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God’s Grace

(1 Timothy 1:12-17)

What does God’s grace mean to you? 

Living under God’s grace is in direct contrast with living under God’s _______. 

The Law is to be used to _______ people to Christ. 

I.                   Grace changes our perspective of _________ (vs. 12-14)

God’s grace empowers us to _________.   

1. Blasphemer-one who _________ God.  In Jewish teaching they were condemned to hell.
2. Persecutor-one who pursues as a _________.
3. Injurious-one who in pride and insolence deliberately and contemptuously mistreats, wrongs, and hurts another person just to hurt and ____________. 

In the Old Testament there was a distinction between __________ sins and presumptuous sins.

Does God forgive us when we sin willfully? 

God’s grace was able to take a murderer like Paul and turn him into a __________.

II.                Grace changes our perspective of ________ (v. 15)

The word “save” means to __________. 

Grace enables us to see our ____________. Those who live closest to God are usually the most keenly aware of their own faults.

Notice the progression in Paul’s life!  He went from the worst of:

1. The __________ (1 Co. 15:9-10)
2. The __________ (Eph. 3:8)
3. The __________ (1 Ti. 1:15)

We are never doing bad enough to be out of the reach of God’s grace and we are never doing good enough to be out of the need of God’s grace.

III.             Grace changes our perspective of _____________ (vs. 16-17)

No Christian should regard any sinner as a ___________ case.

Our lives are an __________ or sketch of what God’s grace can do.

Does this mean that God can only use those who have been saved out of sinful lifestyle?

Simply put:  we are to respond to God’s grace by bringing Him honor and glory forever and ever (v. 17).