He giveth more grace
Key Passage: James 4:6
Date: June 7, 2024
We do that just to try to show the word of God respect. They did that in the book of Nehemiah. And Ezra, it is, excuse me. And we want to do that. We just want to show the word of God respect. It’s worthy of that. And this one verse, let’s just try to digest it real quickly here as we’re trying to dive into this thing, get going real quickly here.
James 4. I need to tell myself to slow down. You ever have a, I’ve got about 10 miles of message and we only got a mile left, you know what I’m saying here, you know. So we’ll be out of here by 2 p.m., I promise you. And thank you, Brother Anthony. Brother Anthony is the only one that said amen and that, you know. The rest of you said, oh me, I don’t know about that right there, you know. But James 4.
And verse number six. And he says, but he giveth more grace. That’s one of the most wonderful phrases in all the Bible right there. But he giveth more grace. And if you haven’t figured it out yet, friend, that’s what you need. Every single one of us, grace. I love it. But he giveth more grace.
Grace. It’s never, never an issue does he have enough grace? He has enough grace for your situation. I was thinking this morning here, the video and all that, the day I was thinking of a lady in our church years ago. I would never mention this if she wasn’t already in heaven. I’m just afraid if she wasn’t here, she’d watch it online or something, but she’s in heaven, so I’ll mention it.
Someone had given me a letter. Another pastor had sent me a letter. He had a young, good Christian couple in his church, and they wanted to adopt. By the way, you realize it’s very hard to adopt a newborn in America. Don’t fall for the rhetoric. Many people would adopt them, the newborns. But they could not find a newborn child, and they didn’t have thousands and thousands of dollars, so they just sent letters out to some churches. I got one of those.
So if you know someone in your congregation that maybe they’re thinking about, you know, adopting, please let us know. This young lady, she was married, and I dealt a lot with them. And she went to sin for just a while, just a brief time. She just went out there if you go. She got saved and got out of a life of sin, but she went back just briefly, but she got pregnant from them.
And just a sad story. Her husband actually went and shot the man’s honest truth. Just a sad story. And I told this young lady, I said, look, I’ve got a Christian, a good godly Christian. They’ll adopt your baby. Please don’t abort your baby. But can I be honest what she did?
After all that, and God, I told her, I said, I don’t get these letters very often. Then God’s got this thing. Please, she didn’t. She ordered that baby. I say that to say this. Years later, she got back in church. I don’t think anyone besides my wife and I knew the story, but she had sat right in the chairs inside this building right here. And God had grace for that lady.
And praise the Lord, she got things right with the Lord before she went home. And it’s just sweet to see God. So when he says, but God giveth more grace, friend, never limit the grace of God. Never, never say, well, I don’t know if there’s enough grace for that. Hey, there’s enough grace for that person. There’s enough grace for you too. By the way, it might need more grace for you if you’re looking at anybody else all the time.
You understand. Man, what a wonderful, wonderful passage right there. But he giveth more grace. Never forget that. Do you get away from God or the devil’s beating you down, think you can’t get back to God? But he giveth more grace. That’s wonderful. But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud. Wow.
But giveth grace unto the humble. Twice the Bible says that. One time, maybe two times, to the lowly. He giveth grace to the lowly. God resisteth the proud, but he gives grace. It’s going to be a two-part series. We won’t cover much this morning. But what hinders? Two things.
That hinder the amazing grace of God. I mean, can take a sinner like you and I. We’re just thinking about it, make us born again, child of God on the way to heaven. What can hinder this amazing grace of God? Two things. We’re going to try to just dive into it. I want to say a few things about grace. I won’t do it. I’ll just say this. Grace is God’s riches at Christ’s expense. Remember that. Grace, God’s riches at Christ’s expense.
He who is rich became poor that ye through his poverty might be rich. That’s the grace of God. Let’s pray what hinders and we’ll get in this, what hinders the grace of God. Father, I sure need your help, Lord. Just seem like the clock’s running and I sure would like this the main part of the message to that our hearts. Lord, would you give me the words and the ability to get right at the point and deal with what you want dealt with? Father, would you take your sword with your spirit and you heal and help and not hurt, hurt and wound but to heal in the long run? And we’ll thank you, Lord, for what you do. Father, I ask for that in the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen. Thank you so much for standing. You may be seated.
James 4 is a little bit of a depressing chapter, the first five verses. You’re there in James chapter number four. And we’re going to just briefly run through these first five verses, all right? James 4.
And verse number one, y’all still with me, don’t lose me. We’re trying to get somewhere quick, all right. James 4, verse number one. He says, from whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence even of your lust, the war in your members? Why do we have wars, groups of people fighting against groups of people, and fighting, that’s individuals fighting with each other? Why do we have that? Because of inner problems.
Things that wore inside of you. Sometimes you’re born with that. It’s a sin nature. Sometimes this old world has marked all over you and messed you up. But you have outward problems because you’ve got inward problems. That’s what he’s saying. Verse number one. Let’s go. Verse number two.
Verse number two, ye lust and have not. Ye kill and desire to have and cannot obtain. You fight and war, yet you have not because you ask not. People will just about do anything almost if you will kill each other to get what they want and what they think they really need, but they’ll never get what they really need unless they get close and they’ve got a close relationship with the Lord.
They begin to ask and have a prayer relationship and talk to him, and he changes what’s going on in the inside. You all follow me out there? A little quiet, but maybe we’re just trying to wrap our minds around it real quickly, and I appreciate that. That’s it. Verse number three.
You ask, all right, you’re getting where you’re asking now. You’re getting to where you’re praying and spending time with God. You ask and receive not, because you ask amiss. Amiss has to do with there’s a flaw in you’re asking. A miss that you may consume it upon your lust. You’re already realizing, all right, everything that is answers I need about me inside of me, they’re going to get answered by God. And so you’re praying, but now it’s just all about you. Do this, do this, do this, do this, do this for me. And can I say this, God’s arm is not going to be twisted by you?
And God wants you to let your request be made known unto God. He says that in Philippians 4:6. That’s right to do. But it was all about you getting what you want. Now, you got a long way to grow, buddy.
Prayer changes so many things, but maybe the biggest thing it changes us. You’re going to be a great prayer where you’re probably the greatest work is going to be inside you. By the way, that’s how you get peace and joy and love. Let’s keep going. Finally started praying, I ain’t even praying, right? It’s kind of depressing. Then verse number four.
He says, adulterers and adulteresses. Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever, therefore, will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. It’s a shame that we have such a popular, worldly Christianity today. And God said, no, no, no, wait a second. You’re not willing to let go of the world. And if you’re going to grow and I’m going to change the inside of you, bring you the peace and the joy that you really want, you’re going to have to let go of the world.
Because it’s the world that crucified Jesus, the world’s system, God allowed it. And you budding up with the enemy, that’s like, it’s like, I feel like you’re cheating on me.
It’s just a sad kind of thing. You got all this fussing and fighting because something’s going on inside. You’re never going to get you inside, right, because you’re not praying to God. Then you finally start praying to God. It’s all about you, you, you, you, and then you say, well, I’ll just hang on to the world because I’ve been trying to satisfy everything inside with the world all these years, and so you’re not willing to let go of it. God says, can’t let go of that, the world. The world. Holding this separation from the world unto God. See?
It’s kind of a sad thing. Then verse number five. Do you think that the scripture saith in vain, the spirit that dwelleth in us? By the way, I do not think he’s talking about the Holy Spirit here. I think he’s talking about our spirit. The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy. Your spirit about you. Your spirit, and you’re just so envious of everybody else.
Well, why can’t I have a marriage like that? Why can’t I have this? Why can’t I have a car? Why can’t I just all about why, why, why, why? I can’t. How bad you have it and how wonderful everybody else in your spirit just gets envious.
You follow me? To me it’s a little bit, wow, it’s just a sad first five verses. You don’t think that, y’all feel like that? To me it’s just a sad situation here. Oh, the next verse changes of all. The next verse is awesome. Verse number six, but he giveth more grace. Boy, I’m so glad for that. And looking for that.
This old preacher, you have no hope for him. But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but he giveth grace unto the humble. Number one thing, you say, preacher, what can hinder the amazing grace of God?
Power that can transform an individual. I mean, just change them. What is, what can hinder this grace of God? Pride. Pride. But God resisteth the proud. But He giveth more grace or giveth grace. Here’s the thing. I think…
Primarily James is reading to Christians. It’s Jewish people that were scattered around. He’s writing to them to us also, but specifically to them, but you and I. So let’s think about this thing. He’s talking about changing the inside of us, verse number one. That’s why I got all those problems out here because of the inside of you. And it’s kind of sad, you know, going down through this first five verses. But then he said, but God gives us more grace. In other words, the grace of God can overcome all these problems up here, right?
But the thing is, God’s not going to give us grace.
Now here’s things. So God’s trying to change us. When you got saved, friend, you’re a baby Christian, you’re born again. We’ve got a long way to grow to be like Jesus Christ. And so the spirit of God at times, he says, hey, you’ve got a flaw there. You’ve got a problem there. You’ve got a weakness there. You have a wrong mentality there. You are not like Christ.
Really in so many ways we’re like. And here’s the thing, how we respond when he tries to grow us. By the way, what does Peter say? But grow in what? Grow in grace. That’s how you grow in the Christian. But you’re not going to get this grace if you respond in pride. God resisteth the proud.
You ever seen a little boy just trying to swing it, somebody, maybe a big boy or somebody, and the big boy just got his hand on his forehead and a little boy and swing all he want. He can’t get him. He’s resisting him. And when God tries to help us to grow and he convicts us and he says, hey, you’ve got some flaws in your life, but we respond in pride. God says, no, no grace. You’re not going to grow in grace that way.
So it’s very important as I’m growing in the Christian life, and we all are, I hope you’re growing in the Christian life.
A dear lady in a Sunday school class, she said, you know, I’m thankful. She worded it very wisely. I got to make sure I word it very wisely. She worded this morning. She says, as I get more mature, I think is the word she used. See, I’m trying to be careful, you know. I’m not talking about years. But anyway, she says, as a mature, I’m glad God’s never done with me. And he’s growing me. And we ought to always be growing until the time we go home to heaven.
Unless you’re walking on water, Jesus. And so here’s the thing. As God tries to grow us and he points out flaws in our life, it’s very important that we don’t respond with pride. Because if you respond with pride, God puts his hand out, you’re not going to grow because he doesn’t give grace. He gives grace to the humble. Now, let me just for a little bit. Are y’all still out there? Are y’all stuffy? Are y’all stuff? Is this me?
This thing is, I don’t know, a couple feet taller, but man, it puts up, but it’s hot always up here, you know. Besides, there’s a lot of hot air up here. I don’t know where that’s coming from, you know. Would you please? Maybe just drop it down a little bit, too. We’ll see where it’s at there. But we don’t want to be, I mean, I’ll tell you what, Brother Joel Powers was already snoring back there. We’ve got to get him awake now, you know. But…
What does it look like, just briefly, what does it look like when we, and by the way, we all have responded in pride when God’s trying to grow us? We’ll all have. What does it look like? Well, it can look like rebellion. Saul, the man that God had made king of Israel, God had made him king, and yet he kept wanting to do things his way. He didn’t want to wait on God’s timing.
And then he didn’t want to utterly kill the Amalekites and slay them. And God sends his preacher Samuel on to correct Saul. By the God uses this people. It may be the preacher, it may be the boss, it may be your spouse, it may be your neighbor. But God a lot of times uses people, okay? And man, when Samuel came to get on to Saul,
Saul rebelled. And I want you to hear, let me just read it for you what God said to Samuel. I’m reading it for you, 1 Samuel 15:23. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft. Wow. And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Wow. Some people you just can’t tell that many things.
Well, God’s his rebellion is like somebody that worships the devil, witchcraft. And stubbornness is its iniquity and its idolatry, worshiping false gods. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he have also rejected thee from being king. Wow.
Please do not rebel when God’s trying to grow you. Don’t do that. I mentioned already that sometimes God uses our spouse to try to grow us. Sometimes it’s a husband to the wife. Sometimes it’s a wife to the husband. God often uses that. But if I respond and just rebellion, you know what’s going to happen? That’s pride. You know what happens?
Only by pride cometh contention.
Can I read for the rest of that verse? The rest of that verse is in Proverbs 13:10. But he says, only by pride cometh contention, but with the well-advised is wisdom. I think what he’s saying there, hey, look, man, you’re just responding pride. You know, God says, you’re going to have contention. It’s going to be fussing and fight, rebellion going on. But if you’ve lived long enough, hopefully you learn. You don’t mean you have to, but hopefully you’ve learned. You well advised, we all got issues. Good chance I did. I am wronged there. I probably do got problems there. Well advised is wisdom. You’re responding not out of pride but out of humility.
So what does it look like to respond in pride and rebellion? Number two, you become a scorner. Would you look over in Proverbs 21? I just want to cover these real quick. In Proverbs 21 and I feel like we ought to.
We’ve got to cover these next two things real quickly here. God’s trying to grow, and he’s trying to work out problems inside of me. And if I respond in pride, there’s no grace, there’s resistance, and I’m not going to grow. And it’s sad to see Christians stuck. They’ve been stuck there for 20, 30 years, 40, 50 years, they’re never growing beyond that because of pride.
And they respond with rebellion or sometimes this, Proverbs 21. Would you look at verse number 24? Proverbs 21:24. Y’all there, amen? Good deal real quickly. Proud and haughty, what’s the next word there? Scorner is his name who dealeth in proud wrath. Very quickly here.
Be angry and sin not, let not the sun go down upon your wrath. Anger is that, you know, Brother Ben said something mean. I’m mad at him, I lash out in anger. But if I don’t maybe deal with that and it just kind of inside and it smolders in me, that’s wrath. Now, when it comes to scorner, a lot of times, it comes from a leader.
Not always, but a lot of times it’s a leader of authority. It could even be parents or not. But scorners, someone deals in proud wrath, so they’ve been hurt somehow, and they’ve got this wrath inside, and then you get proud wrath, proud plus wrath equals a scorner.
And so what they do is spend their life just growing around critiquing everybody, criticizing everybody. Everybody’s problem, the preacher’s problem, and the husband’s problem, and the wife’s problem, and the schoolteacher’s problem, and the boss’s problem, and the government’s problem, and everybody’s problem. And they just spend their life critiquing everybody. They’re scorner.
You can’t really correct this scorn. Now, you have to deal with scorners sometimes, but not for the scorn, they don’t listen. For the simple, so the simple will be clear. See? It’s very important. Now, you’re already in Proverbs, looking at chapter number three. Proverbs 3, verse number 34. Proverbs 3:34. Proverbs 3:34.
Surely, y’all are trying to hurry along here. Now, I remember talking about God’s trying to change us so we can get what we need inside, trying to grow us. James chapter 4, but you respond to pride, you’ll resist it. You won’t get great, you won’t grow. And sometimes pride reveals itself as being a scorner. Proud wrath. And here’s what happens. Very sad thing, right, very sad right. Proverbs 3:34. Surely he scorneth the scorners. That’s sad when God scorns you because he knows everything. He knows I wake up with so many flaws. And when I become a scorner, surely he scorneth the scorners. But, who, I like this, he giveth grace unto the lowly man.
So yes, you’ve been hurt, and I’m not trying to make light of that. You’ve been wounded, and there may be a major issue in your life. Maybe your parents are divorced when you’re young. Maybe you’ve been touched in the wrong way. And I’m not making light of any of these things, but just major events have happened in your life. But can I say, please do not respond in proud wrath because you don’t get grace and you never learn and grow, and you’re wounded for them.
But if I respond humbly, Lord, I don’t understand all this. I don’t like all this. It’s killing me, God. But I need your help. I’ve got flaws in my life because these past things in my life. And Lord, help me through this. I don’t think or act like I got it all together. I messed up, Lord. God says, I give you grace.
He’s got grace for everything you’ve got. But he gives more grace. But I cannot respond in pride. Sometimes that looks like rebellion. Sometimes that looks like scorning. Another thing real quickly here. Sometimes it just, I’m going to use this term, you’re more of what we call the avoidant. You don’t want to deal with it. It’s too painful to deal with this.
This flaw in your life so you’re always, if I can bury it deep enough, nobody will ever know about it. Friend, something inside of you is not right and you only have a peace. You don’t have the joy God wants you to have. God won’t be able to change you, but you’re just trying to push it down, down.
In Ephesians, we mentioned that verse, be ye angry, that’s usually more of the, anybody ever heard, you ever heard of the term fighter, flight, anybody ever heard of that term? You deal with things and you know there’s two types of people, fighter or flight. Well, fighter is anger. Be ye angry and sin not. You can deal with it without sinning. Be ye angry and sin not.
Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. Deal with it. Don’t live in denial. Don’t spend the rest of your life. I’m good. It’s their fault. There’s no problem. I’m always amazed when I’m talking sometimes. I think it’s a specific situation. Won’t be wise about it. But they’re like, I’m way over there. I’m fine. I’m like, wow, you’re fine.
Okay. If you really, really think so. And avoidant is like a weird twist of pride. Because it’s about me. I don’t want to admit where I got some flaws. But we all got flaws.
We’ve got to hurry along here. Let me just briefly, just briefly, how to open the floodgates of grace. It’s amazing grace. We’re singing sometime. Amazing grace. It’s wonderful. It’s awesome. How can you just get, we’re going to cover another thing next Sunday morning, but how can you just get the flood gates, the doors wide open for grace to flow in your life?
Number one, admit your fault. That’s humility. He gives grace and the humble. Can I be honest with you just for a second? If you get anything, just for a second here. Nobody has an S on their chest. There’s no super Christians out there. If there’s an S, it’s a sinner saved by grace. Amen. There never has been a horse that cannot be ridden, never has been a cowboy that cannot be knocked off. We’re all for all people.
Every single one of us. And the sooner we just kind of get that, we’re messed up. We need the grace of God. God’s the grace you need. That’s when people don’t have that attitude, that spirit. Friend, that’s when you get stuck. For 20, 30 years, you never grow a bit in the world because God cannot. He resisted the proud. But you just, man, I messed up. Hey, can I be honest with you, if you knew your pastor well enough, you’d say, man, I got so messed up.
My wife says amen right there, you know.
All of us are there. Years ago, I remember we had, I think it was a Valentine’s Bank, one of the old buildings that a pastor came in and preached the Valentine Bank when we had the testimonies or something at the end. And boy, people were very open that night about their flaws and their problems. And that pastor, when he left, he gave me wise advice. He said, man, if you can keep that spirit in your young church or two people who just open and kind of honestly got flaws. I’m not saying tell all the world your problems, but you just had that spirit.
Boy, God can really do something here. It’s just, we all got it. We all do. And I just admit that, hey, I’m opening up the doors of grace. Can I say this, responding not in pride, but in humility, admit it got flaws. Number two, let me say this, stop looking at everybody else. Well, look at their problem, look at their problem, look at their problem. You know what we’re doing? We’re trying to get everybody looking at everybody else when we got a whole boatload of problems.
Stop looking at anybody else. Sure they got problems just like you do. And if I’m spending my life pointing out their problems, friend, that’s proud and God resists and God says, I can’t grow you beyond where you’re at.
Just say, you know, I’m not going to spend my time. Look at everybody. Can I say this? I’m trying to be wise. But, you know, Narc. Everybody has heard the term narcissistic or narcissists. The majority of people here, they always have someone to blame.
They’re all, and usually they’re the hero, they’re hurting, or excuse me, they’re helping the person that’s all got all the blame. And so I’ve got to help them out and they look like the hero, almost always. Not every time, but typically in the family, you know, the one that’s, we’ve been helping them for years. Usually that’s the narcissist person saying all that. For him, stop, stop looking at everybody else. Look at you. We all got problems.
Almost always. Remember the Pharisee and the publican over there in Luke 18? Remember the Pharisee? Lord, I pray, I thank you. I’m not like them people over there, those publicans. Taking everybody’s money and just ripping people off and, man, they just never deal. They’ve got problems. And then the publican, he was messed up, the sinner.
He wouldn’t even look up. He said, Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner. I got problems. And God said, that’s the man that went home justified. There’s more grace.
You’re not so flawed that the grace of God. He said, come, let us reason together, saith the Lord. I love that over in Isaiah. He’s invited, come on over here. God Almighty says, I’ll talk with you. He’s God. He knows everything, but he said, I’ll reason. Come, let us reason together, said the Lord. Well, your sins be as scarlet. They should be as white as snow. Wow, what a God. He said, come on over here.
Peanut beings, you know, our brain is about like a peanut comparison of God. You know, and I say, come on over here. I’ll reason with you. Come into me. Come into you. Come in to you. All you have that labor or heavy laden. I’ll give you rest. His grace can’t handle anything. When I just come humbly, I got flaws. I got problems. I’m not pointing out everybody else’s the problem. It’s me. It’s me. It’s me. Oh, Lord. Staying in the need of prayer.
And then you say, see, here’s the end of that. It’s not about full. Look at us, man. We got it all together. It’s about him. He’s the one of doing it all. It’s a different mindset. It’s so important. By the way, you see how gracious as he is.
The more you see how gracious He is, the more you’re willing to just be open and honest with you. I got problems. God says, yeah, I know. I’ve been waiting for you admit that. But I got more grace. God can grow you then. I mean, you can say, well, I’m not what I used to be. Yes, some say I’ve got to say 20 or 30 years ago, but I mean, on that, I’m not what I was a year ago. God’s doing something in my life.
He’s changing me, he’s growing me, and the grace of God’s doing it. And it’s a blessing. You look at the mirror and say, wow, I love it. God’s doing something in me. I’m not stagnant. I’m not just, you know, stagnant. And sometimes you get so of the pressure to go down here. Actually, God’s doing something. And I love it. It’s God. He gives more grace. It’s all how I respond.
I thought about my dad and we’re going to be done. Ladies, you can put your shoes back on. We’re about done. Amen, you know. But I thought about my dad. I’ve heard him say these things. This is before I was born, but I’ve heard him say it many, many times of his own mouth. He’d say, he used to smoke, drink, curse, all the rest of that. And he’d say, I used to think, man, I’m going to turn over a new leaf, and then I’m going to get saved.
And I’ve heard my dad said many times. He said, I tried. I tried. But one day I realized God loved me like I was, messed up, and received Jesus as his personal savior. And the mighty grace of God transformed that man. And he overcame those things that list off.
The grace of God when he just came to gracious God. Would you bow your heads and close your eyes this morning?
I guarantee you every single one of us we have growing to do, all of us do. I have so much to do. And God Almighty, he’s trying to grow you. The Spirit of God, he points out, these are guides in all truth. And it’s so vital that we respond, not in pride, but in humility. And just admitting, oh, my goodness, Lord, you’re right.
I got problems and you’re just honest about it. You respond humbly and he gives more grace. And preach, I want to respond. I want the Lord to know. I would like to grow. I like you to change me. And when you point out my problems, I’m not going to get defensive and proud or rebellious and scorn or avoid it. I’m going to face it in humility.
And God spoke to my heart about that. I want to respond humbly, and I want the grace of God to grow me. God spoke to my heart about that this morning. If that you just lift your head and then you just lift it up all across the auditorium, all across. Me too, me too, me too. Before I was a preacher, pastor, past whatever, I’d be at the altar every time. It seemed like every time because God speaks my heart, and you think that’s the worst guy in the world than I am in some ways.
But I was so thankful I needed God to point him out, and I still need God to point it out. Such a good thing when he does. That’s a wonderful thing. Maybe you hear this morning, you say, preacher, I’ve never accepted the grace of God at salvation. The Bible says, for by grace are ye saved through faith? And that not of yourself. It is the gift of God, not of works lest any man should boast.
And I need to be saved, born again, transformed by the grace of God. I need to accept the grace of God that Jesus paid for me as my salvation, my ticket to heaven. Preacher, I need the grace of God at salvation. If that’s you this morning, you slip your hand in that. Preacher, I need the grace of God at salvation. I need to be saved, born again, become a child of God. Slip it up, anybody, anybody. Just slip it up. Oh, he loves you.
He’d love to give you His grace and save you this morning. If you’re a morning and Christian, would you just come and say, hey, Lord, help me to respond humbly when you grow me. I’d like to grow. I hope you want to grow in grace. Would you please stand? We’re going to have a word of prayer. We won’t be long. Would you come, just be obedient. Respond as he wants. Let the grace of God grow you this morning. Help me, Lord, to respond properly. Forgive me, Lord, so many times that I get the big head. I get proud of all that. Help me. Help us not to respond. Help us respond humbly and receive your grace. Lord, and I pray this year it would be a growing year for us as individuals. Help us respond right. See, in Jesus’ name we ask. Amen.
Would you be obedient? Lord, speaking to your heart about coming old fashioned on. Would you do that? Would you do that? Come spend some time. Lord, help me respond to humbly. That is always me. God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace. Give him grace unto the humble.
You’ve got an issue in your life, maybe a sin you’re trying to overcome, maybe in your marriage, you can’t get past the point? Can I just suggest go to God, say, I need help? I don’t want to be proud. I want to just own up to, man, I need help. I don’t want to blame everybody else. Lord, please change me, grow me. I’m coming to you as a child. I need grace. He’s got the grace.
You say, I’ll never overcome this. It’s been a lifelong, sinful habit of my life. I can’t overcome that. Oh, but he giveth more grace. He giveth more grace. I don’t know how many people God have watched the grace that God helped them overcome the bottle. One of the hardest things sometimes is cigarettes. And how many people, God helped them overcome. Just coming humbly. Humbly.
Asking for grace. He’s got it available. Would you let him know that as we sing another verse? Just as I am, pitiful and blind, sight reaches he.
All the grace you need. He’s got it. D. L. Moody used to say, someone will never leave from God empty-handed, except they came to God full of themselves. You just come humble at needing his grace. He’s got it. It’s very gracious. That’s why people grow. They just grow and become…
I mean, man, they’re growing. And it’s by that responding right when the Spirit of God tries to take you to another level. So glad you’re here this morning and make sure you’re back in your place tonight. And just because preachers a little bit long doesn’t mean you’re covered for tonight also, right? You know, it’s two different services. And praise the Lord, let’s spend some time just thanking God for the victory in Roe versus Wade last year. What a victory that was. Praise the Lord for it. That’s just, just awesome. We want to thank God for it. Good to have our guests with us today. Thank for being with us, every person. Praise the Lord for it. We’re glad to have you here today. And while of us. Brother Phil, would you dismiss word of prayer, please, brother?
Original File: He giveth more grace - Pastor Paul Chisgar - Sunday AM 1152023