Week Five Day Three Sanctifying Grace
Question 9. We are utterly dependent of God's grace to live the Christian Life.
Highlight any of the following statements that are sometimes true of you.
There are times when...
I am strongly tempted to sin.
I give in to temptation and choose to sin.
I feel overpowered by the pull of a particular sin in my life.
I know what God wants me to do but just don't have the desire to obey him.
I really want to obey God, but I don't seem to have the power to do so.
I feel totally inadequate to do some task I know God has called me to do.
Question 10. What do the following scriptures tell us about God's provision when we are tempted to sin?
1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
There is no excuse to sin. Because it states that God will only allow you to be tempted no more than you can fight the temptation.
Hebrews 4:15-16
15. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
16. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Jesus was tempted but he fought those temptations and never sinned. That is why we must confess our sins to God with Jesus as an intercessor.
Romans 6:14
For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under the law, but under grace.
Because of God's grace we will receive the gift of salvation. For most of us it will be impossible to live a sin-free life. With God's grace and a revived heart, when we sin we will be convicted of our sins. We will recognize the sin and be able to confess it and it will be easier to forsake it.
Question 11. We are told in the Bible that "where sin abounded, grace abounded much more (Romans 5:20). Paraphrase that verse in your own words. How does this truth practically apply to our lives as believers?
Wherever, sin is, God's grace will always be there as well and in a greater quantity.
As each year ends and a new one begins there seems to be more ways a person is tempted. I believe rises in technology, though invented for the right reason, cam make it easier to be tempted and sin. For example,, technology makes it easier to research things. Once you had to go to libraries to find books on a research paper you were writing. However, with the Internet most times you don't have to leave the house. While the Internet makes it easier to do this, it can easier to be used for the wrong things. It is easier to bully others. It is easier to find porn sites. It is also easier to be lazy. I don't know how many times I binge watched a program on Netflix when I could have been involved in a Bible Study.
Without God's grace, we may not be able to tell which sites to avoid.
Question 12.
Romans 6:1-2
1. What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
2. By no means! How can we who dies to sin still live in it?
Titus 2:11-12
11. For the grace of God has appeared. bringing salvation for all people,
12. training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly possessions, and to live a self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age.
According to these verses, how should God's grace be a restraint, rather than a license to sin?
We should have the desire not to sin. For me it has been a difficult road. I do find it is getting easier to control myself when it comes to temptations. However, I do have a long way to go.
Highlight any of the following statements that are sometimes true of you.
There are times when...
I am strongly tempted to sin.
I give in to temptation and choose to sin.
I feel overpowered by the pull of a particular sin in my life.
I know what God wants me to do but just don't have the desire to obey him.
I really want to obey God, but I don't seem to have the power to do so.
I feel totally inadequate to do some task I know God has called me to do.
Question 10. What do the following scriptures tell us about God's provision when we are tempted to sin?
1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
There is no excuse to sin. Because it states that God will only allow you to be tempted no more than you can fight the temptation.
Hebrews 4:15-16
15. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
16. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Jesus was tempted but he fought those temptations and never sinned. That is why we must confess our sins to God with Jesus as an intercessor.
Romans 6:14
For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under the law, but under grace.
Because of God's grace we will receive the gift of salvation. For most of us it will be impossible to live a sin-free life. With God's grace and a revived heart, when we sin we will be convicted of our sins. We will recognize the sin and be able to confess it and it will be easier to forsake it.
Question 11. We are told in the Bible that "where sin abounded, grace abounded much more (Romans 5:20). Paraphrase that verse in your own words. How does this truth practically apply to our lives as believers?
Wherever, sin is, God's grace will always be there as well and in a greater quantity.
As each year ends and a new one begins there seems to be more ways a person is tempted. I believe rises in technology, though invented for the right reason, cam make it easier to be tempted and sin. For example,, technology makes it easier to research things. Once you had to go to libraries to find books on a research paper you were writing. However, with the Internet most times you don't have to leave the house. While the Internet makes it easier to do this, it can easier to be used for the wrong things. It is easier to bully others. It is easier to find porn sites. It is also easier to be lazy. I don't know how many times I binge watched a program on Netflix when I could have been involved in a Bible Study.
Without God's grace, we may not be able to tell which sites to avoid.
Question 12.
Romans 6:1-2
1. What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
2. By no means! How can we who dies to sin still live in it?
Titus 2:11-12
11. For the grace of God has appeared. bringing salvation for all people,
12. training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly possessions, and to live a self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age.
According to these verses, how should God's grace be a restraint, rather than a license to sin?
We should have the desire not to sin. For me it has been a difficult road. I do find it is getting easier to control myself when it comes to temptations. However, I do have a long way to go.
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