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CHARIS (grace) is a gift that brings joy.This shows that Grace is something that God gives tous or bestows upon us.

Eph. 1:6; I cor. 1:4Gods saving Grace is a package.

What do we now possess, as the result of receiving thegift of grace.

We are saved from sins guilt and sins power.From Gods wrath and being made pure.


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I. SIN IS A DOUBLE CURSE.A. DEBT

It is a catastrophic debt, caused by an unusual

Calamity such as negligence in a serious accident or anespecially grave and drawn out illness. Owing such adebt can be a horrendous burden, weighing down thesoul to the point of despair.


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B. DEATH This is the physical death that has come upon the world

as the result of sin, invading the life of every humanbeing in one form or another.

Such death is a crisis not just because of the event itself,which is unwelcome enough, but even more so becauseof the many painful and heart-wrenching circumstancesthat lead up to it.


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1. SIN MAKES US GUILTY A. Sin is lawlessness- I jn. 3:4

Lawlessness anomia it refers either to a state of mind or toan action.

Sin is an attitude of opposition to law or rebellionagainst the law.

To say that anomia is transgression of the law, is areference to sin as an action or deed.

Every sin breaks the law of God, some rules in ones lawcode.

The lawbreaker becomes guiltyhe now stands in awrong relationship with the law.


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The law includes two components: Commands andpenalties.

..To be guilty means not only to exist as lawbreaker,but also to be subject to the penalty prescribed by thelaw.

Under the law the penalty or wages of sin is death(Rom. 6:23), Rev. 21:8.

James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yetstumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.


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Guilty is enochos which is a technical legal termmeaning guilty, subject to or liable to penalty Rom.3:19declares that the whole sinful world is guilty

before God. Guilty in this verse is hypodikos means liable to

judgment or punishment.

It refers to someone who has done something wrongand has been brought before the court to answer it.


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Here is where the concept of debt enters the picture.

To be in debt means to owe somebody something.

Opheilo-(to owe, to be in debt) to refer to sins

consequences. Mat. 6:12forgive us our debts.

Luke 13:4 describe those who are guilty of sin anddeserving our punishment as debtors (opheites)

Mat. 18:23-35 Unmerciful servant-which uses theimage of a debtors prison to convey the idea that sinputs us into debt to God.


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What do we owe to God?

THE DEBT OF PUNISHMENT IN HELL.

The guilt that sin brings upon us is an objective state of

guilt: every sinner is objectively guilty before Godwhether he acknowledge it or not and whether he feelsguilty or not.

This state of guilt is the sinners most serious problem.

If one dies in a state of guilt, he is lost for eternity.


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Everyone under the law system is still under the curseof guilt.

Apart from Grace we as creatures can either pay ourCreator the debt of perfect obedience that we owe

Him, or we can pay him the debt of punishment in hellfor failing to obey perfectly.

Rom. 3:23 all men have sinned.


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II. SIN GIVES US SINFUL NATURE I JN. 3:4 -is also a state or attitude of the heart, a hatred

or despising of the law and a desire to be free from it.

This attitude is present only in a heart affected by sin

just as the body is infected by sickness. HEART in the scripture is equivalent to the soul or

spirit, the spiritual side of our human nature.

Mat. 12:34,35; Jer. 17:9; Isa. 1:5,6.

Sinners are spiritually corrupt, spiritually weak,spiritually depraved.


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Here is where the concept of death comes in. The NT makes it very clear that the sickness of our

sinful nature is so serious that it is actually a state ofspiritual death. Eph.2:1,5

The problem: Our sinful nature makes it very difficult

to resist temptation and to obey the commandmentsof our law code. Rom. 8:7,8 The mind set on the flesh is hostile

toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law ofGod, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are

in the flesh can not please God. SINNERS CAN STILL RESPOND TO THE GOSPEL, BUT

OBEYING GODS LAW COMMANDMENTS IS A REALCHALLENGE.


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TWO DISTINCT PROBLEMS. 1. One is an objective problem requiring a legal solution

2. The other is a problem with our own inner personalcondition and requires a healing of our very nature.

Illustration of the distinctions:


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GRACE IS A DOUBLE CURE: When God gives us the gift package of grace at the

moment of salvation, that package always includes twomain items; each designed to cure one of the aspects of

the double curse. These two parts of the double cure donot come separately; we do not receive without the other(Rom. 6:)

The content of grace: they saved us from sins guilt

and power.


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A. THE GRACE OF JUSTIFICATION.

Guilt is the most serious problem-the primary aspectof grace deals with this problem.

The gift of justification occupies most of Paulsattention in Rom. 1-5.

Rom. 3:24 we are justified as a gift by His gracethrough the redemption which is in Christ Jesus.

Rom. 3:28 a man is justified by faith apart fromworks of law.


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Other terms for justification are forgiveness (orremission of sins), pardon or acquittal.

A. Justification is a legal concept. The verdict: No penalty for you.

When God justifies us (bestows upon us the gift ofjustification) He is acting on His role as a judge. He isdeclaring that the legal penalty for our sins has beentaken away.

Our debt of eternal punishment has been cancelled.When we die under grace, we die debt free.

Rom. 8:1 no condemnation means no penalty, nodamnation, no hell for those who are in Christ Jesus.


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To us this wonderful gift of justification is a free giftbut not to God.

Remember God must both true to His nature (holinessand love) He can not simply set aside the demands ofHis holiness, which requires that sin must be

punished. The only way God is able to deliver us from the

obligation to pay our debt of eternal punishment is forJesus Christ to pay it for us.

Christs death on the cross Col. 2:14 On the cross, He sealed my pardon, paid the debt and

made me free. PAID IN FULL


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THE GRACE OF REGENERATION ANDSANCTIFICATION.

This is designed to cure the spiritual sickness afflictingour souls and restore us to spiritual wholeness.

God is now a great physician that gives us everythingwe need to cure the disease of sin that has invaded ournatures.

This second problem is a blight upon our very being;therefore the cure for it must also bring about a changein our souls condition.


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This second part of double cure occurs in two stages or steps. 1. Initial step, a one time event wherein God touches the

soul and causes an immediate change in our hearts- this iscalled the act of regeneration.

2. This is followed by a continuing process of growth andchange- referred to as sanctification.

The former is the preconditioned of the latter. These two are related as cause and effect. Eph. 2:10 We are His workmanship, created in Christ

Jesus-this is a statement about regeneration, referring to itas an act of new creation (2 Cor. 5:17)

Created in Christ Jesus for good works- states the purposeof that event , to enable us to do good works. Doing good works is another way of saying becoming

sanctified or holy.


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Ezekiel 36:26 prophesies the regeneration event,picturing it as God performing heart surgery on thesinner.

Titus 3:5 regeneration and renewing by the HolySpirit is synonyms.

Jn. 3:5 born again

Eph. 2:5,6; Col. 2:12, 13


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The divine power that accomplishes this mighty deedcomes from the gift of the Holy Spirit, who atconversion is infused to our very being sort of like ahealing medicine is injected into the blood stream of

someone who is deathly ill. Our regeneration & renewing are by the Holy Spirit.

Titus 3:5

This is the moment when the healing begins.


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The healing of our sin-diseased natures is notimmediately complete, it does not happen all at oncebut is an ongoing process called Sanctification.

This process is the result of the Holy spirits continuingto indwell our very bodies (Rom. 8:11; I Cor. 6:19) forthe purpose of helping us to make a full recovery.


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THE BLESSED DOUBLE CURE.

1. Justification as a kind of spiritual welfare since it is afree gift that the gracious God places into ourundeserving hands while we are in a desperate need.

2. Regeneration & Sanctification, as our life of spiritual

warfare Though we are protected and empowered by Gods own

strength (Eph. 6:10-17) we must be personally engaged infighting the battle against the world, the flesh and the

devil.

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