TAKE ADVANTAGE OF GRACE

Saint Paul in this letter circles back to the concept of grace, and its role in the lives of the church in Corinth. In 2nd Corinthians 6:1, he admonished this same church ‘as coworkers with God, we urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain’. And the reason he could say those words, were because that was the life he had lived. A life of taking advantage of the grace afforded him by God. Hence, today’s verse:

1 Corinthians 15:10: But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

At this point, Paul had journeyed far and wide, planted churches and shared the faith. He had been an effective vessel in the hand of God. But this was not a product of grace alone, he explicitly stated that there was also an undeniable degree of hardwork involved.

Some christians are unprofitable; they hide under the umbrella of grace and cross their arms. They expect things to happen just because, that is where any grace given becomes them by God becomes of no effect. They don’t use that enabling which comes through grace to do anything. The message today is this

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What you do with the saving, and enabling grace of God determines what you become in kingdom.

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