Broadstreet Church of Christ
1213 Broad Street Phenix City, Alabama
Schedule of Services
Sunday:
Bible Study
10:00 A.M.
Morning Worship
11:00 A.M.
Evening Worship
5:00 P.M. (winter)
6:00 P.M.
(summer)
Wednesday:
Bible Study
7:30 P.M.
All times
Eastern
Morning Worship
Keep You From
Falling
Jude 20-24
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But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in
the Holy Ghost,
21
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus
Christ unto eternal life.
22
And of some have compassion, making a difference:
23
And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the
garment spotted by the flesh.
24
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you
faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
Introduction:
a. Have you ever held on to something and then let go? Have you ever dropped
anything because you did not hold on to it tightly?
b. God has promised us that He holds on to every Christian that holds on to
him
I. The promise:
A. Made - The promise involves God's ability, willingness, power, grace,
concern for man
B. Definitions:
1. Keep-guard, keep by way of protection
2. Falling-the idea of a sure footed horse, stumbling
3. Present-cause to stand
4. Faultless-without blame
5. Joy-exultation, exuberant joy
II. The promise assures us:
A. God holds us when in his hand
5
Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be
revealed in the last time.
9
Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.
B. Christ is able to hold to us. All power rests with God the Father and he
has delegated his power to Christ
20
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask
or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
10
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
C. Christ is our salvation:
1. Authority of salvation
9
And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all
them that obey him;
9
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord
Jesus Christ,
2. God can and will save those who obey Him
3. We can fall. It is our choice. We can pull ourselves away from God
23
If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from
the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every
creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
7
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the
faith:
14
For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our
confidence stedfast unto the end;
III. The promise gives:
A. Assurance - He is with me as I am with him. The danger is from Satan and
not God
B. Confidence. We can face life and Satan. While not immune to temptation I
know that as long as I hold to God can overcome
5
For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith,
lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
11
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the
wiles of the devil.
C. Courage
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Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
18
When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
Conclusion:
a. The secret to being held by God is
20
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in
the Holy Ghost,
21
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus
Christ unto eternal life
b. You see holding to God one is held by God
The Grace of God
8
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is
the gift of God:
9
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which
God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Introduction:
a. Song-Amazing Grace. How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me
b. One of the great Bible Themes is Grace
c. What a wonderful gift-God's grace
I. Bestows-gives:
A. The grace of God:
1. Defined-unmerited favor of God. Giving what we do not deserve
2. Components of God's grace-Love and mercy
B. It is a giving gift
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In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins,
according to the riches of his grace;
7
That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in
his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
10
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am
come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
What we have-results of God's grace
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For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory
for ever. Amen.
1. Bible
32
And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which
is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which
are sanctified.
2. Hope
16
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath
loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through
grace,
3. abundant life
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Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour
unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the
grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
4. Jesus
9
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich,
yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be
rich.
5. What we are as Christians is a result of God's grace
10
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed
upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet
not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
II. Power of grace - Grace has power to help us:
A. Sustain in trials
9
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is
made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my
infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
B. Deliver from temptation
13
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is
faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but
will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to
bear it.
C. Guide us in life
23
O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that
walketh to direct his steps.
11
And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought,
and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a
spring of water, whose waters fail not.
D. Provide in distress
5
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such
things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake
thee.
Deut
31:6,8
Joshua 1:5
6
So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what
man shall do unto me.
Psa
118:6
E. Comfort in sorrow
3
Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
mercies, and the God of all comfort;
4
Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort
them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are
comforted of God.
III. Grants privileges:
A. Another look at the term - Being the recipient of special favor or
privilege
from God
B. Privileges we have:
1. Service
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Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace,
whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
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And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having
all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
2. Proclaim the truth
7
Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my
heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of
the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
3. Suffer persecution
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For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on
him, but also to suffer for his sake;
4. Give
1
Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the
churches of Macedonia;
2
How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their
deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
3
For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were
willing of themselves;
1. IV. Offers salvation/God's plan of redemption
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For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is
the gift of God:
9
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
A. Available to all
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For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
B. Reception is by means of a system of instruction
11
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
12
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live
soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
C. Grace is conveyed through the gospel
3
Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave
testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be
done by their hands.
d. Reception is at the point of obedience
e. Must continue in that grace
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Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious
proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them
to continue in the grace of God.
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But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
CONCLUSION:
A. AMAZING GRACE
B. WHY NOT BENEFIT BY IT?
