We need to be washed and cleansed from dwelling in this world. My favorite line of all "THE CHURCH IS GOD'S WORK OF ART"