Part two of our ANCHOR collection
Sin does not make us bad. Sin makes us spiritually dead.
This is not a statement he makes for shock value. No, it is a reality we find throughout Scripture. As humans, we have a sin problem. This problem has plagued us from the very beginning (see Genesis 3).
However, God so loved us that he paved the way for the relationship that sin tore apart to be bridged in the person of Jesus. We who were once dead because of sin have been made alive by Christ—that is the topic of this message from Grant Partrick, that is Radical Grace!
Key Takeaway
Jesus, the savior of the world, came down and died an excruciating death so that we may receive mercy and be in a relationship with Him. God knew that there was no service we could do to earn His grace and be washed of our sins –so He sent His only son. It is this grace that causes us to change.
Grace has a name.
[John 5:1-15] This man thought he needed the pool, but he needed Jesus.
We don’t need a system; we need a savior.
We get what He paid for.
Justice is us getting what we deserve. Mercy is us NOT getting what we deserve. Grace is us getting what we do not deserve.
Grace is a blood-bought gift.
There is no achievement we can accomplish to earn His grace.
Your power is the spirit within you.
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“Grace is your power to get through today.”
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Grant Partrick
Discussion Questions
Are you willing to admit that you need help?
Scripture References
1.Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2.Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda5:2 Some manuscripts Bethzatha; other manuscripts Bethsaida and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3.Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. 4.5:3,4 Some manuscripts include here, wholly or in part, paralyzed—and they waited for the moving of the waters. 4 From time to time an angel of the Lord would come down and stir up the waters. The first one into the pool after each such disturbance would be cured of whatever disease they had. 5.One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6.When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”7.“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”8.Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9.At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 10.and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”11.But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ”12.So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”13.The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.14.Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.” 15.The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.
20.I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
1.You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
Made Alive in Christ
1.As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2.in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3.All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh2:3 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit. and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4.But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5.made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6.And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7.in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8.For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9.not by works, so that no one can boast. 10.For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Jew and Gentile Reconciled Through Christ
11.Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands)— 12.remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. 13.But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
14.For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, 15.by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, 16.and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. 17.He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. 18.For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
19.Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, 20.built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. 21.In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. 22.And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.
6.So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, 7.rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
About the Contributor
Grant Partrick is a part of the team at Passion City Church and serves as the Cumberland Location Pastor. He is passionate about inspiring people to live their lives for what matters most. Grant and his wife, Maggie, live in Marietta, Georgia with their daughters, Mercy, Ember, and Charleigh. He is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary where he earned a masters of theology degree. View more from the Contributor.