# He giveth more grace

Category: Grace
Key Passage: James 4
Speaker: Paul Chisgar
Date: May 13, 2025

Turn your Bible, if you would, to James, chapter number four. James chapter number four in God’s word this morning. And the first Sunday of the month of this year, I am trying to preach on the subject of grace. That’s our theme this year: “By Grace.”

And you say, well, Pastor, this isn’t the first Sunday of the month. This is the second Sunday of the month. But your pastor was backslid and was out of town last Sunday. And I know Brother Wallace did a wonderful job. I was preaching elsewhere, very seldom do that. And so for me, this is the first Sunday of the month at Rutherford County Baptist Church. We’re going to go back to the subject of grace. I love this subject. It’s my favorite subject in all the Bible.

And I loved all the songs this morning about grace. They’re just awesome. Wonderful grace of Jesus. I kind of told the Lord after one of those songs, I said, “Man, I love it. I need it.” And it just seemed like the Lord said, “You have it. And you do too. You have all the grace you need.” And for just a bit, we’re going to be on that subject. James chapter four. We’re going to just kind of glance down.

Verse one through verse number five. All right, we’re just going to glance at it and kind of get the topic of each of those verses, and then verse six will be our text verse in just a minute. We’ll have you stand, as we do that, trying to show the Word of God respect. Let’s just glance, though. Would you do that? Just kind of look at this chapter a little bit. Verse number one right there, he’s talking there. He says, “From whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?” Can’t just kind of narrow it down or put a summary over: you have all this outside fighting because problems are on the inside, whether it be wars, a group of people fighting against each other, or, you know, one person fighting against another person at all, because something inside is not right. That’s kind of summarized the verse.

Then verse number two, he says, “You lust and have not, you kill, and desire to have.” You fight and war, yet—you know, it said out loudly—here we go: “yet, you have not, because you…” He said, you get all these inside problems that create the outside problems, but really the root of it is you need to be praying. You know, it’s amazing. We get things from God through prayer, but really prayer changes us.

It’s amazing how prayer can just change. I think of a man; he’s a good man, but he’s a little bit scattered and very fidgety, and everybody around him gets fidgety after a while. I’m not just saying physically, but just emotionally and mentally he’s like that, you know. And I watched for a while, it seemed like, best I could tell. And outside, look at him, he had a real good prayer time, and I watched him for a while just calm down. His wife and his kids seem so much happier, and his kids just were glad to be around their dad. Prayer, prayer will change you.

Verse number one, man, you got all these inner problems. Verse number two, you don’t pray. Then verse number three, kind of a sad thing here. Verse number three: “You ask and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it upon your own lusts.” Now you’re finally praying, but it’s all about you. You’re just trying to twist the arm of God and get everything you want: me, me, me, me. Nothing wrong with letting your requests be made known to God; that’s the biblical thing. But it was just all about you and what you want. And none of that, you know, “Not my will, but thine be done, Lord; I’d rather you get your way.” It’s just all about you. You finally pray, but you’re just all about you and what you want type of thing. Kind of sad.

Verse number four, let’s keep going. Now, y’all still with me out there? We’re just glancing through it real quickly here. Stick with me. Stick with me over there. Come on now. Verse number four, he says, “You adulterers and adulteresses.” Boy, that’s strong language. People cheating. When he says that, it breaks the heart of the spouse. Strong language. “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.” Wow.

You know, those inward problems, and that’s called an outward fighting, and then you’re really—the root—you’re not praying. Once you do pray, it’s all about you. And now he says, now you’re going to the world to get all your problems solved. And God says, “You’re my child, and you’re going to the world system that killed my Son, and it breaks my heart.” That’s what’s going on. It’s just kind of a sad situation here. Let’s keep going, verse number five.

“Do you think that the scripture saith in vain, ‘The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy’?” And I don’t think he’s talking about the Holy Spirit. It’s not a capital S, no, and on. I think it’s talking about the spirit in us. We just get where we’re always wanting. We’re just to the point we can never be satisfied. We want more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, and we’re never happy.

By the way, us as Americans, we’re so blessed. But sometimes we’re not careful. We can have so much, and we’re never satisfied. We always want more. It’s kind of a sad connotation. It’s just sad what’s going on here. To me, a little bit of the first part of chapter four gets darker and darker. Like, man, is there any hope? In verse number two, you know, all right, pray, you know, and then they start praying all about themselves. Just kind of a sad thing, but it all changes. It all changes in the next verse. Would you do this—we try to do that they did in the book of Nehemiah—would you stand for our text? Read our text for just a minute. We’ll stand, read one verse, and then we’ll pray. You’ll only be standing for a minute here.

Verse number six, it all changes. I love verse number six. It was just kind of depressing a little bit. Then he says, verse number six, “But he giveth more grace.” Oh, I like that. By the way, we’ve been doing a lot of grace preaching and whatnot. What’s the definition we’ve given? Grace—you know the acronym, those letters—help me on if you know it. Let’s say it out loud: God’s riches at Christ’s expense. That’s our great definition: God’s riches at Christ’s expense.

Man, it’s just kind of depressing. But he giveth more—God’s riches at Christ’s expense. I don’t deserve them. Well, they’re at Christ’s expense. I like that. “But he giveth more grace, wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud.” Every once in a while, and I don’t want to be judgmental, or I try not to be, but maybe I’ll be dealing with someone, and I’ll think, “Boy, they’re just so proud.” And we, you know, it’s in the office, whatnot, and so you’ve got to try to help, whatnot, and try to look at it. And I don’t try not to be judgmental, and I mean that. I’m like, “Boy, I hope they change because God resists the proud.” Wow. Worry of it. Oh, my goodness, this is not good. “God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.” Just a little bit, we’re going to try to focus on this: He giveth more grace. Would you pray that the Lord would speak to your heart about this great, great truth? Would you do that?

Lord, I know I cannot get the job done. There’s just no way for every single person here, young people here, and just all of us. Lord, I pray that you could do it. Would you take maybe just a phrase, at least some of the message, and speak to every single individual here today? Would you do that, Father? Would you send your Spirit by your grace, moving and working in our midst? And, Lord, we’ll brag on you for what you do because it belongs to you, and we’ll thank you for it. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen.

I’m going to start off with a story. Some of you have heard me read this. I think over the years I’ve read it twice to our congregation. It just fits so good with what we’re trying to get across about this grace. Stick with me here, all right? Everyone, everyone try to listen. Guys on the front row, everybody try to listen up with me here. Here we go.

He said this: “I never dreamed that taking a child to Disney World—now that’s back in the day—to Disney World could be such a difficult task, or that such a trip could teach me so much about God’s amazing grace.” Our middle daughter had been previously adopted by another family. I’m sure this couple had the best intentions, but they never quite integrated the adopted child into their family of biological children. After a couple of rough years, they dissolved the adoption, and we ended up welcoming an eight-year-old girl into our home. For one reason or another, whenever our daughter’s previous family vacationed at Disney World, they took their biological children with them, but they left their adopted daughter with a family friend. Usually, at least in the child’s mind, it’s happy because she did something wrong that precluded her presence on the trip. And so by the time we adopted our daughter, she had seen many pictures of Disney World, and she had heard about the rides and the characters and the parades. But when it came to passing through the gates of Magic Kingdom, she had always been the one left on the outside.

Once I found out about this history, I made plans to take her to Disney World the next time a speaking engagement took our family to the southeast part of the United States. I thought I’d mastered the Disney World drill. By the way, if you can do that, that’s saying something. I’ll tell you for sure. I have a good wallet for one thing. I knew from previous experiences that the prospect of seeing cast members in freakish, oversized mouse and duck costumes somehow turns children into squeamish bundles of emotional instability. What I didn’t expect was that the prospect of visiting this dream world would produce a stream of downright devilish behavior in our newest daughter. In the month leading up to the trip to the Magic Kingdom, she stole food when a simple request would have gained her a snack. She lied when it would have been easier to tell the truth. She whispered insults that were carefully crafted to hurt her older sister as deeply as possible. And as the days on the calendar moved closer to the trip, her mutinies multiplied. A couple of days before our family headed to Florida,

I pulled our daughter into my lap to talk through her last escapade. And this is what happened. She said, “I know what you’re going to do. You’re not going to take me to Disney World, are you?” The thought hadn’t actually crossed my mind, but her downward spiral suddenly started to make some sense. She knew, since she couldn’t earn her way into the Magic Kingdom—she had tried and failed the last several times before—so she was living in a way that placed her as far as possible from this magical place on earth. In retrospect, I’m embarrassed to admit it, but in that moment, I was tempted to turn her fear to my own advantage. The easy response would have been, “If you don’t start behaving better, you’re right, we won’t take you.” But by God’s grace, I didn’t. Instead, I asked her, “Is this trip something we’re doing as a family?” She nodded, brown eyes wide, tear-rimmed. “Yes.” “Are you a part of this family?” She nodded again. “Yes.” “Then you’re going with us. Sure, there may be some consequences to help you remember what’s right and what’s wrong, but you’re part of our family, and we’re not leaving you behind.”

I’d like to say that her behavior grew better after that moment. It didn’t. Her choices pretty much fouled out of control at every hotel and rest stop all the way down to Lake Guinevista. Still, we headed to Disney World on the day we had promised, and it was a typical Disney day: overpriced tickets (you can say amen there), overpriced meals, lots of lines, mixed with just enough manufactured magic to consider maybe going back again someday. (And this is written years ago, by the way.) In her hotel room that evening, a very different child emerged. She was exhausted, a little reflective, a little weepy at times, but her month-long facet of rebellion had faded. When bedtime rolled around, I prayed with her, held her, and asked her, “So, how was your first day at Disney World?” She closed her eyes, snuggled down into her stuffed unicorn. After a few moments, she opened her eyes ever so slightly and said, “Daddy, I finally got to go to Disney World.” That story makes me cry. Let me go back. “Daddy, I finally got to go to Disney World. But it wasn’t because I was good. It’s because I’m yours.”

Friend, you don’t get grace because you’re good. If you got grace that way, you wouldn’t need grace. You get grace because you belong to Him. Friend, the devil will do all he can to keep you away from the grace that God has available for you. Did you hear that? Did you hear that? Young people, did you hear that? The devil will do all he can to keep you away from the grace that God has available for you. He’ll tell you things like this: He’ll tell you you don’t deserve it. And he’s right, but it’s still available. Friend, these folks here in the book of James, they for sure didn’t deserve it. If you read verses one through five, they were pretty miserable. And it doesn’t say they changed everything. It just starts off in verse number six when he says, “But he…” Notice that next word. Wait, I mean, what is it? “But he…” You don’t earn it. He gives it. He resisteth the proud, but he what? He giveth grace… No, no, you don’t earn it. If you had to earn it, it would not be grace.

And the devil will tell you, “You haven’t prayed like you ought to, so you don’t deserve grace.” Friend, you’re not going to get grace because you’re some great prayer warrior. You’re going to get grace because God is a great, gracious, answering prayer God. Grace—it’s available. It’s available for you when you’re not what you ought to be. “Well, I haven’t witnessed. I know I need to, and you need to.” But, friend, you’re not going to get grace by becoming all that. You’re going to get grace because God giveth more grace. Friend, that’s the key. Satan—listen to me, somebody this way, I can’t remember who it was, but they were talking, and it just seemed like Satan was on them. And I told them, “Satan is good at nitpicking you. And he’s going to find every little flaw in you, every little bit of pride.” He’s the Accuser of the brethren, one of the titles of the devil is. And he’s going to find every little thing wrong with you. And he’s going to take that thing and he’s going to blow it up and magnify it. Do you believe that? And what his goal is to keep you away from a God that will give you the grace to overcome that problem in your life.

But he’ll nitpick you. You’ll get up in the morning and you’ll have all these bad thoughts about how miserable and how poor and how wretched you are. Have you ever had that? If you’re honest, I think all of us have. Raise your head. You know, come on now. We’ve been there. And Satan will nitpick you, but the Bible here says, “God giveth.” You don’t earn it. He giveth more grace. Now, let me share a couple of problems with this thought pattern that’s just kind of ingrained in us in this world in our day and time—that we earn grace. Look, if you will, over in Romans, Romans chapter number 11. Four problems with us trying to earn grace.

Look over in Romans 11 in verse number 6, if you would please. A great passage. And it could be about grace for salvation. It could be about grace for many things in your life: grace for you to be victorious, grace for you to be the husband, the wife, the mom, the dad that you want to be. Gracious. But look at the truth here. It’s a wonderful truth. Romans 11, and look in verse number six. When you’re there, would you say amen, please? Watch what he says: “And if by grace, [God’s riches at Christ’s expense, someone will call it unmerited favor] then it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.” Did you get that? If you’re adding works, you’ve got to work, you’ve got to do something to deserve it. God says it’s no longer grace. Did you get that? Now let’s finish it up. He says, “If it be by grace, no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.” You see, if you try to add grace into works, that is no more you working or earning it. In other words, friend, you can’t mix the two. They’re contradicting to one another. If I earn it, then it takes it out of the realm of grace; it’s no more grace.

Look, friend, if you’ve got to be just perfect—first of all, better give it up, first of all. Well, only one did that, and he walked on the water. And then if you had to do all this stuff to earn it, let me say this: There are a couple of problems with us trying to earn grace. That’s number one: It is no longer grace if you had to work for it. Number two, back over there in James, where you’re at, James 4, verse number 6. Notice what he says there. He starts on that verse number six. I like that. It’s just kind of depressing. Then in verse number six: “But he giveth more grace.” Watch what he says now. Watch the subject he goes to: “Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.” Let me read one verse before it. Second Peter 3:18, if you take a note: “But grow in what? Grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” To Him be glory both now and forever. Amen. Here’s what I’m getting at—I think Scripture is getting at: If you’re working for it, then at the end of the day, you get the glory, and we’re prone to pride. God resists the proud. See? That’s why I said grow in grace at the end of that, so to Jesus be all the glory. The glory belongs to Jesus because it’s God’s riches at Christ’s expense. See, it’s not about you and how good you are and how perfect you are and how wonderful you are. It’s about how wonderful and gracious and good the Lord is. But the end of it is just, “Me, I did all this,” and I look at me. That’s what I did for God. That’s pride. But if you say, “You know, I didn’t earn it. God’s just been gracious,” the end of that is God gets the glory. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Problems with it: If I got to earn it, it’s no longer grace. If I got to earn it, typically I’m going to get proud. Or I say this awful thing—it’s going to be pride, or soon enough you get proud, then what happens? You fall. Then after you fall, you know, it happens: pity. “Oh, oh, it’s me, how bad it is. Let me go find some worms and eat them in the corner and die,” you know, that type of thing. Yeah, that’s what we’re prone to.

Another problem with this thing—it’s kind of right in front of your nose and in front of your face type thing, you know. Problems with us earning grace is if we had to earn it, none of us could do it. James, you’re in the book of James. Look over James chapter number two. Look in James chapter number two, and look in verse number 10. James 2, verse number 10. He says right there, “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.” Kind of puts me out of the running, amen. Puts us all out of the running. If you got to earn grace, the best you can do is filthy rags. You’re doomed, friend. No, you don’t earn grace. He giveth more grace for you, for today, right now. There is grace for you, every single person. And by the way, you say, “Well, you know, it’s for the lost.” It is for the lost, but it’s for the saved too. You serve Him by grace, for Him. Yeah. You’re sustained by grace. It’s for every single person here.

If you got to earn it, you’re just… By the way, that’s why people that believe in a works-based salvation, they’re never sure. “Well, what do you have to do?” “Well, you got to do these five rules. You got to do the sacraments. You got to do all these things,” you know. “Have you done them all?” “Yeah, did you do them perfectly?” “Well, you know, and what do you do to go to heaven?” You’ve got to be good, basically. We can kind of wrap it up: just be good enough to go to heaven. Well, are you good enough? You’re either going to be honest and say, “No, I’m not good enough,” or you’re always saying, “I don’t know if I’m good enough. I’m trying.” There’s never just assurance. One of our men told me that yesterday; he was talking to someone trying to give assurance of salvation. And he showed him that passage, 1 John 5:13: “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that ye may know—know—that ye have eternal life.” Man, it’s just… I know I’m going to heaven. I know I’m saved. Why? Because I’m not earning the grace. I got the grace by Jesus. Big difference.

Then the last thought here: If I got to earn grace, if I got to earn it, it takes the love out of it. A couple months ago—I don’t know, maybe six months ago—my neighbor had a tree fall in his yard, some limbs. If I remember correctly, there were some limbs, and the storm was coming. He was afraid the whole tree was going to fall. He had his camper over there, whatnot, and he needed help. So I was glad to go over there. You know, if you live close to me, don’t let me know what kind of tools you have; I might borrow them, you know. And I borrowed some of his tools, but he’s a good neighbor. We try to do for each other, you know. And so I knew he needed help. So I got my chainsawing over there. I mean, I was glad to help him. It was just… He did for me. I was glad to do it, even if he hadn’t done anything for me. He’s a good guy. And at the end of that, he said—he calls me Pastor Paul typically, whatnot—he said, “Let me, let me give you some money.” I said, “No, I don’t want that.” He said, “No, no, let me do something. I want to do something.” So, no. And I was being sincere. If he had had more money, I’d have taken it. No, I haven’t. I don’t know what he gave me, but sincerely, it would have taken away from it. I said, “Man, don’t do that, Mark. I’m glad to do it for you.” So if you give me something, Mark—and he has done it before, you know, we do something for him, put something on our doorstep—and we don’t want it. I said, “Mark, if you give me something, it’s going to take away from it. Don’t rob me of a blessing. Mark, let me do it for you.” And you see the mentality: “God, I want to earn everything from you.” And God says, “I’m giving it to you. You’re not all that. The honest truth is that my Son earned it for you, and I gave my Son out of love.” See?

And then, when you learn that grace you’re getting, you don’t deserve, you know what that does? That shows us how much He loves us. And the Bible says, “We love Him because He first loved us.” By the way, the grace of God doesn’t teach you to live in sin and ungodliness. I know that. The Bible says the grace of God teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, that we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world. If you’re truly following the grace of God and the Bible, you don’t go out and do everything you want to do. Man, it makes you say, “Man, He loves me. I want to give my life to Him.” It doesn’t cause you to go out and do evil. You can say there are no rules and all this, but man, I want to do the best I can to follow Him and to please Him because I know He loves me because He gives me grace every day of my life. That’s true biblical grace. It’s not this thing in our day and time where people say this grace has taught so much you can go drink and curse and smoke and do whatever you want. Everything’s wonderful. No. If you’re truly following the grace of God, you say, “I want to.” It’s not grievous. Nobody’s making me do them. I want to bring my life in line with what He wants for me. That’s what the grace of God does for you.

Well, the devil will nitpick you, and you’ll say, “Man, you didn’t use your mouth, and you said this, that, and the other.” And then you say, “Devil, you’re right, but I’ve asked forgiveness, and God’s giving me grace even when my tongue’s not perfect.” You know what? You’re not going to say, “Well, I’m going to say whatever I want to.” No. If you’re truly understanding the love and the grace of God, you say, “I want to.” The next time, Lord, that makes me want to live and control my tongue so much better next time. That’s the true grace of God. That’s what works. Nobody browbeats you. It’s just, “Man, I love Him. He loves me. I want to give everything I have for Him.” I get up every morning by His grace. I walk by it. I get answers to prayer by His grace. I’m filled with the Spirit, not because of my own merit, but because of His grace. Everything is the grace of God. You say, “I want to please a God like that. I want to serve Him. I gladly give my life for Him.” That’s the Christian life. But such a sad state we are in, but God says, “But He giveth.” He giveth. He giveth. You don’t earn it. He gives it. One other word, and we’re going to go home…

Or excuse me, you’re going to go and take your mom out to eat. Amen. Pray, Lord, my brother’s here, one of my brothers here today, so we’re going to take Mom out to eat, and Steve’s going to pay for both of us today. Amen. I’m teasing. He does pay for Mom, but he didn’t have to, but we’re going to go out, we’re going to take Mom out to eat. Amen.

One other word, one other word, just real quickly here. Notice what he says in James 4, verse number 6. Notice what it says: “But he giveth…” What’s the next word? “More grace.” Wow. Yes, the fact is He gives it, but now He just puts the emphasis: He gives more grace. I love this truth from the Word of God. You know, God’s not bound by today. What is today? May 11th? May 11th, 2025. I won’t be able to live May 12th until tomorrow. But God today can go into tomorrow. Fact, God today can go into next week. Fact, God can even go back into last week.

Isaiah 57:15 says this about God: “He inhabiteth eternity.” And it’s amazing, all at the same time He inhabits. And it’s kind of hard for us finite people to grasp an infinite God. Praise the Lord, for the Bible gives us a little light on it all. Another passage: He says He knows the end from the beginning. Several times the Bible talks about the foreknowledge of God. People who get mixed up on this Calvinism stuff, they just forget about the foreknowledge of God. He inhabits eternity. He knows the choices and decisions you and I will make. And here’s a good thing about it—an illustration. How many of you… Okay, don’t raise your hand for this. Maybe you’ve heard of it. You’ve not participated. I need to participate in it. But you’ve heard of these diet programs where they have your meals already prepared and they deliver them to you. How many of you have heard of that? All right? How many of you practice? No, I don’t do that. It’s amazing. They got it all. They, if you will, know what you need to eat tomorrow, Monday, and Tuesday, and they got it all.

And God, in His foreknowledge, knows the grace you need for every day of your life. And Jesus, when He was dying on the cross, He was paying for your sins, and He was purchasing all the grace you will ever need for every single day of your life. And you wake up, if you will, and it’s at your doorstep: the grace you need for today. It’s amazing. That’s why He says over there in 2 Corinthians 8:9, “For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.” Now, in our society, we think of riches as money. It may be, but there are so many things a lot more valuable than money: health, a good marriage, good kids, joy, God using you for eternity. But it’s at Christ’s expense, and He’s got all that available. Everything you’ll need. Everything you’ll need.

I’m going to wind it down. It’s Mother’s Day. We don’t want to be too late on Mother’s Day, because praise the Lord for our moms, and we don’t want moms mad at us either, amen. But you know, it’s a sad thing, but a lot of people do without the grace of God. It’s available. Every day of their life, it’s available for them. So many people do without; they don’t get the grace that’s available. Sometimes lost people—a lot of lost people—never get saved, and the grace is available. A lot of saved people never become what God wants them to become because they don’t use the grace that’s available. Paul even talks about how the grace wasn’t in vain in his life. Typically, there’s one of two problems. One: They don’t get the grace because of lack of faith. They just don’t believe it’s there. They won’t trust God; they trust themselves, everything in this world. And they just don’t believe that God will give His grace to an undeserving person like all of us, but He giveth more grace.

It’s a sad thing. Romans 5:2 talks about it. They have access to the grace they are standing in—talking about people that are saved. Verse 5, verse 1 talks about saved people, verse 2. He says these saved people, they are staying in this field of grace, but they do have access to that grace by faith. A lot of lost people never get saved because they won’t put their faith in Jesus Christ. Then the second thing: we don’t have the grace that’s available for us every day because of our lack of faith. And then number two, because of our pride. We just have this mentality, “I’m going to pull myself up by my bootstraps.” Well, how’s that doing for you?

No, no friend. By the way, if you start diving into God and into the Bible, somebody was talking yesterday about the Old Testament, how, boy, it’s just boom, poach, oh… When you start really getting close to God, you realize there’s no hope in me becoming all that, and you become humble. And God gives grace to the humble. Several years back, we had not purchased the property over there. And probably six years ago, I would ride by that property, and drool would come out of my mouth, you know. “Boy, look at that property right there,” you know. And I had a GMC Sierra pickup truck, but it was only two-wheel drive. And it had been raining—not that day, but the day or two before. It was still wet on that property. And I thought, well, you know, it’s up for sale, whatnot, and surely I won’t get arrested if I just drive on there, you know. And so I, without permission—I need to come to the altar here in a bit, you know—I drove on that property in my two-wheel-drive pickup truck. Sure enough.

I’m out there. It’s 15 acres at the time. I only have 13 now, but 15 acres. I’m back on the backside of the 15 acres. And, you know, it’s just a bad feeling when your tires start spinning. Yeah, you know, man, I’m stuck right in the middle of this property right now. So, you know, you stop, right? Don’t make it worse. You know, figure out, put it in reverse, you know. And the problem was I started spinning in reverse. And then I put it back in drive, and then you try to get rocking. Well, that’s hard with the automatic. You know, in the old shift days, you could do this. You know, you try all that. And then you get out and look if there’s any boards and things around, you know. And nothing. Finally, I called Brother Anthony, who was here. I said, “Brother Anthony, bring the church van over with some wood and some shovels.” Don’t bring the van on the property over here, you know. And he came. We had shovels. We would dig for about 30 minutes, 45 minutes, and get about two or three feet down, you know, and then we’re digging again. And finally—and I think Brother Anthony had to leave, whatnot—finally I said, “You know what? I knew a guy.” A couple problems with it: He has a big—here’s one of the problems—Ford Excursion. That’s just humbling for us guys, you know. It’s diesel, heavy, four-wheel drive, had good tires on it. And I knew Bruce Simple; he’d be glad. He would love to pull my Chevy, my GMC. He would love it. It’s hard to do. I’ll never hear the end of this thing here, you know. In the meantime, I called my wife, you know, bring the chains from the house, whatnot, you know, and all that stuff. Finally, you know, and I did, I humbled myself. He didn’t work a full-time job. He had plenty of time. And sure enough, when he heard that his Ford Excursion could pull out my GMC, he was like, “I’ll be there.” By the way, he still brags about it. They moved away, and he was glad. Took that thing up. Locked them hubs in, that old… I mean, just… and he just pulled me out.

You know, he did, and then, kind of being facetious, he did—you know, he still does give me a hard time about it. But I really think a lot of it, he was just glad to help. He got saved in the church. He loves me, and I believe that. And he was glad to help. You know, God’s like that. He’s glad to help. You wake up and the devil’s all over your back, telling you how you’re not good enough and you don’t deserve the grace. Say, “Hey, I got a loving Heavenly Father. I’m a child of the King. I don’t earn His grace, but He giveth more grace.” Wherefore it says, “If God resisteth the proud, but He giveth grace unto the humble.” Would you bow your heads and close your eyes, please? Our heads are bowed, eyes are closed. You say, “Preacher, as far as salvation, being a born-again Christian, there was a time that I humbled myself and I went by faith to Jesus and asked for salvation.” Preacher, I might not remember the date, but I remember the time in my mind. I remember it when I went to Jesus and I put my faith in Christ to pay for my sins. I’m a born-again Christian. I’ve been saved before. If that’s you this morning, slip your hand up to a preacher. I’ve done that. I know I’m saved. I’m going to heaven. I’m a child of God. I know that. God bless you. Many hands, many, many hands. Thank you so very, very much. Thank you so very much.

Maybe you’re here, and you say, “You know, preacher, I’ve been stuck in a rut trying to earn His grace. Man, I can be depressing. I’m just going to accept it by faith.” Maybe there’s a little pride in there, I don’t know, but I’m just going to come to Him and humble down and say, “Lord, I believe You have the grace I need to become the husband, the wife, the daughter, the grandchild, the coworker. I just believe You have the grace, and I’m going to accept it by faith this morning.” I’m going to try tomorrow morning when the devil gets up. I’m going to say, “Devil, no, you’re not going to get me, because I believe I have a God that’s got the grace available.” God spoke to my heart about that this morning. Would you just lift your hand up? “Preacher, God spoke to my heart about that.” Just lift it up. I’m going to try to accept it by faith. Many, many hands, many hands. Oh, that’s key. That’s key. It’ll be there, I promise you. Say, “If I’m all that…” No, no, these folks weren’t all that. But He giveth, giveth, giveth, giveth more grace. It’ll be there. In the darkest, the hardest of times, it’ll be there. It’s sufficient.

Maybe you hear this morning, you say, “Preacher, I thought I had to be good enough to go to heaven. I’ve been trying to earn it, all on my own, trying to make a way to get to heaven for me.” But I realize this morning, oh, nothing I can do. Man, if I’m broken in at least one point, I’m guilty of all. I have no hope for me. But I want to go to Jesus. I need to be saved. I need to realize what “By grace are ye saved.” Now, I want to put my faith in Christ this morning. If that’s you this morning, I like that. Just slip your hand up. Just slip it up just a little bit. Let me see your hand. I’m not going to call your name. I’m not going to embarrass you. I need to accept that grace. I need to accept that grace that Jesus earned for me so I can spend eternity with God in heaven. Anybody like that? All Christians: it’s saving grace, it’s serving grace, it’s sufficient grace. Paul said, “I am what I am by the grace of God.” Let’s get His grace that’s available today.

Would you please stand? Would you please stand? We’ll have a word of prayer. If maybe you feel wrong to come to an old-fashioned altar, you do that, but you spend time by the Lord whether you’re standing or here; you’d just be obedient to Him. Would you do that? We’ll pray, and you follow His lead in your life. Thank you, Lord, for the grace. I need it. Got to have it. Thank you, Lord. It’s there. Forgive me sometimes, Lord, when the flesh and the devil get the best of me, and I don’t believe it’s there. I’m trying to make an “I am” out of myself. You’ve got the grace available. Father, thank you for it. Help us to come humbly and in faith and receive the grace You have for every single person here this morning. Well, thank you for Jesus. In His name, we pray. Amen.

Is there an instrument playing? Would you come? If the Lord leads you, you’d be obedient. Spend some time. He’s got the grace. It’s there. You’re going through major problems right now; He’s got the grace. Day to day, He’s got the grace. Financial problems, He’s got the grace. Physical problems, He’s got the grace. But He giveth more grace. Friend, I’m glad we serve a gracious God. God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that ye, being sufficient in all things, may abound to every good work. It’s available. Shame on me if I don’t have the grace. It’s there. Come humbly, yet in faith. It’ll be there. It’ll be there. In the darkest of days, and it just feels like it clouds over top of it all day long, His grace will be there.

Story about a mom: They say she had scars on her face, and it was—it was not pleasant. They say it was like scars on top of scars, type thing. But they say the children just loved that mom. You could tell a special love, and they would come give her hugs and all that. They say sometimes they would come and even kiss her face, right on the scars. You could just see them so much. And somebody said, “You wonder about that, aren’t you?” They said, “Oh yeah.”

And they said, “Well, actually, there was a house fire, and that mom took the first child out. She got burnt, got scars. She took the first child out, and then she ran back in, got the next child, got more scars. She took that, and she ran in.” And that’s why those kids, they love her. They’ll kiss her right on the face. And when you understand that Jesus earned the grace, you’ll love Him. You’ll want to live for Him. You’ll kiss Him, if you will. And praise the Lord, we serve a gracious God. Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms. Praise the Lord for wonderful, wonderful moms. Praise God, this old world would be kind of grave if it wasn’t for all the moms. Praise the Lord for them. And we’re so thankful for you. Good to have every single person here, all the moms. Honored to have you today. It’s just a blessing to have you. Thank you so very much.

Original File: Pastor Paul Chisgar ＂He giveth more grace＂- Sunday AM 05⧸11⧸2025 [bY5pGb_eFco]