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Valley Assembly
June 23, 2002
!!!!!! I.              Introduction: Got Grace?
In 1993, milk consumption in California had declined steadily for 20 years, so milk processors from all over the state banded together to do something about it.
The research that followed revealed some very interesting insights.
First, people know just about all they need to know about milk.
Its white, comes in gallons and is good for you.
Second you can’t substitute any other beverage for milk when you’ve got a mouth full of Oreo cookies or a bowl of your favorite cereal.
Finally, and most importantly, /people notice milk most when they suddenly run out of it./
Thus was born, the “Got milk?” advertising campaign.
The “Got Milk?” television ads show poor souls lacking milk at the most painful and inconvenient times.
As ungrammatical as it might be, the question before us tonight is “Got Grace?”
There are millions of souls craving grace and finding a lack of it at the most painful and inconvenient times of their lives.
Today, our culture is asking this question.
Got grace?
Does God have enough grace for me?
Do YOU have enough grace for me?
We’ve had enough of judgment.
We’ve seen enough of your legalism… do you have enough grace for me?
Of course, grace is a much larger topic than we could cover adequately cover tonight, so we’ll only be drawing from the surface of what is a very deep well.
In order to talk about grace, we need to do two things.
First we need to know what it is, (define our terms).
And secondly, we need to go to the source of grace in order to be filled with it.
First, lets define our terms.
According to the dictionary, the theological definition of grace is this: “The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor.”
Remember, it is the nature of God to be the perfect balance of justice and mercy.
We humans tend to err on one side or the other… either we embrace justice to the point of a life-draining legalism, or we become so liberal that we blur the lines of where sin begins and ends.
This is a common mistake many parents make in their parenting.
They either become so rigid and dogmatic that their children rebel against the legalism or they become so lax as to have no fences around their children at all.
Grace as defined by Jesus’ example is neither legalism nor liberalism.
It is justice and mercy in perfect balance.
!!!!!! II.
Examples of Grace from the life of Jesus
I began my research for this message asking myself an impossible question: “What are the three best examples of grace in the life of Jesus?”
Following are my best guesses… you may have other thoughts-- and I’d be glad to debate the merits of each at a later time.
For now, we’re going to look at the these following events in Jesus’ life: the woman caught in adultery, the woman at the well and the thief on the cross.
§  *Woman caught in adultery*
John 8:1-11
But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.  2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them.
3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery.
They made her stand before the group  4 and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.
5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women.
Now what do you say?”  6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger.
7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.”  8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
9 At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there.
10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they?
Has no one condemned you?”
11 “No one, sir,” she said.
“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared.
“Go now and leave your life of sin.” 
§  *Woman at the well*
John 4:7-26
7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”  8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman.
How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep.
Where can you get this living water?
12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,  14 but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst.
Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
17 “I have no husband,” she replied.
Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband.
18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband.
What you have just said is quite true.”
19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
21 Jesus declared, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.”
25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming.
When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
26 Then Jesus declared, “I who speak to you am he.”
§  *Thief on the cross*
Luke 23:32, 33; 39-43
32 Two other men, both criminals, were also led out with him to be executed.
33 When they came to the place called the Skull, there they crucified him, along with the criminals—one on his right, the other on his left…
  
39 One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Christ?
Save yourself and us!”
40 But the other criminal rebuked him.
“Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence?
41 We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve.
But this man has done nothing wrong.”
42 Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”
43 Jesus answered him, “I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.”
!!!!!! III.
Common threads in these stories
§  Grace is unconditional
John 8:10: “Woman, where are they?
Has no one condemned you?”
11 “No one, sir,” she said.
“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared.
“Go now and leave your life of sin.”
Notice that Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you.”
Now.
In this moment, I do not condemn you.
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