Religious vs. Grace &Rule Keeping Relationship

Brent LokkerMay 17, 2014

Blazing Fire Church

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Christ defines your faith; He is your freedom from anythingthe law could never free you from!

Find your firm footing in this freedom.Do not let religion trip you up again

and harness you to a system ofrules and obligations!

Galatians 5:1 (The Mirror)

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Religious vs. Grace &Rule Keeping Relationship

Kills

Compares & Tears down

Am I Doing Enough to please God?

Keeps God at a distance

Believes that Sin separates us from God

Gives Life

Celebrates & Builds up

Jesus has made me Enough! I am pleasing!

Christ IN You! Col 1:27 Holy Spirit IN you! 2 Cor 1:22

Nothing can separate us from God’s love!

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“God has enabled us to be ministers of a new covenant--not of the letter

but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.”

2 Corinthians 3:6 (NIV)

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Religious vs. Grace &Rule Keeping Relationship

Kills

Compares & Tears down

Am I Doing Enough to please God?

Keeps God at a distance

Believes that Sin separates us from God

Gives Life

Celebrates & Builds up

Jesus has made me Enough! I am pleasing!

Christ IN You! Col 1:27 Holy Spirit IN you! 2 Cor 1:22

Nothing can separate us from God’s love!

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Religious vs. Grace &Rule Keeping Relationship

Kills

Compares & Tears down

Am I Doing Enough to please God?

Keeps God at a distance

Believes that Sin separates us from God

Gives Life

Celebrates & Builds up

Jesus has made me Enough! I am pleasing!

Christ IN You! Col 1:27 Holy Spirit IN you! 2 Cor 1:22

Nothing can separate us from God’s love!

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Romans 8:35-39The Message Bible

Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ’s love for us? There is no way!”

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“Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture…None of this fazed us because Jesus loves us. I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us!”

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Religious vs. Grace &Rule Keeping Relationship

God is angry when you sin and looking for all the wrong things you do

Your Salvation is always in question

Judges & Condemns yourself and others

Is about Punishment

Finds Reasons to Divide

God is training you to use your freedom to love yourself & others

You Know that God’s Love won’t let you go!

Loves & Accepts while helping others to grow

Is about Restoration

Knows that we are one

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Christian brothers and sisters, you were chosen to be free.

Be careful that you do not please your old selves by sinning

because you are free. Live this free life by

loving and helping others.

Galatians 5:13 (NLV)

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Religious vs. Grace &Rule Keeping Relationship

God is angry when you sin and looking for all the wrong things you do

Your Salvation is always in question

Judges & Condemns yourself and others

Is about Punishment

Finds Reasons to Divide

God is training you to use your freedom to love yourself & others

You Know that God’s Love won’t let you go!

Loves & Accepts while helping others to grow

Is about Restoration

Knows that we are one

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Religious vs. Grace &Rule Keeping Relationship

Takes Life and yourself WAY to seriously

Out of fear, Uses guilt and shame to keep people in line

Discourages you--that you’re not further along in your journey

Exhausting & Makes you want to quit

Takes time to enjoy life and relationships and laughs more

Tells people who they are until they believe it and live it

Knows that God is working in all things in your life

Life-giving and makes you want to worship!

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Religious vs. Grace &Rule Keeping Relationship

Takes Life and yourself WAY to seriously

Out of fear, Uses guilt and shame to keep people in line

Discourages you--that you’re not further along in your journey

Exhausting & Makes you want to quit

Takes time to enjoy life and relationships and laughs more

Tells people who they are until they believe it and live it

Knows that God is working in all things in your life

Life-giving and makes you want to worship!

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Religious vs. Grace &Rule Keeping Relationship

Takes Life and yourself WAY to seriously

Out of fear, Uses guilt and shame to keep people in line

Discourages you--that you’re not further along in your journey

Exhausting & Makes you want to quit

Takes time to enjoy life and relationships and laughs more

Tells people who they are until they believe it and live it

Knows that God is working in all things in your life

Life-giving and makes you want to worship!

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Religious vs. Grace &Rule Keeping Relationship

Your Heavenly Father is not approachable--you better take care of it yourself

God has His eye on you--That’s a bad thing

Follow Rules and learn facts about who God is

Performance-based leaves you love starved

Papa has all the time in the world for you and loves to take care of you!

God has His eye on you--That’s a very good thing!

Follow Jesus and Know God personally and experientially

Acceptance-Based you are love drenched!

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“But when the kindness and love ofGod our Savior for humanity were revealed,it was not because of any upright actions we

had done ourselves; it was for no reason except His own faithful love that He saved

us, by means of the cleansing water of rebirth and renewal in the Holy Spirit

which He has so generously poured over us through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, justified by His grace, we should become

heirs of hope of eternal life.This is doctrine you can rely on!”

Titus 3:4-8

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If you’ve been trying to be a good

person or even a good christian,

it’s time to meet jesus and trade

your life for his!

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Say the welcoming word to God--”Jesus is my Master!”--

embracing, body and soul, God’s work of doing in us what he did in raising Jesus from the dead. That’s it.

You’re not “doing” anything, you’re simply calling out to God, trusting him to do it for you. That’s salvation. With your whole being you embrace God setting

things right, and then you say it, right out loud: “God has set everything right between him and me!”

Romans 10: 9-10 (The Message Bible)

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