Grace is Found in Jesus

The heart of the gospel of Jesus is grace.

The life of Jesus shows grace.

He healed ten lepers and only one came back to thank Him, but all ten were healed.

He raised the Widow of Nain’s son because He had compassion on her.

He feed five thousand people because He saw them as sheep without a shepherd.

He turned water into wine at a wedding because His mother thought there was a need.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is experiencing grace through the life of Jesus.

The teachings of Jesus show grace.

Love your neighbor as yourself.

Love one another.

Don’t judge.

Meet the needs of the outcast and the powerless.

To anyone who will come to Him, He will give rest.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is experiencing grace through the Word of God. 

The death of Jesus shows grace.

Luke 23:34: “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.” – Grace that Forgives. (Jesus prays to the Father for us to receive the opportunity to be forgiven)

Luke 23:43: “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in paradise.”  – Grace that Accepts. (Jesus accepts a dying criminal on a cross)

John 19:26-27: “Woman, behold your son!... Behold your mother!” – Grace that Provides and Protects (Jesus provides John to protect His mother)

Mark 15:34: “My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me?” – Grace that Understands (Jesus understands our feelings of separation from God)

John 19:28: “I thirst.” – Grace that Suffers (Jesus experienced human suffering so He can help us in our suffering)

John 19:30: “It is finished!” – Grace of Salvation (Jesus finished the work of salvation through His death on the cross)

Luke 23:46: “Father, into Your hands I commit My Spirit!” – Grace that Trusts (Jesus trusted Himself to the Father)

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is experiencing grace through Jesus’s death on the cross for my sin.

The resurrection of Jesus shows grace.

It gives us victory death. (We cannot defeat death)

It gives us victory over sin. (We cannot defeat sin)

It gives us victory over Satan. (We cannot defeat Satan)

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is experiencing grace through the victory we have through Jesus’ resurrection.

1 Corinthians 15:53-57

For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immorality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Through Jesus we have the victory.

Because we have the victory, what are we to do?

1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my beloved bothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the works of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

God’s grace manifested in Jesus gives us the victory. The victory we have - not that we will get, but that we have now - means I don’t have to fear, I can just live my life serving Jesus.

In God’s Grace Raising the Roof and Removing the Walls,

                                        Joe